Renting A Skip for Clearing Your House

by Lily McKinnon Smith

Every household once in a while needs a good clear out. We all seem to accumulate so much junk over long periods of time its a wonder that we dont sometimes end up sinking beneath it all. Often, the most cost effective solution for clearing out all of your junk is to hire a skip, rather than make lots of trips to the local tip.

Additionally it is increasingly common that these days many of the better skip companies will segregate your waste for recycling rather than just tipping it in landfill. There are several advantages to this, firstly it will ease your conscience as you are helping the planet rather than pollution it, but also, you are saving future resources through your recycling.

The materials taken from the skip are emptied onto a sorting pad and then all the different materials such as concrete, metals, wood, plastic etc are separated. The hiring of an environmental skip, rather than one that would just throw it all in landfill, costs no more to the customer, and the company makes up for the additional labour costs by selling on the raw materials to production or construction companies.

When deciding on how big a skip to hire, it is always better to hire one slightly larger than you expect that you will need because its better not quite to fill a skip than to fill one and not clear your house completely, or to have to hire another one.

Lockable skips are available which are handy in preventing fly-tipping. Fly tipping is an age old problem, but it is still just as irritating for people to fill your skip for you with their own junk, and a lockable skip is a sure-fire way of stopping it.

If you wish to have your skip placed out on the street, then complying with health and safety laws is a must as you could find yourself liable for an accident if one should occur. However, your skip hire company should be able to take care of most, if not all of it for you. You will need a street permit from the council to put it out on the road which the skip company should do for you without any extra charges, as well as fitting it with sufficient night lights and coning off the skip.

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