Large Skip Hire

If you are just doing a couple of alterations or repairs to the house you will not need a large skip, but if you are carrying out a lot of renovation work or even having to completely empty a house you will find that the normal skips people hire will be nowhere big enough. If it is something like a house clearance you are carrying out there will be a lot of items that will need to be disposed of. Even after you have sold certain items and accepted that others are not suitable to go into a skip you will still have a lot to remove.

What can be Placed in a Large Skip?

It will be possible to put things such as bedsteads and carpets in to the large skip but there has to be some consideration as to the weight. For this reason bricks and soil will make the skip too heavy when the truck comes back to collect it. A large skip will clearly be more expensive to hire than the smaller ones, but when you consider how much time and petrol you could save if you were not running to the tip time and time again it may work out cheaper. It will also save you making a mistake and only hiring a small skip and not having enough room. Two or three smaller skips will cost more to hire than one large one, so it will be best to get the bigger one even if it does not end up full.

The Price of a Large Skip

Skip Hire UK are offering large skips for hire from £170. To imagine how big this will be it has been estimated that one will hold between 185 and 210 bin bags. For some properties a skip this size will fit on their property but for many people they will need to place them in the road while they have the work carried out. This will incur a slight extra cost as there will them be the need to obtain a permit from the local council. This will normally cost somewhere in the region of £10 to £15 depending on where in the country you live and how long you will be leaving the skip in the road.

Siting a Large Skip

Once you have decided that this is the skip you need you will have to find somewhere to put it. It will be easiest to place it in the road but if it is very wide and the road you live on is narrow there could be problems with vehicles getting past it even though it will need to be lit up at night as a warning to its presence. When Skip Hire UK show the skips they have on offer they show them next to a family 4 door car. A large skip is the same length as the hatchback and slightly taller meaning it will be nearly 5’ tall. It will be comforting to know that if you need to remove a lot of rubbish in one go; there will be a skip big enough to take it.