People hire skips for a variety of reasons. Having Skip Hire Ulverston drive out, removing an old kitchen or bathroom, wanting to remove plenty of garden waste are all reasons why people hire skips. Hiring a skip is really a fairly simple process, even more so nowadays with many companies offering the choice of booking your skip online. Usually the process is as follows. Book the hiring of one's skip from the skip hire company giving them a date and time you desire your skip delivered and how big is skip you require. Your skip should arrive on the date you specified. It is possible to usually keep the skip so long as must fill it with your waste. As soon as you skip is ready for removal, simply give the skip hire company 48 hours notice of once you would like your skip collected. Another option many skip hire companies offer is a 'wait and load' service. This means the skip will undoubtedly be delivered and the driver will wait when you load it and then take it away. This is ideal assuming you have a pile of waste ready for loading and do not require the skip for an extended period of time. If you have no room on your own property for the skip it will have to be positioned on the general public road/pavement. For a skip to be placed on the general public road/pavement a permit from the council is necessary. Usually this permit can be arranged by the skip hire company when you order your skip, although some councils insist that the applicant for the permit must be the person hiring the skip. Also, if the skip is usually to be placed on the road it is the responsibility of the individual hiring the skip to ensure it has to appropriate warning lights attached. These lights can usually be hired from the skip hire company when ordering the skip. You can fill your skip with pretty much anything apart from a few items these include aerosols, gas canisters, computer monitors, televisions, full paint cans, food waste, tyres, fridges or freezers. The skip should not be overloaded. This can cause problems in picking right up the skip and also is hazardous to pedestrians and motorists. The skip should not be loaded above the top of the walls of the skip. If the skip is overloaded the skip hire company usually reserve the right to 'level' the waste on picking right up the skip if the skip is regarded as unsuitable for transport. Skips come in a variety of sizes. The tiniest is what's known as a Mini Skip, can take up to 1.5 cubic metres of wastes but isn't always available all around the UK. Another size is really a Midi Skip which is ideal of bathroom and kitchen refits and can hold up to 3 cubic metres. The most common skip size is what's referred to as a Builders Skip it could endure to 4.6 cubic metres of waste (up to 50-60 bin bags) and can be acquired all around the UK. You can find larger skip sizes available however, many of these aren't ideal for very heavy waste as a result of weight of the fully loaded skip. Whatever you require your skip for as long as you use a reputable company your skip hire experience should be hassle free.
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