SKIP HIRING 101 from Feroz Ali's blog

Proper waste management should be a priority whether you are staging a major home renovation or even a simple spring cleaning project. Most people these days resort to hiring skip bins because of the convenience that it offers. You may be wondering what skips are. Skips or skip bins as some would call them, are heavy duty open top bins that you can rent out from a skip hire company and fill with stuff or rubbish that you want to get rid of. What is so convenient about it is that once you are done filling up the bin with whatever stuff you want to dispose, the skip hire company would be the one in charge of collecting and disposing whatever is in that bin.That spares you from discarding your trash by yourself. It may sound easy, but hiring a skip can be very stressful and can cause you unnecessary inconvenience if you don't know the ins and outs of hiring one. With this, let me share to you some of the things that you have to know before hiring a skip. Here are some of them.

1. Know what size of skip you are going to need beforehand. Choosing the right skip size is probably the most crucial decision that you have to make when hiring a skip. Most people underestimate the size that they are going to need, but in the end, they end up spending much more because they failed to give an allowance to their estimate. Note that you are not allowed to overload your skip companies near me, so it is really best to get a size bigger than your estimate to be on the safe side. Nothing is more stressful than the inconvenience of having to spend money to rent more than one skip because of simple miscalculations.

2. Know where to put the skip. Before hiring a skip, you have to determine where you will place the huge bin in your property. If you have a spacious property then there would be no problem, but if you don't then you must request a permit from the local city authorities for you to be able to place your rented skip on the side of the road. This process may take quite some time though so you have to prepare for this before renting a skip.

3. Know what not to put in your rented skip bin. Not all things can be stored in a skip bin. Some of these prohibited items include computer monitors, laptops. batteries, chemicals, refrigerators, freezers and other hazardous wastes. You may want to discuss this with the skip hire company before sealing the deal.