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Wow hiring a skip is pretty pricey, I remember the last one I hired was about £80 3 years ago but the cheapest I could find a 4 yard skip this time around was £125. Everywhere else was £150.

I imagine these are going up in price because of the cost of processing the waste and landfill or recyling it?
 
Yeah I agree they seem to have gone up. Our 8 yard skip this week cost £200 and that was the best deal we could get in South Wales. Landfill tax is the main driver I'm guessing.
 
Sorry to hijack your thread a little.. To satisfy my curiosity does the type of waste make a significant difference to the cost of the skip?

I know there are two tax rates for waste:
From April 1 2015 to April 2016 the landfill tax rates are:

Standard rate for active waste: £82.60 per tonne
Lower rate for inactive waste: £2.60 per tonne
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If I hired a skip and say filled it with 5 tonnes of rubble (inactive waste), then say 0.5 tonne of plastic, wood and general household waste (active) would that be significantly more expensive than say putting the rubble in the skip and doing a few runs to the council recycling centre?
 
I don't know about your area but here they only really do mixed skip rates, you might struggle getting segregated skips simply because there's no real call for it on the domestic side.

For rubble and excavated material it might be cheaper to go for a grab lorry who come along and pick up from the road side and you pay per grab or time spent.

We do on site have a multitude of skip prices, general waste is usually the most expensive bar contaminated, soil and hardcore usually go away for free, concrete free and we get paid whatever the weight is for metal skips once returned and weighed.
 
I just recently paid £110 for a 4 yarder. Everywhere else wanted £145 but luckily a friend of a friend works for a local place so sorted me one out. Think we paid around £200 for a maxi (8 yard I think) when I ripped my house to bits earlier last year.
 
Costs around 200 quid round here for a Maxi/Builders skip & they've put Black lines around the lip of them with "Fill Limit" written around it so you can't take the **** any more & put your own extended sides up if you get me.
 
maccapacca said:
I don't know about your area but here they only really do mixed skip rates, you might struggle getting segregated skips simply because there's no real call for it on the domestic side.
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That makes sense. So with mixed loads they'd calculate their prices based on the average handling/disposal costs across the whole fleet not on a per skip basis. I've always wondered about that.
 
Fourstar said:
That makes sense. So with mixed loads they'd calculate their prices based on the average handling/disposal costs across the whole fleet not on a per skip basis. I've always wondered about that.
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I think it's more about trust and waste transfer licence. If you tell them it's clean muck you can't prove it where on a site we can because we have soil chemical surveys.

If the MOT pull them over without the right transfer notice they'll be in trouble not you.

I for one have put stuff in the bottom of a skip that really shouldn't be in there.
 
try hippobag also.

was going to hire a skip recently due due to property access i would have had to have a road permit. hippobag i was able to put on my property (the could collect over the top of cars)
 
joelk2 said:
try hippobag also.

was going to hire a skip recently due due to property access i would have had to have a road permit. hippobag i was able to put on my property (the could collect over the top of cars)
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What a complete waste of money they are though. Why would you even bother when they are so much more expensive than a normal skip?

Street permits only cost around £10-£15 plus you can't fill a hippobag more than 1/4 if you plan on putting soil and bricks in etc.
 
I thought £125 was pricey but I guess compared to the alternative of lugging 50m2 laminate and underlay, skirting boards, architraves, 3x radiators, 4x doors etc to the dump in my car it's probably not as bad as it seems. I imagine that would have taken me 3/4 trips in total.
 
Adam said:
I thought £125 was pricey but I guess compared to the alternative of lugging 50m2 laminate and underlay, skirting boards, architraves, 3x radiators, 4x doors etc to the dump in my car it's probably not as bad as it seems. I imagine that would have taken me 3/4 trips in total.
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Is your local waste centre a long way away then as that is only 2-3 trips worth that! I think i'd rather do that than waste £125 on a HippoBag but to each their own!
 
R.O.S.S.I said:
Is your local waste centre a long way away then as that is only 2-3 trips worth that! I think i'd rather do that than waste £125 on a HippoBag but to each their own!
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Maybe a mile or so but it's only small and when they change the containers it's not uncommon to sit there for 30 minutes at a time.

It's more the time it would take so being able to drop the rubbish in a skip outside the front door is very convenient.
 
R.O.S.S.I said:
What a complete waste of money they are though. Why would you even bother when they are so much more expensive than a normal skip?

Street permits only cost around £10-£15 plus you can't fill a hippobag more than 1/4 if you plan on putting soil and bricks in etc.
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for us it was £60+ for a permit and then the skip was £200 ish our road is pretty much full 24/7 with cars and no designated spaces. we dont have drives either.
 
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