Skip Hire in Seal | Can I Hire Skips on One-Day Terms for a Smaller Waste Clearance?
Take a stroll around Seal or another part of the Sevenoaks district, and skips will be a familiar sight – not just on construction sites but also on driveways or the roadside. Businesses manage waste loads in big consignments, so they will have already factored having a few skips onsite knowing they will be paying for them over a few weeks.
For somebody with a small load to clear, cost will be important.
They will want to know:
- If skips can be hired over shorter periods from just one day
- Which skips are best for small house and garden clearances
- Where a skip can be positioned on a smaller property in Seal
- Whether taking waste to the tip by car is more cost-effective
Westerham Skips understands that no two customers are ever the same.
That’s why we offer flexible skip hire services across the Sevenoaks district and cater to the needs of individuals, households, business clients and more. Here, we look at the needs of those who only have short-term work and explain what our company does to assist them.
You will want to hire a skip in a suitable size.
What you don’t want to do is hire the smallest available, fill it to its capacity and then need another. Worse still is overloading skips because operators will refuse to collect units that have been filled above the level load line. What was once a simple job is now harder.
Most skip hire companies will ask you to calculate your load using a standard black bin bag as a guide. Westerham Skips supplies units in sizes ranging from 4 to 16 yards. Out smallest skips will hold up to 40 black bin bags of waste. Our biggest units hold as many as 160.
This means our skip hire company will have something to suit you.
Many of our customers in Seal have used the black bin bag method for calculating loads and, with patience, it will work well for you too.
Sorting Waste in Advance
Westerham Skips offers flexible terms.
You can use us for skip hire over a minimum period of one day and we promise to deliver and collect within the agreed timeframe so a job doesn’t run over into a new day. As far as outgoings are concerned, anything else that adds to the job time tends to come from your end.
This is why preparing waste in advance is so important.
Service users in Seal should break down larger items like furniture, and fill up skips starting from the sides using flat items such as doors and boards. Something heavy to make the base stable should go in next but fill up the rest of the bottom with soft general waste.
Anything heavy that goes on top next should compact it.
Your skip hire period won’t be exceeded, as long as you had made the calculations correctly, and we’ll collect the unit later in the day.
Booking & Positioning
When booking skip hire services, check access to the property first.
The lorries we use to deliver skips must be able to drop them off in a safe, controlled manner. Be sure to let us know if you live on a road with limited width or tight access and, if you plan to have the skip left on a driveway, make sure your cars aren’t blocking access.
Even with a one-day skip hire service, you will need a permit from a local authority office if you want to position a skip on a roadside. We will discuss whether a permit is needed or not and, if it is, we then make the application on your behalf in advance of delivery.
In tighter areas of Seal, a wait-and-load service might be better.
One-Day Hire vs Tip Runs
You do, of course, have the option to take your waste by car to your nearest recycling centre in Sundridge, but this is nearly 10 miles away and if you need to make multiple runs, your time, fuel cost and wear on your vehicle soon adds up. Also, those extra trips won’t be good for the environment. Skip hire is the better option in the end.
With one-day hire, our lorry makes one trip to Seal and back so your skips can be dropped off, and then one more trip to collect them.
Once you have filled the skip, you can do whatever you want with the rest of your day and don’t even need to be at home when we come back to collect. You save time, money and wear-and-tear on your car, and have your waste management needs fulfilled in just a single day.