November 6, 2022

What Size Skip Do I Need?

Following a household renovation or any construction job, the amount of waste generated is regularly underestimated. To ensure that you can easily and safely remove this waste from your site, it’s important to ensure you hire a skip that is large enough to meet your needs.

Where Can I Put A Skip?

If you’re hiring a skip to be kept on private property, you can go places where you please just as long as our driver can easily access the location. However, choosing a space that can easily accommodate the skip will make the offloading and loading of it much easier.

Try not to place your skip any important utility points.
Remember that overhanging trees are cables could cause potential issues for our drivers
Always provide us with explicit instructions about where to leave your skip for our delivery driver arrives
Our drivers will always place skips in accessible points and we don't advise to move them afterwards as this may cause them to be inaccessible
Remember, if you're forced to put your skip on the road, you will need to get a permit

If you have questions or queries, I need any further help. We recommend contacting us, for skip hire in Coventry and we will provide you with any additional information you need to ensure you hire the correct skip for your project. Our team of experienced and highly skilled technicians will provide you with all the help you need. We hope this guide has helped answer any questions relating to What size skip do I need? For further information, why not look through our guide on skip hire pricing in Coventry.

Choosing The Right Sized Skip

The size of a skip is classified by the volume of waste it can hold. They measure these in cubic yards. However, judging the size of a skip isn’t as simple as that. Some skip companies will refer to a four cubic yard skip, as a 4yd skip or even a 4-ton skip which can lead to a high level of confusion.

It’s also important to note that the cost of skip hire was very dependent on the size of the skip you order. If you made the mistake of ordering a skip, that’s too small, you may need to order an additional skip to remove the excess waste. Ordering skips this way too large will leave you with unnecessary space you’ve paid for.

To a point of confusion, deceiving yourself a lot of money and time, it’s important to understand skip dimensions and how they will help you safely and easily dispose of your household waste. When you hire a skip, there are many things that you should consider. It’s also important to consider Choosing The Right Skip Hire Company as this can save you money and time.

2 yard Skip

This is the smallest skip size available for higher under commonly referred to as mini skips, but they can comfortably accommodate up to 20 bin bags of waste and are more than capable of dealing with smaller garden projects or domestic jobs and DIY projects

4 yard Skip

Offering twice the capacity of a 2-yard skip please can comfortably accommodate up to 14 bin bags of waste if you’re doing a bathroom or kitchen refit are a large garden or landscape project this size kept me suffice.

6 yard Skip

Widely known as the classic skip and also the builders skips, 6 yards skips are among the most frequently used in the industry. Offering a capacity of up to 60 bin bags, they’re perfect for accommodating moderate amounts of waste. Regularly used for standard household renovations in Kenilworth and bathroom and kitchen refits in Solihull and one of our most popular skips in we operate in.

8 yard Skip

12 yard Skip

When you’re considering hiring an 8-yard skip. You think in terms of larger projects as he’s going to accommodate up to 80 bin bags. If your project needs a larger skip, this one should lend itself perfectly to the job and provide perfect solutions for a variety of domestic industrial and commercial projects.If you’re doing a complete household refit and you’re looking for a skip that can accommodate more bulky waste such as packaging plastic or even furniture, they design 12-yard skips to accommodate up to 120 bin bags. Shopfitters and manufacturers regularly hire this size skip and keep them on site.

14 yard Skip

These huge skips are usually only found on industrial or commercial sites once it generates significant amounts of metal, wood, soil, construction or industrial waste. Because of their size would be unusual to see them on domestic premises.

Never risk overfilling a skip

We always advise that you should avoid overfilled skips as they pose a significant threat to the safety of road users and employees. When transporting overfilled skills because of the additional safety precautions needed, they will force us to charge a significant fine. Sometimes, they may force us to refuse to remove the skip. To avoid any such situation, we advise that you don’t risk trying to save money by hiring a smaller skip as this can eventually end up costing you significantly more. On top of the risk of having to pay additional fines for removing the skip. Occasionally removing overfilled skips proves too dangerous, and you might need to hire a secondary skip.