Builders Skip - cost of,

[Matthew in Worcester]

Just paid £130 for a builders skip.
9 out of 10 companies I contacted charged £130; one £150.
Seems expensive way of getting rid of a load of rubble, which will
probably get sold on as hardcore.
Was I done?
Any 'skip' know-how out there?
Regards, Matthew.

 

[Peter Crosland]

Seems expensive way of getting rid of a load of rubble, which will

probably get sold on as hardcore.
Was I done?
Any 'skip' know-how out there?
Regards, Matthew.

The rate reflects the cost of disposing of it at a licensed disposal site.
To do other wise is illegal. When the skip is collected you should insist
on a waste transfer note. If you don't report the company to the Environment
Agency.

 

[parish]

Same price down here in Brighton as well

I paid £80 for a 4m^3 last year. A good part of the cost is the landfill
tax the skip company has to pay to empty the thing. IIRC the firm I got
mine from made a point of itemizing that separately on the bill -
presumably to highlight that it is the Govt., and not them, who were
ripping me off.

 

[Autolycus]

Just paid £130 for a builders skip.
9 out of 10 companies I contacted charged £130; one £150.
Seems expensive way of getting rid of a load of rubble, which will
probably get sold on as hardcore.
Was I done?
Any 'skip' know-how out there?

Consider two alternative possibilities:

I've taken tons of rubble to the council tip over the years in my
trailer. You need a decent trailer and something fairly hefty to tow
it, and you have to shovel the rubble out at the tip, but it doesn't
cost much, and I've always been able to get my trailer much closer to
the source of the muck than I could have got a skip.

When I had over a hundred tons to shift in a couple of days, I hired a
man with a lorry at a "per day" plus "per trip" rate. Plenty of lorries
with grabs advertised in our local free ads paper.



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Tiltbed car transporter trailer hire - £25/ day. Near Derby. May even
tow it for you.

 

[AlexL]

I've taken tons of rubble to the council tip over the years in my
trailer. You need a decent trailer and something fairly hefty to tow
it, and you have to shovel the rubble out at the tip, but it doesn't
cost much, and I've always been able to get my trailer much closer to
the source of the muck than I could have got a skip.

FWIW, Hemel Hempstead do not allow hardcore to be dumped at their council
waste sites...

AlexL

 

[BAH]

I find skip drivers quite amenable to a cash deal - and sometimes their boss
too!

 

[Andrew Gabriel]

FWIW, Hemel Hempstead do not allow hardcore to be dumped at their council
waste sites...

Farnborough allow only a car boot full, and in the case of an estate
car, the seats must not be folded down nor the hardcore piled up
above the bottom of the rear windscreen. You can make multiple
visits providing it's not so often you become particularly
noticable. At least, this is what they told me 2 years ago when I
asked.

I had a large pile of rubble (mostly broken thermal blocks).
When a building was demolished up the road, I slipped the
demolition gang a fiver, and wheeled it all up the road in
lots of wheelbarrow loads, and dumped it on all their rubble.
Sorted

 

[Jack Wrigley]

Just paid £130 for a builders skip.
9 out of 10 companies I contacted charged £130; one £150.
Seems expensive way of getting rid of a load of rubble, which will
probably get sold on as hardcore.
Was I done?
Any 'skip' know-how out there?
Regards, Matthew.

In London we pay £157.50 (including VAT) for a 10 yard skip. The
company cheerfully tells customers over the phone that cash payments
do not incur VAT!

 

[BillR]

Just paid £130 for a builders skip.
9 out of 10 companies I contacted charged £130; one £150.
Seems expensive way of getting rid of a load of rubble, which will
probably get sold on as hardcore.
Was I done?
Any 'skip' know-how out there?
Regards, Matthew.

Some price here, North Hampshire.
Also if it has to parked on the public highway/pavement theres the extra
hassle and expense of a skip licence from the local authority.

 

[Witchy]

Just paid £130 for a builders skip.
9 out of 10 companies I contacted charged £130; one £150.
Seems expensive way of getting rid of a load of rubble, which will
probably get sold on as hardcore.
Was I done?
Any 'skip' know-how out there?

Not that I know of; like others have said its down to the cost of
getting rid of the waste you put in the skip; I used to work with a
qualified landfill expert and he gave me the low-down on getting rid
of waste....basically it costs money. Up here in the frozen north it
still costs over £100 for a builders skip....

witchy/binarydinosaurs

 

[Scott Mills]

Not that I know of; like others have said its down to the cost of
getting rid of the waste you put in the skip; I used to work with a
qualified landfill expert and he gave me the low-down on getting rid
of waste....basically it costs money. Up here in the frozen north it
still costs over £100 for a

depending how muych crap you want to get rid off, Wickes are selling 'a bag
that thinks it is a skip' for 6 quid. When full they will collect it for a
futher 35quid.

No idea how much it holds though as I only glanced at it, but 40 quid seem
reasonable for getting rid of some crap

 

[Witchy]

depending how muych crap you want to get rid off, Wickes are selling 'a bag
that thinks it is a skip' for 6 quid. When full they will collect it for a
futher 35quid.

No idea how much it holds though as I only glanced at it, but 40 quid seem
reasonable for getting rid of some crap

Sounds like they may be doing 'reverse dumpy-bags' where they give you
an empty one, you fill it with stuff and they take it away....not a
bad idea if that's the case!

w

 

[tim]

£105 for 'mixed waste' in York. Nearly the same price every firm
Sometimes, they will do them at £95 if it's just clean hardcore, no soil.
No additional charge if it's on the highway, although they get upset if
someone pinches the lights.

You're blooming lucky. I got told: 25 quid for the license and 25 quid for
the lights. I think the skip itself was about 65 quid if I could keep it off
road, but I can't. I gave up at that point and kept the stuff in my garage
and drove it to the dump in 10 trips.

 

[tim]

(e-mail address removed) (Matthew in Worcester) wrote:

Hello Matthew


Yes, but not by the skip company. Ring your local council and find out
how much they charge in landfill taxes.

what the government tells them to charge:

14.00 GBP per tonne.

But if it's all bricks/cement it's only 2 quid a tonne. But no-one's going to
saparate it and if the skip company ran an honesty system it's a certainty
someone would abuse it

Tim

 

[geoff]

what the government tells them to charge:

14.00 GBP per tonne.

But if it's all bricks/cement it's only 2 quid a tonne. But no-one's going to
saparate it and if the skip company ran an honesty system it's a certainty
someone would abuse it

I think they calculate the maximum weight you COULD reasonably put in a
skip and charge that price. They then push it all down and compress it

 

[Andy Jeffries]

I think they calculate the maximum weight you COULD reasonably put in a
skip and charge that price. They then push it all down and compress it

Eh? If you put a ton of waste in a skip and compress it, it will still
weigh a ton. It will have a higher density, but not a lesser mass.

Was I missing something in your comment?

Cheers,


Andy

 

[geoff]

Eh? If you put a ton of waste in a skip and compress it, it will still
weigh a ton. It will have a higher density, but not a lesser mass.

Was I missing something in your comment?

You are being charged by volume, they are being charged by weight