Skips. How friggin’ much???

[LuckyThirteen]

pork911 said:

10 years ago in a different country it was cheaper. The neck of these skip companies is an outrage.

post deserves credit

[KTMsm]

sir humphrey appleby said:

Who invented the skip?

My grandfather invented a / the skip loader mechanism - his company was Trio and you used to see his logo on a lot of the wagons

I was paying 100 cash 15 years ago for an 8 yd

They're close to 300 now, fortunately I've never had to mess about with a road permit

[valiant]

TCruise said:

You guys have it CHEAP.

North London
- 4yd Skip = £300 for 7 days.
- Street Licence = £595 (£85 a day). YES you read that correctly.

So you have to find somewhere to pile it all up on your property, then ask the skip company to wait while you load, otherwise it costs a fortune.


Net result a LOT of fly-tipping and I actually don't blame people, when the cost of a skip is that insane.

Christ Almighty!

I think I'll keep quiet about my outrage now as it seems that the going price of skips seems to have gone up everywhere and all just as expensive.

Builders want it for a few days and there's nowhere really to store the crap if we want a grab lorry or use the wait 'n' load service.

I'm just researching some materials now and I think the skips costs will turn out to be the cheap bit! '

Kin hell! All I want is a new front wall and a few other bits and it seems they've mixed up my job and the building of HS2.

[Alickadoo]

Bit more than that round here, squire.

https://weybridgeskiphire.co.uk/domestic-skip-hire...

[AlexGSi2000]

Think I paid around £190 for an 8 yard in May of last year for a house renovation.

Made sure it was stacked like a game of Tetris - I'm sure I probably spent longer loading the skip than I did on the rip-out.

[Jasandjules]

It's about 300 for a 12 yard here. We pay £350 and they load it as well, basically turn up, two blokes fill it and drive off. Well it was a couple of years ago, might be a bit more now....

[blueg33]

Simpo Two said:

valiant said:

Feel I need a sanity check and also some lube.

When did ordering a skip get so bleedin’ expensive?

4 yard skip for 7 days and I’m getting quotes in the £190 zone. On top of this I have to put it on a public highway and I have to get a permit which is, and I st you not, £150 plus whatever admin fee the skip company decides to put on as only they can get the permit and not us oikes because rulz. Thanks Essex CC

EU waste/pollution directives (effectively still in force) and council numptyism. Pay more, get less. Extrapolate and eventually the UK will stop working completely. Did I mention the roads? The kerbs around here have weeds up to a foot high sprouting from them.

IMO it’s right that the waste is sorted. If you sort it yourself skips are cheaper.

Reduces pollution and landfill

[DonkeyApple]

valiant said:

Feel I need a sanity check and also some lube.

When did ordering a skip get so bleedin’ expensive?

4 yard skip for 7 days and I’m getting quotes in the £190 zone. On top of this I have to put it on a public highway and I have to get a permit which is, and I st you not, £150 plus whatever admin fee the skip company decides to put on as only they can get the permit and not us oikes because rulz. Thanks Essex CC…

I remember it was only about a decade ago when it was about £80 plus a drive to the local council offices for a permit which was about a tenner. Different county but c’mon man.

So, how much is it around your way? Are we all getting reamed or is it because I live in the Essex badlands?

No wonder the builder left it to me to sort as I probably thought he would be ripping me off had he organised it!

It's just the cost of disposing of the waste that's gone up in recent years. Sub £200 actually sounds very cheap. The real Mickey take is the fee if you need to park it on the road. Some councils extort huge sums just because Beryl can't park her Meriva in her favourite space and other people are medically incapable of not walking, driving or cycling into a massive, yellow object.

[HRL]

Can’t you just do what they do with new builds, bury it in the garden under an inch of top soil?

[QuartzDad]

Paid £468 for a 12 yard last month in Reading.

[blueg33]

HRL said:

Can’t you just do what they do with new builds, bury it in the garden under an inch of top soil?

Funny.

Even though it hasn’t happened for nearly 20 years. You may find zones from a piling or crane mat, you won’t find waste that should be in a skip unless the site manager is a dick

[paulw123]

blueg33 said:

Simpo Two said:

valiant said:

Feel I need a sanity check and also some lube.

When did ordering a skip get so bleedin’ expensive?

4 yard skip for 7 days and I’m getting quotes in the £190 zone. On top of this I have to put it on a public highway and I have to get a permit which is, and I st you not, £150 plus whatever admin fee the skip company decides to put on as only they can get the permit and not us oikes because rulz. Thanks Essex CC

EU waste/pollution directives (effectively still in force) and council numptyism. Pay more, get less. Extrapolate and eventually the UK will stop working completely. Did I mention the roads? The kerbs around here have weeds up to a foot high sprouting from them.

IMO it’s right that the waste is sorted. If you sort it yourself skips are cheaper.

Reduces pollution and landfill

Rightly so. Waste disposal like anything, costs money. Skip delivery, collection then sorting and recycling it all. General waste skips are the easiest to load but hardest to sort out do cost the most.
Pay £300 for a 8 yard round this way which if packed very well takes the entire full rip out of a large 2 bed flat inc flooring, kitchen and bathrooms plus garden

[Chris Type R]

Chris Type R said:

£324 around our way for an 8 yard on the driveway - with an open ended collection (I said likely 3 weeks).

ETA: Hippobags/Hipposkips must be quite profitable.

I was "disappointed" to find my skip was delivered with some timber & polystyrene inside - as well as, more significantly, the absence of a full base.

I've covered the most compromised corner with a stout(ish) wooden door in the hopes it'll hold what will be a not insignificant amount of weight - a lot of old sand/straw ceiling/render/cement, broken bricks etc.

[princeperch]

Little Lofty said:

Around £200 for 4yd and £280-300 for an 8 yd where I live, £40 for a permit that lasts 6 weeks.

Just as an asides it was me that was also winding up that Karen on that Facebook group youre on. I wouldn't want her as a neighbour thats for sure.

[Dave Hedgehog]

Jasandjules said:

It's about 300 for a 12 yard here. We pay £350 and they load it as well, basically turn up, two blokes fill it and drive off. Well it was a couple of years ago, might be a bit more now....

that seams reasonable, i paid £120 for a 12 yard 18 years ago

[wolfracesonic]

Chris Type R said:

I was "disappointed" to find my skip was delivered with some timber & polystyrene inside - as well as, more significantly, the absence of a full base.

I've covered the most compromised corner with a stout(ish) wooden door in the hopes it'll hold what will be a not insignificant amount of weight - a lot of old sand/straw ceiling/render/cement, broken bricks etc.

There is a corresponding hole on the back of the skip lorry, they just drive around discreetly getting rid of the waste, Great Escape style…

[B235r]

Like everything now its ridiculously expensive. Last time we had a skip 5-6 years ago it was £100 for a 8ft last year it was over £200 didn't bother in the end was only a old rotten shed & a pile of broken fence panels from a storm just had a bonfire

[BigBen]

blueg33 said:

HRL said:

Can’t you just do what they do with new builds, bury it in the garden under an inch of top soil?

Funny.

Even though it hasn’t happened for nearly 20 years. You may find zones from a piling or crane mat, you won’t find waste that should be in a skip unless the site manager is a dick

Having lived in a new build over 20 years ago I can confirm it was the done thing at the time. More recently I dug up the garden of my Victorian house and found more bricks than I can imagine were used in the initial construction of the building. The moral being builders have always behaved like builders......

[Jasandjules]

Dave Hedgehog said:

Jasandjules said:

It's about 300 for a 12 yard here. We pay £350 and they load it as well, basically turn up, two blokes fill it and drive off. Well it was a couple of years ago, might be a bit more now....

that seams reasonable, i paid £120 for a 12 yard 18 years ago

Yeah it is just a significant cost I had forgotten about when getting the work done... And we needed two skips in the end !

[Little Lofty]

princeperch said:

Just as an asides it was me that was also winding up that Karen on that Facebook group youre on. I wouldn't want her as a neighbour thats for sure.

Ha, I wondered who you were
She wants opinions but only those that match hers, she was obviously hoping everyone would agree with her.