Thinking of hiring a skip?

House Clearance Glynllan

 

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We make it simple.

 

If you're thinking of  House Clearance Glynllan you are probably considering a skip as an option, we can save you time effort and money. Most people have no idea what skip size they need and when they hear the prices just go for the cheapest one and regret it later. Ever noticed a skip by the side of the road with doors jammed down the sides so the hirer can fit more in? Like the skip hire firm is not going to notice and refuse to take the skip until some is removed?

Chances are that person will have to foot the bill for a second skip, and when you are talking about hundreds of pounds each, it's a costly mistake to make.

If a skip is to be placed on the road, council owned lane, pavement or verge then you are going to need a permit. This is an extra cost you have to bare on top of the price of your skip (Cardiff is £67.00 2015/16), this can take time to obtain and cause delays, as you have to wait for one to be granted (or rejected).

 

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How we're different.

 

We can visit your property and offer you a free, no obligation, firm quote before work starts, so there's no guessing. If you need an idea before we visit just give us a call (or email us) to describe what you have and we'll provide an estimate over the phone. We can visit at a time suitable for you, we can often attend evenings & weekends and even view the waste if your not present if it's accessible without access. We can then call you back with a quote. There is no permit needed for our service, so no extra charges or delays.

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We save you money.

 

If you would have needed a permit we've already saved you £30-£67 before we even start. On top of that we look come within the price a skip would have cost you for the quantity of waste you have (even though we'll be doing the work too!), we'll take a look at what you need to get rid of and equate it to how big of a skip you would have needed should you have hired one. We then price accordingly, our vans typically hold the equivalent of 2 large builders skips so you'll have something to gauge this with at the end. But we offer an honest and fair appraisal before work starts, one that you can reject or accept.

Another way we can save you money is by fair judgement. If you fill a skip it doesn't matter what you fill it with, it's full and you pay. We can make allowances for things like cardboard or scrap metal etc. They don't cost us anything to get rid of so we can offer a reduction in price if they form a large portion of what you are throwing out.  

We try to be as fair and measured as we can be. We cannot tip at council yards as a commercial waste carrier we have to pay to dispose of the waste. Different types of waste go at different rates. For example General mixed waste goes at £156 per tonne where as cardboard can be tipped for free. 

So we recycle as much as possible to avoid paying the hefty top tipping rate..... We take the wood to the wood recyclers..... The cardboard to the cardboard recyclers...... etc. This helps us to be kinder to the environment and keep our prices low.

 

 

We save you time.

 

You get two guys to do the loading included in the price!! We can usually arrange a time to visit that suits you, we understand that you're busy and try to be as accommodating and flexible as possible.

 

 

What can and can't be taken.

 

Typically this service is designed to cater for light mixed household, general wastes, furniture, bric-a-brac or light construction (examples below). We can take paint, tyres and most electrical goods. Plasterboard must be kept separate, it's banned from landfill and can no longer be taken as rubble, but we can take it if it's not mixed with anything else. 

If you have heavy waste such as tiles, stone, brick or soil we can take a reasonable amount, but it must be bagged and kept separate from other wastes. It's cheap to get rid of at around £12 per tonne, but if it's mixed with other things it has to go at £156 per tonne and it's far too heavy for that. We can carry around 1.5t at a time, this service is only designed for small amounts of heavy wastes. For example a kitchen rip out with 20 bags of clean tile and the rest being wood (and a small amount of junk) is just fine, a small breeze block/brick wall that could fit in a mini skip is fine. If you have large amounts of heavy waste a skip is going to be cheaper for you. We can do multiple trips but then our usual quoting model is adapted due to extra labour & fuel.

We cannot take fridge/freezers, old style TVs or hazardous/special wastes. We quite literally have nowhere to dispose of them.  The limitations in this last paragraph but including plasterboard & paint usually apply to skips also.

Please bare in mind that when we quote we can not always see everything that is contained in a pile or assess every corner or individual item. It is possible for us to miss the presence of any of things above, including heavy waste. If this happens it's our policy to offer to leave the items rather than alter the price quoted. We will not re-quote unless asked. While most customers understand the reasons behind a renegotiation on finding a specified item others get quite upset, so we find it easier to offer for the items to remain. 

 

Areas Covered (House Clearance Glynllan)

 

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Step 1: Contact us (for free) so that we can chat about your house clearance. Step 2: Tell us what rubbish you are throwing out and let us know how big the job is, how much junk you need cleared, as best as you can. We can then attempt to help you to get a fairly good grasp of volume of rubbish you have we can then give an estimate of cost (For mixed waste) for your house clearance by phone. If when we visit the situation is close to what was described and there are no unobserved revelations, that will be the amount that you must pay. But volume is very difficult to ascertain therefore we will deliver the full sphere of costs. Case in point, if you have 2yds (The equivalent of a mini skip) then you pay X price, If you have 4 cubic yards (The equivalent of a midi skip) you will pay another price, of course the truck can hold a lot more if you have a big job. The price varies by the amount of rubbish you throw on the lorry on the day, and you can sling on as much as you like. Some kinds of rubbish are classified as “special” waste we cannot include in the mixed waste price. Don’t forget to tell us about any kinds of waste you suspect may not be classified as general waste but we can focus on this over the telephone. Also tell us about anything you have that may have value, but remember we cannot pay full retail. If we make an offer to buy (as part payment) we don’t want to buy the item to keep it, it’s just not practical to pay any more than a wholesale price. If you need to achieve full price, you'll have to spend the time trying to sell by yourself. We cannot accept items of low value as part payment, most items of this nature will be given to a social enterprise or recycled. Step 3: We will give you an appointment time for us to attend and take your rubbish away. Establishing volume is hard, if you have not done it before. The easiest way of picturing the quantity of waste that is present at your property, is like this: We use the standard skip hire measure of volume Which is measured in yards (cubic). A cubic yard is 3ft x 3ft x3ft so visualise a three foot high box equal on all sides. That is one cubic yard. A big cube that comes up to the waist on an averaged sized man. How many of those large cubes can you fill? Well that is the amount of yards you have. What we do with your waste once we've cleared it? The object is to reuse wherever possible and items of decent quality may be sold or provided to local charities. The truth is that very little can be sold on for anything more than a insignificant amount of cash and it's not economically viable to store these items. So they are presented to local charities. If rejected by the charities they are taken to a waste transfer station point where they are recycled. Commercial recycling centres take mixed waste streams and then separate recyclable materials before sending the separate piles to be recycled.