We make it simple.

If you're thinking of  Man and van Ffos-y-frân 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).

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.

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 (Man and van Ffos-y-frân)

 

Step 1: Give us a ring so that we can converse about your man and van service. Step 2: Inform us of the type of waste you want to get rid of and describe the volume you have, as well as you can estimate the quantity. We will help work out a quite good idea of the volume you have then we will provide a guide price (General - mixed waste) for your man and van service on the phone. Just as long as the picture is close to what was described when we arrive and providing there are no unseen surprises, that is all the money that you must pay. Imagining volume is very hard to evaluate therefore we provide the range of costs. For instance, If you have 2 cubic yards (The equivalent of a mini skip) you will pay 1 price, If you have 4 cubic yards (about the same as a midi skip) you will pay another price, of course the truck can hold a lot more if you have a big job. You’ll only be expected to pay for the amount of rubbish you throw on the lorry on the day, you can chuck on as much waste as you like. There are some kinds of waste considered “special” we cannot include in the general waste price. Let us know about anything you may consider or suspect may not be included but we can review this when you ring in. Also tell us about anything you have that may have value, but take in to account we cannot pay a full retail price. If we make an offer to buy (as part payment) we are not buying out of need or want, we are buying to sell on, we are only able to pay a wholesale price. If you are after full retail price for it, you'll have to spend the time promoting it yourself. We will not take items of a lower value as part payment, things of this nature will be given to a charity or recycled. Step 3: Book a date and time window for us to come around to your property and take your junk away. Gauging volume is not easy, if you are not used to it. The easiest method of building a mental image of the volume of waste that is on site, is as follows: We follow the example of the skip hire companies to measure volume Which is measured in yards (cubic). A cubic yard is 3 feet x 3 feet x 3 feet so visualise a three foot high box equal on all sides. That is 1 cubic yard. A giant cube about half height on an averaged sized man. How many of those giant cubes can you fill? That’s how many cubic yards you have. What we do with your waste once we've cleared it? Our objective is to reuse everything you can and anything of the required quality may be sold or given to local charities. The truth is that not very much can be sold for anything more than a minimal amount of cash and it's not economically viable to keep these items. So they are donated to local social enterprises. If not wanted by the social enterprises they are taken to a tip where these types are recycled. Commercial recycling centres take mixed waste streams and then separate recyclable materials before sending the separate piles to be recycled.

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