We make it simple.

If you're thinking of  skip hire Blaenau-Gwent 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 (skip hire Blaenau-Gwent)

 

Step 1: Give us a ring (for free) so that we can talk about your skip hire alternative service. Step 2: Describe the kind of junk you want us to remove and give us an idea of quantity, as best as you can quantify it. We can then attempt to help you get a fairly good idea of the volume you have then we can provide an estimate of price (For general waste) for your skip hire alternative service over the phone. When we arrive if the picture as close to what was described and there are no unobserved bombshells, then that is all the money that you pay. Imagining volume is really difficult to gauge therefore we will offer the full spectrum of costs. For instance, If you have 2 cubic yards (about the same as a mini skip) you will pay one amount, If you have 4 cubic yards (the same as a midi skip) you will pay another price, the van can hold up to 20yds if need be. You’ll only be expected to pay for what you put on the truck on the day, and you can put on as much junk as you like. There are some kinds of waste considered “special” that cannot be included in the mixed waste price. Please let us know about any kinds of waste you suspect may not be classified as general waste but we can comment on this before hand. Also tell us about anything you have that may have value, but remember we cannot pay full retail. If an offer is made to buy your item (as part payment) we are not doing so as someone who wants to use or keep the item, a wholesale price is all we are able to pay. If you must get full retail price for it, you'll have to spend the time marketing and advertising on your own. We will not take items of a lower value as part payment, most items of this nature will be given to a social enterprise or recycled. Step 3: Set a time slot for us to swing by and clear your junk away. Estimating volume is challenging, if you are not experienced in it. The most simple method of visualising the quantity of rubbish that you have, is as follows: We employ the skip hire industries way of measuring volume which is done in yards (cubed). A cubic yard is 3ft x 3ft x3ft so build a mental image of a three foot high box equal on all sides. That is one cubic yard. A large box about half height on an averaged sized man. How many of those large boxes can you fill? That’s how many cubic yards you have. What we do with your waste once we've cleared it? The attempt is to reuse anything that it is possible to and items of fair quality may be sold or offered to local social enterprises. The truth is that a fraction of what we collect can be sold on for anything more than a tiny amount of cash and it's not economically viable to keep these items. So they are offered to local social enterprises. If not wanted by the charities they are taken to a material recovery facilitiy where these types are recycled. Material recovery facilities take mixed waste streams and then separate recyclable materials before sending the separate piles to be recycled.

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