With the spring season well underway in Australia, now is the time to start tidying up your property in time for plenty of time for summer. This will likely mean you need to hire a skip bin to remove any garden rubbish. However, you need to know a few things before you approach skip bin hire company to ensure you get the best value for your money, as well as get the skip bin you need.
To make things easy for you, we’ve put together this list of five factors to consider before hiring a skip bin.
1. What will you put in it?
There’s a good reason this is the first question you need to ask yourself. Your answer will determine the kind of skip bin you need. This is because not all skip bins are designed to hold the same types of materials. And if you choose the wrong one, you may need to pay a large bill to the hire company in order to get the rubbish properly disposed of.
Generally, you’ll be able to hire bins for the following purposes:
- General waste removal from commercial or residential properties
- Domestic garden waste
- Construction or industrial waste
- Asbestos removal
- Demolition waste
Consider what you’re intending to get rid of and which of the above skip bins would be the best choice. For instance, if you’re just tidying up the garden, you’ll likely need a skip for the garden waste. However, if you also want to get rid of old garden furniture, you’ll need a general waste skip too.
2. What size bin do you need?
Once you know what kind of skip bin you need depending on what you’re intending to throw away, you need to think about the size. Obviously, this will depend on how much you’re going to throw out.
Skip bin companies typically measure their bins in cubic metres. The smallest bins tend to be about two cubic metres (about 20 wheelbarrows worth). The largest skip bins can behold as much as 31 cubic metres (about a whopping 310 wheelbarrows worth). So, whatever your job, there’s likely to be a bin big enough.
Try and estimate how much space you’ll need. It’s best to overestimate so that you don’t need to hire an extra bin. Remember though, the bigger the bin, the more expensive they are to hire. So if you can, measure what you intend to get rid of, like furniture, and aim to be accurate in your estimate.
3. How long do you need it?
The next question to answer is how long you will need the bin. You might be able to get the job done in a weekend, or you might need to take longer, like a week. Depending on the company, there may be minimum time lengths for hire, as well as fees associated with renting a bin over multiple days.
A good way to keep the rental price down is to have all your rubbish ready to go before the skip arrives. Then you can simply put it in the bin and it can be taken away. If it’s a big job, you may like to ask friends and family to help get everything into the bin.
4. Where will it go?
It’s important to be environmentally conscious when getting rid of any waste and that includes questioning how the waste in the skip bin will be disposed of. Ideally, as little of your rubbish should go to landfill as possible. Instead, it should be recycled or reused in other ways.
When looking at potential skip bin companies to go with, check to see if they have a recycling policy. Talk to them about what they can and cannot recycle and ensure that you do your best to keep materials that cannot be recycled separately from those that can. This may be a reason to get multiple bins.
5. Is there truck access to deliver or remove bin?
The final thing to bear in mind when hiring a skip bin is where you’ll place it. It should be somewhere you can easily access it to throw away your rubbish. However, it also needs to be accessible to the truck that delivers and removes the bin. Additionally, public and pedestrian safety needs to be considered and you cannot obstruct roads with the bin.
Therefore, you may need to compromise when it comes to easy access for yourself. The priority is ensuring the truck can get to the bin and it doesn’t obstruct the general traffic in your area.
Conclusion:
Skip bins are the ideal solution for easily disposing of any rubbish from your home effectively. However, you need to know a few things about what skip bin you need. Use our guide above to make sure your skip bin rental process is simple and straightforward.
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