Find the right skip.
Book with confidence.

There is no fixed hire period. Book online without a collection date and we get in touch to arrange a day that suits you — and when you finish, just tell us. Days on site while we arrange your collection aren't charged as extra hire. If you need it longer, tell us and we'll move the collection to a later day — the extra time isn't charged as hire. If it stands on a public road, its council permit has to cover the extra time too: we arrange the extension, and its cost — the council's fee and any charge for arranging it — is billed separately. For a consumer the hire cannot run beyond three months in total.

Not usually. If the drop spot is clear and you have said where it goes, the driver can deliver without anybody present — the delivery instructions travel with the booking rather than sitting in somebody's inbox. Access matters more than attendance: the lorry needs room to pull alongside and swing the container down, so a car parked across the spot will stop the delivery even if you are standing next to it. If the placement is awkward, or the only route in is through a gate or a shared yard, being there for five minutes is worth it.

Only if it stands on a public road. On your own driveway or private land, no permit is needed and the question never comes up. On the road, the permit is shown as its own line while you book, and it is applied for on your behalf — by us or by the carrier — so you never contact the council. Councils work in working days and each sets its own notice period. If the date you choose is too tight for yours, some councils will take an urgent application for a late fee; where yours will not, we will tell you and move the delivery to a date that works, rather than letting a skip arrive without a permit under it.

As a rough guide: a 4-yard skip suits a garden tidy-up, a small DIY job or a bathroom strip-out; a 6-yard skip a small kitchen strip-out; an 8-yard builders skip most home-improvement work; and a 12- to 16-yard skip bulky but light clearances such as furniture and packaging. The common mistake is sizing on volume alone — with heavy waste you reach the weight limit long before the container looks full, which is why soil / subsoil and hardcore / rubble are capped at 8 yards. If you are unsure, describe the job and we will point you at the right one.

Level with the top rim, and no higher. An overloaded container cannot legally be carried on the road, because the load has to be sheeted or netted and nothing may project above the sides — so a driver who finds one heaped over the top may not be able to take it. That is a wasted journey, charged at £60 under the terms, and the skip stays until the load has been levelled — so overfilling costs more than it saves. Weight is the other limit, and with heavy waste it is the one you meet first, which is why soil / subsoil and hardcore / rubble are capped at 8 yards.

Yes — a waste transfer note is sent to you for every load and filed against your booking. It is the document recording a load of waste changing hands: what it was, who produced it, who carried it, and where the transfer happened. Under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 whoever produces waste has a duty of care for it, and so does each business that carries, keeps or disposes of it, or arranges that as a broker; the transfer note is how you demonstrate you discharged yours. No broker or carrier can take that responsibility off you, and anyone claiming they can is selling something they cannot deliver. What we can do is make sure the evidence exists without you chasing it, so the paperwork is assembled before anybody asks for it.