How much for a skip?

[swedishmum]

Dh has just flown off to work for the next 2 weeks and we have loads of junk from kitchen update in the garden - dangerous for dog and dd3, plus neighbours will think we're total trash!!
6ft midi skip for £100 - how does that sound? We're in far SE.

Sounds good to me.

(where I you,exactly, I'll come round in the night and fill it up)

Sound about right to me. I'm in SE London and I know its that much here.

We paid 80 for a large skip in south west london, but that was a few years ago, so reckon 100 is ok

Swedishmum, how long are you allowed to keep it for? I could do with one but need it for about a week. Haven't got round to pricing it up yet.

Doodle, its usually for as long as you need it iirc.

If your dh is away, will you be able to dump all the stuff in by yourself? could you pay someone to clear the garden for you? Look in local paper for rubbish clearance.

if its just bits have you thought about hippo bags (google them) -they're a bit cheaper and you can pick em up in wickes.

But price does sounds right for SE .

Cheers Maureen. Hope you're right because that would make life much easier just now!

I take all mine to the tip myself now. Yes, its a bit of a PITA to load and unload again, but if its saves me £100, I'll do it! I've got a kitchen being delievered in a few weeks and as long as I keep on top of the rubbish, its all going in the back of my car! The guys at the tip are very good too. In fact, I didn't do much today other than give it the big girlie eyes and they did it for me!

Jeez, if I did big girlie eyes down our tip, they'd be making calls to social services demanding me be sectioned!

When I came back yesterday (I go a lot, we've got buiding works going on!) I told DH he was lucky I came home, because I pulled! He is now telling me to bugger off and live with my new boyfriend Stig of the Dump!

My dad reckons all men from the tip are secret milllionaires.

That skip would be for 21 days - great as we need to clear out the garage too. I'd go to the tip myself but it's 11 miles each way and not in a direction I normally go. With the price of petrol in my gas guzzling 7 seater (need it with 4 kids - 3 of them teenager sized) I think my time's better spent with a skip! Will ask fil to come and help, and put the children to work. Sometimes I could throttle dh, the number of half done jobs I get lumbered with!

to the op, sounds cheap.

Sounds like a plan then! I only go so much because its cheaper. I only live a mile or two away and quite often its on the way to somewhere.

Aren't I grown up, ordering my first skip! I'm so pathetic, I know. Actually, if dh is away for 2 weeks, do you think I'd fit an ancient Honda motorbike in?? . It hasn't worked since at least 1994...

Wow! That's really cheap. I've always paid £121 for a midi skip, that's for a week & does include the road licence, but htat's only about £8. That's the cheapest I can get here by quite a long way.

£100 sounds reasonable, just check if you need a permit for it. Here we need a permit from the council to put a skip on the road outside the house.

Might be worth checking your local paper for firms doing rubbish clearance. I've hired a man with a van a couple of times and it worked out about £40 cheaper than a skip.

Sounds good, depending on the time you want it for. I recently paid £160, but had it for 3.5 weeks (SE).

Depending on what part of SE you're in, check out Bugg Skip Hire - they are by far the cheapest in our area (though I forget how much we actually paid!) but not sure how far they cover.