Ask anyone who has cleared a garden properly and they will tell you the surprise is never the grass clippings. It is everything else that comes out alongside them, the cracked slabs, the half-buried bricks, the rotten bench, the mound of soil from the new bed. The perfect solution for getting rid of garden waste has to handle both halves of that load, and our garden waste skip hire is built around exactly that reality.
A Garden Clearance Is Never Just Green Waste
After a century of collecting skips from gardens across West Lancashire, we can tell you what a real clearance produces. Roughly speaking it splits into two opposite kinds of waste. The green half, clippings, prunings, branches, weeds and turf, is bulky but light, filling space in the skip long before it troubles the weight limit. The hard half, soil, rubble, slabs, bricks and old concrete, is the reverse, deceptively compact and astonishingly heavy. Old planters, broken furniture, fencing panels and netting sit somewhere in between. Understanding which half dominates your project is the whole trick to skipping it well, because the two halves fail in different ways, green waste runs out of room and hard waste runs out of weight.
The Green Half, Reduce Before You Remove
Before anything green goes in a skip, it pays to shrink it. Branches chipped for mulch and leaves left to rot down into leaf mould stay in the garden doing useful work, and a compost heap will quietly absorb a remarkable share of soft growth. What remains after that, and on a proper clearance there is always plenty, loads best chopped short and pressed down, since air is the enemy of capacity with green material. If the project also needs material coming the other way, fresh beds or levelling after the clearance, we deliver screened top soil on the same rounds, one supplier in both directions.
The Heavy Half, Where Weight Is the Real Limit
Soil and rubble are where first-time hirers get caught out, because a skip full to the brim with earth can weigh far more than a skip full to the brim with hedge trimmings, and it is the tonnage rating, not the rim, that decides what our wagon can lift. This is why skips carry fill rules for dense material, explained in our guide on how full can you fill a skip with soil, and why a project digging out a patio or a long border should mention the soil when booking. For clearances heavy on slabs, brick and concrete, the 8 tonne builders skip earns its name, taking the dense loads that a smaller skip would max out on long before it looked full.
One Skip or Two
For most garden projects a single mixed skip is fine, and our 4 tonne midi skip handles the typical blend of green waste, old pots and a modest run of slabs without drama. Larger landscaping jobs sometimes do better with two, one for the green material and one for the hard, because a load of clean green waste or clean rubble is simpler to process than a thoroughly mixed one, and keeping them apart can work in your favour on bigger projects. It is a judgement call we are happy to make with you on the phone, based on what is actually coming out of the ground. Whichever way you go, the placement rules are the usual ones, your own driveway needs no permission while a roadside skip needs a council permit first, as our guide on whether you need a skip permit and how to get one explains.
Where Both Halves End Up
The two halves of a garden load have two of the best recycling stories we handle. At our own facility the green material is processed into compost and soil products rather than landfilled, and the hard material, the brick, stone and concrete, is crushed and recycled into aggregate that goes back into the ground under new projects. Very little of a garden clearance needs to be wasted at all when it travels through the right channel, and our environmental and recycling page sets out how the sorting works.
Serving Gardens Across West Lancashire and Merseyside
From the sandy plots behind Formby skip hire customers’ homes to the established gardens covered by Maghull skip hire, our wagons are in somebody’s garden most working days, and the drivers have seen every combination of green and heavy a clearance can produce.
If your garden has a clearance coming, tell us what is coming out, the green, the heavy and the in-between, and we will match the skip to the load rather than the other way around. Call 01704 779345 or send the details through our contact page and the perfect solution will be on your drive within days.
