Summer is when most Formby homeowners finally tackle the tired decking or cracked patio that has been bothering them all winter. The coastal weather here is hard on outdoor timber, and salt-laden air combined with damp shaded corners tends to rot deck boards faster than it would further inland. If you are lifting an old deck or breaking up worn slabs this season, a midi skip booked through our skip hire in Formby service keeps the job moving without trips back and forth to the tip.
Why Formby Decks and Patios Wear Out Quickly
Plenty of Formby gardens back onto the pinewoods or sit on the sandy soil that runs through much of the village, and both bring their own quirks. Sandy ground shifts and settles, which loosens patio sub-bases and leaves slabs rocking within a few seasons. Timber decking takes a battering from the damp coastal air, and the shaded side of a deck rarely dries out properly between showers. By the time most people pull a deck up, the boards are spongy underneath even where the surface still looks sound, and the joists below have often gone the same way.
That means a replacement job almost always produces more waste than expected. Old boards, rotten bearers, broken slabs, the bedding sand and a layer of weed membrane all add up, and it tends to surprise people when it is stacked in one place.
Choosing a Skip for Heavy Patio Waste
The thing to remember with patio waste is weight. Paving slabs, concrete bedding and old hardcore are dense, and a large skip filled with that material will hit its weight limit long before it looks full. For most decking and patio jobs around Formby, the 4 tonne midi skip is the sensible choice, giving you room for the timber while safely carrying the heavier broken slabs and sub-base. If you are unsure how the mix of light timber and heavy stone will balance out, our guide on choosing the right skip size walks through the trade-offs.
If the patio comes up as clean broken concrete and slabs with little else mixed in, it is worth knowing how a skip handles that kind of dense load. Our explanation of how full you can fill a skip with heavy material covers why a half-filled skip of slabs is perfectly normal and nothing to worry about.
Where to Put the Skip
Most Formby properties have a driveway or hardstanding with enough room for a skip, which is the easiest option since it avoids the need for a council permit. We can drop a skip onto a driveway skip hire placement so it sits right beside the work. If the only space is on the road, that is still workable, but it needs a permit arranged in advance, and our team can talk you through that when you book.
Sorting What Comes Out
Pressure-treated decking timber, clean slabs and hardcore all have a route to being recycled rather than buried, and we sort skip loads at our own recycling centre to keep as much out of landfill as possible. You can read more about that side of the operation on our environmental and recycling page. Broken slabs in particular are often crushed and reused as hardcore elsewhere, so a patio strip-out rarely ends up as simple waste.
Serving Formby and the Surrounding Coast
We cover the whole coastal stretch, so as well as Formby itself we are regularly out with skips for projects in Ainsdale skip hire jobs to the north and Crosby skip hire work to the south. Wherever you are along that line, delivery and collection fit around your timeline rather than ours.
If you are planning to lift a deck or replace a patio this summer, give our Formby team a call on 01704 779345 and we will sort the right skip, advise on placement and have it with you when the work starts. Reach us any time through our contact us page.
