Summer is when gardens finally get the attention they have been waiting for all year, and a proper outdoor clear-up, overgrown borders, a collapsing shed, tired decking or a fence that is finally coming down, throws off a surprising amount of waste. Once you have composted and reused what you sensibly can, the rest still needs shifting somewhere. Our Ormskirk skip hire service makes that side painless, so here is how to plan a summer garden clear-up without it swallowing the whole season.
Plan the garden clear-up before you start
A quick plan saves a lot of wandering about with a wheelbarrow. Walk the garden and note the jobs, the beds to be stripped, the shed to be emptied, the old furniture, the decking or fencing to come out, then decide the fate of each pile. Some of it will compost down, some timber and the odd fixture can be reused or passed on, and the rest is for disposal. The larger village and rural gardens around Ormskirk produce more than people expect once the green stuff and the old structures come out together, so it pays to be realistic about the volume from the outset.
Watch the weight of garden waste
The thing that catches people out with a garden clear is weight rather than space. Soil, turf and wet green waste are far heavier than the loose pile suggests, and they reach a skip’s weight limit long before they look as though they have filled it. That is exactly why our garden waste skip hire is set up with heavy, dense material in mind, so a turf lift or a border dig does not leave you short half way through.
Choosing the right size
For a typical summer tidy a 4 tonne midi skip is usually about right, with room for cuttings, old furniture and a fair amount of soil. If the job has grown into proper landscaping, with hardcore from old paths, walls or decking bases coming out, an 8 tonne builders skip copes far better with the weight. As ever, if you are caught between the two, the larger one tends to cost less than running short and booking a second.
Where the skip goes and permits
Most gardens around Ormskirk come with a driveway, yard or hardstanding where a skip can sit without troubling the road, which means no permit and a simpler job all round. Where the only option is the road, that needs a West Lancashire Borough Council permit, and we arrange that for you. Our guide on whether you need a permit to place a skip on the road in Lancashire sets out when one is needed.
Cost-effective and responsible
A skip lets you clear the whole garden in one collection rather than losing your summer weekends to trips to the tip, and we deliver at a clear flat rate with nothing waiting to be added at the end, as our affordable skip hire with clear pricing explains. Green waste and soil that come back to our own recycling centre are recovered wherever possible rather than buried, which you can read about on our environmental and recycling page.
Serving Ormskirk and beyond
We cover Ormskirk along with Burscough skip hire just up the road, where the gardens are much the same, and the same family operation runs our Southport skip hire service over toward the coast.
If the garden is top of the list this summer, get in touch and we will match a skip to the job and book it around your plans. Contact our Ormskirk team or call 01704 779345.
