A pub refit runs against the clock in a way that almost no other job does. Every day the doors are shut is money, and the whole thing has to be done and dusted before the good weather brings the trade back. Getting pub refurbishment skip hire in Parbold booked around the closure dates rather than the other way round is what keeps a two week shutdown from becoming three.
What a bar strip out actually produces
The bar itself is the bulk of it. Counter carcassing, back fitting, the shelving and the under counter units all come out as timber and board, and there is a lot more of it than the customer side suggests. Add the fixed seating, which in most village pubs means timber framed banquettes with foam and fabric on top, and the floor covering, and the volume climbs quickly.
Then there is the cellar and the kitchen. Old cooling equipment, redundant pipework, catering units that were fitted in a different decade, and whatever has been stored under the stairs since the last change of tenant. Upholstery and foam are bulky and light, timber and board are bulky and moderate, and the tiling and any screed that comes up is where the weight sits. Mixing those three sensibly is what makes a skip work rather than fill.
Pub refurbishment skip hire in Parbold and choosing the container
Most single room refits are comfortably handled by our 8 tonne builders skip, exchanged as it fills. Where the whole ground floor is coming out, the trade is closed for a fortnight and there is space in the car park, a 20 yard roll on roll off skip is usually the better call. One container standing for the duration beats four exchanges, and it means the contractor never stops work waiting for a wagon.
The deciding factor is nearly always access rather than volume. A roll on roll off needs a straight run and room for the wagon to reverse and tip the container off, and not every pub yard has it. Tell us the layout when you enquire and we will say plainly whether it will work, because finding out on the morning helps nobody.
The paperwork that comes with trade waste
A pub refit is commercial waste and the duty of care applies in full. The business is the producer, we are the carrier, and there needs to be a transfer note recording the movement. Any contractor arranging disposal on the licensee’s behalf should be able to produce it without being asked. Checking that whoever takes the waste away is properly licensed is a two minute job, and our note on registered waste carriers explains what to look for.
This matters more in hospitality than most trades, because a licensee already has enough scrutiny without a waste issue attached to the premises. The paperwork is the cheap part of the job.
The things that cannot go in the skip
Cellar cooling equipment and any unit containing refrigerant has to be handled separately and cannot go in with the general strip out. The same goes for fluorescent tubes, and for any oils or cleaning chemicals from the cellar. Where a pub has had work done in the seventies or earlier, the plant room and any old flue or board should be checked before anything is broken up rather than after.
Upholstered seating is worth flagging early. Fixed banquettes and loose furniture are fine in a skip, but if there is a large quantity it is bulky enough to be worth planning around, because foam fills a container remarkably fast for what it weighs.
Timing the skip around the closure
The sequence that works is delivery the evening before the strip out starts, exchange midway through, and final collection the day before the deep clean. What does not work is a skip arriving on day three, because by then the contractor has stacked everything in the car park and it has to be handled twice.
Village placement brings its own timing question. Early deliveries near housing are not always welcome, and we would rather agree a sensible window with you than turn up at first light and cause a problem. Our guide to the rules of skip hire in Parbold covers placement and permissions locally. Where a skip has to sit on the highway rather than in the car park, Lancashire County Council is the highway authority and the permit is thirty six pounds per month, arranged before delivery.
What we recover from a refit
A strip out load is more recoverable than it looks. Timber, board, metal from bar fittings and old catering equipment, and clean tile and screed all separate out at our own recycling centre, which is the whole point of how we run environmental and recycling work. Keeping the general rubbish out of a strip out skip makes a real difference to what comes back out of it.
We cover this side of the district daily and handle the same work for licensees across Appley Bridge skip hire and Skelmersdale skip hire addresses, so a contractor working across several sites deals with one supplier and one set of paperwork.
If you have a closure booked and want the containers planned around it properly, ring our team on 01695 769123 or send the dates through our contact page. Give us the shutdown window and the yard layout and we will build the deliveries around your reopening rather than our schedule.
