Buying a house in Euxton to let is rarely a case of handing over the keys the week after completion. Much of what comes up for investors here sits on the 1960s estates that grew the village, the Talbot and Greenside estates among them, and those houses usually need a proper refurbishment before a first tenant moves in. Rental property refurbishment skip hire is the line in that budget landlords most often guess at, so here is how it plays out when we deliver skip hire in Euxton for a buy to let project.
Why a Rental Property Refurbishment Produces More Waste Than a Turnaround
A changeover between tenants is a clean, a coat of paint and perhaps a new carpet. A rental property refurbishment on a house you have just bought is a different job altogether, because you are undoing decades of other people’s decisions in one go. The previous owner may have lived there for forty years, and the loft, the garage and the garden shed often come with the sale whether you wanted them or not. Before a single trade has picked up a tool, there can be a full household clearance to get through.
Then the strip-out starts. Kitchens from the 1980s and 1990s, a bathroom suite in a colour nobody has chosen since, carpets with the underlay stuck to the boards, internal doors that will not satisfy a modern fire safety check, and plaster that comes away the moment an electrician starts chasing cables. The waste arrives in two very different waves, bulky and light first, then heavy and dense, and planning the skips around those two waves is where most of the saving sits. If you let property across several towns, our wider guide to skip hire for landlords covers the portfolio side of this.
The Compliance Work That Drives the Strip-Out
A large share of the waste on a rental property refurbishment is created by regulation rather than by taste. In England a private landlord needs a satisfactory electrical installation condition report before a new tenancy begins and at least every five years after that, and on an older Euxton semi the report often calls for remedial work or a full rewire. A rewire means chasing walls and lifting floorboards, which means broken plaster, old cable, back boxes and damaged boards heading for the skip.
The energy performance rules push in the same direction. A rented home in England needs an EPC rating of at least E, and on a house that has not been touched in years that can mean new windows, a replacement boiler, loft insulation topped up or replaced, and old storage heaters coming off the walls. Each of those jobs creates its own waste stream, and old window frames, glass, radiators and copper pipe are exactly the kind of material we recover rather than send to landfill.
Rental Property Refurbishment Skip Hire for Each Stage of the Work
For the clearance and the soft strip, meaning the kitchen units, carpets, doors and leftover furniture, a 4 tonne midi skip is usually right. It holds somewhere around sixty five to eighty five bin bags’ worth, it fits comfortably on a typical Euxton driveway, and bulky light material rarely gets anywhere near its weight allowance. Break the units down flat before they go in and it goes a surprisingly long way.
The heavy phase is a different matter. Once plaster is coming off the walls, a bathroom is being tiled out and perhaps a chimney breast or an old concrete path is going, the load gets dense very quickly. That is when an 8 tonne builders skip earns its place, taking roughly one hundred and eighty to two hundred and forty bags’ worth with the weight allowance that rubble needs. Many landlords book the midi for the first fortnight and swap to the builders skip once the trades are in. The full range is set out on our skip sizes page if the job runs to more than one house.
Artex, Asbestos and What Has to Stay Out
Houses of this age bring one material into almost every conversation we have, and that is textured ceiling coating. Artex and similar finishes applied before 2000 can contain asbestos, so a rental property refurbishment that involves skimming over or taking down ceilings should start with a test rather than a scraper. If the result comes back positive, that material has to be handled by a licensed specialist and cannot travel in any general skip. Our guide explaining why asbestos can never go in a skip sets out what to do instead.
The other items to keep aside are the ones a clearance tends to turn up. Fridges and freezers, old televisions, paint tins from the garage, gas bottles from the barbecue and any tyres all need their own routes. Tell us about them when you book and we will point you to the right place, which is far quicker than sorting a mixed skip after the event.
Everything else comes back to our recycling centre, where timber, metal, hardcore and plastics are separated and sent on. On a strip-out heavy in kitchen carcasses, radiators and door frames, much of the load goes on to be recovered, and as the landlord you receive a waste transfer note showing your duty of care was met, which is worth keeping on the property file alongside the electrical report and the EPC.
Timing a Rental Property Refurbishment Around the Void Period
Every week a rental sits empty costs rent, council tax and utilities, so the skip should never be the thing that holds the programme up. The pattern that works best is booking the first skip for the day after completion, getting the clearance done within a week, and lining up the swap with the start of first fix. When the plasterer arrives, the heavy skip should already be on the drive waiting.
Most of the Euxton estates have off-road parking, which means no permit is needed and the skip can sit on the drive. Put boards down if the drive is block paved, leave room for the trades to get their vans close, and keep the skip clear of the front door so the path stays open for material deliveries. Where a property has no drive and the skip has to go on the road, a permit from Lancashire County Council is needed. It costs £42 per 28 days and we arrange it as part of the booking.
Refurbishing Rentals Across Euxton and Beyond
The growth of Buckshaw Village next door has changed this corner of Chorley borough, and investors who buy in Euxton often hold property in the neighbouring towns too. We deliver to all of them with the same team and the same booking, so if your next project sits nearer skip hire in Chorley or a few miles north with skip hire in Leyland, the planning works in exactly the same way. After more than a century as a family business in this part of Lancashire, we have seen most kinds of rental stock come through a rental property refurbishment, from ex-council semis to converted flats above shops.
If you have just picked up the keys to a Euxton rental and want the refurbishment waste planned properly from day one, call us on 01257 752399 or contact our team online. Tell us what is coming out and when the trades are booked, and we will set out which skips to book and when to swap them.
