Trampoline disposal in Blundellsands lands in our diary every August, and it is almost never the only thing going in the skip. Once the children have outgrown the garden it tends to happen all at once, so the trampoline comes down and the playhouse, the sandpit, the plastic slide and three broken scooters follow it out of the shed the same weekend. If you are planning that job, booking Blundellsands skip hire for a single tidy weekend works far better than dragging it out over a month.
Why trampoline disposal in Blundellsands needs more room than people expect
A trampoline is mostly air, and that is the problem. Left whole, a standard family trampoline with a safety enclosure will take up most of the floor of a small skip and give you almost nothing in return, because you cannot stack anything on top of a curved steel ring. Broken down properly it takes a fraction of the space. The mat and the safety netting fold flat. The springs come off into a bucket. The leg sections and the top ring pull apart at the joints and lie along the base of the skip where they stop the load shifting. It is twenty minutes with a socket set and a pair of pliers, and it is the difference between one skip and two.
The frame is worth separating out as you go. Galvanised steel has a route of its own once it reaches us, and keeping it clear of the plastics rather than tangled through them means it gets pulled out cleanly for recycling instead of being picked out of a mixed pile.
What else comes out with it
Almost every garden that gives up a trampoline gives up a plastic playhouse at the same time. Those are hollow moulded panels that nest inside each other if you take the roof off, and they will otherwise sit in the skip like a tent. Sandpits are the same story. Tip the sand out onto a border or a bare patch before the skip arrives rather than shovelling it in, because sand is dead weight and it will eat into your allowance for no benefit at all. If you are relaying the ground where the trampoline stood, a load of decent screened top soil over the bare circle will bring the lawn back far quicker than seeding into compacted ground.
Then there is the shed contents, which is where these jobs quietly double in size. Bikes with seized chains, paddling pools with a split seam, water guns, garden games, a football goal with a bent frame and the parasol base nobody wants to carry. All of it goes in a mixed load without any trouble.
The items that need their own route
Anything with a battery or a plug has to be kept out. Electric ride on cars are the common one at this time of year, and the lead acid battery inside them is not something that can go into a mixed skip under any circumstances. The same applies to electric scooters and the charging units that came with them. Our guide to disposing of electrical waste responsibly covers where those items go instead, and it is a short detour rather than a real obstacle.
Old paddling pool chemicals and pool chlorine tablets are the other one people forget. They are stored in a garage or a shed for years and they cannot travel in a skip. Set them aside at the start rather than finding them at the bottom of a box on collection day.
Working out the skip size
For a garden clear out on this scale, most families in Blundellsands do it comfortably with a 4 tonne midi skip. Plastics and soft garden items are bulky rather than heavy, so you will run out of space long before you run out of weight allowance, and volume is what you are buying. Where the job widens into taking up decking, lifting old paving or removing a shed base as well, the 8 tonne builders skip is the sensible step up because the moment concrete and slabs come into it the weight side of the equation changes completely. Our guide to skip sizes sets out what each one takes.
Placement in Blundellsands is usually easier than in the terraced streets closer to town, because most properties here have a driveway wide enough to take a skip without going anywhere near the road. Where a skip does need to stand on the highway, that requires a permit from Sefton Council and we will sort it out with you when you book. Give us a little notice for that rather than ringing on the morning you want it.
What happens to it after collection
Nothing goes off to a third party site. Every load comes back to our own recycling centre, where the steel frame, the timber and the recoverable plastics are separated and sent on. That matters more with a garden clearance than most people realise, because these loads are unusually rich in recoverable material and unusually poor in anything that truly has to be buried.
Covering the coast road and the streets behind it
End of summer garden clearances run right along this stretch, and we deliver into the same weekend slots for households booking Crosby skip hire and for the roads served by Waterloo skip hire. August and the first half of September are our busiest weeks for this exact job, so if you have a particular weekend in mind it pays to book it in early rather than hoping.
Ring our team on 0151 909 6399 and tell us what is in the garden and we will tell you which skip fits it, or send your details over to us and we will come back to you with a price and a delivery slot.
