Skip Hire and Site Setup: Preparing Your Property for Building Work
PremiumHow many skips you need for an extension, what they cost, why grab lorries are better for heavy waste, and how to set up your site before the builder arrives.
Do this first:
Your garden is about to stop being a garden. For the next six to twelve months, it's a building site: mud, rubble, noise, deliveries, and a skip that will become the most important object on your property. Getting the site set up properly before work starts prevents damage to your home, arguments with neighbours, and costs you didn't budget for.
Most of this is straightforward. But there are a handful of decisions that catch people out, and some alternatives to the standard skip that can save you serious money on heavy waste.
Your builder should be appointed and your contract signed before you start organising site setup. Several of these decisions (skip placement, access routes, material storage, waste responsibility) need to be agreed with your builder, not decided unilaterally. If your extension footprint covers utility meters, make sure you've read utility meter relocation first.
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