Skip hire help

You should select a skip size that meets your needs using the skip hire size description. See our handy skip sizing guide to help you choose. Remember you can only fill the skip to its top edge.

Please note we are not legally permitted to transport skips that are overfilled.

You will only need a permit if the skip is to be left on public land (typically a road or path), so you will not need a permit if the skip is delivered to your driveway or any part of your property. If the skip is to be left on public land, we will arrange all of the permits for you. As you move through the booking process, you will be asked to confirm if you need a permit.

Please answer YES if you plan to leave the skip on public land. Permits are issued by your local authority and cost £110 for skip sizes up to 10 yards, and £300 for 12 and 14 yard skips.

Once you have a skip permit, it lasts for 28 days and can cover multiple delivery and collections to the same location.

We recommend that you provide specific delivery directions (e.g. "please leave the skip on my driveway") when you book the skip. Please make sure that the place you want the skip to be left has good access for a lorry.

Otherwise, you or your builder/contractor will need to be there for the delivery to agree the drop-off spot with the driver when he arrives with the skip. To help reduce any inconvenience, we will provide you with a delivery time slot the day before your skip is scheduled to arrive.

Please contact us if access is poor and may require a smaller lorry.

You do not need to be there when the skip is collected. However, please ensure that there is good access for the lorry to collect the skip.

If there is insufficient room or poor access, we may not be able to collect the skip and you will incur additional costs for a further collection and extra hire days. Please see our terms & conditions for further details.

As a matter of courtesy, it would be polite to notify your neighbours, particularly if the skip is to be left on the road. However, you are under no obligation to do so.

Yes, your builder can arrange this for you. The process is exactly the same as if you were to book the skip yourself.

When you book your skip, you specify the delivery and collection dates. If you need to extend the collection date, this can be arranged for an additional daily charge. Please call the office on 01449 613824 with your skip booking reference to rearrange your collection day.

Our skip hire and pricing are only for the disposal of general garden and building waste.

The following items are prohibited and should not be placed in our skips mixed with your general garden or building waste: fridges/freezers, tyres, paint cans, TVs/ monitors, asbestos, clinical/medical waste, florescent tubes, solvents, liquids, oil, batteries, plastic board, hazardous/toxic material, gas cylinders, upholstered seating (sofas, chairs, etc.), and grade D wood (hazardous and potentially hazardous).

If you want to hire our skips to dispose of specific waste items which are on our prohibited list, this can be arranged by calling our office on 01449 613 824. The prices offered will reflect the additional cost of managing that specific type of waste, and while higher than our general waste charges, will be significantly less than the price you will pay if you mix prohibited items with general waste.

If we receive prohibited items mixed with general garden and building waste on the return of the skip, you will be charged an additional fee, which will exceed the price paid for pre-arranged disposal.

Please call our office on 01449 613 824 if you have any queries on acceptable waste types.

From 1st January 2023, SunSkips cannot accept upholstered seating in any of our skips following new legislation from the Environment Agency.

This includes, but isn’t limited to, sofas, sofa beds, armchairs, kitchen and dining room chairs, stools and foot stools, home office chairs, futons, beanbags, and cushions.

Deckchairs, mattresses, curtains, blinds, beds and wooden or plastic seats without upholstery are still OK to put in skips.

The textiles and foam contained in upholstered seating falls under the category of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), meaning they're harmful to people and the environment if sent to landfill.

Upholstered furniture should be taken to a Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) so the local authority can send it for incineration, or you can give us a call to arrange a special collection.

All our skips are sunny orange or yellow .

Not everything we receive from you can be recycled - after all, it is waste.

However, all of the materials we receive are sorted. We separate it into material which can be reused, such as metals, green waste, wood, paper/cardboard, plastics, glass, rubble. After the sorting process is complete, there is a relatively small residue which we send for disposal at a licensed disposal site. Through this process, we maximise the amount of material reused and minimise the amount of waste.