[Closed] Clearing rubble - Skip or Hippo Bag?

Similar situation here ... weight limits are stated on the hippo bag (only supposed to 1/3 fill if disposing of earth or rubble, if green waste, then I think you can fill them). We just sprinkled grass cuttings over the top of a rubble and earth filled sack 😉

It didn't split when the lorry came to pick it up. I think the big bags are smaller than all but the smallest skips. We didn't get a skip license. All in it seemed to be less hassle than traditional skip hire.

Kind of what I was thinking. They describe the HippoSkip as 4.5 cubic yards and 1.5 tonnes which is the same as a small skip I think

I would get the biggest skip you can (8yd)? as you will soon fill it and it will cost much more to get (say) several hippobags or small skips than one big skip.

Also with a skip you can barrow the first half in - much easier than manually emptying each load.

I recently did a garden refurb and the guy who helped recommended one 8yd skip. I thought it would be way too big and considered a 4yd one.

We ended up filling to the brim TWO 8yd skips and five green wheelie bins (we borrowed all the neighbours' bins).

Personally a skip. All depends on how much stuff you have to shift.

Any more than 2 skips (maxi/8yrd) then I'd opt for a grab and Go wagon as it'll work out cheaper, if you have somewhere to dump all the waste before collection.

I had a hippo bag to get rid of a load of shingle. The hippo bag is good and from memory I don't hthink you need a license if you put it on the road edge like you do with a skip. Not seen any break yet but was a little nervous given teh proxmity to some cars. You could get chanrged for overloading but then you can do with a skip anyway.

Call a skip company for a price, most will do cheaper rates for 'clean' brick rubble/concrete.

We had a 4tn skip of our local company (not the one i work for) for £70. Plenty of room in it. Where are you?

Southampton

DO they charge for the length of time you keep the skip? I will be doing this at weekends and am thinking shifting 8 cubic yards of concrete and bricks might make my back ache if I do it in one go.

No they don't (well never in my experience) they charge per collection as lots of the cost of a skip is tied up in landfill charges to them.

Things may have changed: last time I did major DIY we arranged for a skip to arrive, had all the rubble and a couple of mates with wheelyburrows ready, filled it on the spot ('kin 'ell that was a hard hour) and the truck drove off immediately.

But it saved £loads in rental. Maybe some companies charge differently

IIRC you can't solely fill a skip bigger than a 6yd with solid as it gets way too heavy. Other than that just get a skip. You can fill way way over the "level load" without any complaint. Always handy to have a tenner in your pocket for the driver just in case though 😉

If you're in a rural area, have a word with a local farmer, they may take the material for surfacing gateways/yards if it will be sufficiently broken. We've left trailers at local building jobs to rubble fill holes in our forest tracks. Just have to be very clear that if there is anything that's not stone or concrete (such as plastic or metal) we will tip it straight back out before towing.

Beware if you live on a busy road - friend of mine hired a skip, left it empty overnight outside his house and woke the next day to find it full of builders' waste!

Just level your entire garden, and use the remaining spoil to create a BMX track. 😀

Skip here, we got a small skip when we got our kitchen done and with minimal rubble it got filled really quick. Hippobags didn't seem to be any cheaper and the skip was probably easier to store at the front of the house. We had a full size skip when we had the conservatory built, speaking to the builders they reckoned for the crap dug out from the footings it would have been two Hippobags - they didn't like using them anyway as they found them more difficult to fill anyway.

As for paying for how long you keep it read the small print, the company I used had some small print about 7 day rental. Needless to say when I rang on day 4 for collection and they didn't get it until day 6 I was getting prepared for a bit of a fight.

Skip and don't forget the greedy boards!

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didnt think there was a weight limit on a skip, but i could be wrong, usually they just say only fill level..?

Fill level?

Yeah right 😉

Just make several trips down to Southampton docks, in't dead of night, and surreptitiously dump it into the water.

Maybe you could utilise a Great Escape style trouser bayg system, and distribute all the spoil in the surrounding area.

Take it up to Lordswood to make jumps and berms and stuff out of.

Ohh. Spam. Yawn.