Essential Features to Look for When Hiring Skip Bins

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Successful landscaping can easily transform your property's aesthetics and increase its value considerably. That said, landscaping projects often result in large amounts of waste, which must be collected and disposed of. This is where skip bin hire services prove essential, particularly regarding your yard's clean-up process. However, you will be doing yourself a great disservice by approaching the hiring process blindly. You need to know what you are renting to get what your money is worth. This article highlights critical features to look for when renting skip bins. 

Compartmentalised Bins

Whether it is soil, synthetic grass, tree stumps, weeds, bark, wood chips, leaves, or branches, landscaping projects have it all. Disposing of the different types of waste can be a real problem if you have a single standard skip bin. For instance, if you want to sell waste wood chips and barks to mulch suppliers, the last thing you want is to mix them with soil in a single skip bin. Besides, mulch suppliers will not waste time separating wood chips from a pile of soil, grass, weeds, and other waste. Compartmentalised skip bins are helpful since they allow you to dispose of various landscaping waste in respective compartments. Most importantly, it makes sorting of waste easy and encourages recycling.

Wheels

Landscaping projects on extensive lawns are not for the faint at heart due to the amount of effort and time required to complete a project successfully. Thus, the capabilities of your skip bins determine the amount of energy you put into a project. Skip bins without wheels sit in one place, meaning that you must ferry dirt from the furthest corner of your lawn for disposal. However, it can be tiring and slow, affecting the quality of landscaping work. In contrast, a wheeled skip makes landscaping work much more manageable. For example, you can pile dirt at different points on your lawn then tow a skip bin to each spot for easy waste collection.

Skip Bin Lids

Why do you need a skip bin with a lid if the waste from your landscaping project will be gone by evening? Most property owners ask this question, and understandably so. Some want to avoid the hassle of lifting a lid every time they want to dispose of landscape waste. However, hiring skip bins without a cover is a recipe for disaster when the heavens open. The last thing you want is rain pounding hard inside a skip bin full of soil and other green waste. To avoid the challenge, hire a skip bin with a lid so that you can close it when it starts to rain midway through a project.

Contact a professional to learn more about skip bin hire.

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