Frequently Asked Questions Skip Hire Ipswich
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The Top Questions and Answers about Skip Hire Ipswich
The top questions we receive are about what skip bin sizes that customer’s will need or what sort of waste they have.
Typical bathroom renovations can be accommodated in a 3m³ Skip Bin. This is large enough for a toilet, basin and bath, wall and floor tiles and even some carpet and timer. Where bathrooms are large, a larger bin will be needed to accommodate the extra tile and floor coverings.
Light waste is made up of materials like cardboard, paper, plastic, soft timber (like pine furniture), furnishings and clothes. These light materials usually weigh about 150 kg per cubic metre. Heavy waste is about 10 times heavier than light waste or about 1,500 kg (1.5 tonnes) per cubic metre. It is materials like bricks, concrete, sand, soil, rocks, aggregates, hardwoods, tree trunks and stumps.
For the rubbish from a bathroom renovation, you will need a heavy waste skip bin. The waste from a bathroom renovation usually includes ceramic materials like tiles (floor and wall), a hand basin and a toilet, which are made of heavy material that weigh as much as bricks (about 1.25 tonnes per cubic metre). The bath and shower screens as also relatively heavy.
Any waste can be placed in a light waste type skip bin, however light bins are priced based on an expectation that they will contain waste that weighes less than 150 kg per cubic metre. Placing heavier waste like bricks or concrete in a light waste skip bin will result in additional tipping charges.
Standard Australian bricks are 230 mm long, 110 mm wide and 90 mm high.
Sorry, but it is not OK to have green waste mixed in with Clean-fill or soil skip bins. The materials placed in the clean-fill bins are recycled so green waste should not be placed in them. Clean-fill is another name for VENM (Virgin Excavate Natural Materials) which is the material that would be dug up from an uncontaminated site.
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