DIY Heavan

We had decided to demolish the outhouse which had been sitting behind our house since it had first been built over fifty years ago. It was only a brick building but it had got dilapidated over the years and we had plans to re-use the space for a patio and barbeque area. We hoped that we would be able to re-use most of the bricks, probably in building the barbeque, but there was definitely going to be a lot of mortar and rubble and there was other rubbish inside the building which was mostly going to have to be disposed of so we were interested in finding a skip to hire, so that we could get rid of all the unwanted debris as quickly and painlessly as possible. We knew one of our neighbours across the road had got a skip to hire only a few months previously, so I nipped over the road to find out where he had got it from. It turned out that he obtained a skip to hire from a builder’s place just round the corner. This surprised me, because the builder’s place just round the corner was only a small office and not a builder’s yard but, apparently, they were able to arrange hiring of most plant equipment and other stuff from that small office, even though it was just an administration office. This was lucky to find out, because while I was there I was also able to enquire about extra materials which I knew we would require for relaying the patio area and incorporating the brick built barbeque. I was also interested in waste recycling and whether any of the other rubbish which we would have to dispose of could be handled better. We found that a skip to hire needs to be booked at least a week in advance and possibly more. It is, of course, not just a matter of delivery but also of collection, unless you don’t mind a full skip standing outside your house for months afterwards. We reckoned that it would only take a few days to demolish the brick outhouse, so we were happy to arrange to have the skip for a week, after which the truck came along again to pick it up. There was, actually, a considerable amount of rubbish once the outhouse had been broken down. In fact, far more than we expected and, although the skip was large and we initially doubted whether we would ever fill it up, we found no trouble in filling it almost right to the top. This was helped, however, by some of the neighbours who, realising that we had this enormous skip to fill, found some large rubbish of their own to throw in. I didn’t really mind this because, as long as we could clear our stuff, I couldn’t see why someone else should not also make use of it.