What Size Skip for a Bathroom Renovation in Doncaster?
A 6 yard for most bathrooms, or a 4 yard if it is a small room and the floor is staying put. Bathrooms are small, but the waste from them is dense, and that is what decides the size rather than the square footage.
Why a small room needs a mid-size skip
Almost everything coming out of a bathroom is heavy. Wall tiles come off with a layer of plaster or adhesive attached. Floor tiles come up with screed. A ceramic suite weighs a surprising amount on its own, and a cast iron bath is in a different league again: one of those will account for a noticeable proportion of a small skip's weight limit before you have put anything else in.
So the calculation is not "small room, small skip". It is "dense waste, mid-size skip, filled properly rather than to the top".
What comes out
- Bath, basin, toilet and cistern
- Wall tiles and the plaster or backer board behind them
- Floor tiles, screed and adhesive
- Shower tray, enclosure and screen
- Vanity units, cabinets and boxing-in
- Old pipework and any boarding taken off to reach it
Choosing between 4 and 6
Rough guide:
- 4 yard. A small bathroom or en-suite, suite and wall tiles only, floor staying as it is.
- 6 yard. A standard family bathroom, particularly if the floor is coming up or there is a cast iron bath involved. This is the safer default.
- 8 yard. Bathroom and en-suite together, or a bathroom plus other work happening at the same time.
If you are between two, take the larger. A second delivery costs more than the difference.
Worth checking before it all goes in
A suite in decent condition is not necessarily waste. Reclamation yards take period fittings, and a cast iron roll-top in reasonable order has genuine value. It is worth a photograph and ten minutes of asking around before it gets broken up.
Electric showers and extractor fans are electrical waste and cannot go in the skip. It is a small detail that catches people at the end of the job.
Loading it
Break the ceramics up rather than putting the suite in whole, which both saves space and stops large pieces bridging awkwardly across the skip. Tile and plaster want to go flat on the bottom. Keep it level with the top rail.
If access to the bathroom means carrying everything down a staircase, think about where the skip stands before delivery day. A few metres closer to the door makes a real difference over a hundred trips.
Get it sized properly
Tell us the room size, whether the floor is coming up and whether the bath is cast iron, on 01302 490 249. Our bathroom renovation skip hire page covers the job in more detail.