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Cost of Skips

  • 13-09-2010 11:41AM
    #1
    sligono1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 631 ✭✭✭


    Im hoping to have a big Clear out in the next few weeks sowho would be the best value ariund for a skip around,or would it be as cheap to go with a car trailer load or two to the spot down beside Connacht Gold,
    any help would be great.


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  • #2
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    There was a thread here on it a while back.. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=64451128

    I used "Man with a Van" for a clearout a while back. I think it was around €100/150 to get a full van load of crap picked up & dumped.


  • #3
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    if your recycling, a van and trailer would be cheeper that getting a skip if your dealing with the plant beside connact gold (company is greenstar)

    if its general waste it may be best to contact them, they do skip hire, they also do a charge per bag, 5 or 6 euro of the top of my head, i have also seen a weighing station down there, you may want to consider that. problem with a skip is, your may end up with half your streets rubbish as well.


  • #4
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,037 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    I used Patrick (Man With A Van) when I moved out of my apartment to a house.

    Think it was between €80 - €100 and we crammed it full.

    So I recommend him.


  • #5
    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,271 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    Skips from Greenstar are €250


  • #6
    TheQ47
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭TheQ47


    I loaded a Vauxhall Combo (small van) with my old garden shed (yes, the whole shed, which had collapsed in strong wind) to Greenstar on Deep Water Quay about 2 years ago. They weighed the full van, I unloaded my rubbish, then they weighed it again, and I was charged. I think the charge came to about €20, so it is very good value.

    Give them a call on 071-9143037, and I'm sure they'll give you an indication of costs.


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  • #7
    sligono1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 631 ✭✭✭sligono1


    cheers folks thank you for all your help in the end i borrowed a mates van and big trailer crammed both and it cost me €110 with Greenstar,and there was alot of stuff in it some job emptying it all out in the big shed of theirs but i reckoned i got good value


  • #8
    blackiebest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 650 ✭✭✭blackiebest


    TheQ47 wrote: »
    I loaded a Vauxhall Combo (small van) with my old garden shed (yes, the whole shed, which had collapsed in strong wind) to Greenstar on Deep Water Quay about 2 years ago. They weighed the full van, I unloaded my rubbish, then they weighed it again, and I was charged. I think the charge came to about €20, so it is very good value.

    Give them a call on 071-9143037, and I'm sure they'll give you an indication of costs.


    They made a mistake! There is nothing cheap about the weigh in system in Greenstar, it fact it is outrageous how much they charge but as an environmentalist I like it that way, in theory normal people would be very careful about waste in a system such as ours however in this country it seems so many feel it ok to go to the nearest remote/beauty spot and deposittheir rubbish there! Boils the blood it does!


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