Hire a Skip Bin to Keep Unwanted Pests at Bay

When renovating or clearing out your home or yard, you may not be able to dispose of the resulting waste immediately. If your day-to-day responsibilities keep you from driving to your local waste facility, for example, you may have to store your waste in your yard or garage.

Storing your newly created waste in this way, however, even for a day or two, could attract the attention of nearby pests such as termites, mice and rats. As a result, you could have to clear out unwanted pests as well as unwanted waste.

Fortunately, hiring a skip bin on the day of your renovation project can help you avoid this problem.

In general, termites tend to favour dead wood. This is because dead wood, such as old tree branches or trunks, provides termites with warmth, moisture and food as it rots. And if you live in a high-risk area like Adelaide or Brisbane, there is already a one in three chance that termites could attack your home.

If you plan to clear your yard in the near future then, keep this in mind. Leaving dead wood on or near soil or grass might attract the attention of foraging termites.

Since termites can't chew through metal or sense rotting wood through metal, hiring a skip bin for your green waste will ensure that you don't unwittingly ring the dinner bell for foraging termites.

Another reason to hire a skip bin for your garden waste is the risk from carpenter ants. Although carpenter ants aren't quite as destructive as termites, they are always on the lookout for dead wood, and they will build a satellite colony if enough of it is available. The last thing a homeowner needs is a carpenter ant colony on their doorstep.

Hire a skip bin before you begin work on your garden, and arrange for that skip bin for pick-up soon after you finish. This will ensure that carpenter ants don't locate the dead wood in your yard.

It can be difficult to dispose of old furniture or appliances quickly if you are busy or you don't have sufficient transport. However, if you leave old furniture or appliances in your yard, even temporarily, you run the risk of attracting venomous spiders, such as red backs or Adelaide funnel-web spiders.

Old furniture or white goods provide these spiders with warmth and a good location in which to build their webs. If you plan to dispose of unwanted appliances or furniture soon, hire a skip bin so you can remove those items from your property as soon as possible.

Another pest that could take advantage of waste outside your property is rodents. Mice and rats don't like to travel out in the open and will always seek to move in cover, using green or household waste to get as close to your home as possible.

As a result, if you leave your waste in your front or backyard—even for a short time—rodents could use that waste to infiltrate your home undetected.

However, by hiring a skip bin service to place a skip bin in your driveway, for example, you can dispose of renovation waste as soon as you create it. Confined to your skip bin, which your skip bin provider can pick up at your earliest convenience, your waste won't become a bridge to your property for mice or rats looking for somewhere to nest.

Are you about to clear some waste from your garden or home but are unsure whether you will have the transport or means to dispose of it? Get in touch with a skip bin provider in your area, and arrange for a timely delivery and pick-up to prevent pests from invading your property.