Forget snowboarding, skip hire in West London is the most extreme sport of all.

That is, if skip hire is anything like extreme recycling.

These thrill seekers in the capital show how you can combine waste disposal with daredevil antics.

Just don’t try this at home, kids.

A water leak appears to have caused a skip to sink in an expensive residential road.

News that Belgravia locals woke up to a large crater in the middle of Chester Row might have caught the attention of those seeking skip hire in London.

The Evening Standard reports that the skip contained soil from excavations, which were designed to create a cinema and gym in a nearby house.

Famous faces who reside in the area include Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea Football Club, and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Councils: you either love ‘em or hate ‘em. Skip hire London is getting trickier, now borough councils have decided to put another spanner in the works by now needing permission before a wait and load service is carried out.

A wait and load service is when there is no where to place the skip, and not enough time to apply for a permit. We pull up with the skip and help the customer fill the skip with the waste that they have acquired. The service is normally half and hour and we drive off. However, now skip hire London councils are now saying that they demand that permission should be sought before any such service takes place.

Why?

Is there ever a good reason why with councils?

However, this doesn’t stop us from doing them, so if you do need a wait and load service, or need us to obtain a skip permit for you, make sure you ring the TopSkips team on 0845 201 3040.

Just had a call for skip hire Hammersmith for tomorrow morning. There would be no problem with this, but the customer didn’t have a driveway to plonk the skip on, and therefore would need a skip permit.

To make matters worse, the customer’s council is Hammersmith and Fulham, a council that seems to take pleasure in making the permit application process as drawn out and costly as possible.

So, in the end, we couldn’t actually do it. The customer is organising the paperwork with the council first, and then will ring us when (if?!) the permit arrives.

Introducing our celeb skip hire customer number 4 and enfant terrible of the modern art world, Mr Damien Hirst.

He was after skip hire London and we delivered a skip to his offices in central London. I told the driver who picked the skip up to look out for any discarded masterpieces that we could flog on ebay, but the skip was just full of brickwork and plaster. Not particularly glamorous, but we’re grateful that Hirst chose Topskips for his waste disposal needs!