Whether you’re a serious DIY enthusiast or a professional construction worker, there will no doubt come a time when you’ll need to think about whether it would be more economical to hire or buy a specific tool or piece of equipment.  Here are our top reasons as to why we think it is more cost-effective to follow the tool and plant hire route as opposed to investing in your own piece of equipment:

1. Hiring tools means that you don’t have to store the items when not in use.  Bulky items such as concrete mixers, generators and Kanga Loaders take up a lot of ground space, so if you know that you’re not going to use these items on a regular basis, let the tool and hire company store them for you.
2. Construction equipment requires regular maintenance to ensure that it continues to work safely and efficiently during its working life.  Tool maintenance is a time consuming affair and something which is often overlooked by workers who use their own tools, but a hire company will ensure that each piece of machinery has been safety checked before it is rented out for use.  This means that you are less likely to experience any business downtime from having faulty equipment.
3. Hiring tools and plant equipment will save you and your business time and therefore money.  Once you have arranged with the tool hire centre exactly when you need the items, you can arrange for them to deliver the item to your designated site.  Once you’ve finished with it, they’ll come and collect it from you.
4. If you’re not sure of how to use a particular tool, then the hire centre should give you a full demonstration of how to operate the machine.  They’ll also run through the relevant safety checks, so once you and the hired tool have arrived on site, you’ll be able to get to work straight away.
5. Some tools will require specific items of PPE to be worn during their use, but the tool and plant hire company will be able to lend these to you, usually within the cost of the tool hire.
6. Most tool and plant hire companies in Surrey and the surrounding areas will be able to hire items out to you at short notice.  Very often you will be able to arrange the hire of a piece of equipment in less time than it would take for you to order and purchase the item yourself.
7. It’s cheaper!  Of course it is going to be far more cost effective to hire a tool as and when you need it, as opposed to having to invest any capital into purchasing it outright.  You may also find that you only need to use a particular piece of machinery once in a blue moon, so why spend money on buying this item yourself?

If you are looking to hire tools to use on your construction or landscaping project and you are looking for a tool and plant hire company in Surrey, feel free to take a look at the CTH Hire Centres Ltd website for further details.  

It is going to be far more cost effective to hire a tool as and when you need it, as opposed to having to invest any capital into purchasing it outright.