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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Aberdovey and within a 30 mile radius.
It’s not just a case of how much waste you have! You also need to consider how much room you have on your site and will then need to think about the type of waste you will be disposing of. For example if the waste is heavy (e.g. soil/brick/rubble) then you will be restricted as to how large a skip you can have.
When only a single skip is expected, we strongly believe that it’s better to hire a skip that you may not quite fill, as opposed to ordering a skip which ends up being too small meaning a second skip is then required as a result. In other words it’s better to overestimate than underestimate!
When filling a skip it can only be loaded up to the level of the actual skip itself.
It is important that your site foreman and operatives are aware of this as it is actually against the law for drivers to carry over loaded skips on the highways. Likewise, using boards around the skip in an attempt to increase it’s capacity (known in the trade as ‘greedy boards’) is illegal.
If a driver arrives on site to find an overloaded skip they are likely to turn away and leave without the skip, thus potentially incurring additional transport charges.
Though we try to be as flexible with hire periods as possible, as a general rule the maximum hire period is 7 days.
Of course should your site be an ongoing one where numerous skips are required and exchanged on a regular basis then there is nothing to worry about. If however, you require a skip that is likely to be needed for more than 7 days without exchanges, we request you inform us at the time of ordering as a rental charge may be applicable.
Yes. Though any skip that needs to be sited on a public highway, pavement or council owned verge, first requires permission from the local authority responsible.
Though the charges involved and the length of time it takes an application to be processed varies from council to council, in the vast majority of cases we can arrange the required permit on your behalf. Depending on the local authority in question, application periods can be anything from ‘same day’ to 4 weeks, so when you know that a permit is likely to be required on an upcoming site it is vital that you give us as much notice as possible to avoid any unnecessary delays.
Please also note that as the hirer, the lighting and coning of the skip whilst it is placed on public land is your responsibility, though we are usually able to arrange for the hire of these items on your behalf too.
A standard skip or roll-on-off vehicle usually requires a minimum of 10ft (3.3m) width and approximately 13ft (4m) headroom to safely gain access to a site. If your site access falls a little below these requirements we are able to (in most areas) arrange for smaller skips (depending on waste type) to be delivered on smaller lorries.
If you are in any doubt about the access to your sites, we are here to help, so just ask!
There are certain types of waste that cannot be placed in general waste skips under any circumstances.
Examples of such waste types include (but are not limited to): asbestos, fridges, freezers, batteries, tyres, gas cannisters, paint tins, food waste, fluorescent tubes, liquids, TV sets, computer monitors, plasterboard, electrical items (WEEE), mattresses, tree stumps, tree roots, carpet, vinyl, astroturf, rubber matting & roof felt.
It is vital that you always inform us of exactly what your are intending to dispose of at the time of ordering!
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Skip hire in Aberdovey
Aberdovey — Aberdyfi in Welsh — is a coastal village in Gwynedd, sitting on the northern shore of the Dyfi estuary where it opens into Cardigan Bay, with a population of around 800. It grew as a shipbuilding and trading port in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, sending slate, oak bark and lead out from the Dyfi valley and building schooners and brigs on the foreshore. When the Cambrian Railway arrived in the 1860s the harbour trade declined, but the village found a second life as a seaside resort, and that remains its character today: a single street of colourful houses running along the waterfront beneath steep wooded hills.
The village is bound up with the legend of Cantre'r Gwaelod, the drowned lowland hundred said to lie beneath Cardigan Bay, whose church bells are supposedly still heard ringing from under the sea. The story inspired the song "The Bells of Aberdovey", attributed to Charles Dibdin in 1785 and long since adopted as an unofficial anthem for the village, and a set of bells now hangs on the jetty. At exceptionally low tides the remains of a submerged prehistoric forest are exposed along the shore, which has given the legend a plausible foundation in real post-glacial sea level rise.
Aberdovey's beach runs for miles north-west towards Tywyn, backed by extensive dunes, and the estuary makes it one of the best-regarded sailing and watersports centres on the Welsh coast — the Dovey Yacht Club has been racing here since 1922. The Outward Bound Trust was founded in Aberdovey in 1941 by Kurt Hahn and Lawrence Holt, and its original centre still operates in the village, making it the birthplace of outdoor education as a movement. The championship links course at Aberdovey Golf Club, laid out among the dunes, was a favourite of the golf writer Bernard Darwin.
The village sits on the A493 between Machynlleth and Tywyn, and Aberdovey station is on the Cambrian Coast Line, one of the most scenic railway journeys in Britain, running from Machynlleth along the coast to Pwllheli. The Dyfi Biosphere, a UNESCO-designated area covering the estuary and its catchment, surrounds the village, and the Snowdonia National Park boundary lies immediately behind. Nearby settlements include Tywyn, Machynlleth, Pennal and Borth across the estuary.
Property in Aberdovey is dominated by Victorian and Edwardian terraces and villas along Sea View Terrace, Copperhill Street and the waterfront, many of them listed and forming a conservation area, with smaller cottages in the lanes behind and newer housing on the slopes above. The village has a very high proportion of second homes and holiday lets — among the highest in Gwynedd — which has long been a live local issue, and the permanent population is small relative to the housing stock. That balance, along with the constant maintenance demands of exposed coastal buildings, shapes much of the village's economy outside the summer season.