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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Acomb 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 Acomb
Acomb is a large suburb of York, sitting around two miles west of the city centre, with a population of around 22,000 across the wider ward. It was a separate village for most of its history, recorded in the Domesday Book as Acum, from the Old English for "at the oaks", and remained an agricultural settlement outside York until the nineteenth century. The village retained its own identity around the Green and Front Street long after the city began to spread west, and was only formally absorbed into York in 1937.
The old village core survives around Acomb Green, a large open space still fringed by older cottages, the parish church of St Stephen and a number of eighteenth and nineteenth-century houses. Front Street forms the suburb's high street, one of the busiest local shopping streets in York outside the city centre, with a mix of independent shops, cafés and the twice-weekly market. The Acomb Explore library and the Gateway Centre serve as community hubs, and the suburb has a strong local identity distinct from the city proper.
Acomb's growth came with the railway. York's carriage works at Holgate and the wider railway industry drew thousands of workers to the city from the 1880s onwards, and Acomb expanded steadily through the late Victorian and Edwardian period to house them, then again substantially between the wars. Nearby Chocolate Works and Rowntree's confectionery factories at Haxby Road were the other great employers, and the terraced and semi-detached streets of Acomb, Holgate and Dringhouses were built largely for those workforces.
The suburb sits inside the A1237 outer ring road, with good bus links into York city centre and Park and Ride services at Askham Bar and Poppleton Bar. York station, around two miles away, offers services to London King's Cross in under two hours and across the north. Neighbouring areas include Holgate, Dringhouses, Woodthorpe, Foxwood, Chapelfields, Rawcliffe and Upper and Nether Poppleton, with the open countryside of the Vale of York beyond the ring road.
Housing in Acomb reflects that layered growth, with older cottages and Georgian property around the Green, dense Victorian and Edwardian terraces closer to Holgate and the railway, extensive interwar semis across Acomb Wood and Beckfield Lane, and post-war estates at Foxwood, Chapelfields and Woodthorpe. The area is one of the most popular parts of York for families and first-time buyers, being noticeably more affordable than the city centre and the villages, and the ageing interwar and post-war stock supports a steady flow of extensions, loft conversions and modernisation work.