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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Alloa 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 Alloa
Alloa is a town in Clackmannanshire, sitting on the north bank of the River Forth around seven miles east of Stirling, with a population of around 20,000. It is the largest town and administrative centre of Scotland's smallest mainland council area, sometimes called the Wee County. Alloa's position at the highest navigable point of the Forth made it an important port from the seventeenth century, shipping coal from the surrounding Clackmannanshire pits, and the town grew through a combination of mining, glassmaking, textiles and above all brewing.
Brewing defined Alloa for two centuries. The quality of the local water made it one of the great brewing towns of Britain, with as many as nine breweries operating at its peak — Younger's, Maclay's, Alloa Brewery and others — and the town was often described as the Burton of Scotland. Distilling and glass bottle manufacture grew alongside it, with the Alloa Glass Works, established in 1750, supplying the industry and operating on the same site to this day as one of the oldest glassworks in the country.
The town's landmark is Alloa Tower, a fourteenth-century keep and one of the largest surviving medieval tower houses in Scotland, ancestral seat of the Erskine family, Earls of Mar. It stands restored in the centre of town, having survived the fire that destroyed the adjoining mansion in 1800. The Erskines were guardians to several Scottish monarchs, and Mary Queen of Scots visited the tower. Alloa Museum, the Speirs Centre and the Gartmorn Dam Country Park — a reservoir created in the early eighteenth century to drain the coal workings and now a nature reserve — are the town's other notable sites.
Alloa is well connected, with the Stirling–Alloa–Kincardine railway reopened to passengers in 2008 giving services to Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and the A907 and A977 linking to the M9 and the Kincardine Bridge across the Forth. Stirling is a ten-minute drive and Edinburgh and Glasgow both around an hour. The town sits beneath the Ochil Hills, with the Hillfoots villages of Tillicoultry, Alva, Menstrie and Dollar strung along their southern edge, and Clackmannan, Sauchie and Tullibody adjoining.
Housing in Alloa is varied, with Victorian sandstone tenements and terraces around the town centre and Bedford Place, substantial merchants' and brewers' villas from the town's prosperous era, interwar housing, and extensive post-war estates at Sauchie, Claremont and Hawkhill. Property is affordable relative to nearby Stirling, which has made the town increasingly popular as a commuter base, and Alloa has seen sustained regeneration investment including waterfront redevelopment along the Forth and new housing on former industrial and brewery land.