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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Ancrum 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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Ancrum is a village in the Scottish Borders, sitting above the Ale Water a few miles north-west of Jedburgh, with a population of around 350. It is an old settlement, recorded from the twelfth century, and its name derives from the bend or crook of the Ale — "Alncrumb" in early forms. The village is laid out around a broad green with a restored seventeenth-century mercat cross at its centre, a survival that gives Ancrum an unusually formal character for a place of its size and marks its former status as a burgh of barony with the right to hold markets.
The village's best-known association is with the Battle of Ancrum Moor, fought on the high ground above the village in February 1545 during the Rough Wooing, when a Scottish force under the Earl of Angus and Archibald Scott routed an English army under Sir Ralph Eure. The battle is remembered in local tradition through the figure of Lilliard, a woman said to have fought and died there, commemorated by Lilliard's Stone on the moor above and by the name Lilliard's Edge. Whether the story is history or legend has been debated for centuries, but it remains firmly rooted in Borders folklore.
The surrounding countryside is classic Borders farmland, rolling and well wooded, with the Ale Water joining the Teviot just south of the village. Ancrum Old Kirk, now a ruin, sits by the river in a peaceful churchyard, and the caves cut into the sandstone banks nearby were used as shelters during the border raiding of the sixteenth century. Harestanes Countryside Visitor Centre, on the Monteviot estate a mile away, is a popular walking and family destination, and the St Cuthbert's Way and Borders Abbeys Way long-distance paths both pass close by.
Ancrum sits just off the A68, the main route between Edinburgh and Newcastle, which gives the village good road access despite its rural setting — Jedburgh is four miles south, Kelso and Melrose both within a short drive, and Edinburgh around an hour and a quarter. The Borders Railway terminates at Tweedbank, roughly 20 minutes away, offering services to Edinburgh. Neighbouring communities include Nisbet, Lilliesleaf, Bonjedward, Crailing and Denholm.
Housing in Ancrum is almost entirely traditional, with stone cottages and terraces facing the green, a number of larger Victorian houses, the former manse and schoolhouse, and estate and farm properties in the surrounding countryside. A good proportion of the village is listed and the core lies within a conservation area. Modern development has been limited to a small number of houses on the edges, so the village retains its historic form, and the wider parish is characterised by working farms, steadings — many now converted — and estate cottages associated with the Monteviot and Ancrum holdings.