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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 Barking and Dagenham
Barking and Dagenham is a borough in east London, sitting on the north bank of the Thames around nine miles east of the City, with a population of around 220,000. It was formed in 1965 from the merger of the municipal boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, two places with very different histories. Barking was an ancient settlement built around Barking Abbey, founded in 666 and one of the wealthiest and most powerful nunneries in England, whose abbesses held the rank of baroness. Dagenham, by contrast, remained farmland and marsh until the twentieth century.
Barking grew as a fishing town, and by the early nineteenth century its Short Blue Fleet was the largest fishing fleet in the country, working the North Sea and landing at Billingsgate. The abbey's Curfew Tower still stands beside St Margaret's Church, where Captain James Cook was married in 1762. Barking town centre has been substantially rebuilt in recent decades, with the Barking Learning Centre, the award-winning Barking Central development and extensive new housing around the station.
Dagenham's transformation came in two waves. The Becontree Estate, built by the London County Council between 1921 and 1935, was at the time the largest public housing development in the world — around 26,000 homes laid out across some four square miles, built to rehouse families from London's overcrowded East End. Then in 1931 Ford opened its Dagenham plant on the marshes, which grew into the largest car factory in Europe, employing 40,000 people at its peak. The 1968 strike by Ford's women sewing machinists was a landmark in the fight for equal pay and led directly to the Equal Pay Act 1970.
The borough is well connected, with Barking a major interchange served by the District and Hammersmith & City lines, the Overground, c2c services to Fenchurch Street and the Elizabeth line at nearby stations, and Dagenham Dock and Dagenham Heathway serving the south of the borough. The A13 runs along the riverside. Barking Riverside, a huge regeneration scheme on former industrial land, gained its own Overground station in 2022, and the borough is home to the developing Eastbrook Studios film complex.
Housing is dominated by the Becontree Estate — much of it now in private ownership after right-to-buy — alongside Victorian and Edwardian terraces in Barking town centre, interwar semis across Dagenham and Rush Green, post-war blocks and estates, and very substantial new development at Barking Riverside, Gascoigne and Beam Park. The borough remains one of the most affordable in London and one of the youngest and fastest-growing, with major regeneration reshaping large parts of the riverside and town centre.