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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Barmouth 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 Barmouth
Barmouth — Abermaw in Welsh — is a coastal town in Gwynedd, sitting where the River Mawddach meets Cardigan Bay within the Eryri National Park, with a population of around 2,500. It began as a shipbuilding and trading port, exporting Welsh flannel and slate and building wooden sailing ships on the estuary shore through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The old town, Y Gareg, climbs steeply up the rock face behind the harbour in a warren of stone cottages and stepped alleys, while the newer seafront terraces below were built when the railway arrived in 1867 and turned Barmouth into a resort.
The town's most striking structure is Barmouth Bridge, a Grade II* listed timber viaduct carrying the Cambrian Coast Line more than 800 yards across the Mawddach estuary. Opened in 1867, it is one of the longest wooden railway bridges still in use in Britain and carries a walkway alongside the track, giving one of the finest views in Wales — the estuary opening out beneath Cadair Idris. Wordsworth described the Mawddach as sublime, and Ruskin wrote that the walk from Barmouth to Dolgellau was the most beautiful in Britain.
Barmouth has a long sandy beach backed by dunes, a working harbour and a lifeboat station with a distinguished record. Dinas Oleu, the hillside directly above the town, was the very first property given to the National Trust — donated by Fanny Talbot in 1895, months after the Trust was founded — and a plaque marks the gift. Ty Gwyn, a fifteenth-century tower house on the quay, is said to have been a meeting place in the plot to put Henry Tudor on the throne, and now houses a small museum.
The town sits on the A496 between Harlech and Dolgellau, with Barmouth station on the Cambrian Coast Line running north to Pwllheli and south across the bridge to Machynlleth and on to Shrewsbury and Birmingham. Cadair Idris and the Rhinogydd rise immediately inland, and the Mawddach Trail follows the old railway along the estuary to Dolgellau. Neighbouring communities include Llanaber, Talybont, Arthog, Fairbourne across the estuary, and Harlech to the north.
Housing in Barmouth is largely Victorian and Edwardian, with tall stone terraces stepped up the hillside in the old town, seafront villas and former boarding houses along Marine Parade, and smaller cottages in the lanes, with limited modern development on the constrained land between the rock and the sea. Much of the town is a conservation area with a substantial number of listed buildings. Barmouth has a very high proportion of holiday lets, second homes and seasonal accommodation, and the exposed coastal position means the older stock carries a heavy maintenance burden from salt, wind and driving rain.