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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Barnstaple 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 Barnstaple
Barnstaple is a market town in North Devon, sitting at the head of the Taw estuary around 40 miles north-west of Exeter, with a population of around 25,000. It claims to be one of the oldest boroughs in England, with a charter tradition going back to Athelstan in the tenth century and its own mint in the Saxon period. Barnstaple prospered as a port trading with Ireland, France and later the Americas, and five ships from the town sailed against the Spanish Armada. The wool and cloth trade brought its greatest wealth, and the town later became known for pottery, using the local clays.
The Pannier Market, built in 1855, is the town's centrepiece — a vast glass-and-iron hall named for the panniers in which farmers' wives carried produce to market, and still trading several days a week. Beside it runs Butchers Row, a line of Victorian shopfronts, and nearby stands the Queen Anne's Walk, an elegant colonnaded merchants' exchange of 1708 with its Tome Stone, on which trading bargains were struck. The Long Bridge across the Taw, medieval in origin with 16 arches, has carried traffic into the town for six centuries, and St Peter's Church is notable for its distinctively twisted lead spire.
Barnstaple is the commercial and administrative centre for the whole of North Devon, serving a large rural catchment. The town sits between two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with Exmoor to the east and the North Devon coast to the west, and Braunton Burrows — a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and the largest dune system in England — lies a few miles seaward. The Tarka Trail, a walking and cycling route on former railway trackbed, runs from the town along the estuary to Bideford and beyond.
The town is reached by the A361 North Devon Link Road, connecting to the M5 at Tiverton, and Barnstaple station is the terminus of the Tarka Line, a scenic branch running to Exeter in around an hour and a quarter. Surrounding communities include Braunton, Bideford, Ilfracombe, Fremington, Bishop's Tawton, Landkey and Chivenor, where the former RAF station is now a Royal Marines base.
Housing in Barnstaple ranges from Georgian townhouses in Boutport Street and around the Square to Victorian terraces in Newport and Pilton, interwar and post-war housing at Forches and Whiddon Valley, and extensive modern development at Roundswell, Larkbear and on the town's expanding southern and western edges. Much of the historic core is a conservation area with a high concentration of listed buildings. Property is affordable relative to the North Devon coast, and the town continues to grow as the service centre for a region where tourism, agriculture and holiday accommodation dominate the wider economy.