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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Barrow-in-Furness 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 Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness is a town in Cumbria, sitting at the tip of the Furness peninsula on the Irish Sea, with a population of around 57,000. It is one of the most dramatic examples of Victorian industrial growth anywhere in Britain: in 1841 Barrow was a hamlet of around 30 people, and by 1881 it was a town of nearly 50,000. The catalyst was haematite — an exceptionally pure local iron ore — and the Furness Railway built to carry it. By the 1870s Barrow had what was then the largest steelworks in the world, and the town was laid out on a planned grid by the railway company to house its workforce.
Shipbuilding followed the steel and became the town's defining industry. The yard, founded in 1871 and later Vickers, built ocean liners, warships, submarines and even airships, and since the Second World War it has been the centre of British submarine construction. Operating today as BAE Systems Submarines, it is the UK's only builder of nuclear submarines — the Astute and Dreadnought classes are assembled in the vast Devonshire Dock Hall — making Barrow one of the most strategically important industrial sites in the country and by far its largest employer.
The town has an unexpected medieval heritage. Furness Abbey, founded in 1123, became the second wealthiest Cistercian house in England after Fountains, and its red sandstone ruins stand in a wooded valley on the edge of town — Wordsworth wrote about them and Turner painted them. Piel Island, reached by ferry from Roa Island, has a fourteenth-century castle built by the abbey and a pub whose landlord holds the traditional title King of Piel.
Walney Island, a long low barrier island connected by bridge, shelters the town from the Irish Sea and holds two nature reserves with nationally important seabird colonies and the only natural population of the Walney geranium. The Furness peninsula's coast, the Duddon estuary and the southern fells of the Lake District are all close at hand, though Barrow's position at the end of a long peninsula has always left it somewhat apart.
Barrow sits at the end of the A590, around 40 minutes from the M6 at junction 36, with Barrow-in-Furness station the terminus of the Furness Line running along the coast to Lancaster and Carlisle. Housing reflects the planned origins, with long grids of Victorian terraces and the distinctive tenement blocks built for shipyard workers around Hindpool and Barrow Island, alongside interwar and post-war estates at Ormsgill and Walney, and modern development on the edges. Property is among the most affordable in England, and current submarine programmes have brought sustained investment and a major regeneration effort to the town.