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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Barry 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 Barry
Barry — Y Barri in Welsh — is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, sitting on the Bristol Channel around eight miles south-west of Cardiff, with a population of around 56,000. It is the largest town in the Vale and was a village of fewer than 100 people until the 1880s, when David Davies of Llandinam built Barry Docks to break the Bute family's monopoly on coal exports through Cardiff. The docks opened in 1889 and grew so fast that by 1913 Barry was the largest coal-exporting port in the world, shipping over 11 million tons a year.
That boom created the town almost from nothing, drawing workers from across Wales, the West Country and Ireland, and giving Barry its grid of late Victorian and Edwardian terraces laid out across the hillsides above the docks. The coal trade collapsed after the First World War, and the docks later became better known as the site of Woodham Brothers scrapyard, where hundreds of withdrawn steam locomotives sat rusting through the 1960s and 70s — over 200 of them were rescued from Barry and now form the backbone of Britain's preserved railway fleet.
Barry Island, joined to the mainland by the causeway built for the docks, is the town's best-known feature. Whitmore Bay's sandy beach and the Barry Island Pleasure Park made it one of the great South Wales seaside destinations, particularly for the valleys communities during miners' fortnight. Butlin's operated a holiday camp here from 1966 to 1986. The island found a new global audience through Gavin & Stacey, filmed extensively in Barry, which brought a substantial and lasting boost to visitor numbers — Marco's Café and Trinity Street are now regular stops for fans.
The town is well connected, with Barry, Barry Docks, Cadoxton and Barry Island stations on the Vale of Glamorgan line giving frequent services to Cardiff Central in around 25 minutes, and the A4050 and A4231 linking to the M4 and Cardiff Airport, which sits a few miles west at Rhoose. Neighbouring communities include Dinas Powys, Sully, Rhoose, Penarth, Wenvoe and the Vale villages beyond.
Housing in Barry is dominated by the docks-era expansion, with long Victorian and Edwardian terraces across Cadoxton, Barry Town and High Street, alongside interwar and post-war estates at Gibbonsdown, Colcot and Buttrills, and substantial modern development including the large Barry Waterfront scheme built on former dockland. Property is more affordable than neighbouring Penarth and Cardiff, which has made the town increasingly popular with commuters, and the waterfront regeneration continues to add significant numbers of new homes.