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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Basildon 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 Basildon
Basildon is a town in Essex, sitting between Chelmsford and Southend around 30 miles east of London, with a population of around 115,000. It is one of the post-war new towns, designated in 1949 to relieve overcrowding in bombed-out east London, and it was created by amalgamating four existing villages — Basildon, Pitsea, Laindon and Vange — along with the sprawl of plotland development that had grown up between them. Those plotlands were a distinctive Essex phenomenon: cheap agricultural land sold off in small parcels from the 1890s, on which Londoners built self-made bungalows and shacks as weekend retreats and, increasingly, permanent homes without proper roads, drainage or services.
The new town was built to sweep that away, and the Basildon Development Corporation laid out a planned town centre with a pedestrianised shopping precinct, the landmark Brooke House — a Grade II listed modernist residential block on stilts, opened in 1962 — and a series of self-contained neighbourhoods each with their own centre, schools and shops. The Basildon Sculpture, the town square and Freedom House reflect the optimism of the era. One surviving plotland cottage, The Haven at Dunton, is preserved by the Essex Wildlife Trust as a museum of that vanished world.
Basildon developed a strong industrial base, and Ford's Dunton Technical Centre remains one of the largest automotive research and development sites in Europe. The town has a notable place in British music too: Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure all came out of Basildon, and the town's synthesiser-driven sound of the early 1980s was closely tied to its new town identity. Basildon's electoral significance also gave rise to "Basildon Man", shorthand in the 1990s for the aspirational working-class swing voter.
The town is well connected, with Basildon, Pitsea and Laindon stations on the c2c line offering services to London Fenchurch Street in around 35 minutes, and the A127 and A13 running either side of the town linking to the M25 and Southend. Wat Tyler Country Park sits on the marshes at Pitsea, and the Langdon Hills give some of the highest ground in Essex. Neighbouring communities include Billericay, Wickford, Benfleet, Corringham and Stanford-le-Hope.
Housing in Basildon is overwhelmingly a product of the new town programme, with large volumes of 1950s to 1970s estate housing across Vange, Fryerns, Kingswood, Craylands and Lee Chapel, alongside surviving older property in the original village centres, private developments from the 1980s onwards at Noak Bridge and Steeple View, and continuing regeneration in the town centre. Much of the original new town stock is now well over half a century old, and the borough has long-running plans for renewal, including major redevelopment around the town centre and the Basildon Enterprise Corridor.