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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Birkenhead 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 Birkenhead
Birkenhead is a town on the Wirral peninsula in Merseyside, sitting on the west bank of the Mersey directly opposite Liverpool, with a population of around 88,000. It grew around Birkenhead Priory, founded by Benedictine monks around 1150, whose ruins are the oldest standing buildings on Merseyside. The monks were granted the right to ferry travellers across the Mersey — the origin of the Mersey Ferry, one of the oldest continuously operating ferry services in Europe. Birkenhead remained a hamlet of a few hundred people until the 1820s, when steam ferries and William Laird's boiler works transformed it.
Laird's yard became Cammell Laird, one of the most famous shipbuilders in the world, launching the Confederate raider CSS Alabama, the first iron ship built in Britain, HMS Ark Royal, the Mauretania and many of the Royal Navy's most significant vessels. The yard still operates today. The town was also laid out in part to a formal plan by Scottish architect James Gillespie Graham, giving Hamilton Square one of the finest collections of Grade I listed buildings outside London — more listed buildings in one square than anywhere in Britain except Trafalgar Square.
Birkenhead's contributions to public life were substantial. Birkenhead Park, opened in 1847 and designed by Joseph Paxton, was the first publicly funded park in the world, and Frederick Law Olmsted visited it and took its principles directly into his design for New York's Central Park. Birkenhead also ran Europe's first street tramway in 1860, and the Mersey Railway Tunnel of 1886 was the first underwater tunnel railway in the world.
The town is well connected, with Birkenhead's four Merseyrail stations giving journeys to Liverpool in a few minutes through the Mersey tunnels, the Kingsway and Queensway road tunnels crossing to the city, and the M53 running down the peninsula. The Mersey Ferry still runs from Woodside. Neighbouring communities include Wallasey, Bebington, Prenton, Oxton, Tranmere, Rock Ferry and the wider Wirral.
Housing in Birkenhead spans a wide range, from the Georgian grandeur of Hamilton Square and the Victorian villas of Oxton and Prenton — Oxton Village is a well-preserved conservation area of merchants' houses — to dense terraces in Tranmere, Rock Ferry and the north end, post-war estates at Woodchurch and Noctorum, and modern development around the waterfront. Parts of the town are among the most deprived in England while others are among the Wirral's most desirable, and Birkenhead is the focus of one of the largest regeneration programmes in the north-west, with major schemes planned for the docks, Woodside and the town centre.