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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Bootle 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 Bootle
Bootle is a town in Merseyside, sitting on the Mersey immediately north of Liverpool city centre, with a population of around 52,000. It was recorded in the Domesday Book as Boltelai, from the Old English for a dwelling by the water, and remained a small seaside village into the early nineteenth century — Bootle actually had a brief life as a bathing resort, with sea baths and villas, before Liverpool's expanding docks swallowed it entirely. The construction of the north docks from the 1850s onwards transformed Bootle within a generation into a dense, working dockland town.
The docks defined everything. Bootle grew around Gladstone, Hornby, Alexandra and Canada Docks, and its population exploded as workers, many of them Irish, arrived for dock labour, warehousing and the associated trades. The town became one of the most densely populated places in the country, and that concentration made it a target: Bootle was among the most heavily bombed places in Britain relative to its size during the May Blitz of 1941, when a very high proportion of its housing was destroyed or damaged and much of the population was made homeless.
Post-war rebuilding reshaped the town substantially, with new estates, tower blocks and the Strand shopping centre. Bootle became an unexpected centre of government administration when large civil service departments were relocated here, and it remains a significant office location. Landmarks include the Bootle Town Hall, the Grade II listed Carnegie library, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which terminates at the docks and runs through the town. Derby Park and North Park provide green space, and the coastal path north leads to Crosby beach and Antony Gormley's Another Place.
Bootle is well connected, with Bootle New Strand and Bootle Oriel Road stations on the Merseyrail Northern line giving journeys into Liverpool in around ten minutes, and the A565 and Dunnings Bridge Road linking to the M57 and M58. The Port of Liverpool's Liverpool2 deep-water container terminal, opened in 2016, sits on the Bootle waterfront and has brought substantial new capacity to the docks.
Housing in Bootle is dominated by dense Victorian and Edwardian terraces built for the dock workforce, alongside substantial post-war rebuilding after the Blitz, council estates and tower blocks, and more recent regeneration developments. Property is among the most affordable in England, and parts of the town rank among the most deprived areas in the country. Bootle has been the subject of sustained regeneration programmes focused on the Strand, the canal corridor and new housing on cleared and former industrial land.