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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Braintree 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 Braintree
Braintree is a market town in Essex, sitting at the meeting of two Roman roads around 15 miles north-east of Chelmsford, with a population of around 45,000. It grew up where Stane Street crossed the road from London to Bury St Edmunds, and received its market charter in 1199. Braintree's fortune was made by cloth: Flemish weavers settled here in the sixteenth century, and the town became a centre first for woollen bays and says and later, decisively, for silk.
The Courtauld family arrived in 1809 and built a silk-weaving business that grew into one of the great British textile companies. Samuel Courtauld & Company dominated the town for a century and a half, and the family's philanthropy shaped it — they funded the Town Hall, the public gardens, the Braintree Institute and much else besides. The other great local firm was Warner & Sons, silk weavers who produced fabrics for royal coronations and great houses, and Crittall Windows, founded in Braintree in 1849, whose steel-framed windows became a defining feature of twentieth-century architecture worldwide. Crittall built the model village of Silver End nearby in the 1920s, an internationally significant group of early modernist flat-roofed houses.
The town centre retains its medieval street pattern around the Market Place, High Street and Bank Street, with the Grade II* listed Town Hall of 1928 and its clock tower as the focal point, and the Braintree District Museum recording the textile story. St Michael's Church has medieval origins, and the surrounding countryside includes Cressing Temple with its two extraordinary thirteenth-century timber barns, among the oldest in the world, built for the Knights Templar.
Braintree station is the terminus of a branch from Witham on the Great Eastern Main Line, with services to London Liverpool Street in around an hour, and the A120 runs past the town linking to the M11 and Stansted Airport, roughly 20 minutes west. Braintree Village designer outlet sits beside the station. Neighbouring communities include Bocking, Great Notley, Witham, Halstead, Coggeshall, Silver End and Finchingfield.
Housing in Braintree ranges from medieval and Georgian property around the Market Place and Bocking's Church Street — Bocking retains a notably fine old street of weavers' houses — to Victorian terraces built for the mill workforce, interwar and post-war estates, and very substantial modern development at Great Notley Garden Village and on the town's expanding edges. The combination of Stansted, the A120 and the London commute has driven sustained growth, and Braintree remains one of the faster-expanding towns in Essex.