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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Bridport 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 Bridport
Bridport is a market town in west Dorset, sitting a mile and a half inland from the sea between the Brit and Asker rivers, with a population of around 14,000. It has been a settlement since Saxon times and appears in the Domesday Book, but its identity was made by rope. The fertile local soil suited flax and hemp, and Bridport has been making rope, twine and netting since at least the thirteenth century — the trade was so dominant that a hangman's noose was long known as the Bridport dagger, and the town supplied cordage to the Royal Navy for centuries.
That industry shaped the town physically. Bridport's streets are unusually wide because rope was spun in long open "rope walks" running behind the houses, and the pattern of long narrow burgage plots stretching back from the main streets survives. Netting is still made in the area — Bridport firms have supplied everything from fishing nets to the goal nets used at World Cups and the netting for tennis at Wimbledon — and the Bridport Museum tells the story in a fine Tudor building on South Street.
The town centre has an exceptional Georgian streetscape along South Street, East Street and West Street, with the Town Hall of 1786 at the crossroads and a twice-weekly street market that fills the pavements. Bridport has become known for its independent shops, arts scene and food culture, with the Bridport Arts Centre, the Electric Palace cinema and the long-running Bridport Prize for literature. A mile south is West Bay, the town's harbour, set beneath the dramatic golden sandstone cliffs of East Cliff — a location made internationally familiar by the television series Broadchurch.
Bridport sits on the A35 between Dorchester and Honiton, with the A3066 running north to Beaminster and Crewkerne. The town has no railway; Dorchester, Axminster and Maiden Newton are the nearest stations. The Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site runs along the shore here, with Chesil Beach, Golden Cap — the highest point on the south coast of England — and Lyme Regis all close by. Neighbouring communities include West Bay, Bothenhampton, Allington, Symondsbury, Burton Bradstock and Beaminster.
Housing in Bridport ranges from Georgian townhouses and older cottages along the three main streets — much of the centre is a conservation area with a very high concentration of listed buildings — to Victorian terraces built for the rope and net workforce, interwar and post-war housing, and modern development at Bothenhampton, Allington and the Vearse Farm expansion to the west. The town's popularity with retirees, downsizers and second-home buyers drawn by the coast has pushed property values well above local earnings, making affordability a persistent issue in the area.