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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Bromley 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 Bromley
Bromley is a town and borough in south-east London, sitting around ten miles from Charing Cross, with a borough population of around 330,000 across the largest London borough by area. The town itself was a Kentish market town for most of its history, held by the Bishops of Rochester from the tenth century, whose palace at Bromley — now part of Bromley Civic Centre — was their residence for more than 800 years. Bromley received its market charter in 1205 and remained a modest country town until the railways arrived in the 1850s and 60s and suburbanisation began in earnest.
Bromley's most famous son is H.G. Wells, born above his father's china shop in the High Street in 1866. He described the town, thinly disguised, in several novels and was not always kind about it. The borough also has a strong musical association: David Bowie grew up in Bromley and Beckenham, attending Bromley Technical High School, and the Beckenham Arts Lab and the Three Tuns pub were formative in his early career. The Bromley Contingent, a group of punk fans from the area, played a notable part in the emergence of punk in the mid-1970s — Siouxsie Sioux and Billy Idol among them.
The borough is unusually green, with more open space than any other in London. Crystal Palace Park in the north holds the Grade I listed Victorian dinosaur sculptures of 1854, the first attempt anywhere to model prehistoric animals at full size. Down House at Downe, on the borough's rural southern edge, was Charles Darwin's home for forty years and where he wrote On the Origin of Species; it is now open to the public. The Chislehurst Caves, Scadbury Park and the Green Belt countryside around Cudham, Downe and Biggin Hill fill much of the south.
Bromley is well connected, with Bromley South offering fast services to Victoria in 15 minutes and Bromley North a branch to Grove Park, along with stations across the borough at Beckenham, Orpington, Chislehurst, Petts Wood and Hayes. Trams run to Beckenham from Croydon, and the A21, A20 and M25 serve the area. The Glades shopping centre and Bromley High Street form one of the largest retail centres in south London.
Housing across the borough is predominantly suburban and owner-occupied, with substantial Victorian and Edwardian villas in Bickley, Chislehurst and Shortlands, extensive interwar semis across Petts Wood — a notable planned suburb of the 1920s and 30s — Orpington, Hayes and West Wickham, post-war estates at Mottingham and St Paul's Cray, and older village property in the southern hamlets. Bromley is among the more affluent London boroughs, with a housing market driven by families, and its ageing interwar stock supports a constant flow of extensions and loft conversions.