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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Burton upon Trent 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 Burton upon Trent
Burton upon Trent is a town in Staffordshire, sitting on the River Trent around 11 miles south-west of Derby, with a population of around 75,000. It grew around Burton Abbey, founded in 1004, and the monks there were brewing ale by the medieval period — but the town's transformation came in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the particular chemistry of its water made Burton the brewing capital of the world. The water drawn from wells in the Trent valley is exceptionally high in calcium sulphate, which produces a clear, crisp, strongly hopped beer, and the process of replicating it elsewhere is still known throughout the industry as Burtonisation.
By the 1880s Burton was producing around a quarter of all beer sold in Britain, with more than thirty breweries operating in the town. Bass became the largest brewing company in the world, and its red triangle was the first trademark ever registered in the United Kingdom in 1876. Édouard Manet painted a bottle of Bass into A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. The town was crossed by a dense network of brewery railways, with level crossings on the main streets, and the smell of malt and hops still hangs over parts of Burton on brewing days.
Brewing continues on a large scale — Molson Coors and Marston's both have major operations here, and the town remains the centre of the British beer industry. The National Brewery Centre records the story, and the Claymills Pumping Station, a preserved Victorian sewage pumping works with working beam engines, reflects the sanitary engineering the industry demanded. The Burton Bridge across the Trent, the Washlands water meadows and St Modwen's Church are the town's other landmarks. Marmite has been made in Burton since 1902, using spent brewer's yeast — a direct by-product of the beer trade.
Burton sits close to the A38 and A50 with the M42 and M1 within easy reach, and Burton-on-Trent station offers services to Birmingham, Derby and Nottingham. The Trent and Mersey Canal runs through the town. The National Forest, a major landscape creation project, surrounds Burton, and neighbouring communities include Swadlincote, Stapenhill, Winshill, Barton-under-Needwood, Tutbury and Rolleston-on-Dove.
Housing in Burton ranges from Victorian and Edwardian terraces built for the brewery workforce across Horninglow, Stapenhill and Anglesey — often in the distinctive local red brick — to substantial brewers' villas, interwar and post-war estates, and modern development on the town's edges. The town has a large and long-established South Asian community, particularly Pakistani, drawn originally by brewery and manufacturing work. Property is affordable relative to Derby and Birmingham, and the town's ageing terraced stock supports a steady renovation and rental market alongside continued housebuilding on former industrial land.