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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Chard 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 Chard
Chard is a market town in south Somerset, sitting on a ridge close to the Devon and Dorset borders, with a population of around 14,000. At around 400 feet it is the highest town in Somerset, and it has an unusual geographical distinction: the water from one side of the main street drains north to the Bristol Channel and from the other side south to the English Channel. Chard received its market charter in 1235 and grew as a wool and cloth town, with lace-making arriving in the nineteenth century when machinery and workers came from Nottingham.
Chard's greatest claim is to powered flight. John Stringfellow, a lace machinery maker in the town, built and flew the first powered aeroplane — an unmanned monoplane that achieved sustained powered flight in a disused lace mill in Chard in 1848, more than half a century before the Wright brothers. The town's motto records the claim, and a memorial and displays in Chard Museum tell the story. The museum also covers James Gillingham, a Chard shoemaker who pioneered the design of artificial limbs in the 1860s.
The town centre has a broad Fore Street and High Street lined with Georgian and earlier frontages, including the Grade I listed Choughs Hotel, a fine timber-framed building of around 1580, and the Guildhall of 1834. Much of the centre is a conservation area. Chard Reservoir, a Victorian water supply now a local nature reserve, sits on the edge of town, and the Blackdown Hills National Landscape rises immediately to the west.
Chard sits on the A30 and A358, with the M5 around 15 miles north-west at Taunton and the A303 close by. The town lost its railway in the 1960s; Crewkerne, Axminster and Taunton are the nearest stations, with Crewkerne offering services to London Waterloo. Neighbouring communities include Ilminster, Crewkerne, Axminster, Combe St Nicholas, Tatworth and Winsham.
Housing in Chard ranges from Georgian and earlier stone property along Fore Street and East Street to Victorian terraces built for the lace mills, interwar and post-war estates, and considerable modern development on the town's eastern and northern edges, where Chard has been designated for substantial growth under South Somerset's plans. Property is affordable relative to much of the south-west, and the town serves as a service and employment centre for a large rural area, with food manufacturing and light industry — including a long-established Numatic factory making Henry vacuum cleaners — among the significant local employers.