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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Chipping Sodbury 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 Chipping Sodbury
Chipping Sodbury is a market town in South Gloucestershire, sitting at the foot of the Cotswold escarpment around 11 miles north-east of Bristol, with a population of around 6,000. It is a rare example of a deliberately planned medieval new town, laid out around 1218 by William le Gras to attract traders and take advantage of the wool trade. The plan survives almost intact: an exceptionally wide High Street designed to hold the market, with long narrow burgage plots running back from it on both sides — one of the best-preserved medieval planned layouts in England.
The name reflects that origin, "chipping" being the Old English word for market, as at Chipping Norton and Chipping Campden. The market charter was granted in 1227 and markets and fairs still take place on the High Street, which is lined with a handsome mixture of Georgian, Victorian and earlier frontages in Cotswold stone and render, much of it listed. St John the Baptist Church stands at the eastern end, and the whole centre is a conservation area.
Chipping Sodbury has an unexpected literary footnote: J.K. Rowling was born in the town's cottage hospital in 1965, and she has said the name Dursley — the family in the Harry Potter books — comes from the nearby Gloucestershire town. The town also sits beside the Chipping Sodbury Common, an area of ancient common land grazed under commoners' rights, and above the mile-and-a-half Sodbury Tunnel carrying the Great Western railway beneath the Cotswold ridge.
The town sits on the B4060 with the M4 at junction 18 a few miles south and the M5 to the west, and Yate — immediately adjoining to the west — has the nearest station, with services to Bristol in around 20 minutes and to Gloucester. Bristol is around half an hour by road. The Cotswolds National Landscape rises immediately east, with Old Sodbury, Horton and Hawkesbury Upton on the scarp. Yate, Wickwar, Iron Acton and Badminton are the nearest neighbouring settlements.
Housing in Chipping Sodbury reflects the medieval plan, with Georgian and earlier stone and rendered townhouses along the High Street and Broad Street on their original burgage plots, Victorian terraces and villas, and twentieth-century development spreading south and east. The town has effectively merged with Yate, a much larger and predominantly post-war settlement, though the two retain distinct characters. The historic core is tightly protected, and demand from Bristol commuters keeps property values well above the South Gloucestershire average.