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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Cirencester 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 Cirencester
Cirencester is a market town in Gloucestershire, sitting at the southern edge of the Cotswolds around 15 miles south-east of Gloucester, with a population of around 20,000. It is often called the Capital of the Cotswolds, and it was once far more than that: as Corinium Dobunnorum it was the second largest town in Roman Britain after London, standing at the junction of the Fosse Way, Ermin Street and Akeman Street. The Roman amphitheatre survives as substantial grassy earthworks on the edge of town, and the Corinium Museum holds one of the finest collections of Romano-British material in the country, including outstanding mosaics.
The town's medieval wealth came from wool. Cirencester was one of the great Cotswold wool towns, and that money built the Church of St John the Baptist, whose enormous three-storey south porch — built around 1490 as the town's guildhall — is the largest church porch in England and one of the most impressive parish churches in the country. Cirencester Abbey, once one of the wealthiest Augustinian houses in England, was demolished entirely at the Dissolution, and its site is now the Abbey Grounds park.
Cirencester Park, immediately west of the town, is the seat of the Earls Bathurst and one of the great English landscape parks, laid out from 1714 with the poet Alexander Pope's involvement, its Broad Ride running five miles into the estate. Unusually, it has been open to the public on foot for centuries. The Royal Agricultural University, founded in Cirencester in 1845, was the first agricultural college in the English-speaking world and remains a significant presence.
The town sits on the A419 and A429 with the M4 around 15 miles south at Swindon and the M5 to the west, and Kemble station, four miles away, gives services to London Paddington in around 80 minutes. There is no station in the town itself. The Cotswolds National Landscape surrounds it, with the Cotswold Water Park's lakes immediately south. Neighbouring communities include Tetbury, Fairford, Lechlade, Stow-on-the-Wold, South Cerney and Chedworth.
Housing in Cirencester is dominated by Cotswold stone, with Georgian and earlier townhouses along Cecily Hill, Coxwell Street and Dollar Street — Coxwell Street in particular is a near-complete street of seventeenth-century wool merchants' houses — alongside Victorian terraces, interwar and post-war estates at Chesterton and Watermoor, and substantial modern development including the large Chesterton urban extension. The historic core has an exceptional concentration of listed buildings, and Cotswold property values place Cirencester among the more expensive market towns in the country.