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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Clackmannan 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 Clackmannan
Clackmannan is a small town in Clackmannanshire, sitting on a ridge above the Forth carselands around two miles south-east of Alloa, with a population of around 3,500. It gives its name to Scotland's smallest mainland council area, the Wee County, and was its county town until administrative changes moved that role to Alloa. The name means the stone of Manau, and that stone still stands in the town — a large boulder of uncertain but evidently ancient significance, mounted on a shaft beside the mercat cross and the tolbooth tower at the top of the main street.
Clackmannan Tower crowns the hill above the town, a fourteenth-century keep extended in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries and long the seat of the Bruce family, kin to Robert the Bruce. Tradition holds that in 1787 Robert Burns was ceremonially knighted at the tower by Catherine Bruce, the last of the line, using the sword said to have belonged to the king himself. The tower stands empty and gaunt on its ridge, visible for miles across the Forth valley, and is in the care of Historic Environment Scotland.
The tolbooth tower and mercat cross at the head of Main Street form an unusually complete group of burgh furniture, and the Church of St Serf sits nearby. The town was a royal burgh from the fourteenth century, and its position on the ridge above the flat carse gives it wide views south over the Forth to the Ochils behind. Coal mining dominated the surrounding area from the eighteenth century into the twentieth, with pits at Zetland, Devon and Kennet, and that industry shaped much of the town's later growth.
Clackmannan sits on the A907 and B910 between Alloa and Kincardine, with the Kincardine and Clackmannanshire bridges giving quick access across the Forth to Falkirk and the M9. Alloa station, two miles away, provides services to Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Stirling is around 20 minutes by road and Edinburgh and Glasgow both roughly an hour. Neighbouring communities include Alloa, Kennet, Forestmill, Kincardine, Sauchie and Tullibody.
Housing in Clackmannan ranges from stone cottages and Georgian and Victorian property around Main Street and the Cross — much of it listed and within a conservation area — to former miners' rows, interwar and post-war council-built estates, and modern private development on the edges. Property is affordable relative to nearby Stirling, which has made the town popular with commuters, and the older stone stock on the ridge carries the usual demands of exposure and age.