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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Clovenfords 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 Clovenfords
Clovenfords is a village in the Scottish Borders, sitting on the Caddon Water a few miles west of Galashiels, with a population of around 500. It grew up around the crossing of the Caddon and the old road between Peebles and Melrose, and its name refers to the divided or cloven fords on the burn. For centuries it was chiefly a coaching stop, and the Clovenfords Hotel — formerly the Clovenfords Inn — was a well-known halt on the route through the Tweed valley.
The inn's most famous guests give the village its literary standing. Sir Walter Scott stayed here regularly while Sheriff of Selkirkshire before he built Abbotsford a few miles east, and William and Dorothy Wordsworth lodged at the inn in 1803 during their Scottish tour. A statue of Scott stands outside the hotel, one of the earliest raised to him anywhere. Abbotsford, Scott's baronial mansion on the Tweed, is a short drive away and remains one of the most visited literary houses in Britain.
Clovenfords had an unlikely industrial speciality: from the 1860s the Tweed Vineyards here grew grapes under glass on a substantial scale, supplying hothouse grapes to markets across Britain from a range of vineries that ran for hundreds of feet. The enterprise was founded by William Thomson, whose treatise on vine culture was widely read, and the vineyards operated for around a century before closing. The Vineyards housing area in the village takes its name directly from them.
The village sits on the A72 between Peebles and Galashiels, with the A7 running north-south a short distance east. Galashiels is around four miles away, with Tweedbank station — the terminus of the Borders Railway — roughly ten minutes by road, giving services to Edinburgh in under an hour. Neighbouring communities include Galashiels, Caddonfoot, Walkerburn, Innerleithen, Yair and Selkirk, with the Tweed valley forests and the mountain biking trails at Glentress and Innerleithen close by.
Housing in Clovenfords is largely traditional, with stone cottages and terraces along the main street, Victorian villas, the former inn and school buildings, and interwar and post-war housing, alongside a substantial amount of modern development built over recent decades that has significantly expanded the village. The surrounding countryside holds farmhouses, steadings and estate cottages. The Borders Railway has made the village increasingly attractive to Edinburgh commuters, and property here is generally more affordable than in Peebles or Melrose.