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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Crieff 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 Crieff
Crieff is a town in Perth and Kinross, sitting on the southern slopes of the Knock above Strathearn around 17 miles west of Perth, with a population of around 7,500. It stands at the point where the Highlands meet the Lowlands, and that position defined its early importance: Crieff hosted the largest cattle tryst in Scotland, where Highland drovers brought tens of thousands of black cattle down from the north each autumn to be sold on to English buyers. The tryst was the single biggest livestock market in the country before it moved to Falkirk in the eighteenth century.
That frontier position also made Crieff vulnerable. The town was burned to the ground by Jacobite forces in 1716, and rebuilt afterwards under the patronage of the Drummond family, which explains its regular Georgian street plan. The Crieff Burgh Cross and the Mercat Cross survive from the earlier town, along with the town's old stocks. In the Victorian era Crieff reinvented itself as a spa resort: the Crieff Hydropathic, opened in 1868, brought thousands of visitors for the water cure and still operates as the Crieff Hydro, one of Scotland's best-known family hotels.
The town is a centre for whisky and glass. Glenturret Distillery, on the edge of Crieff, claims to be the oldest working distillery in Scotland with production traced to 1763, and was long the home of the Famous Grouse Experience. Crieff Visitor Centre and the former Stuart Crystal works reflect a glassmaking tradition. Drummond Castle Gardens, a few miles south, contains one of the finest formal parterres in Europe, laid out in the seventeenth century and remodelled in the nineteenth.
Crieff sits on the A85 and A822, with Perth around half an hour east, Stirling a similar distance south and both Edinburgh and Glasgow roughly an hour and a quarter. The town lost its railway in 1964; Gleneagles station, around seven miles south, is on the Highland Main Line. The Sma' Glen, Loch Earn and the southern Highlands lie immediately north-west. Neighbouring communities include Comrie, Muthill, Auchterarder, Methven and St Fillans.
Housing in Crieff is largely traditional, with Georgian and Victorian stone townhouses and terraces around the High Street, King Street and James Square — much of the centre a conservation area with a substantial number of listed buildings — alongside substantial Victorian villas built during the hydropathic era on the slopes above town, interwar and post-war housing, and modern development on the edges. The town's tourism base and its appeal to retirees and second-home buyers keep the property market active, and the older stone stock on the exposed hillside carries the usual demands of age and weather.