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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Daventry 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 Daventry
Daventry is a market town in Northamptonshire, sitting on high ground around 12 miles west of Northampton, with a population of around 28,000. It has been settled since the Iron Age — Borough Hill above the town is one of the largest hillforts in England — and it grew as a market town and a major coaching stop on the Holyhead Road, the main route between London and Ireland. At its height Daventry had dozens of inns serving the coach traffic, and Charles I stayed at the Wheatsheaf in 1645 in the days before the Battle of Naseby, fought a few miles away.
The town's traditional industry was whip-making and later shoemaking, but its best-known twentieth-century role was in broadcasting. In 1925 the BBC opened the Daventry transmitting station on Borough Hill, whose long-wave signal — announced as "Daventry calling" — reached most of Britain and, through the later Empire Service, much of the world. The site grew into one of the largest transmitting stations in Europe, and though the masts were dismantled in the 1990s, the Daventry name remains firmly associated with early radio. It was also at Daventry in 1935 that Robert Watson-Watt conducted the experiment demonstrating that aircraft could be detected by radio waves — the practical birth of radar.
Daventry was designated a London overspill town in the 1960s, and its population grew several times over as families moved out from the capital. The town centre retains its Georgian character around the Market Square, High Street and Sheaf Street, with the Grade II* listed Holy Cross Church. Daventry Country Park and its reservoir, built to feed the Grand Union Canal, provide green space, and the canal itself passes nearby at Braunston, a famous inland waterways junction.
The town sits on the A45 and A361 with the M1 at junction 16 a short drive east, and it has no railway station — Long Buckby, Rugby and Northampton are the nearest. That road position has made Daventry a major logistics location: DIRFT, the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal at nearby Crick, is one of the largest distribution hubs in the country. Neighbouring communities include Braunston, Long Buckby, Weedon Bec, Badby, Woodford Halse and Rugby.
Housing in Daventry ranges from Georgian and earlier property around the Market Square to Victorian terraces, very extensive 1960s and 1970s overspill estates at Southbrook, Headlands and Ashby Fields, and substantial modern development including the large Monksmoor Park and Middlemore schemes. Property is affordable relative to much of the south Midlands, and the overspill-era stock, now well over half a century old, sits alongside continued housebuilding driven by the town's logistics employment and its position between Northampton, Rugby and Milton Keynes.