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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in East Cramlington 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 East Cramlington
East Cramlington is a small village in Northumberland, sitting a mile or so east of Cramlington town and around eight miles north of Newcastle, with a population of a few hundred. It is one of the older settlements in the Cramlington area, predating the new town entirely — a farming and mining hamlet that has kept its separate identity despite the large-scale development that grew up alongside it from the 1960s onwards.
The village owes its existence to coal. The East Cramlington colliery was sunk in the nineteenth century as part of the extensive Cramlington coalfield, and the village was built as a colliery settlement to house the workforce, with rows of miners' cottages laid out near the pit. The Cramlington pits were among the more significant in south-east Northumberland, and the area has a notable place in mining and labour history — the 1926 derailment of the Flying Scotsman by striking miners took place on the line nearby during the General Strike.
The collieries closed during the twentieth century and the land was reclaimed, and East Cramlington today is a quiet residential village set in open countryside between Cramlington and the coast. East Cramlington Pond, a Northumberland Wildlife Trust local nature reserve created on former industrial ground, sits beside the village and supports dragonflies, amphibians and wetland birds. The village also lies close to the East Cramlington Industrial Estate, one of several employment sites that serve the wider Cramlington area with manufacturing, pharmaceutical and distribution operations.
The village sits between the A1061 and A189 with the A1 a short distance west, giving links to Newcastle in around 25 minutes and north to Morpeth and Ashington. Cramlington station is a couple of miles away with services to Newcastle and Morpeth, and Newcastle Airport is a short drive south-west. Neighbouring communities include Cramlington, Seaton Delaval, Seghill, Annitsford, Dudley, Blyth and Bebside.
Housing in East Cramlington reflects its colliery origins and later growth, with surviving terraced rows and older village property alongside interwar and post-war housing and a number of modern developments built on and around the former pit land. The village's small scale, rural setting and proximity to both Cramlington's services and the A1 have made it attractive to buyers wanting a village address within easy reach of Newcastle, and property here tends to sit above the Cramlington average.