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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Ely 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 Ely
Ely is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, sitting on a low island of clay and gravel rising above the Fens around 14 miles north of Cambridge, with a population of around 20,000. Before the Fens were drained it was genuinely an island, surrounded by marsh and reachable only by causeway or boat, and that isolation shaped its history entirely. The name is generally taken to derive from the eels that were once caught here in enormous numbers and paid as rent to the abbey.
Ely Cathedral dominates the landscape for miles across the flat Fen country, earning it the name the Ship of the Fens. Founded as an abbey by St Etheldreda in 673 and rebuilt as a Norman cathedral from 1083, its supreme feature is the Octagon — an extraordinary octagonal lantern tower built after the Norman crossing tower collapsed in 1322, carried on eight oak posts each over sixty feet long and widely considered one of the great engineering and artistic achievements of the Middle Ages. The Lady Chapel beside it is the largest attached to any British cathedral.
The island was the last centre of English resistance to the Normans, where Hereward the Wake held out against William the Conqueror in 1071. Six centuries later Ely was the home of Oliver Cromwell, who inherited property here in 1636 and lived in the town for a decade before the Civil War; his house survives as a museum, one of only two Cromwell residences still standing. The draining of the Fens from the seventeenth century transformed the surrounding landscape into some of the most productive arable farmland in Britain.
Ely sits on the A10 and A142, with Ely station an important junction offering services to Cambridge in around 15 minutes, London King's Cross and Liverpool Street, Norwich, Peterborough and King's Lynn. The Great Ouse runs past the city with a busy riverside and marina, and the Fens' wetland reserves at Wicken Fen and the Ouse Washes are close by. Neighbouring communities include Soham, Littleport, Haddenham, Sutton, Witchford and Stretham.
Housing in Ely ranges from medieval and Georgian property around the cathedral, Palace Green and the High Street — the historic core is a conservation area with a very high concentration of listed buildings — to Victorian terraces, interwar and post-war housing, and substantial modern development on the city's southern and northern edges, including the large North Ely urban extension. Ely's fast rail links to Cambridge and London have made it a popular commuter base, and property values sit well above the Fenland average.