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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Ettrick 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 Ettrick
Ettrick is a remote valley and parish in the Scottish Borders, running south-west from Selkirk deep into the hills towards the Dumfriesshire boundary, with a scattered population of only a few hundred. It gives its name to the Ettrick Water, which rises in the high ground around Ettrick Pen and flows down to join the Yarrow and then the Tweed near Selkirk. The valley is one of the emptiest and most unspoilt parts of southern Scotland, a landscape of steep grassy hills, sheep ground and small farms with the settlement strung thinly along the valley floor.
Ettrick was once part of the Ettrick Forest, a vast royal hunting reserve covering much of Selkirkshire, granted to Walter Scott's ancestors and famously converted to sheep pasture in the sixteenth century. The forest gave rise to a rich tradition of Border ballads, and the valley sits at the heart of the country from which Walter Scott collected the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border while Sheriff of Selkirkshire.
The valley's most famous son is James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, born at Ettrickhall in 1770 to a tenant farming family and largely self-taught. He worked as a shepherd while writing, became a close associate of Walter Scott, and produced The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner in 1824 — a novel now regarded as one of the masterpieces of Scottish literature and far ahead of its time. Hogg is buried in Ettrick kirkyard, and a monument marks his birthplace. The parish also produced Thomas Boston, the eighteenth-century theologian whose Human Nature in its Fourfold State was one of the most widely read religious books in Scotland.
The valley is reached by the B709 and the single-track road running up from Ettrickbridge, with Selkirk around 15 miles down the valley and Moffat over the hills to the south-west. There is no public transport beyond a limited local service, and the nearest railway is the Borders Railway terminus at Tweedbank, roughly 45 minutes away. Neighbouring communities include Ettrickbridge, Tushielaw, Ramseycleuch, Yarrow and Selkirk, with St Mary's Loch and the Grey Mare's Tail a short drive over the watershed.
Housing in Ettrick is sparse and almost entirely traditional — stone farmhouses and hill steadings, shepherds' cottages, the kirk and former manse, and a scattering of converted buildings and holiday properties. The valley is working hill-farming country, dominated by sheep and increasingly by forestry and renewable energy on the surrounding uplands. Remoteness, exposure and the demands of maintaining old stone buildings in a high, wet upland climate define much of the practical life of the valley.