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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Exmouth 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 Exmouth
Exmouth is a coastal town in East Devon, sitting where the River Exe meets the English Channel around 11 miles south-east of Exeter, with a population of around 35,000. It claims to be the oldest seaside resort in Devon, with visitors coming to bathe here from the 1720s — well before Torquay or Sidmouth — and it developed through the Georgian and Victorian periods as a fashionable watering place with a two-mile sandy beach, one of the longest and best in the county.
The town's Georgian heyday left it with some fine architecture, most notably The Beacon, a terrace overlooking the estuary that housed two figures connected to Britain's most famous naval and literary names: Lady Nelson, estranged wife of Horatio Nelson, lived at number 6, and Lady Byron, the poet's widow, at number 19. Exmouth's other architectural curiosity is A La Ronde, a National Trust property a mile from the town — a sixteen-sided house built in 1796 by two cousins, Jane and Mary Parminter, on their return from a grand tour, with an extraordinary shell-encrusted gallery near the top.
Exmouth sits at the western end of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, and the red Triassic cliffs at Orcombe Point mark the start of the 95-mile sequence running east to Old Harry Rocks in Dorset — the oldest rocks on the coast and the beginning of 185 million years of geological time laid out along the shore. The Geoneedle sculpture at Orcombe Point marks the site. The Exe estuary behind the town is an internationally important wintering ground for wildfowl and waders, and the sheltered water makes Exmouth one of the leading watersports centres in the south-west, particularly for kitesurfing and windsurfing.
The town sits at the end of the A376, with Exmouth station the terminus of the Avocet Line giving services to Exeter in around half an hour, and the Exe Estuary Trail providing a traffic-free cycle route round the estuary to Exeter and Dawlish Warren. Neighbouring communities include Lympstone, Budleigh Salterton, Woodbury, Topsham and Exeter, with the East Devon National Landscape inland.
Housing in Exmouth ranges from Georgian and Regency property around The Beacon, Louisa Terrace and the Parade to Victorian and Edwardian villas and terraces — many long converted into flats and holiday accommodation — alongside interwar bungalows, post-war estates at Littleham and Withycombe, and modern development on the northern edges. The town has a notably older population and a substantial holiday-let and second-home sector, and its combination of beach, estuary and Exeter commuting keeps property values well above the East Devon average.