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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Forfar 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 Forfar
Forfar is a market town in Angus, sitting around 13 miles north of Dundee, with a population of around 15,000. It is the administrative centre of Angus and one of the oldest royal burghs in Scotland, with a charter tradition going back to the twelfth century. Forfar has a strong claim to an early place in Scottish state history: Malcolm III is said to have held a parliament here in 1057, and the town was a favoured royal residence in the medieval period, with a castle standing on the hill above the loch.
The town is in the heart of Pictish Angus, and the surrounding area holds some of the most important early medieval carved stones in Scotland. The Aberlemno Stones a few miles north-east are among the finest Pictish sculptures anywhere, one of them carrying a battle scene widely believed to depict the Pictish victory over the Northumbrians at Dunnichen in 685 — fought a short distance from Forfar and one of the decisive events in the formation of Scotland. The Meffan Museum in the town holds a significant collection of Pictish stones.
Forfar's traditional industry was linen and jute, with mills processing flax grown in the fertile Strathmore valley, and the town supplied canvas and sailcloth in quantity through the nineteenth century. Its best-known export today is the Forfar bridie — a horseshoe-shaped meat pastry, distinct from a Cornish pasty in having no potato, said to have been created in the town in the 1850s and still made by local bakers to their own recipes.
The town sits beside Forfar Loch, now a country park with a circular walk, and is surrounded by the productive farmland of Strathmore with the Angus glens rising to the north. Glamis Castle, the childhood home of the Queen Mother and the setting Shakespeare gave Macbeth, stands five miles south-west. Forfar sits on the A90 and A926, with Dundee around 25 minutes south and Aberdeen an hour north; the town lost its railway in 1967, and Dundee and Montrose are the nearest stations. Neighbouring communities include Kirriemuir, Glamis, Brechin, Letham and Arbroath.
Housing in Forfar is largely traditional, with red sandstone Victorian and Georgian property around the High Street, Castle Street and East High Street — much of the centre a conservation area with a substantial number of listed buildings — alongside former mill workers' terraces, interwar and post-war council-built estates, and modern development on the edges. Property is among the more affordable in Scotland, and the town serves as the market, service and administrative hub for a large agricultural catchment.