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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Fraserburgh 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 Fraserburgh
Fraserburgh is a town in Aberdeenshire, sitting at the north-eastern tip of Scotland where the Moray Firth meets the North Sea, with a population of around 13,000. Known locally as the Broch, it was founded as a planned settlement by Sir Alexander Fraser of Philorth, who obtained a charter in 1546 and laid out the town on a grid around a harbour. Fraser also founded a university here in 1592 — it lasted only a few years, but Fraserburgh briefly had the distinction of being a university town, and the building survives.
The town is above all a fishing port, and for much of the twentieth century it was the largest shellfish port in Europe and one of the busiest white fish harbours in Scotland. The herring boom of the late nineteenth century transformed it, with hundreds of drifters working from the harbour and thousands of gutting women following the fleet down the coast. The industry has contracted but Fraserburgh remains a major landing port, particularly for prawns, mackerel and pelagic species, and fishing, processing and marine engineering still dominate the local economy.
Kinnaird Head, on the northern edge of the town, carries something genuinely unique: Kinnaird Head Lighthouse, built in 1787 by the Northern Lighthouse Board directly into the top of Fraser's sixteenth-century castle — the first lighthouse built by the Board and the only one in the world constructed inside a castle. It now forms the centrepiece of the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, which holds the national lighthouse collection. Beside it stands the Wine Tower, a curious three-storey medieval structure whose purpose is still debated.
Fraserburgh's beach and the dunes running south towards St Combs are among the best surfing waters in Scotland, and the coastline east and west takes in some spectacular cliff scenery. The town sits at the end of the A90 and A98, with Aberdeen around 45 miles south; Fraserburgh lost its railway in 1965, and the Formartine and Buchan Way runs along the old trackbed. Neighbouring communities include Peterhead, Rosehearty, Sandhaven, St Combs, Inverallochy and Strichen.
Housing in Fraserburgh is largely traditional, with granite Victorian and Georgian property on the planned grid streets around Saltoun Square and Broad Street, fisher cottages in the older harbour districts, interwar and post-war council-built estates, and modern development on the town's southern edge. Property is among the most affordable in Scotland. The exposed North Sea position places heavy demands on roofs, render and windows, and the town's fortunes remain closely tied to the fishing industry.