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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Grantham 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 Grantham
Grantham is a market town in Lincolnshire, sitting on the River Witham around 25 miles south of Lincoln, with a population of around 45,000. It grew as a market and coaching town on the Great North Road, the main route between London and Edinburgh, and its inns served that traffic for centuries — the Angel and Royal on the High Street is one of the oldest surviving inns in England, with a fourteenth-century frontage and a history of royal visits that includes King John holding court here in 1213 and Richard III signing the Duke of Buckingham's death warrant in 1483.
The town's greatest association is with Isaac Newton. He was born at Woolsthorpe Manor a few miles south in 1642 and attended the King's School in Grantham, where his signature is still carved into a windowsill in the old schoolroom. It was at Woolsthorpe, during the plague years of 1665-66, that he developed his work on gravitation, optics and calculus — the apple tree from the famous story still stands in the orchard there. A bronze statue of Newton stands outside Grantham's Guildhall.
Grantham was also the birthplace of Margaret Thatcher, born above her father's grocer's shop on North Parade in 1925. Britain's first woman Prime Minister grew up in the town and was educated at Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School, and the shop still stands. The town has a further claim as the place where the first woman in Britain qualified as a locomotive driver — Mabel Chadburn during the First World War — and as home to Richard Hornsby & Sons, the engineering firm whose caterpillar track design was a direct ancestor of the tank, developed in Lincoln nearby.
St Wulfram's Church, whose 282-foot spire was described by Ruskin as the finest in England, dominates the skyline, and the town holds one of only five surviving chained libraries in the country. Belton House, Belvoir Castle and the Vale of Belvoir are all close by. Grantham sits on the A1 and A52, with Grantham station on the East Coast Main Line giving services to London King's Cross in just over an hour and to Nottingham and Leeds.
Housing in Grantham ranges from Georgian and earlier property around the High Street and Castlegate to Victorian terraces built for the railway and engineering works, interwar and post-war estates, and very substantial modern development on the town's edges, including the large Poplar Farm and Spitalgate Heath allocations. The King's Cross link and relative affordability have made Grantham a growing commuter base, and the town has been designated for continued significant housing growth.