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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Great Yarmouth 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 Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth is a coastal town in Norfolk, sitting on a narrow spit of land between the North Sea and the River Yare around 20 miles east of Norwich, with a population of around 75,000. It was founded on a sandbank that formed at the mouth of the Yare, and its entire history has been shaped by the sea. Yarmouth was one of the most important herring ports in the world for centuries — the autumn herring fishery drew Scottish drifters and thousands of Scots gutting girls to the town each season, and at its peak in 1913 over a thousand boats landed here.
The herring built the town's medieval wealth, and the Rows — a grid of around 145 extraordinarily narrow alleys running between the main streets, some barely wide enough for one person — were the densest urban form in England. Heavily bombed in the Second World War, a few survive, along with the Tolhouse, one of the oldest civic buildings in the country, and the Great Yarmouth town walls, among the most complete medieval town defences in England. The Church of St Nicholas is one of the largest parish churches in the country.
Yarmouth's second life was as a seaside resort. The Golden Mile seafront developed through the Victorian and Edwardian eras with two piers, the Winter Gardens — a listed cast-iron and glass structure moved here from Torquay in 1904 — the Pleasure Beach and the Hippodrome, one of only three surviving circus buildings in the world with a sinking ring that floods with water. Charles Dickens set part of David Copperfield here, with Peggotty's boat house on the beach, and Nelson's Monument on South Denes predates the London column by twenty years.
The town's modern economy has turned to energy. The port serves the southern North Sea's oil and gas fields and, increasingly, the huge offshore wind arrays off the East Anglian coast, and Great Yarmouth has positioned itself as a major base for offshore renewables with a new outer harbour and operations and maintenance facilities.
Great Yarmouth sits at the end of the A47, with Great Yarmouth station giving services to Norwich in around half an hour. The Norfolk Broads begin immediately inland. Neighbouring communities include Gorleston-on-Sea, Caister, Hemsby, Bradwell and Ormesby. Housing ranges from Georgian property on South Quay to Victorian and Edwardian terraces and former boarding houses across the town — many converted into flats and HMOs — alongside interwar and post-war estates and modern development on the outskirts, with parts of the town among the most deprived in England and the focus of substantial regeneration investment.