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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Greenlaw 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 Greenlaw
Greenlaw is a village in the Scottish Borders, sitting on the Blackadder Water in the Merse of Berwickshire around eight miles west of Duns, with a population of around 600. Despite its modest size it was for nearly two centuries the county town of Berwickshire, holding that status from 1696 until 1853 — a role it won and then lost in a long-running rivalry with Duns, which took the county administration back after a protracted and often bitter dispute.
That period left Greenlaw with public buildings out of all proportion to its population. The former County Buildings and courthouse of 1829 stand on the village green, a substantial classical block designed to house the sheriff court and county business, and the adjoining Greenlaw Town Hall with its distinctive tower — originally a bell tower attached to the old parish church, later a prison — makes an unusually grand group for a Borders village. The whole ensemble around the green is a conservation area and heavily listed.
The village was laid out on a planned basis in the seventeenth century by the Earl of Marchmont, whose seat at Marchmont House a couple of miles away is one of the finest Palladian country houses in Scotland, built in the 1750s. The surrounding countryside is classic Merse farmland — flat to gently rolling arable ground, among the most productive in Scotland — with the Lammermuir Hills rising to the north and the Cheviots visible to the south.
Greenlaw sits on the A697 between Coldstream and Lauder, with the A6105 running east to Duns and west to Earlston. Berwick-upon-Tweed is around 20 miles east and provides the nearest station on the East Coast Main Line; Edinburgh is roughly an hour and a quarter by road, and the Borders Railway terminus at Tweedbank around 30 minutes away. Neighbouring communities include Duns, Earlston, Gordon, Westruther, Polwarth and Coldstream.
Housing in Greenlaw is almost entirely traditional, with stone cottages and terraces around the green and along the main street, Victorian villas, the former manse and school, and farmhouses and steadings — a number now converted — across the surrounding parish. A high proportion of the village is listed, and modern development has been limited to small infill and a modest estate on the edge, so the planned form remains largely intact. Property is among the more affordable in the Borders, and the village serves a working agricultural community.