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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Guildford 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 Guildford
Guildford is a town in Surrey, sitting in the gap where the River Wey cuts through the North Downs around 27 miles south-west of London, with a population of around 80,000. That gap made it strategically important from the earliest times — the Pilgrims' Way and the Harrow Way crossed the river here — and the town grew as a Saxon burh, with a royal mint and later a Norman castle. Guildford is the county town of Surrey in practice, though not formally, and is one of the most prosperous towns in the country.
The steep cobbled High Street is the town's defining feature, climbing from the Wey with the Guildhall clock projecting over it on an ornate bracket of 1683 — one of the most photographed sights in Surrey. Guildford Castle's Norman keep survives above the town in public gardens, and the Abbot's Hospital of 1619, a Jacobean almshouse still in use, stands at the top of the High Street. Guildford Cathedral, consecrated in 1961 on Stag Hill, is one of only two Anglican cathedrals built on a new site in England since the Reformation.
The town has strong literary associations. Lewis Carroll spent much of his later life at The Chestnuts in Guildford, where his sisters lived, and he died and is buried in the town — a sculpture of Alice through the looking glass stands by the river. Guildford is also where P.G. Wodehouse was born in 1881. More recently the town has become a significant centre for technology and the games industry, with the University of Surrey's research park hosting satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology, and a games development cluster that produced Bullfrog, Lionhead and Media Molecule — the studios behind Populous, Fable and LittleBigPlanet.
The Wey Navigation, opened in 1653 and one of the earliest in England, runs through the town and is now managed by the National Trust, with a busy riverside and towpath. The Surrey Hills National Landscape surrounds Guildford, with the Devil's Punch Bowl, Newlands Corner and Box Hill nearby.
Guildford sits on the A3 with the M25 a short distance north, and Guildford station gives services to London Waterloo in around 35 minutes and to Portsmouth, Reading and Gatwick. Housing ranges from Tudor and Georgian property around the High Street and Quarry Street to Victorian villas in Charlotteville and Stoughton, interwar and post-war estates at Park Barn and Bellfields, and modern development at Slyfield and Guildford Park. Property values are among the highest outside London, driven by the schools, the setting and the commute.