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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Halesowen 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 Halesowen
Halesowen is a town in the West Midlands, sitting on the southern edge of the Black Country around eight miles west of Birmingham, with a population of around 58,000. It has an unusual administrative history: for centuries Halesowen was a detached part of Shropshire, an exclave separated from the rest of the county, before being transferred to Worcestershire in 1844 and finally into the West Midlands in 1974. The name combines the Old English halh with Owain, the Welsh prince to whom Henry II granted the manor.
Halesowen Abbey, founded in 1215 by King John for the Premonstratensian canons, stood south of the town and was one of the wealthier religious houses in the region before the Dissolution. Its remains survive within a working farm, with the abbey's fourteenth-century barn still standing. The parish church of St John the Baptist, with its tall spire, dates from the Norman period and is the town's principal landmark, sitting above the old town centre.
The town's industry was nails, chains and later engineering. Halesowen sat at the southern edge of the Black Country's manufacturing belt, and small workshops producing nails were spread across the area from the seventeenth century. In the twentieth century the town became known for Walter Somers, the forgemasters who produced some of the largest forgings in the world — including components for the Bloodhound missile and, controversially, sections of the Iraqi supergun in the 1980s.
Halesowen's most notable literary figure is William Shenstone, the eighteenth-century poet and landscape gardener, born here in 1714. His estate at The Leasowes is regarded as one of the first and most influential examples of the English landscape garden, laid out as a ferme ornée and visited by Samuel Johnson and Thomas Jefferson; it survives as a public park and is Grade I listed on the register of historic parks. The Clent Hills, a National Trust property with sweeping views over Birmingham and the Black Country, rise immediately south of the town.
Halesowen sits close to the M5 at junctions 3 and 4, with Birmingham around 20 minutes away; the town lost its railway in 1964. Neighbouring communities include Cradley Heath, Stourbridge, Quinton, Rowley Regis, Blackheath and Romsley. Housing ranges from older property around the church and Hagley Street to Victorian terraces, extensive interwar and post-war estates, and modern development on the edges, with Halesowen generally among the more desirable parts of the Dudley borough given its Clent Hills setting and Birmingham accessibility.