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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Harrogate 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 Harrogate
Harrogate is a spa town in North Yorkshire, sitting on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales around 15 miles north of Leeds, with a population of around 75,000. It was two small villages until 1571, when William Slingsby discovered the Tewit Well and found its waters comparable to those of the Belgian spa at Spa itself. More springs followed — Harrogate eventually had 88 mineral wells within a small area, an extraordinary geological concentration — and the town grew through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries into one of the great European spa resorts.
The Royal Pump Room, built in 1842 over the strongest sulphur well in Europe, is now a museum where visitors can still smell — and, if brave, taste — the water. The Royal Baths of 1897 housed the most advanced hydrotherapy facilities in the world, and its Turkish Baths survive in full Moorish splendour as one of only a handful of Victorian Turkish baths still operating in Britain. The Valley Gardens, the Montpellier Quarter and the Stray — 200 acres of protected open grassland encircling the town centre, secured by an Act of Parliament in 1770 — give Harrogate its distinctive green setting.
Harrogate is closely associated with Agatha Christie. In December 1926 the novelist disappeared for eleven days, prompting a national manhunt, and was eventually found staying at the Swan Hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate under an assumed name — an episode she never explained and which remains one of the enduring literary mysteries. Bettys tea rooms, founded in Harrogate in 1919 by a Swiss confectioner, is an institution in its own right.
The town is now a major conference and exhibition destination, with the Harrogate Convention Centre, and hosts the Great Yorkshire Show, the largest agricultural show in England, along with the Harrogate Flower Shows and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. RHS Harlow Carr, one of the Royal Horticultural Society's four gardens, sits on the town's western edge.
Harrogate sits on the A61 and A59 with the A1(M) close by, and Harrogate station gives services to Leeds and York in around half an hour. Housing includes some of the finest in Yorkshire, with Victorian and Edwardian villas and terraces around the Duchy estate, Harlow Hill and Montpellier — among the most expensive in the north — alongside Georgian property, interwar semis, post-war estates and modern development on the edges. Harrogate consistently ranks among the happiest and most desirable places to live in Britain.