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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead
Hemel Hempstead is a town in Hertfordshire, sitting in the Gade valley around 24 miles north-west of London, with a population of around 95,000. It was granted a charter by Henry VIII in 1539 and grew as a market town on the Chiltern edge, with straw plaiting and later paper-making — John Dickinson's mills at Apsley and Nash Mills were among the largest paper manufacturers in the world, producing everything from writing paper to the envelopes that carried the Penny Post.
The modern town dates from 1947, when Hemel Hempstead was designated one of the first-generation post-war new towns. Geoffrey Jellicoe, the landscape architect, was appointed to produce the master plan, and his most enduring contribution is the Water Gardens — a formal landscape along the canalised River Gade running through the town centre, with an ornamental lake, bridges and planting. Grade II listed and restored in 2015, it is regarded as one of the finest pieces of post-war civic landscape design in Britain.
The town's most notorious landmark was the Magic Roundabout, a junction of six mini-roundabouts arranged in a circle, opened in 1973 and regularly voted one of the most confusing road layouts in the country. Hemel also made unwelcome national news in December 2005, when the Buncefield oil depot on the town's northern edge exploded in the largest peacetime explosion in Europe, heard over a hundred miles away and sending a smoke plume visible from space; remarkably, nobody was killed.
The Grand Union Canal runs through the town at Apsley and Boxmoor, with a restored marina and towpath, and the Chilterns National Landscape begins immediately west, with Ashridge Estate, Berkhamsted and the Ashridge beech woods close by. Old Hemel Hempstead — the High Street running down to St Mary's Church, a fine Norman building with a lead spire — survives as a conservation area of considerable charm quite separate in feel from the new town.
Hemel Hempstead sits at junction 8 of the M1 with the A41 running west, and Hemel Hempstead station gives services to London Euston in around half an hour. Housing is dominated by the new town programme, with extensive 1950s to 1970s estates across Adeyfield, Bennetts End, Warners End, Grovehill and Highfield, alongside older property in the Old Town and Boxmoor, and substantial modern development on the edges, including the large Spencer's Park and Marchmont Farm schemes.