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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in High Wycombe 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 High Wycombe
High Wycombe is a town in Buckinghamshire, sitting in a steep-sided valley in the Chilterns around 29 miles north-west of London, with a population of around 130,000 — the largest town in the county. It grew along the River Wye with a market charter from the twelfth century, and its position in the Chiltern beech woods determined its industry entirely: High Wycombe became the furniture capital of England, and for a century made more chairs than anywhere else in the world.
The trade began with bodgers — itinerant craftsmen who worked in the beech woods with pole lathes, turning chair legs and spindles on the spot and selling them to town workshops for assembly. By the 1870s Wycombe was producing over four thousand chairs a day, and the Windsor chair in particular is inseparable from the town. At the peak there were around 150 furniture factories, and firms such as Ercol, founded here in 1920, continue the tradition. The town's coat of arms carries a chair, and Wycombe Museum holds a major collection.
High Wycombe has one of the more unusual civic customs in Britain: the weighing of the mayor. Each year the outgoing and incoming mayors are publicly weighed on a set of scales, and if the outgoing mayor has gained weight during their term the macebearer announces "and some more" — a public accusation of having grown fat at the ratepayers' expense. The ceremony dates from the nineteenth century and still draws crowds.
The town sits within the Chilterns National Landscape, with beech hangers on the valley sides and Hughenden Manor, Benjamin Disraeli's home for over thirty years, on its northern edge — the Prime Minister is buried in the church there. West Wycombe Park, the extravagant Palladian creation of Sir Francis Dashwood of Hellfire Club notoriety, with its hilltop mausoleum and the Hellfire Caves cut into the chalk, lies just west.
High Wycombe sits on the M40 at junctions 3 and 4 with the A404 linking to the M4, and High Wycombe station gives services to London Marylebone in around half an hour and to Birmingham. Housing ranges from Georgian and Victorian property around the High Street and Easton Street to terraces built for the furniture trade, extensive interwar and post-war estates at Castlefield and Micklefield, and modern development on the valley slopes. The town has a large and long-established Pakistani community, particularly from Kashmir, and property values reflect its strong London commuting position.