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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Honiton 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 Honiton
Honiton is a market town in East Devon, sitting in the Otter valley around 17 miles east of Exeter, with a population of around 12,000. It grew as a coaching town on the main road between London and Exeter, and its long, wide High Street — around a mile from end to end — is the town's defining feature, built to accommodate the market and the coach traffic that passed through. Honiton was granted a market charter in 1221 and the market still trades in the town.
The town's name is inseparable from lace. Honiton lace, a fine bobbin lace made with intricate floral motifs worked separately and then joined, became the most prized English lace from the seventeenth century. It was made by hand by women and children across East Devon, and at its height thousands were employed in the trade. Queen Victoria's wedding dress of 1840 was trimmed with Honiton lace made at Beer, a deliberate act of royal patronage to revive an industry then in decline, and the lace has featured in royal christening gowns ever since. The Allhallows Museum on the High Street holds a major collection and gives lacemaking demonstrations.
Honiton suffered a series of devastating fires — in 1672, 1747 and 1765 — which destroyed most of the medieval town. The rebuilding gave the High Street its handsome and unusually consistent Georgian character, with rendered and colour-washed frontages running its whole length. That coherence, and the town's reputation for antiques shops, gives Honiton a distinctive feel among Devon market towns.
The surrounding countryside is the Blackdown Hills National Landscape to the north and the East Devon National Landscape to the south, with the Jurassic Coast at Seaton, Beer and Branscombe around ten miles away. Otterton, Ottery St Mary and the Otter valley lie west, and the town sits within a strongly agricultural area.
Honiton sits on the A30 and A35, with Honiton station on the West of England line giving services to London Waterloo in around three hours and to Exeter in 20 minutes. Neighbouring communities include Ottery St Mary, Axminster, Seaton, Cullompton, Dunkeswell and Colyton.
Housing in Honiton ranges from Georgian property along the High Street and New Street — the centre is a conservation area with a substantial number of listed buildings — to Victorian terraces, interwar and post-war estates, and modern development on the town's northern and eastern edges. Property is more affordable than the East Devon coast, and the town's rail link and A30 position have made it increasingly popular with commuters to Exeter alongside its established retirement population.