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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Huntingdon 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 Huntingdon
Huntingdon is a market town in Cambridgeshire, sitting on the Great Ouse around 16 miles north-west of Cambridge, with a population of around 25,000. It was a Saxon burh and a significant medieval town, granted a charter by King John in 1205 and at one time the county town of Huntingdonshire, a historic county absorbed into Cambridgeshire in 1974 but still marked by the town's ceremonial role and local identity.
Huntingdon's great claim is Oliver Cromwell, born in the town in 1599 and educated at the grammar school here — the building survives as the Cromwell Museum, holding the most significant collection of Cromwell material outside the National Portrait Gallery, including his hat, his seal and personal effects. Samuel Pepys, the diarist, attended the same school a generation later, an unusual pairing for a small town grammar. Cromwell served as Huntingdon's Member of Parliament in 1628 before the crisis that made him Lord Protector.
The town sits beside one of the finest medieval bridges in England — the Huntingdon Bridge of around 1332, linking the town to Godmanchester across the Ouse. The two sides were built by different authorities and never quite met correctly, leaving a visible kink in the parapet. Godmanchester itself was a substantial Roman settlement on Ermine Street and retains a fine Chinese Bridge and riverside.
Huntingdon has been represented in Parliament by two Prime Ministers' constituencies in modern times — John Major held the Huntingdon seat from 1979 to 2001, including his entire premiership. RAF Wyton and RAF Brampton nearby gave the area a long military and intelligence presence, and Hinchingbrooke House, a former nunnery turned Cromwell family home and later the seat of the Earls of Sandwich, stands on the town's edge within the grounds of a school.
The town sits on the A14 and A1(M), with Huntingdon station on the East Coast Main Line giving services to London King's Cross in around 50 minutes and to Peterborough and Cambridge. The Ouse Valley Way and the Great Fen project are close by. Housing ranges from Georgian and earlier property around the High Street and Market Hill to Victorian terraces, extensive post-war expansion at Oxmoor and Hartford — Huntingdon took London overspill population from the 1960s — and substantial modern development at Loves Farm and Alconbury Weald, the latter one of the largest new settlements in the east of England.