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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Innerleithen 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 Innerleithen
Innerleithen is a town in the Scottish Borders, sitting where the Leithen Water joins the Tweed around six miles east of Peebles, with a population of around 3,000. The name means the confluence of the Leithen, and there has been a settlement here since at least the early medieval period — a carved stone in the churchyard suggests a religious foundation associated with St Ronan, whose name runs through the town's traditions.
Innerleithen grew as a textile town. The first woollen mill was built in 1790, and by the nineteenth century the town was producing tweed and knitwear as part of the Borders cloth industry, with mills strung along the Leithen and the Tweed. Caerlee Mill, established in 1788, is among the oldest in the Borders. The town also had a period as a minor spa: St Ronan's Wells, a mineral spring on the hillside, drew visitors from the 1820s after Walter Scott's novel St Ronan's Well was published, and the wells house survives as a visitor centre.
Scott's connection gave the town its most distinctive tradition. The St Ronan's Border Games, first held in 1827, are among the oldest highland games in Scotland, and the associated Cleikum Ceremony — in which a boy playing St Ronan symbolically cleiks, or hooks, the Devil — draws on a legend Scott popularised. The games week each July is the town's principal festival.
Innerleithen's modern identity is increasingly built on mountain biking. The trails on the hills above the town, developed as part of the 7stanes network alongside neighbouring Glentress, include some of the most demanding downhill and enduro courses in Britain and have hosted World Cup and Enduro World Series rounds. The Tweed Valley has become one of the leading mountain biking destinations in Europe, and the associated bike shops, cafés, uplift services and accommodation now form a substantial part of the local economy. Traquair House, claimed to be the oldest continuously inhabited house in Scotland with its own brewery and famously closed Bear Gates, stands a mile south.
The town sits on the A72 between Peebles and Galashiels, with Edinburgh around an hour by road and the Borders Railway at Tweedbank roughly 25 minutes away. Housing is largely traditional, with stone terraces built for mill workers along the High Street and Leithen Road, Victorian villas, interwar and post-war housing, and modern development on the edges, with values pushed up by the town's outdoor-sports appeal and Edinburgh commuting.