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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Jedburgh 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 Jedburgh
Jedburgh is a town in the Scottish Borders, sitting on the Jed Water around ten miles north of the English border, with a population of around 4,000. Its position on the main route into Scotland made it one of the most fought-over places in the country — Jedburgh was burned, sacked and occupied repeatedly through four centuries of Anglo-Scottish warfare, and the town's fortified houses, or bastles, reflect that permanent insecurity.
Jedburgh Abbey dominates the town, founded around 1138 by David I for the Augustinians and one of the four great Border abbeys. Its red sandstone ruins are the most complete of the four, with the nave standing almost to full height and the west front and rose window largely intact. Alexander III was married here in 1285, and the abbey was destroyed in the Rough Wooing of the 1540s and never rebuilt.
Mary Queen of Scots stayed in Jedburgh in 1566, falling gravely ill after riding some fifty miles to Hermitage Castle and back to visit the injured Earl of Bothwell. The bastle house where she convalesced survives as Mary Queen of Scots House, now a museum, and she is said to have remarked in later life that she wished she had died at Jedburgh. Jedburgh Castle Jail, built in 1823 on the castle site to the Howard reform model, is another museum and one of the best-preserved Georgian prisons in Scotland.
The town's traditions run deep. The Jethart Callant's Festival each summer is the town's Common Riding, and the Jethart Ba' Game — a mass handball game played through the streets each February between the Uppies and the Doonies — is one of the last survivals of medieval street football in Scotland, with a legend connecting it to the heads of English raiders. The Jethart snail, a boiled sweet, is said to derive from a recipe left by a French prisoner of war.
Jedburgh sits on the A68 between Edinburgh and Newcastle, with Newcastle around an hour and a half south and Edinburgh an hour and a half north; the Borders Railway terminus at Tweedbank is roughly 30 minutes away. Housing is largely traditional, with stone terraces and cottages along the High Street, Castlegate and Canongate — much of the centre a conservation area with a substantial number of listed buildings — alongside Victorian villas, former mill workers' housing from the town's textile era, interwar and post-war council estates, and modern development on the edges.