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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Keith 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 Keith
Keith is a town in Moray, sitting on the River Isla around 17 miles south-east of Elgin, with a population of around 4,700. It is really three settlements that grew together: Old Keith, the medieval village around the church; Fife Keith, laid out on the west bank of the Isla in 1817 by the Earl of Fife; and New Keith, a planned town set out on a grid in 1750 by the Earl of Findlater. That deliberate eighteenth-century planning gives the modern town its regular layout of long straight streets and a central square.
Keith sits at the heart of Speyside and is a significant whisky town. Strathisla Distillery, founded in 1786, is the oldest continuously operating distillery in the Highlands and one of the most photographed in Scotland, with its twin pagoda roofs and waterwheel beside the Isla. It is the spiritual home of Chivas Regal, and Keith also has the Strathmill and Glen Keith distilleries along with substantial warehousing and blending operations. The Malt Whisky Trail runs through the town.
The Auld Brig o' Keith, a narrow single-arch packhorse bridge of 1609 across the Isla, is the oldest bridge in Moray and carries a local legend about a father and son who built it in gratitude after being saved from drowning. Milton Tower, a fragment of a sixteenth-century tower house, stands nearby. Keith is also the birthplace of St John Ogilvie, the Jesuit priest executed in Glasgow in 1615 and canonised in 1976 as Scotland's only post-Reformation Catholic saint, commemorated in the town's Catholic church.
The town holds the Keith Country Show, one of the largest agricultural shows in the north-east, and the Keith and Dufftown Railway runs heritage services along eleven miles of the former Speyside line. The surrounding countryside is productive mixed farming country, and agriculture, whisky and food processing dominate the local economy.
Keith sits on the A96 between Aberdeen and Inverness, with Keith station on the Aberdeen to Inverness line giving services in both directions — Aberdeen around an hour and a quarter, Inverness an hour. Neighbouring communities include Dufftown, Fochabers, Huntly, Rothes and Aberlour. Housing is largely traditional, with granite and stone Georgian and Victorian property on the planned grid streets, alongside interwar and post-war council-built estates and modern development on the edges. Property is among the more affordable in Scotland.