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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Kelso 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 Kelso
Kelso is a market town in the Scottish Borders, sitting where the Teviot joins the Tweed around nine miles from the English border, with a population of around 6,000. It grew around Kelso Abbey, founded in 1128 by David I for the Tironensian order and once the largest and wealthiest of the four great Border abbeys. Only a fragment survives — the abbey was repeatedly destroyed in the wars with England and finally wrecked in 1545, when its defenders, including a dozen monks, were massacred — but what remains of the transept and west tower is powerfully impressive.
The town's centrepiece is its cobbled Market Square, the largest in Scotland and continental in feel, surrounded by Georgian buildings with the Town Hall at its centre. Walter Scott, who attended Kelso Grammar School as a boy and first read Percy's Reliques here, called Kelso the most beautiful, if not the most romantic, village in Scotland. The Rennie Bridge of 1803 across the Tweed was John Rennie's prototype for Waterloo Bridge in London, and its lamps and balustrade are said to have been modelled on the same design.
Floors Castle stands immediately north-west of the town — the largest inhabited house in Scotland, seat of the Dukes of Roxburghe, built by William Adam in the 1720s and dramatically remodelled with turrets and cupolas by William Playfair in the 1840s. Its grounds run down to the Tweed opposite the site of Roxburgh Castle, once one of the most important royal fortresses in Scotland, where James II was killed in 1460 when one of his own siege cannons exploded.
Kelso is a significant centre for country sports. The Tweed here is among the finest salmon rivers in the world, with the Junction Pool at the confluence of Tweed and Teviot regarded as one of the most valuable stretches of fishing water anywhere. Kelso Racecourse, founded in 1822, is a popular National Hunt course often voted the friendliest in Britain, and the town holds the Border Union Show, one of the largest agricultural shows in Scotland.
Kelso sits on the A698 and A699, with Berwick-upon-Tweed around 22 miles east providing the nearest station and Edinburgh roughly an hour and a half by road. Housing is largely traditional, with Georgian and Victorian stone property around the Square and along Bridge Street and Roxburgh Street — much of the centre a conservation area, heavily listed — alongside interwar and post-war housing and modern development on the edges.