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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Kettering 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 Kettering
Kettering is a town in Northamptonshire, sitting on the River Ise around 15 miles north-east of Northampton, with a population of around 63,000. It appears in the Domesday Book and grew as a market town, but its modern character was built on boots and shoes. Kettering became one of the principal centres of the British footwear industry alongside Northampton, with dozens of factories producing boots and shoes from the mid-nineteenth century, and the trade employed a large part of the town well into the twentieth.
The town has an outsized place in religious history. In October 1792, at a meeting in the back parlour of a house in Lower Street, a group of Baptist ministers led by William Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society — the first Protestant missionary society of the modern era, and the model for the great wave of missionary organisations that followed. Carey went on to India and became a pioneering translator and orientalist, and the Carey Baptist Church in Kettering commemorates the foundation.
Kettering's other notable figure is Alfred East, the landscape painter, who was born in the town in 1844 and gifted his collection to it; the Alfred East Art Gallery is one of the oldest purpose-built public galleries in the country. Wicksteed Park, opened in 1921 by the engineer Charles Wicksteed, was one of the first amusement parks in Britain and pioneered the manufacture of public playground equipment — Wicksteed's designs for swings and slides were exported worldwide and are still made in the town.
Iron ore was quarried extensively around Kettering from the 1850s, feeding furnaces at nearby Corby, and the landscape of the surrounding area is dotted with reclaimed workings. Boughton House, a magnificent late seventeenth-century house often called the English Versailles, stands a few miles north and is the seat of the Dukes of Buccleuch.
Kettering sits on the A14 and A43 with the M1 to the west, and Kettering station on the Midland Main Line gives services to London St Pancras in around an hour. Housing ranges from Georgian and earlier property around the Market Place and Sheep Street to extensive Victorian terraces built for the shoe workforce, interwar and post-war estates, and substantial modern development at Ise Lodge and the large Hanwood Park urban extension east of the town, which is one of the biggest housing allocations in the county.