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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Kilmarnock 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 Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock is a town in East Ayrshire, sitting on the Kilmarnock Water around 20 miles south-west of Glasgow, with a population of around 46,000. It grew as a market town and became one of the most industrialised places in Ayrshire, with carpet weaving, engineering, shoemaking and above all whisky blending and locomotive building shaping its nineteenth and twentieth-century development.
The town has a foundational place in Scottish literature. It was in Kilmarnock in July 1786 that John Wilson printed Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect — the Kilmarnock Edition, Robert Burns's first published collection. The 612 copies sold out within weeks, made Burns famous across Scotland and persuaded him to abandon his plan to emigrate to Jamaica. Surviving copies are among the most valuable books in Scottish literature, and the Burns Monument Centre and Dean Castle hold significant collections.
Johnnie Walker was born in Kilmarnock. John Walker opened a grocer's shop in the town in 1820 and began blending whisky; his son Alexander created the distinctive square bottle and slanted label, and the brand grew into the best-selling Scotch whisky in the world. Blending and bottling continued in the town until Diageo closed the plant in 2012 after nearly two centuries, a loss keenly felt locally. Andrew Barclay's locomotive works, founded in 1840, built industrial steam engines exported worldwide and still operates as a rail engineering business.
Dean Castle, a fourteenth-century keep and palace set in a country park on the town's northern edge, was the seat of the Boyd family, Lords Kilmarnock, and holds notable collections of arms, armour and early musical instruments. The Dick Institute houses the town's museum and one of the finest Victorian public library buildings in Scotland. Kilmarnock FC, founded in 1869, is one of the oldest professional clubs in the country.
The town sits on the A77 and A71 with the M77 giving Glasgow in around half an hour, and Kilmarnock station on the Glasgow South Western Line offers services to Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle. Housing ranges from Victorian sandstone tenements and terraces around the town centre to substantial villas in the Dundonald Road area, interwar housing, extensive post-war estates at Onthank, Shortlees and New Farm Loch, and modern development on the edges. Property is among the more affordable in the Glasgow commuter belt.