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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Leominster 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 Leominster
Leominster is a market town in Herefordshire, sitting where the River Lugg meets the Kenwater around 12 miles north of Hereford, with a population of around 12,000. Pronounced Lemster, it is the second largest town in the county and grew around a monastery founded in the seventh century — the name is thought to derive from a Welsh element plus the Old English minster. The priory church of St Peter and St Paul, a substantial Norman building with three parallel naves, survives as one of the most unusual and impressive parish churches in England.
Leominster's medieval wealth came from wool. The fleece of the Ryeland sheep, bred in the surrounding countryside, was the finest in England and known as Lemster Ore for the money it fetched — it was said to be worth its weight in gold, and Leominster wool clothed European royalty. The trade built the town's timber-framed buildings, of which Grange Court, a spectacular carved market hall of 1633 by the craftsman John Abel, is the finest; it was moved from the town centre to the Grange in the nineteenth century and restored as a community building.
The priory church holds one of the last ducking stools in England, used to punish scolds and dishonest traders by dunking them in the river. Leominster has the distinction of hosting the last recorded ducking in the country, when Jenny Pipes was ducked in the Kenwater in 1809. The town's other curiosity is its strong association with antiques — Leominster has long been one of the principal antiques centres in the Marches, with dealers and salerooms concentrated in the old streets.
The surrounding countryside is classic Herefordshire, with black-and-white villages, cider orchards and hop yards. Berrington Hall, a Henry Holland house of the 1780s set in a Capability Brown park, lies just north, and Croft Castle, Hampton Court Castle and the Mortimer Forest are all close by, with the Welsh border and the Black Mountains a short drive west.
Leominster sits on the A44 and A49, with Leominster station on the Welsh Marches Line giving services to Hereford, Shrewsbury, Cardiff and Manchester. Housing ranges from medieval timber-framed and Georgian property in the historic core — the centre has a very high concentration of listed buildings and is a conservation area — to Victorian terraces, interwar and post-war estates, and modern development on the town's edges. Property is among the more affordable in the Marches, and the town serves a large rural catchment.