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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Longframlington 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 Longframlington
Longframlington is a village in Northumberland, sitting on high ground between the Coquet valley and the Cheviot foothills around nine miles north-west of Morpeth, with a population of around 800. The name reflects its shape — a long, straggling village strung out along the road, with the buildings ranged either side of the main street for the best part of a mile, a pattern typical of Northumberland's roadside villages.
The village's oldest building is St Mary the Virgin, a small Norman church of around 1200 standing a short distance from the main street. It is unusually complete and little altered, with a fine chancel arch and original windows, and is regarded as one of the best surviving small Norman churches in Northumberland. The village also has a long-standing association with the Northumbrian smallpipes — the distinctive bellows-blown bagpipe of the region — through pipemakers who worked here, and traditional music remains part of local life.
Longframlington sits in classic Northumberland countryside, surrounded by mixed farmland and moorland edge with the Simonside Hills and Rothbury Forest to the west. The Coquet, one of the finest trout and salmon rivers in the north-east, runs a couple of miles north through Rothbury and Weldon Bridge, and the village is a popular base for fishing and walking. Brinkburn Priory, a beautifully restored twelfth-century Augustinian church standing alone in a wooded bend of the Coquet, lies just outside the village and is one of the most atmospheric monastic sites in the county.
The surrounding area falls within the Northumberland International Dark Sky Park's wider influence, with very low light pollution, and Cragside — the Armstrong family's extraordinary Victorian house, the first in the world lit by hydroelectricity — is a short drive west at Rothbury. Alnwick, with its castle and garden, is around twenty minutes north-east.
The village sits on the A697 between Morpeth and Coldstream, with the A1 around eight miles east, Newcastle roughly 45 minutes south and Alnwick 20 minutes away. Alnmouth and Morpeth stations on the East Coast Main Line are the nearest railheads. Neighbouring communities include Rothbury, Felton, Weldon Bridge, Swarland, Longhorsley and Thropton.
Housing in Longframlington is largely traditional, with stone cottages and terraces along the main street, a number of larger houses and former inns, and farmhouses and steadings — many now converted — across the surrounding parish, alongside a moderate amount of modern development on the village edges. The setting and the reach of the A1 have made it attractive to retirees, holiday-home buyers and Newcastle commuters.