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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Louth 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 Louth
Louth is a market town in Lincolnshire, sitting on the eastern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds around 25 miles north-east of Lincoln, with a population of around 17,000. It grew around a Cistercian abbey founded in 1139 and became the principal market centre for the Wolds and the coastal marsh, with a charter dating from the twelfth century. Markets still trade in the town several days a week, and Louth retains a genuinely working agricultural market town character that has largely disappeared elsewhere.
The town's dominant feature is St James' Church, whose spire rises 295 feet — the tallest parish church spire in England and the tallest medieval spire of any parish church in the country. Completed in 1515 after fifteen years of building, it is visible for miles across the Wolds and the marsh, and the church itself is one of the finest Perpendicular buildings in Lincolnshire.
Louth has a significant place in Tudor history as the starting point of the Lincolnshire Rising of October 1536. A sermon at St James' sparked a popular revolt against Henry VIII's religious reforms and the dissolution of the monasteries, which spread rapidly and merged into the much larger Pilgrimage of Grace. The rising was suppressed and the vicar of Louth was among those executed at Tyburn.
The town has strong literary associations: Alfred Tennyson was educated at Louth Grammar School, and his first published work, Poems by Two Brothers, was printed and sold in the town in 1827. The Greenwich Meridian passes directly through Louth, marked in Eastgate and in Westgate Fields, giving the town the distinction of being bisected by zero degrees longitude. Louth also has one of the last remaining independent cattle markets in the county.
The town sits on the A16 and A157, with the Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape rising immediately west and the coast at Mablethorpe and Saltfleet around ten miles east. Louth lost its railway in 1970 and is one of the larger English towns without a station; Grimsby and Market Rasen are the nearest. Neighbouring communities include Grimsby, Alford, Horncastle, Binbrook and Mablethorpe.
Housing in Louth ranges from Georgian townhouses along Westgate — regarded as one of the finest Georgian streets in Lincolnshire — and around the Market Place, with the centre a conservation area holding several hundred listed buildings, to Victorian terraces, interwar and post-war estates, and modern development on the town's edges. Property is more affordable than the national average, and the town serves a very large rural catchment across the Wolds and the marsh.