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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Lowestoft 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 Lowestoft
Lowestoft is a coastal town in Suffolk, sitting on the North Sea around ten miles south of Great Yarmouth, with a population of around 71,000. Ness Point, on the town's eastern edge, is the most easterly point in the United Kingdom — marked by the Euroscope, a circular compass plaque showing distances to other extremities — which makes Lowestoft the first place in Britain to see the sunrise.
The town's history is fishing. Lowestoft was one of the great herring ports, and its trawler and drifter fleets worked the North Sea from a harbour developed by Sir Samuel Morton Peto in the 1840s. The autumn herring season brought Scottish boats and thousands of Scots fisher girls to gut and pack the catch, and at its height the town handled enormous landings. The industry collapsed in the later twentieth century, though a small fishing fleet remains and the port has found new work servicing the offshore energy sector.
That energy role is now central. Lowestoft sits opposite some of the largest offshore wind arrays in the world in the southern North Sea, and the port has become a major operations and maintenance base for the industry, with the associated engineering and marine services forming a growing part of the local economy.
Lowestoft has a notable cultural heritage. Benjamin Britten was born in the town in 1913, the son of a dentist on Kirkley Cliff Road, and the sea and the Suffolk coast run through his work — Peter Grimes above all. The Lowestoft Porcelain factory operated from 1757 to 1799 and its soft-paste wares are now highly collectable. The town's South Beach, with its Victorian esplanade and pier, developed as a resort under Peto's promotion, while the North Beach retains the Scores — a series of narrow ancient alleyways running steeply down from the High Street to the old fishing quarter, some of the most distinctive features of the town.
Lowestoft sits on the A12 and A47, with Lowestoft station giving services to Norwich in around 40 minutes and to Ipswich along the East Suffolk Line. The Norfolk Broads begin immediately inland at Oulton Broad, a substantial sailing and watersports centre within the town. Housing ranges from Georgian property on the High Street to Victorian terraces built for the fishing industry, substantial villas along Kirkley Cliff, interwar and post-war estates, and modern development on the edges, with parts of the town among the more deprived in the region and the focus of sustained regeneration.