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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Lynemouth 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!
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 Lynemouth
Lynemouth is a village in Northumberland, sitting on the coast where the River Lyne meets the North Sea around two miles north-east of Ashington, with a population of around 2,000. It is a twentieth-century settlement, built almost entirely to serve a single colliery, and its layout — regular rows of housing laid out on a grid close to the pit — is typical of the planned mining villages of the Northumberland coalfield.
Lynemouth Colliery was sunk in the 1920s by the Ashington Coal Company, and the village was built alongside it to house the workforce. It was among the last deep mines working in the region, and its coal was drawn from seams running out under the North Sea. The colliery closed in 1994, and with it went the reason the village existed, though a private venture briefly reopened parts of the workings afterwards.
The village's other defining industry was aluminium. The Alcan smelter at Lynemouth opened in 1974, powered by its own coal-fired power station burning fuel from the adjacent colliery — a rare integrated arrangement — and employed hundreds until the smelter closed in 2012. The power station has since been converted to run on biomass, and the site remains a significant industrial presence on the coast.
Lynemouth sits beside Cresswell and the southern end of Druridge Bay, one of the finest stretches of the Northumberland coast — a seven-mile sweep of sand backed by dunes, with a chain of country parks and nature reserves created on reclaimed opencast and colliery land at Druridge Pools, East Chevington and Cresswell Ponds. These wetlands are now among the most important bird sites in the north-east, and the transformation of this stretch of coast from industrial workings to protected landscape has been substantial.
The village sits on the A1068 with the A189 spine road nearby, giving Newcastle in around 40 minutes and Morpeth in twenty. The reopened Northumberland Line has restored passenger rail services at Ashington, a few minutes away. Neighbouring communities include Ellington, Cresswell, Ashington, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Widdrington and Woodhorn.
Housing in Lynemouth is dominated by its colliery origins, with terraced and semi-detached rows built for pit families through the 1920s and 30s, alongside post-war council housing and a modest amount of later development. Property is among the most affordable in England, and the village has been through a long adjustment since the closure of both the pit and the smelter, with regeneration and the coast's growing recreational value shaping its recent history.