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We’ve delivered skips across Macduff for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the AB44 postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Macduff
Do I need a permit?
A skip on your driveway or private land needs no permit. For a public road in Macduff, a permit is required from Aberdeenshire Council — we arrange it for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Macduff
Macduff household waste recycling centres
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? This is the council tip serving Macduff:
- Macduff Recycling Centre — Old Gamrie Road, Macduff, AB44 1QD. Open Monday to Sunday, 9am–12.30pm and 1pm–4.30pm (closing 4pm on Fridays).
Cars carrying household waste can turn up without booking. Vehicles with trailers and commercial-type vehicles must book in advance and are limited in the number of visits they can make. Opening times vary over Christmas and New Year, but the site is usually open on other public holidays. Check aberdeenshire.gov.uk for current hours.
Why choose Select A Skip in Macduff?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most AB44 postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Macduff 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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Local area guide
Skip hire in Macduff
Macduff is a fishing town in Aberdeenshire, sitting on the Moray Firth at the mouth of the River Deveron directly opposite Banff, with a population of around 3,700. The two towns face each other across the river, joined by Smeaton's seven-arched bridge of 1779, but they have quite distinct characters — Banff genteel and Georgian, Macduff a working harbour town built for the sea.
The settlement was originally the fishing village of Doune, and it was renamed in 1783 when James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife, obtained a burgh charter and set about developing the harbour and laying out the town. The Duff family's investment transformed it, and Macduff grew rapidly as a herring port through the nineteenth century, with hundreds of boats working from the harbour at the height of the season.
Macduff remains a genuinely working port, and it is one of the last places in Scotland where wooden fishing boats are still built and repaired. Macduff Shipyards has been constructing steel and timber vessels here for decades and is among the few remaining commercial boatyards on the east coast, building trawlers and workboats for owners across Britain and Ireland. The harbour handles shellfish and white fish landings, and boat repair keeps the slipways busy year-round.
The town's other landmark is Macduff Marine Aquarium, opened in 1997 on the seafront, whose central tank — open to the sky and holding a living kelp reef — recreates the Moray Firth habitat and is the only one of its kind in Britain. Above the town, the Doune Church with its distinctive tower has a curious feature: only three of its four clock faces are lit, the blank one traditionally said to face Banff, in one version of a long-running rivalry between the two towns. Tarlair, an art deco open-air swimming pool on the rocks east of the town, is a listed Category A structure and has been the subject of a long restoration campaign.
Macduff sits on the A98 coast road, with Aberdeen around 45 miles south-east and Elgin a similar distance west; there is no railway, and Keith and Huntly are the nearest stations. Neighbouring communities include Banff, Gardenstown, Whitehills, Portsoy and Fraserburgh.
Housing in Macduff is largely traditional, with stone terraces and fisher cottages stepped up the steep hillside above the harbour — narrow streets with very limited off-road parking — alongside Victorian property, interwar and post-war council housing, and modern development on the higher ground. Property is among the most affordable in Scotland, and the exposed Moray Firth position makes weatherproofing a constant demand on the older stock.