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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Maidenhead 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 Maidenhead
Maidenhead is a town in Berkshire, sitting on the Thames around 26 miles west of London, with a population of around 72,000. It grew around a bridge across the river — the name derives from maiden hythe, a new wharf — and became an important stop on the Great West Road to Bath and Bristol, with coaching inns serving the traffic. The Thames crossing has defined the town throughout its history.
Maidenhead's two bridges are both remarkable. The road bridge of 1777 is a handsome balustraded structure, but the railway bridge downstream is the celebrated one: Brunel's Maidenhead Railway Bridge of 1838 carries the Great Western Main Line across the Thames on two brick arches that were, and remain, the flattest and widest brick arches in the world. Critics predicted they would collapse the moment the centring was removed; Brunel left the timbers in place for a year, they were washed away in a storm, and the bridge stood — and still stands under modern high-speed traffic. Turner painted it in Rain, Steam and Speed.
Boulter's Lock, just upstream, was the most fashionable spot on the Thames in the late Victorian and Edwardian period, when Ascot Sunday saw thousands of pleasure craft gathered there and Maidenhead acquired a reputation as a riverside resort with a certain raffish glamour. Cliveden, the Astor family's great house on the cliffs above the river, was the meeting place of the Cliveden Set in the 1930s and the setting for the encounter that began the Profumo affair in 1961.
The town is home to the Norden Farm Centre for the Arts and to a substantial technology and corporate sector along the M4 corridor, with Rank, Adobe, Hitachi and others having had major operations here. Maidenhead was Theresa May's constituency throughout her time as Prime Minister.
Maidenhead sits at junctions 8/9 of the M4 with the A404 linking to the M40, and Maidenhead station gives Elizabeth line services direct to central London and westward to Reading, having transformed journeys since 2022. The Chilterns and the Thames Path are on the doorstep. Housing ranges from Georgian and Victorian property around the High Street and Castle Hill to substantial riverside villas, interwar and post-war estates, and very substantial new high-density development around the station and town centre driven by the Elizabeth line, which has made Maidenhead one of the most actively redeveloped towns in the Thames Valley.