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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Market Harborough 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 Market Harborough
Market Harborough is a market town in Leicestershire, sitting on the River Welland close to the Northamptonshire border around 15 miles south-east of Leicester, with a population of around 25,000. It was founded as a planned market town in the twelfth century — a deliberate commercial creation on the road between Leicester and London — and the market it was built around has traded ever since, giving the town its name.
The town's landmark is the Old Grammar School, a small timber-framed building of 1614 standing on wooden pillars in the middle of the High Street beside St Dionysius' Church. It was built by Robert Smyth, a local man who made good in London, and designed with an open ground floor so that the butter market could continue to trade beneath the schoolroom — one of the most distinctive and photographed buildings in Leicestershire. St Dionysius itself has a fine fourteenth-century broach spire rising directly from the street.
Market Harborough sits beside one of the most significant battlefields in English history. The Battle of Naseby, fought six miles south in June 1645, destroyed the main Royalist army and effectively decided the Civil War. Charles I had made his headquarters in Market Harborough the night before, and the Royalist council of war was held here; after the defeat the King's personal baggage and correspondence were captured, and their publication was a propaganda disaster for his cause.
The town's industrial era was corsetry and footwear — Symington's of Market Harborough invented the liberty bodice and made corsets here for over a century, and the Symington building now houses the town's museum and library. The Grand Union Canal reaches the town at Union Wharf, and the Foxton Locks a few miles north — a staircase of ten locks, the longest flight of staircase locks in the country, alongside the remains of the extraordinary Foxton Inclined Plane boat lift — are among the great sights of the British waterways.
The town sits on the A6 and A4304, with Market Harborough station on the Midland Main Line giving services to London St Pancras in around an hour and to Leicester in fifteen minutes. Housing ranges from Georgian property along the High Street and Church Square — the centre is a conservation area with a substantial number of listed buildings — to Victorian terraces, interwar and post-war housing, and extensive modern development on the town's edges, with values well above the Leicestershire average given the fast London link.