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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Minehead 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 Minehead
Minehead is a coastal town in west Somerset, sitting on the Bristol Channel at the northern edge of Exmoor, with a population of around 12,000. It was a working harbour long before it was a resort — Minehead was a significant port in the medieval and early modern period, trading with Ireland and Wales and sending ships to the Newfoundland fisheries — and the old harbour and the steep lanes of Quay Town retain that older character entirely separate from the seafront below.
The town rises in three distinct parts: Quay Town around the harbour, Higher Town on the hillside with its thatched cottages and the fifteenth-century church of St Michael on North Hill, and the Victorian and Edwardian resort town along the seafront, developed after the railway arrived in 1874. That layered structure gives Minehead an unusual variety for a town of its size.
Minehead is the western terminus of the South West Coast Path, at 630 miles the longest waymarked footpath in Britain, running from here round the entire south-west peninsula to Poole in Dorset. The sculpture of a pair of hands holding a map marks the start on the seafront. The town is also the terminus of the West Somerset Railway, the longest heritage railway in England, running twenty miles through Watchet and Williton to Bishops Lydeard near Taunton.
Butlin's Minehead opened in 1962 and remains one of the company's three surviving resorts, dominating the eastern end of the seafront with its distinctive white tented pavilion. It is by far the town's largest employer and draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year, including the All Tomorrow's Parties festivals that ran there for years. Minehead also maintains one of the most curious surviving folk customs in England — the Hobby Horse, paraded through the streets each May Day by costumed attendants, a tradition of uncertain but evidently ancient origin.
Exmoor National Park begins immediately behind the town, with Dunster and its castle two miles east, Selworthy, Porlock and the Exmoor coast to the west. Minehead sits at the end of the A39, with Taunton around 25 miles south-east providing the nearest mainline station.
Housing ranges from medieval and thatched cottages in Higher Town and around the harbour to Victorian and Edwardian villas and former boarding houses along the seafront — many converted into flats and holiday accommodation — alongside interwar bungalows, post-war estates and modern development, with an older population profile and a substantial holiday-let sector.