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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Nantwich 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 Nantwich
Nantwich is a market town in Cheshire, sitting on the River Weaver around four miles south-west of Crewe, with a population of around 17,000. Its name carries its history: the "wich" element marks it as a salt town, one of the Cheshire wiches alongside Northwich and Middlewich, where brine springs rising from underground deposits were boiled to produce salt. Nantwich was the most important of them in the medieval period, with hundreds of salt houses working the brine pit, and salt made the town wealthy for centuries.
In December 1583 a fire that began in a brewhouse burned for twenty days and destroyed some 600 buildings — most of the town. Elizabeth I contributed to the rebuilding and ordered a national collection, and the town was reconstructed over the following decade in the black-and-white timber framing that still defines it. The finest survival is Churche's Mansion of 1577, which escaped the fire, and the rebuilt Crown Hotel of 1585 on the High Street; Nantwich has around 130 listed buildings and one of the best collections of Tudor and Jacobean architecture in the north-west.
St Mary's Church, which also survived the fire, is a magnificent fourteenth-century building often called the Cathedral of South Cheshire, with an octagonal tower, a fine stone vault and an outstanding set of misericords. The town was strongly Parliamentarian in the Civil War and withstood a lengthy Royalist siege, relieved at the Battle of Nantwich in January 1644 — commemorated each year by Holly Holy Day, when re-enactors parade through the town, one of the largest such events in Britain.
Nantwich retains a strong market town character with independent shops, and it holds the Nantwich Show, which incorporates the International Cheese Awards — the largest cheese show in the world, judging thousands of cheeses from dozens of countries. The town also has one of the few remaining open-air brine swimming pools in Britain.
Nantwich sits on the A51 and A534, with Nantwich station giving services to Crewe and Shrewsbury, and Crewe's main-line connections a few minutes away. The Shropshire Union Canal runs past the town. Housing ranges from Tudor and Georgian property in the historic core — heavily listed and within a conservation area — to Victorian terraces, interwar and post-war housing, and substantial modern development on the edges, with values well above the Cheshire East average.