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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Newtown 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 Newtown
Newtown — Y Drenewydd in Welsh — is a town in Powys, mid Wales, sitting on the River Severn around 30 miles west of Shrewsbury, with a population of around 11,000. It is the largest town in Powys and was founded as a planned settlement in 1279 under a charter from Edward I, replacing the older village of Llanfair-yng-Nghedewain — hence the name, still literally the new town seven and a half centuries later.
Newtown's industrial era made it the Leeds of Wales. From the late eighteenth century it became the centre of the Welsh flannel trade, with weaving carried out in the upper storeys of purpose-built houses and, later, in mills along the Severn. The Textile Museum occupies one such building, with the long weavers' windows still visible across the town. The Montgomeryshire Canal, opened to Newtown in 1821, carried the cloth out, and the town prospered — though the trade collapsed in the later nineteenth century when Yorkshire mechanised faster.
Two figures of international significance came from Newtown. Robert Owen, born here in 1771, was the pioneering social reformer, mill owner and founder of the co-operative movement, whose model community at New Lanark and whose ideas on education, working conditions and co-operation influenced socialism worldwide; he returned to Newtown to die in 1858 and is buried by the old church, with the Robert Owen Museum in the town. Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones, meanwhile, invented mail order here in the 1860s — his Royal Welsh Warehouse sent flannel by post to customers including Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale, pioneering the entire concept of shopping by catalogue. The vast red-brick warehouse still dominates the town.
Newtown was designated a new town in 1967 to stem depopulation in mid Wales, and its population roughly doubled with new housing and industrial estates. The surrounding countryside is the upper Severn valley and the Kerry Hills, with Lake Vyrnwy, Offa's Dyke and the Shropshire Hills within reach.
The town sits on the A483 and A489, with Newtown station on the Cambrian Line giving services to Shrewsbury, Birmingham and Aberystwyth. Housing ranges from Georgian and Victorian property and weavers' houses in the historic core — a conservation area with a substantial number of listed buildings — to Victorian terraces, and very extensive new town-era and modern estates at Vaynor, Treowen and Maesyrhandir on the town's edges.