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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Northwich 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 Northwich
Northwich is a town in Cheshire, sitting where the River Dane joins the Weaver around 18 miles east of Chester, with a population of around 20,000. Like Nantwich and Middlewich, its name marks it as a salt town, and Northwich sits above one of the largest rock salt deposits in Britain. The Romans worked brine here at Condate, and salt has been extracted continuously for two thousand years — the town is still the centre of British salt production, with the Winsford mine nearby the only working rock salt mine in the country.
Salt shaped Northwich physically in a way few industries have shaped any town. Uncontrolled brine pumping dissolved the strata beneath, and the town suffered catastrophic subsidence through the nineteenth century — buildings tilted, collapsed and sank, and whole streets were lost. The engineering response was remarkable: Northwich developed timber-framed buildings on jacking systems that could be raised and levelled as the ground moved beneath them, and entire structures were winched back to true. Several of these distinctive black-and-white buildings survive in the town centre, giving Northwich a mock-Tudor appearance that is genuinely functional in origin. The subsidence also created the flashes — large lakes formed where the ground gave way, now nature reserves.
The Anderton Boat Lift, two miles north, is the town's most celebrated structure. Opened in 1875 to raise and lower boats fifty feet between the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal, it was the first such lift in the world and is known as the Cathedral of the Canals. Restored and reopened in 2002, it remains fully operational.
Northwich was also central to the chemical industry. Brunner Mond, founded here in 1873 to make alkali from local salt and limestone, grew into one of the four companies that merged to form ICI in 1926, and Winnington and Wallerscote works dominated the area for a century — polythene was discovered accidentally at Winnington in 1933.
Northwich sits on the A556 and A559 with the M6 and M56 close by, and Northwich station gives services to Manchester and Chester. Housing ranges from the distinctive salt-era timber-framed property in the centre to Victorian terraces, extensive interwar and post-war estates at Rudheath and Witton, and substantial modern development including the large Winnington Urban Village on former ICI land.