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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Oakham 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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Oakham is a market town in Rutland, sitting around 20 miles east of Leicester, with a population of around 12,000. It is the county town of Rutland, England's smallest historic county — abolished in 1974 and restored as a unitary authority in 1997, an unusual reversal that reflects a fierce local identity summed up in the county motto, Multum in Parvo, much in little.
Oakham's outstanding building is Oakham Castle, or rather its Great Hall — a Norman aisled hall of around 1180, one of the finest and best-preserved pieces of domestic Norman architecture in England, with carved capitals by the same school of masons who worked at Canterbury Cathedral. What makes it genuinely unique is the horseshoe custom: every peer of the realm passing through Oakham for the first time is required to present a horseshoe to the lord of the manor. The walls are hung with more than 200 of them, some enormous and gilded, given by monarchs and peers over six centuries — Elizabeth I's and Elizabeth II's among them.
The town has a fine octagonal Buttercross with stocks beneath it in the Market Place, and All Saints' Church with a tall spire and a remarkable set of carved capitals. Oakham School, founded in 1584 alongside Uppingham by the same benefactor, is a well-known independent school and a substantial presence in the town.
Rutland Water, two miles east, is the largest reservoir by surface area in England, created in the 1970s by flooding the Gwash valley. It has become one of the most important inland sites for wildfowl in Britain, a designated Ramsar site and the home of the reintroduced osprey population — the first to breed in England for 150 years when they nested here in 2001 — along with sailing, cycling and a 23-mile circular route. Normanton Church, half-submerged at the water's edge, is one of the most photographed buildings in the Midlands.
Oakham sits on the A606, with Oakham station giving services to Leicester, Peterborough and Birmingham. Neighbouring communities include Uppingham, Melton Mowbray, Stamford, Cottesmore and Empingham.
Housing ranges from Georgian and earlier stone property around the Market Place and High Street — the centre is a conservation area with a substantial number of listed buildings, built in the warm local ironstone and limestone — to Victorian terraces, interwar and post-war housing, and considerable modern development on the town's edges. Rutland consistently ranks among the most desirable places to live in England, and values sit well above the regional average.