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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Oldham 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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Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, sitting on high ground on the edge of the Pennines around seven miles north-east of Manchester, with a population of around 100,000. It was a scattering of moorland hamlets until the Industrial Revolution, when it became the most productive cotton spinning town in the world. At its peak in 1911 Oldham had 360 mills and was spinning more cotton than France and Germany combined — around twelve per cent of global output from a single town.
That concentration was extraordinary even by Lancashire standards. Oldham specialised in coarse spinning, and its mills were built on a scale and to a pattern — tall, red-brick, with square towers and the company name in white brick near the top — that still defines the skyline, though most have gone or been converted. The town's cotton economy collapsed through the twentieth century, and Oldham's adjustment has been long and difficult.
The town has a serious scientific and industrial pedigree. Platt Brothers of Oldham was the largest textile machinery manufacturer in the world, employing over 12,000 people and exporting looms and spinning mules globally. William Walton's Oldham-born contemporary, the physicist Sir William Henry Bragg's collaborator, is one strand; more famously, Oldham was where the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, was born at Oldham General Hospital in July 1978, following the work of Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards at the hospital's Kershaw's Cottage annexe — one of the most significant medical breakthroughs of the twentieth century.
Oldham also produced Winston Churchill's first parliamentary seat — he was elected MP for Oldham in 1900 at the age of 25 — and the actors Eric Sykes, Bernard Cribbins and Dora Bryan. The Oldham Coliseum was one of the oldest producing theatres in the country until its closure in 2023.
The town sits close to the M60 and A62, with the Metrolink tram running to Manchester city centre in around half an hour since 2012. Saddleworth and the Pennine moors rise immediately east, with Dovestone Reservoir and the Peak District close by. Housing is dominated by stone and brick terraces built for the mill workforce, alongside substantial mill owners' villas, interwar semis, extensive post-war estates at Limeside and Sholver, and modern development on former mill land. Oldham has a large and long-established Pakistani and Bangladeshi community, and property is among the more affordable in Greater Manchester.