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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Pembroke 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 Pembroke
Pembroke — Penfro in Welsh — is a town in Pembrokeshire, sitting on a ridge above the Pembroke River around ten miles south of Haverfordwest, with a population of around 7,500. It grew entirely around its castle, founded in 1093 by Arnulf de Montgomery and rebuilt in stone by William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, from 1189. The town was laid out along the single main street running the length of the ridge behind the castle, and substantial stretches of the medieval town walls survive.
Pembroke Castle is one of the most formidable in Britain. Its Great Keep, built by Marshal — often called the greatest knight of the Middle Ages — is a vast circular tower 75 feet high with walls nearly 20 feet thick, and beneath the castle lies the Wogan Cavern, an enormous natural limestone cave that was used from prehistory. The castle is the only one in Britain built over a natural cavern of that scale.
Its greatest historical significance is as the birthplace of Henry VII. Henry Tudor was born here in 1457, and from Pembroke's Welsh connections he drew much of the support for the campaign that ended at Bosworth Field in 1485, founding the Tudor dynasty. The castle held out for Parliament in the Civil War, then switched sides, and Cromwell personally directed the siege that took it in 1648.
Pembroke Dock, two miles north-west, is a quite separate and much younger town, laid out on a grid in 1814 when the Royal Navy established a dockyard on the Cleddau. Over 260 warships were built there, including five royal yachts, and the dockyard's defensive towers and the Sunderland flying boat base of the Second World War — Pembroke Dock was the largest flying boat station in the world — are part of its heritage. It remains the ferry port for Rosslare in Ireland.
The town sits within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, with the Coast Path, Bosherston lily ponds, Stackpole and Barafundle Bay nearby. Pembroke sits on the A4075 and A477, with Pembroke and Pembroke Dock stations on the line to Swansea and Cardiff.
Housing ranges from Georgian and earlier property along Main Street — the centre is a conservation area with a substantial number of listed buildings — to Victorian terraces, interwar and post-war estates, and modern development on the edges, with holiday lets and second homes a significant presence given the national park setting.