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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Redruth 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 Redruth
Redruth is a town in Cornwall, sitting around nine miles west of Truro, with a population of around 14,000 and a continuous urban area with neighbouring Camborne of some 40,000 — together the largest urban area in the county. It stands at the heart of what was, for a period in the nineteenth century, the most intensively mined landscape on earth.
The Camborne and Redruth mining district produced the majority of the world's copper in the early nineteenth century, and later tin on a comparable scale. Dolcoath, on the Camborne side, was the deepest mine in the world at over 3,000 feet and known simply as the Queen of Cornish Mines. The engine houses that survive across the surrounding hills — Carn Brea, Pool, Gwennap — are the emblem of Cornwall, and the district forms a central part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, inscribed by UNESCO in 2006.
The technology developed here changed the world. Richard Trevithick, born at Illogan nearby, built the first high-pressure steam engine and, on Christmas Eve 1801, drove the Puffing Devil up Camborne Hill — the first passenger-carrying steam road vehicle, and the direct ancestor of the locomotive. William Murdoch, living at Redruth, lit his house with coal gas in 1792, the first domestic gas lighting anywhere. Murdoch House still stands in Cross Street.
Gwennap Pit, an amphitheatre formed by mining subsidence just outside the town, is where John Wesley preached to vast crowds of miners eighteen times between 1762 and 1789 — a place of enormous significance in Methodism, which took deeper root in Cornwall than almost anywhere in England. Annual services are still held there.
The mines closed one by one, with South Crofty — the last working tin mine in Europe — shutting in 1998, though work to reopen it has been underway in recent years. The Great Flat Lode trail and Heartlands at Pool interpret the landscape.
Redruth sits on the A30 with Redruth station on the main line giving services to Truro, Penzance and London Paddington. Housing is dominated by the mining era, with granite terraces and miners' cottages across the town and the surrounding villages, substantial mine captains' and merchants' houses, interwar and post-war council estates, and modern development on the edges, with property among the more affordable in Cornwall and significant deprivation in parts of the district.