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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Rugby 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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Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, sitting on the Avon around 13 miles east of Coventry, with a population of around 78,000. It appears in the Domesday Book and grew as a modest market town, but its name became one of the most widely recognised in the world through a single institution and a single sport.
Rugby School, founded in 1567, is one of the oldest and most influential public schools in England. Under Thomas Arnold, headmaster from 1828 to 1841, it was transformed in ways that reshaped English education entirely — Arnold's emphasis on moral character, the prefect system and organised games became the template for Victorian public schools and, through them, for schooling across the Empire. His reforms were immortalised in Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's School Days, published in 1857 and one of the most influential novels of the century.
The sport was born on the school's playing fields. Tradition holds that in 1823 a pupil named William Webb Ellis, "with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it" — the plaque recording this stands on the school close. The story is almost certainly a later invention, but the game that developed at Rugby genuinely did diverge from association football, the first written laws were drawn up here in 1845, and the sport carries the town's name worldwide. The Rugby World Cup trophy is the Webb Ellis Cup, and the town has the World Rugby Hall of Fame.
Rugby's other great figure is Frank Whittle, born in Coventry but educated in Rugby, who tested the world's first jet engine at the British Thomson-Houston works in the town in April 1937 — the beginning of the jet age. BTH and later AEI and GEC made Rugby a major centre of heavy electrical engineering for a century. The Rugby Radio Station masts, transmitting to shipping and submarines worldwide from 1926, were a landmark until their demolition in 2007.
Rugby sits at junction 1 of the M6 with the M1 and M45 close by, and Rugby station on the West Coast Main Line gives services to London Euston in around 50 minutes. Housing ranges from Georgian and Victorian property around the school and Clifton Road to terraces built for the engineering works, interwar and post-war estates, and very substantial modern development at Houlton — built on the former radio station site — and Cawston.