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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in St Abbs 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 St Abbs
St Abbs is a small fishing village in the Scottish Borders, sitting on the Berwickshire coast around two miles north of Coldingham, with a population of only around 130. It is one of the most dramatically sited settlements in Scotland — a tight cluster of houses on a rocky shelf above a tiny harbour, with red sandstone cliffs rising sheer on either side and the North Sea directly below.
The village takes its name from St Æbbe, the seventh-century Northumbrian princess and abbess who founded a monastery on the headland above, and whose name is carried by St Abb's Head. That headland is a National Nature Reserve and one of the finest seabird sites on the east coast of Britain, with cliffs up to 300 feet holding tens of thousands of guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, shags and puffins through the breeding season, along with a striking lighthouse of 1862 designed by David and Thomas Stevenson.
The village was developed as a fishing station in the 1830s by Andrew Usher, the Edinburgh whisky distiller, who built the harbour — and the settlement was called Coldingham Shore until it took the saint's name. The harbour still supports a few boats working for crab and lobster, and the village suffered severely in the 1881 Eyemouth disaster, when the Berwickshire fleet was caught by a sudden storm and 189 men drowned.
The waters off St Abbs are exceptional. The St Abbs and Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve, established in 1984, protects one of the richest and clearest cold-water dive sites in Europe, with kelp forests, wolf fish, seals and dramatic underwater topography. Divers come from across Britain and beyond, and the village's economy is built substantially on diving, walking and tourism.
St Abbs found an unexpected international audience in 2017, when it was used as the exterior for the Asgardian fishing village of New Asgard in Avengers: Endgame — the village put up a sign welcoming visitors to New Asgard, which has become a photograph stop in its own right.
The village is reached by the B6438 from Coldingham, with Reston station on the East Coast Main Line — reopened in 2022 — around ten minutes away, giving services to Edinburgh in under an hour. Housing is entirely traditional, with stone cottages stepped above the harbour, several listed and the village a conservation area, with holiday lets and second homes forming a very large share of the stock.