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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Salisbury 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 Salisbury
Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, sitting where the Avon meets the Nadder, Bourne and Wylye around 20 miles north-west of Southampton, with a population of around 41,000. It is unusual among English cathedral cities in having been moved. The original settlement stood two miles north at Old Sarum, an Iron Age hillfort reused by the Romans, Saxons and Normans, with a castle and cathedral crammed inside its ramparts. Friction between clergy and garrison, and a chronic lack of water, led Bishop Richard Poore to abandon the hill in 1220 and lay out a new city in the water meadows below — New Sarum, now Salisbury.
Salisbury Cathedral was built at extraordinary speed, largely completed in just 38 years between 1220 and 1258, which gives it a stylistic unity found in almost no other English cathedral — it is the purest example of Early English Gothic in the country. Its spire, added around 1320, rises 404 feet and is the tallest in Britain; the cathedral close, the largest in the country, is surrounded by fine medieval and Georgian houses. Constable painted the cathedral from the water meadows repeatedly, and the view remains one of the most famous in English art.
The cathedral holds the best preserved of the four surviving original copies of Magna Carta from 1215, displayed in the chapter house, along with the oldest working mechanical clock in the world, dating from around 1386. The city's medieval grid plan, laid out by Poore with streets and water channels running through them, survives almost intact around the Market Place, which has held markets since a charter of 1227.
Salisbury sits at the heart of one of the richest prehistoric landscapes in Europe. Stonehenge lies nine miles north, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site that includes Durrington Walls and Woodhenge, and Salisbury Plain beyond is the largest remaining area of chalk grassland in north-west Europe — much of it preserved by its use as the army's principal training area since the 1890s. Wilton House, seat of the Earls of Pembroke, stands three miles west.
The city came to international attention in March 2018 when Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned with Novichok, a Russian nerve agent; the subsequent death of Dawn Sturgess in nearby Amesbury made it one of the gravest incidents on British soil in decades.
Salisbury sits on the A36, A30 and A338, with Salisbury station giving services to London Waterloo in around 90 minutes and to Exeter, Southampton, Bristol and Cardiff. Housing ranges from medieval and Georgian property in the Close and the old city chequers — heavily listed and within conservation areas — to Victorian terraces in Fisherton and St Mark's, interwar and post-war estates at Bemerton Heath and Friary, and substantial modern development at Old Sarum and Longhedge on the city's northern edge.