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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Sandown and across the whole of the Isle of Wight.
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 Sandown
Sandown is a seaside town on the Isle of Wight, sitting on the island's east coast at the centre of Sandown Bay, with a population of around 7,000. It forms a continuous resort with Shanklin to the south and Lake between them, and together they make up the island's principal holiday area. The town faces a broad sweep of sandy beach running for several miles between the chalk headland of Culver Down to the north and the sandstone cliffs towards Shanklin — one of the longest and safest bathing beaches on the south coast.
Sandown's strategic position facing the Channel made it a defensive point for centuries. Henry VIII built a castle here in the 1540s, which was undermined by the sea and replaced in the following century; later came Sandown Fort, and in the 1860s Palmerston's forts, including the vast Bembridge Fort on Culver Down and the Yaverland Battery. The Second World War left the town part of Operation PLUTO — the Pipe-Line Under The Ocean — which carried fuel from Sandown across the Channel to supply the Allied armies after D-Day, and pumping stations disguised as ordinary seaside buildings operated along the front.
The town developed as a Victorian resort after the railway arrived in 1864, and it had admirers from the start — Charles Darwin stayed at Sandown in 1858 and began writing On the Origin of Species here, and Lewis Carroll holidayed in the town repeatedly in the 1870s. The Culver Parade, Esplanade and pier, opened in 1879 and still standing with its entertainment pavilion, reflect that heyday.
Sandown sits in one of the most important dinosaur landscapes in Europe. The Isle of Wight's Wealden cliffs have yielded more dinosaur remains than anywhere else in Britain, and Dinosaur Isle, a purpose-built museum on the Culver Parade shaped like a giant pterosaur, holds a major collection of island finds. The Wildheart Animal Sanctuary, formerly Isle of Wight Zoo, occupies the old Granite Fort on the seafront.
Sandown station on the Island Line gives services north to Ryde Pier Head for the Portsmouth ferries and south to Shanklin. Housing ranges from Victorian and Edwardian villas and former hotels along the seafront — many long converted into flats and holiday accommodation — to terraces in the older streets, interwar bungalows, post-war estates and modern development on the town's edges, with a substantial holiday-let and second-home presence and an older population profile.