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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Sauchie 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 Sauchie
Sauchie is a town in Clackmannanshire, sitting a mile north of Alloa at the foot of the Ochil Hills, with a population of around 6,000. It is effectively a suburb of Alloa today, but it has a distinct identity and history of its own as one of the principal mining settlements of the Clackmannanshire coalfield.
The name comes from the Scots word for willow — the place of the sauch trees — and the settlement is an old one. Sauchie Tower, a fifteenth-century tower house built by the Shaw family, stands on the northern edge of the town and is one of the finest and most complete towers of its period in central Scotland; it has been restored and can be visited on occasion. The Shaws of Sauchie were a significant landed family, and Sir James Shaw of Sauchie was keeper of Stirling Castle under James III.
Coal transformed the village. The Clackmannanshire coalfield was among the earliest worked in Scotland, and Sauchie grew around pits operated by the Alloa Coal Company, which at its height was one of the most significant mining concerns in the country. The Devon Colliery, whose surviving beam engine house is a scheduled monument, pumped water from the workings using a Cornish engine installed in 1865 — one of the few such engine houses remaining in Scotland. Mining shaped the town's layout and housing, and the last pits closed in the later twentieth century.
Gartmorn Dam Country Park, on Sauchie's eastern edge, is the town's most notable green space. The reservoir was created in the early eighteenth century by the Earl of Mar to supply water power to drain his coal workings, making it one of the oldest man-made reservoirs in Scotland still in use. It is now a nature reserve with a circular path, and an important site for wintering wildfowl. The Ochils rise immediately to the north, with the Hillfoots villages of Tillicoultry, Alva and Dollar along their base.
Sauchie sits on the A908 and B908 with Alloa immediately south, and Alloa station — reopened in 2008 — gives services to Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Stirling is around fifteen minutes by road. Housing is dominated by the mining era, with miners' rows and older cottages alongside extensive interwar and post-war council-built estates, and substantial modern private development on the town's northern and eastern edges, with property among the more affordable in central Scotland.