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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Scarborough 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 Scarborough
Scarborough is a coastal town in North Yorkshire, sitting on the North Sea around 40 miles north-east of York, with a population of around 60,000. It is built around a dramatic headland crowned by a castle, with two broad bays — North Bay and South Bay — curving away on either side, and it has been occupied since at least the Bronze Age. A Roman signal station stood on the headland, and a Viking named Thorgils Skarthi is traditionally credited with founding the town around 966, giving it its name.
Scarborough Castle, begun in the twelfth century, occupies one of the most commanding positions of any English fortress, and its history is long and violent — besieged repeatedly, it was bombarded in the Civil War and again in December 1914, when German battlecruisers shelled the town, killing eighteen people. The attack, alongside those on Whitby and Hartlepool, provoked national outrage and became a potent recruiting image — "Remember Scarborough".
The town has a strong claim to be the first seaside resort in Britain. Mineral springs discovered at the foot of the cliffs around 1626 made Scarborough a spa, and by the 1730s visitors were bathing in the sea itself — among the earliest recorded sea bathing for health anywhere. The railway's arrival in 1845 made it a mass resort, and the Grand Hotel, completed in 1867, was one of the largest hotels in the world, designed around the theme of time: four towers for the seasons, twelve floors for the months, 52 chimneys for the weeks and originally 365 rooms.
Scarborough has notable cultural connections. Anne Brontë came here hoping the sea air would cure her tuberculosis and died in the town in 1849; she is buried in St Mary's churchyard below the castle, the only Brontë not buried at Haworth. Alan Ayckbourn premiered over seventy of his plays at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, where he was artistic director for decades. The Scarborough Fair ballad takes its name from the town's great medieval trading fair.
Scarborough sits on the A64 and A165, with Scarborough station giving services to York in around 50 minutes and on to Leeds and Manchester. The North York Moors National Park rises immediately inland. Housing ranges from Georgian and Victorian property in the old town and around the South Cliff — much converted into flats and holiday accommodation — to terraces, interwar and post-war estates at Eastfield and Barrowcliff, and modern development on the town's edges.