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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in St Helens 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 Helens
St Helens is a town in Merseyside, sitting around 12 miles east of Liverpool, with a population of around 105,000. It grew from a cluster of townships around a chapel dedicated to St Helen, and was a small settlement until the eighteenth century, when coal and the Sankey Canal transformed it. The Sankey Brook Navigation, opened in 1757 to carry coal to the Mersey for the Liverpool market and the Cheshire salt works, was the first canal of the Industrial Revolution in England — predating the Bridgewater Canal by several years.
Glass made St Helens famous. The abundance of coal and suitable sand drew glassmakers from the 1770s, and in 1826 William Pilkington and his partners founded the business that became Pilkington Brothers — for over a century one of the largest glass manufacturers in the world. Pilkington's most significant contribution was the float glass process, invented by Sir Alastair Pilkington and unveiled in 1959, in which molten glass is floated on a bath of molten tin to produce perfectly flat sheets. It revolutionised glass production globally and is still the method used to make almost all flat glass today. The company remains in the town under Japanese ownership, and the World of Glass museum tells the story.
The town's other industries were coal, chemicals, copper smelting and pharmaceuticals. Beecham's Pills, the Victorian patent remedy advertised as worth a guinea a box, were made in St Helens from 1859, and the Beecham business grew into one of the ancestors of GlaxoSmithKline. The Beecham clock tower still stands in the town centre.
St Helens has a proud rugby league tradition, with St Helens RLFC — the Saints — one of the most successful clubs in the sport's history, winning multiple Super League titles and Challenge Cups, and a fierce rivalry with Wigan. The town also produced a notable number of performers and sportspeople, including the comedian Johnny Vegas and the footballer Gary Ablett. Dream, Jaume Plensa's twenty-metre white sculpture of a girl's head standing on the former Sutton Manor colliery spoil heap beside the M62, has become a regional landmark since 2009.
St Helens sits close to the M62 and M6, with St Helens Central station giving services to Liverpool and Wigan and St Helens Junction on the Liverpool to Manchester line. Housing ranges from Victorian terraces built for the glass and colliery workforce across Parr and Thatto Heath to interwar and post-war estates, and modern development on reclaimed industrial land, with property among the more affordable in Merseyside.