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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in St Ives 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 Ives
St Ives is a coastal town in Cornwall, sitting on the north coast at the western end of St Ives Bay around ten miles north-east of Penzance, with a population of around 11,000. It takes its name from St Ia, an Irish saint said to have arrived in the fifth century floating across the sea on a leaf, and it grew as a fishing port, becoming one of the principal pilchard ports in Cornwall. At its height the town's seine fishery could land millions of fish in a single catch.
The town's modern fame is as an artists' colony. The quality of the light, reflected off the sea on three sides, drew painters from the 1880s, including Whistler and Sickert, and in the twentieth century St Ives became one of the most important centres of modern art in Britain. Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth settled here in 1939, and the St Ives School — Patrick Heron, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Roger Hilton and the self-taught fisherman painter Alfred Wallis among them — produced some of the most significant abstract art of the post-war period. Bernard Leach established his pottery here in 1920, founding the British studio pottery movement.
Barbara Hepworth lived and worked at Trewyn Studio in the town from 1949 until her death in a fire there in 1975, and her home and sculpture garden are preserved as the Barbara Hepworth Museum. Tate St Ives, opened in 1993 on the site of an old gasworks overlooking Porthmeor Beach, was the first Tate gallery outside London and extended in 2017, and it cemented the town's reputation as an artistic destination.
St Ives has several fine beaches within the town — Porthmeor, a noted surfing beach, Porthminster and Porthgwidden among them — and the old town around the harbour, the Island headland and the chapel of St Nicholas is a warren of narrow lanes and fishermen's cottages. Virginia Woolf spent her childhood summers at Talland House in the town, and the Godrevy lighthouse across the bay inspired To the Lighthouse.
St Ives station is the terminus of the St Ives Bay Line from St Erth, one of the most scenic branch lines in Britain, running along the cliffs above Carbis Bay. Housing ranges from granite fishermen's cottages and net lofts in the Downalong and Digey areas — a conservation area — to Victorian villas and terraces, post-war housing and modern development on the edges. St Ives has among the highest proportions of second homes in the country, and in 2016 residents voted for a pioneering planning policy restricting new-build homes to principal residences only.