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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Stafford 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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Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire, sitting on the River Sow around 16 miles south of Stoke-on-Trent, with a population of around 70,000. It was founded around 913 by Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, as a fortified burh against the Danes, and the name refers to a ford by a landing place on the Sow. The town grew as the administrative centre of the county and a market town serving the surrounding farmland.
Stafford's great industry was shoes. From the late eighteenth century the town became a significant centre of boot and shoe manufacture, and at its height in the Victorian period dozens of firms employed thousands — Lotus shoes were made here for decades. The playwright and MP Richard Brinsley Sheridan represented Stafford in Parliament from 1780 and was famously toasted by the town's shoemakers; his statue stands in the Market Square.
The town's other defining industry was heavy electrical engineering. English Electric, and later GEC and Alstom, built transformers, switchgear and power equipment at their Stafford works, and the site has been one of the most important centres of high-voltage electrical engineering in the world — equipment made in Stafford has been installed in power grids across every continent. The works remain a significant employer under GE Vernova.
Stafford's finest building is the Ancient High House, a timber-framed Elizabethan town house of 1595 on Greengate Street, the largest surviving timber-framed town house in England. Charles I stayed there in 1642. Stafford Castle, a Norman motte-and-bailey with the ruins of a later stone keep, stands on a hill to the west, and Izaak Walton, author of The Compleat Angler, was born in the town in 1593 and baptised in St Mary's Church, which has a memorial bust of him.
Stafford sits close to the M6 at junctions 13 and 14, with Stafford station on the West Coast Main Line giving services to London Euston in around 75 minutes, and to Birmingham and Manchester. Cannock Chase rises immediately to the south-east, with Shugborough Hall close by. Housing ranges from Georgian and timber-framed property in the town centre — a conservation area with a substantial number of listed buildings — to Victorian terraces built for the shoe and engineering workforce, interwar and post-war estates at Highfields and Western Downs, and substantial modern development on the town's edges.