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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Staines 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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Staines — formally Staines-upon-Thames since 2012 — is a town in Surrey, sitting on the Thames around 17 miles west of central London, with a population of around 20,000. It has been a river crossing since Roman times, when it was Pontibus, a settlement at the bridges where the road from London to Silchester crossed the Thames. The London Stone, a boundary marker of 1285, stood beside the river here to mark the upstream limit of the City of London's jurisdiction over the Thames — the original survives in the Spelthorne Museum, with a replica on the riverbank.
The town grew as a coaching stop on the road west and a market centre, and its industrial history was built on linoleum. Frederick Walton, who invented linoleum in 1860, established the world's first linoleum factory at Staines in 1864, and the Linoleum Manufacturing Company's works grew into a major employer, producing floor coverings exported worldwide for over a century until closure in the 1970s. The Two Rivers shopping centre now occupies much of the site.
The renaming to Staines-upon-Thames in 2012 was partly an effort to distance the town from Ali G, Sacha Baron Cohen's character who claimed to lead the "Staines Massiv" and brought the town an unwelcome kind of national fame in the early 2000s. The rebrand emphasised the Thames setting, which remains the town's greatest asset, with a riverside promenade, moorings, and the Lammas Land meadows.
Staines sits beside a remarkable concentration of water. The vast Staines Reservoirs and the Queen Mother, King George VI and Wraysbury reservoirs surround the town, forming one of the most important sites for wintering wildfowl in southern England. Runnymede, where King John sealed Magna Carta in 1215, lies two miles upstream, with the Magna Carta memorial, the John F. Kennedy memorial and the Air Forces Memorial on Cooper's Hill above. Windsor Castle is five miles west.
Staines sits at junction 13 of the M25 with the M3 and A30 close by, and Heathrow Airport is ten minutes away — making the town a significant office and logistics centre, with major employers including tech and pharmaceutical firms. Staines station gives services to London Waterloo in around 35 minutes and to Reading and Windsor. Housing ranges from Georgian and Victorian property around the High Street and Church Street to interwar semis, post-war estates, and very substantial new apartment development around the town centre and riverside.