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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Stourbridge 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 Stourbridge
Stourbridge is a town in the West Midlands, sitting on the River Stour at the southern edge of the Black Country around 12 miles west of Birmingham, with a population of around 64,000. It grew as a market town and a centre of ironworking, but its name became synonymous with one industry above all: glass.
Glassmaking came to Stourbridge in the early seventeenth century, when Huguenot glassmakers from Lorraine settled in the area, drawn by local deposits of fireclay ideal for making the crucibles in which glass was melted. The industry grew along a stretch of the Stour valley between Wordsley, Amblecote and Stourbridge known as the Glass Quarter, and by the nineteenth century firms such as Stuart, Thomas Webb, Richardson's and Royal Brierley made Stourbridge crystal world-famous, with cut, engraved and cameo glass of extraordinary quality. The Red House Glass Cone at Wordsley, a 100-foot brick cone built around 1790 and in use until 1936, is one of only four surviving in Britain, and the Stourbridge Glass Museum opened in 2022 to hold the area's important collections.
The town's other historic industry was chainmaking and ironworking, part of the wider Black Country trades. Stourbridge also has a notable place in railway history: the Stourbridge Lion, built here by Foster, Rastrick and Company in 1829, was exported to the United States and became the first steam locomotive to run on a commercial track in America, on the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's line in Pennsylvania.
Stourbridge has a strong music heritage — the town produced the Wonder Stuff, Pop Will Eat Itself and Ned's Atomic Dustbin in the late 1980s and early 90s, a scene known as Grebo. The Stourbridge Canal, with its flight of sixteen locks, runs through the Glass Quarter, and the Stourbridge Town branch line, at under a mile, is the shortest branch line in Europe, operated by a lightweight railcar.
The town sits on the A451 and A491, with Stourbridge Junction giving services to Birmingham in around 30 minutes and to Worcester. The Clent Hills, Kinver Edge and the Staffordshire countryside lie a short distance south and west. Housing ranges from Georgian and Victorian property around the High Street and Oldswinford — Oldswinford and Pedmore are among the more affluent parts of the Dudley borough — to Victorian terraces built for the glass and iron workforce, interwar and post-war estates, and modern development on the edges.