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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Thetford 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 Thetford
Thetford is a market town in Norfolk, sitting where the Little Ouse meets the Thet around 30 miles south-west of Norwich, with a population of around 25,000. It lies on the Icknield Way, one of the oldest roads in Britain, at a crossing point of the rivers, and it has been an important settlement for over two thousand years. It is thought to have been a centre of the Iceni, the tribe led by Boudica, and in the late Saxon period Thetford was one of the largest towns in England, briefly the seat of the bishopric of East Anglia.
The town has a remarkable concentration of medieval remains. Thetford Castle Hill is one of the largest earthwork mottes in England, built within Iron Age ramparts, and the ruins of Thetford Priory — a Cluniac house founded in 1103 — were the burial place of the Dukes of Norfolk before the Dissolution. Henry Fitzroy, Henry VIII's illegitimate son, was buried here before his remains were moved.
Thetford's most famous son is Thomas Paine, born in the town in 1737, whose pamphlet Common Sense in 1776 helped ignite the American Revolution and whose Rights of Man made him one of the most influential radicals of the age. A gilded statue of Paine, holding a quill and a copy of Rights of Man upside down, stands outside the King's House in the town centre. Thetford also had a distinctive industrial heritage: Charles Burrell & Sons built traction engines and steam road locomotives here from the 1770s, and the Charles Burrell Museum preserves several of them.
The town's modern profile owes much to Dad's Army. The BBC comedy was filmed extensively in and around Thetford from 1968, with the town standing in for Walmington-on-Sea, and a Dad's Army Museum and a statue of Captain Mainwaring commemorate the connection.
Thetford Forest, surrounding the town, is the largest lowland pine forest in Britain, planted from the 1920s on the sandy Breckland heaths, and Grimes Graves nearby is a remarkable Neolithic flint mine with hundreds of shafts. Thetford expanded as a London overspill town from the 1950s, roughly quadrupling in size. It sits on the A11 and A134, with Thetford station giving services to Norwich, Cambridge and Ely. Housing ranges from medieval and Georgian property in the historic core to extensive post-war overspill estates at Abbey Farm and Barnham Cross, and very substantial modern development at the Thetford Sustainable Urban Extension.