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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 Tower Hamlets
Tower Hamlets is a borough in east London, running from the City's eastern edge through Whitechapel, Spitalfields and Bethnal Green to the Isle of Dogs and Bow, with a population of around 330,000. It takes its name from the hamlets whose men historically owed service to the Tower of London — the Constable of the Tower could call on them to garrison the fortress — and the Tower itself stands at the borough's south-western corner, one of the most significant fortresses in Europe and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The borough has been the arrival point for successive waves of migration for four centuries. Huguenot silk weavers fleeing persecution in France settled in Spitalfields from the 1680s, building the fine Georgian houses of Fournier Street and Princelet Street with their distinctive weaving lofts. Irish communities followed, and from the 1880s Jewish refugees from eastern Europe, who made Whitechapel and Spitalfields the centre of Jewish London. From the 1970s the area became the heart of the Bangladeshi community in Britain, and Brick Lane — Banglatown — reflects that history, with the Brick Lane Mosque occupying a building that began as a Huguenot church and served as a synagogue before its current use, a single building that tells the borough's whole story.
The East End's working history was defined by the docks. The West India Docks opened in 1802 on the Isle of Dogs, and the borough's riverside and docklands were among the busiest in the world until their closure in the 1960s and 70s. The regeneration that followed produced Canary Wharf, which from the late 1980s grew into one of the world's leading financial districts, its towers now dominating the east London skyline and employing well over 100,000 people.
The borough holds a deep political and social history — the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, when residents blocked Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists from marching through the East End, is commemorated by a mural in Shadwell, and the matchgirls' strike of 1888 at Bryant and May in Bow was a landmark in labour history. Victoria Park, opened in 1845 as the People's Park, is one of the largest in east London.
Tower Hamlets is exceptionally well connected, with the Elizabeth line, Central, District, Hammersmith & City and Jubilee lines, the DLR and the Overground. Housing ranges from Georgian terraces in Spitalfields and Victorian terraces in Bow and Bethnal Green to large post-war estates and vast volumes of new high-density development on the Isle of Dogs and around Canary Wharf, with the borough among the most densely populated in Britain.