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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Town Yetholm 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 Town Yetholm
Town Yetholm is a village in the Scottish Borders, sitting in the Bowmont valley at the foot of the Cheviot Hills around seven miles south-east of Kelso, with a population of around 400. It faces its twin, Kirk Yetholm, across the Bowmont Water, and the two villages together form the last settlement in Scotland before the border — England lies just a mile or so over the hills. Town Yetholm is the larger of the pair, laid out along a broad main street with a long green running down its centre.
The name Yetholm is thought to mean the village at the gate, a reference to its position at a pass through the Cheviots into England. That border location made the area a crossing point for drovers, traders, smugglers and raiders for centuries, and the surrounding hills hold numerous earthworks, hillforts and the remains of fortified farmsteads from the reiving era. Town Yetholm grew as a market and service village for the scattered hill farms of the upper Bowmont and Kale valleys.
The village holds its own summer festival, Yetholm Festival Week, which includes the Bari and Bari Lass ride-outs and the tradition of the Bari Common Riding, echoing the older Common Riding festivals of the larger Border towns. The Yetholm area also has a long association with the Scottish gypsy community, whose royal family, the Faa dynasty, was based across the water in Kirk Yetholm.
Town Yetholm lies close to the northern end of the Pennine Way, which finishes at the Border Hotel in Kirk Yetholm, and to St Cuthbert's Way, the long-distance path from Melrose to Lindisfarne, so the village sees a steady flow of walkers through the season. The Cheviots rising immediately behind offer some of the finest hill walking in southern Scotland, with the Northumberland National Park just across the border.
Town Yetholm is reached by the B6352 from Kelso, around fifteen minutes away, with Berwick-upon-Tweed roughly forty-five minutes east providing the nearest station on the East Coast Main Line; Edinburgh is around an hour and a half by road. Housing is almost entirely traditional, with stone cottages and terraces along the main street and around the green — several listed and within a conservation area — alongside farmhouses and steadings across the surrounding hills and a small amount of later development, with the village serving a working hill-farming community and a growing number of walkers and holiday visitors.