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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Trowbridge 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 Trowbridge
Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, sitting on the River Biss around ten miles south-east of Bath, with a population of around 35,000. It grew around a Norman castle, of which nothing now remains above ground, and developed as a market town — but its prosperity came from wool and cloth. By the early nineteenth century Trowbridge was one of the most important cloth-making towns in England, sometimes called the Manchester of the West, with dozens of mills along the Biss producing fine broadcloth.
That industry left Trowbridge with an unusual legacy of fine buildings. The wealthy clothiers built grand Georgian houses along Fore Street and the Parade, and many of the handsome stone mill buildings and warehouses survive. Trowbridge Museum, housed in the former Home Mills — the last working woollen mill in the town, which closed in 1982 — tells the story of the cloth trade. The industry declined through the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but the town's architecture still reflects that era.
The town's most notable literary figure is George Crabbe, the poet, who served as rector of St James's Church from 1814 until his death in 1832. Crabbe's realistic verse about rural and coastal life, including The Borough, which inspired Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes, made him one of the most admired poets of his day, and he is buried at St James's. Isaac Pitman, the inventor of Pitman shorthand, was born in Trowbridge in 1813.
Trowbridge's later economy diversified into food production — Bowyers, the sausage and pie makers, and Ushers Brewery were major employers for generations. As county town it is home to Wiltshire Council's headquarters at County Hall, a substantial local employer.
Trowbridge sits on the A350 and A361, with Trowbridge station giving services to Bath, Bristol, Westbury and Salisbury. The Kennet and Avon Canal passes close by, and Bradford-on-Avon, Bath and the Wiltshire countryside are within easy reach. Housing ranges from Georgian clothiers' houses and weavers' cottages in the historic centre — a conservation area with a substantial number of listed buildings — to Victorian terraces, interwar and post-war estates, and very substantial modern development on the town's edges, including the large Ashton Park urban extension, with property relatively affordable compared with nearby Bath.