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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Ventnor and across the Isle of Wight.
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 Ventnor
Ventnor is a seaside town on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, sitting on the Undercliff beneath St Boniface Down, the island's highest point, with a population of around 6,000. The town is built on a series of terraces cut into the steep slope, with streets zig-zagging down to the sea, and its sheltered, south-facing position gives it a climate milder than almost anywhere else in Britain — frosts are rare, and subtropical plants grow outdoors year-round.
That climate made Ventnor's fortune. It was a small fishing hamlet until the 1830s, when Sir James Clark, the royal physician, recommended its air as beneficial for sufferers of tuberculosis and other respiratory complaints. Ventnor grew rapidly as a health resort, and in 1869 the Royal National Hospital for Diseases of the Chest opened here, a vast building of cottage blocks along the cliff where patients took in the sea air. The hospital closed in 1964 and was demolished, and its site became Ventnor Botanic Garden.
The Botanic Garden is now the town's great asset. Its microclimate — often several degrees warmer than the rest of the island — allows it to grow plants from the Mediterranean, South Africa, Australia and the Canary Islands that would not survive elsewhere in Britain outdoors, and it holds an important collection of subtropical species. It is regarded as one of the most remarkable gardens in the country.
The Undercliff itself is a landslip landscape, formed where the island's chalk and sandstone sit on slippery clay, and the whole stretch of coast between Bonchurch and St Lawrence is geologically active. Ventnor's setting drew many Victorian writers: Charles Dickens wrote part of David Copperfield at Bonchurch, Karl Marx convalesced in the town, and Elizabeth Sewell and Algernon Swinburne had close connections to it. The Ventnor Fringe festival each summer has become a significant arts event.
Ventnor lost its railway in 1966, the station having been reached through a tunnel under St Boniface Down; the town is now served by buses to Shanklin, Newport and Ryde for the ferries. The Isle of Wight Coastal Path runs through, and St Boniface Down offers views across the island. Housing ranges from Victorian villas and terraces stepped down the hillside — much of it within a conservation area — to former hotels and boarding houses converted into flats, and modest post-war and modern development, with a significant second-home and holiday-let presence and an older population.