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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Wadebridge 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 Wadebridge
Wadebridge is a market town in north Cornwall, sitting at the tidal limit of the River Camel around seven miles inland from Padstow, with a population of around 8,000. It grew up around a ford across the Camel — the wade in its name — and its defining structure is the bridge that replaced it. Built around 1468 by the vicar of Egloshayle, Thomas Lovibond, the Wadebridge bridge was originally 17 arches long and is one of the longest medieval bridges in England. Local tradition holds that it was built on foundations of wool sacks, since the river bed was too soft for conventional piers, and it is known as the Bridge on Wool.
The town prospered as a port and market centre, shipping china clay, granite and agricultural produce down the Camel estuary, and it was an important early railway town. The Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway, opened in 1834, was one of the first steam railways in the world to carry passengers and among the earliest in Cornwall, built to carry sea sand inland as fertiliser.
That railway line has found a remarkable second life. When the branch closed in the 1960s, the trackbed along the Camel estuary was converted into the Camel Trail, a traffic-free walking and cycling route running eighteen miles from Padstow through Wadebridge to Bodmin and on to Poley's Bridge on the edge of Bodmin Moor. It is one of the most popular recreational trails in Britain, used by several hundred thousand people a year, and Wadebridge's cycle hire shops are a significant part of the local economy.
Wadebridge is home to the Royal Cornwall Show, held each June at the Royal Cornwall Showground on the town's edge — the largest agricultural show in the county and one of the biggest in the south-west, drawing over 100,000 visitors across three days. The surrounding countryside is mixed farming country, and the Camel estuary, with its mudflats, saltmarsh and birdlife, is an important wildlife habitat.
The town sits on the A39 Atlantic Highway and the A389, with the A30 close by and Bodmin Parkway station around 20 minutes away on the main line. Padstow, Rock, Polzeath and the north Cornish coast are within a few miles. Housing ranges from older stone and slate property around the town centre and the quay to Victorian terraces, interwar and post-war housing, and substantial modern development on the town's edges, with values supported by proximity to the fashionable north coast resorts.