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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Ware 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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Ware is a market town in Hertfordshire, sitting on the River Lea around two miles north-east of Hertford, with a population of around 19,000. Its name comes from the weirs built across the Lea here in Saxon times, and the river has shaped the town throughout its history — Ware stood at a crossing point on Ermine Street, the Roman road from London to Lincoln and York, and grew as a stopping place for travellers and a river port serving the capital.
Ware's great industry was malting. The fertile barley-growing land of Hertfordshire and the Lea's direct link to London made the town the most important malting centre in England from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, and at its peak Ware had over a hundred maltings supplying London's breweries by barge. Many of the distinctive malting buildings, with their cowled kilns, survive along the river and have been converted to homes and offices. The riverside is also lined with a remarkable group of eighteenth-century gazebos — small summerhouses built at the ends of gardens overlooking the Lea, many of them restored — a feature unique to Ware.
The town is famous for the Great Bed of Ware, an enormous carved oak four-poster built around 1590 for the White Hart inn and able to accommodate a dozen people. It became a tourist attraction in its own right, and Shakespeare mentions it in Twelfth Night. The bed is now held by the Victoria and Albert Museum, though it has spent periods on loan to Ware Museum.
Ware also has a notable place in the history of water supply. The New River, opened in 1613, was built to bring clean drinking water from springs at Chadwell and Amwell near Ware to Islington in London — some forty miles of channel following the contours of the land, one of the great engineering achievements of its age. The river still supplies London, and its head is marked near the town. Ware Priory, founded in the fourteenth century as a Franciscan friary, now serves as a public building beside the river.
Ware sits on the A10 and A1170, with Ware station on the Hertford East branch giving services to London Liverpool Street in around 45 minutes. Hertford, Stanstead Abbotts and the Lee Valley are close by. Housing ranges from timber-framed and Georgian property along the High Street and around the river — much of it within a conservation area — to converted maltings, Victorian terraces, interwar and post-war estates, and modern development on the town's edges, with values well above the national average.