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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Wellingborough 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 Wellingborough
Wellingborough is a market town in Northamptonshire, sitting on the River Nene around 11 miles north-east of Northampton, with a population of around 56,000. Its name is thought to derive from the Saxon settlement of Wændel's people, though a local tradition links it to the many springs and wells found in the area — the town's coat of arms includes wells, and several natural springs rise within its boundaries. Wellingborough was granted a market charter in 1201, and markets still trade in the town centre.
The town's historic core retains a number of fine buildings. The Tithe Barn, a fifteenth-century stone barn used to store produce paid as tithes to Croyland Abbey, survives in the town centre and is now used for events. All Hallows Church has medieval origins, and St Mary's Church, designed by Sir Ninian Comper in the early twentieth century, is regarded as one of his finest works and one of the most beautiful twentieth-century churches in England. Croyland Abbey, the town's heritage centre, occupies a building on the site of the abbey's former grange.
Like much of Northamptonshire, Wellingborough built its industrial prosperity on boots and shoes from the nineteenth century, along with iron ore extraction and ironworking, as the Northamptonshire ironstone field was exploited on a large scale. The town was also a significant railway town, sitting on the Midland Main Line, with engine sheds and associated industry.
Wellingborough expanded substantially from the 1960s as a London overspill town, taking population from the capital and growing well beyond its historic size. That growth has continued: the town has been designated for major expansion, with the Stanton Cross development east of the town being one of the largest housing and mixed-use schemes in the East Midlands. The Embankment along the Nene, with its riverside walk, and the Summer Leys nature reserve, a wetland created from former gravel workings, provide green space.
Wellingborough sits on the A45 and A509, with the A14 and M1 within easy reach, and Wellingborough station on the Midland Main Line gives services to London St Pancras in around an hour and to Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield. Housing ranges from ironstone and limestone property in the older town centre — some within a conservation area — to Victorian terraces built for the shoe and iron workforce, extensive overspill and post-war estates, and very substantial modern development at Stanton Cross and on the town's edges.