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Skip Hire London

London, it goes without saying, is big. Very big. So much so, skip prices vary massively from Cockfosters to Morden and from Ealing to Walthamstow.
This is mainly down to haulage and landfill costs (although we recycle most of the waste in our skips, there is a small percentage that has to go to landfill).
A big expense in skip hire is the skip permit. If a skip is placed on a public highway, we need to obtain a permit.
In London, there is no set rule for these permits – each borough has their own set of rules. Some councils like Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham and Islington insist that the customer has to organise the permit. Others demand that the skip company has to arrange it. Some councils like Wandsworth charge up to £107 for a permit, others like Ealing cost £20. Some permits last one week, others last three months. The variance is incomprehensible, but permits are worth getting processed. Without one, you can face fines running into thousands of pounds.
Of course there are other charges, including the infamous congestion charge. If you need a skip in the following postcodes, W1, W2, W8, W10, W11, W14, WC1, WC2, SW1, SW3, SW5, SW7, SW10, EC1, EC2, EC3 or EC4, you are required to pay congestion zone charges. This charge is £8 each day the skip wagon enters the zone. So if you want the skip delivered on Monday and picked up Thursday it will cost £16. If the skip is going to be delivered and collected on the Monday, it will only be £8.
A service Topskips can offer is the wait and load service. This keeps costs at a minimum (and stops neighbours throwing their own waste in to your skip!). A wait and load service is where the wagon arrives at your site with an empty skip and waits for 30-45 minutes while you load all your waste in to it. This eliminates the cost of a permit and keeps the congestion charge (if you live in the zone) to the £8 minimum.
Topskips works with only the very best skip hire companies in London, with commitments to manage your waste responsibly.
Because of our bulk buying power, Topskips customers can expect a better standard of service.
The areas we cover for skip hire in London include: Acton, Addington, Aldgate, Aldwych, Archway, Ashford, Bank, Bankside, Barbican, Barnehurst, Barnes, Barnet, Battersea, Bayswater, Beckenham, Belgravia, Belsize Park, Bermondsey, Bethnal Green, Bexley, Bexleyheath, Biggin Hill, Blackfriars, Blackheath, Bloomsbury, Borough, Bow, Brent Cross, Brentford, Brixton, Broad St, Broadgate, Bromley, Bromley-by-Bow, Brondesbury, Brook Greeen, Brook Green, Camberwell, Camden, Camden Town, Canary Wharf, Canning Town, Canonbury, Carshalton, Catford, Charing Cross, Charlton, Chelsea, Chessington, Chingford, Chislehurst, Chiswick, City, Clapham, Clerkenwell, Countywide, Covent Garden, Cricklewood, Crouch End, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Dagenham, Dalston, Dartford, Deptford, Docklands, Downe, Dulwich, Ealing, Earls Court, East Dulwich, East Ham, East Sheen, Eastcote, Edgware, Edmonton, Eltham, Embankment, Enfield, Epsom, Euston, Exchange Square, Faringdon, Farringdon, Feltham, Finchley, Finsbury, Finsbury Park, Fitzrovia, Fleet Street, Forest Gate, Forest Hill, Fulham, Golders Green, Grays Inn, Green Park, Greenford, Greenwich, Greenwich Park, Hackney, Hadley Wood, Hammersmith, Hampstead, Hampton, Hampton Wick, Hanwell, Haringey, Harlington, Harmondsworth, Harrow, Hatton Garden, Hayes, Haymarket, Heathrow, Hendon, Herne Hill, Heston, Highgate, Hillingdon, Holborn, Holland Park, Holloway, Honor Oak, Hornchurch, Hornsey, Hounslow, Hoxton, Hyde Park, Hyde Park Corner, Ilford, Isle of Dogs, Isleworth, Islington, Kennington, Kensal Green, Kensal Rise, Kensington, Kentish Town, Keston, Kew, Kilburn, Kings Cross, Kingston upon Thames, Knightsbridge, Lambeth, Lancaster Gate, Leicester Square, Lewisham, Leyton, Leytonstone, Leytonstone & Wanstead, Limehouse, Little Venice, Liverpool Street, London, London Bridge, Longford, Loughton, Maida Vale, Marble Arch, Marylebone, Mayfair, Middlesex, Mill Hill, Mitcham, Monument, Moorgate, Morden, Mortlake, Mottingham, Muswell Hill, New Malden, Newham, North Finchley, North Kensington, Northolt, Northwood, Notting Hill, Old Street, Olympia, Orpington, Oxford Circus, Oxford Street, Paddington, Palmers Green, Park Lane, Parsons Green, Peckham, Penge, Pentonville, Perivale, Piccadilly, Piccadilly Circus, Pimlico, Pinner, Plaistow, Potters Bar, Primrose Hill, Putney, Queens Park, Queensway, Ravenscourt Park, Regents Park, Richmond, Richmond-upon-Thames, Roehampton, Romford, Rotherhithe, Royal Albert Dock, Royal Victoria Docks, Ruislip, Sheen, Shepherds Bush, Shepperton, Shoreditch, Sidcup, Silvertown, Slough, Smithfield, Soho, South Bank, South Kensington, South Norwood, South Ruislip, South Woodford, Southall, Southgate, Southwark, Spitalfields, St James’s, St Johns Wood, St Katherines Dock, St Pauls, St. Luke’s, Staines, Stamford Hill, Stanmore, Stansted, Stepney, Stockwell, Stoke Newington, Strand, Stratford, Streatham, Sudbury Hill, Sunbury-on-Thames, Surbiton, Sutton, Swiss Cottage, Teddington, Temple Place, Thornton Heath, Tooting, Tottenham, Tower Bridge, Tower Hamlets, Tower Hill, Trafalgar Square, Twickenham, Upminster, Uxbridge, Vauxhall, Victoria, Wallington, Walthamstow, Walworth, Wandsworth, Wanstead, Wapping, Waterloo, Watford, Wembley, West Brompton, West Drayton, West End, West Ham, West Hampstead, West Kensington, West Norwood, West Smithfield, Westminster, Whetstone, Whitechapel, Whitehall, Whitton, Willesden, Wimbledon, Winchmore Hill, Wood Green, Woodford Green, Woolwich,
To check prices for skip hire in London, you can use our online price calculator after registering with us here.
Not sure about what size skip you need? Check our skips in video action on Topskips TV here.
You can also view our pricing policy here, and the skips available for domestic use here. Trade users should click here.

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Skip Hire Nottingham

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Because of our bulk buying power, Topskips customers can expect a better standard of service.
These are the areas we cover for skip hire in Nottingham. Just click on the one nearest you, or call us on freephone 0844 560 7710 for a quote:
Arnold, Askham, Barnby Moor, Beeston, Besthorpe, Blidworth, Blyth, Boughton, Carlton-in-Lindrick, Carlton-on-Trent, Caunton, Caythorpe, Clarborough, Claypole, Clayworth, Colston Bassett, Countywide, East Leake, East Markham, East Retford, Eastwood, Edwinstowe, Elkesley, Elton, Flintham, Hayton, Holme Pierrepont, Hucknall, Ilkeston, Keyworth, Kimberley, Kirkby in Ashfield, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Kirton, Kneesall, Laneham, Langar, Laxton, Long Eaton, Lound, Mansfield, Mansfield Woodhouse, Mattersey, Nether Langwith, Newark, Newark-on-Trent, Normanton on Trent, North Muskham, Newark, Nottingham, Old Clipstone, Oldcotes, Ollerton, Oxton, Plungar, Radcliffe-on-Trent, Rainworth, Ranby, Ravenshead, Retford, Ruddington, Rufford, Serlby, Shirebrook, Southwell, Sutton, Sutton Bonington, Sutton in Ashfield, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Teversal, Thurgarton, Trowell, Tuxford, Upton, Walesby, Walkeringham, Warsop, Wellow, Worksop.
To check prices for skip hire in Nottingham, you can use our online price calculator after registering with us here.
You can also view our pricing policy here, and the skips available for domestic use here. Trade users should click here.

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Skip Nets

Best quality and priced skip cover nets, or skip nets, are here! We have exclusively sourced these from Germany for anyone requiring a really durable (and more profitable) net covering solution for skips.
Here’s what one TopSkips agent said about our skip cover nets:
“After years of trying to find the right net for the job, we have calculated we are reducing are annual purchase of nets by 50% by using the nets supplied by The Skip” Dave Cartlidge, Cox Skips, Horsham, Surrey (11th July 2006)
To order yours, call 0844 560 7706

We can supply any sized net, to order.
Our most popular sizes are:
1. 15′ by 9′
2. 18′ by 12′
3. 24′ by 12′
Our skip nets are made in Germany from 300gm/m2 close mesh polyethelene, complete with banding all round and eyelets every metre.
Delivery charge of £10 per order regardless of quantity – so the more you order, the cheaper they become.
To order your skip nets today, call 0844 560 7706

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Skip Hire on the BBC!

Skip Hire finally gets some good PR: I was interviewed on no less than 24 BBC radio stations in August (including Jeremy Vine on Radio 2) about a survey from gumtree.com that found that 52% of Britons admitted to dumping stuff into other people’s skips. This is something that has actually happened to me (even skip hire bosses aren’t immune) and something I feel very strongly is tantamount to theft – someone else has paid for the cubic yardage and to have that waste responsibly disposed of.
My solution is education: that’s why I plugged “The Seven Secrets to Successful Skip Hire” available at TopSkips.com. It was also great PR for “The Skip” magazine – we had an amazing amount of feedback from people. Strange thing is, there were only supposed to be about 10 interviews but there must be some system at the BBC that says “this is a good story” or whatever, because every time I finished one interview there was a call from another station trying to fit me in to their Breakfast programme. I think I ended up being on air somewhere in the country between 6.50am and 3pm. Absolutely exhausting, but good fun and nice to know the BBC will think of Topskips as the voice of national skip hire matters.

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Safe Use of Skip Loaders

Good advice for employees from the Health & Safety Executive:
Every year, moving skips cause death and serious injury. You, your workmates and bystanders are at risk.
Dangers include:
Being struck by vehicles
Falling and slipping
Failures of lifting equipment
Striking overhead cables/obstructions
Vehicle overturns
Runaway vehicles
This brief guide provides a checklist of some important things you can do to protect yourself and others.
It is not a full list. You may need to make other checks depending on what vehicle you drive and the places you work in.
If in doubt you may need to refer to the skip loader manual or you may need to ask for extra advice.
SAFE VEHICLE
Before you start work
Each day check your vehicle and lifting equipment and report any faults.
Check the following are working properly and are not damaged:
Brakes
Tyres
Lights and flashing beacons
Steering
Seatbelts
Wheel chocks (if needed)
Lifting equipment – controls, hooks, chains, hoses etc
Vision aids – mirrors and/or TV cameras
Before setting off
Check your in-cab information about any special precautions for the drop/pick up. Sites should tell the skip company about these beforehand, and agree precautions.
Prevent contact with overhead obstructions. Know your clearance height. Ensure lifting arms are fully lowered.
Ensure any load/skip is secure and chains are correctly stowed.
Check you have your safety gear, especially high visibility clothing and boots.
SAFE WORKER
Entering the site
Know exactly where to go and what needs to be done (you may need to talk to someone on site)
Obey all rules – signs, one-way systems etc.
Beware of pedestrians at all times.
Wear your safety gear. High visibility clothing is essential. You are likely to need your safety boots and may need other gear.
SAFE WORKING
Reversing
Minimise reversing – both the amount you do and the distances you travel.
Make sure your reversing area is clear.
Use your reversing aids – cameras, mirrors, alarms.
Look out for banksmen. They are at great risk from your reversing vehicle.
Some sites have made arrangements to eliminate the need for banksmen because of the risks these face. Make sure you know these arrangements.
Where banksmen are used, you must be clear about what their signals mean and obey them.
If you can’t see your banksman at any time when moving – STOP!
Exit your cab properly
Jumping out causes broken legs and twisted ankles: it could also put you into the path of another vehicle
Boots with good support help prevent twisted ankles.
Keep close to your vehicle
Don’t risk being run over by other vehicles. (Note: At some sites you may be instructed to keep away from the entire area during the loading of your container.)
Ensure no pedestrians are nearby during reversing and loading/unloading.
DROPPING OFF AND PICKING UP
Good ground – avoid sloping, uneven or soft ground.
Apply the handbrake
Use chocks where necessary on slopes
Use stabilisers – keep braked rear wheels on the ground when on slopes.
Avoid trapping between the skip and vehicles/walls. Keep a good clear space all around.
Sheet/unsheet safely – do it from ground level wherever possible. Use autosheeters or gantries/harnesses where provided. Avoid climbing on the vehicle.
Check before moving the skip:
o Hooks, chain lugs, bars etc to be fully engaged;
o Chains should not be twisted of knotted. They should not snag during load movement;
o Skip floors/panels/hinges/chain lugs, tipping bar etc to be in good condition;
o Doors (where fitted) to be in good condition with proper locks;
o The load is not overweight.
DOORS CAN SPRING OPEN!
Stand outside the door arc and load discharge path when opening to avoid being struck by ‘pressurised’ door or contents.
REMEMBER…
Monitor the work area at all times!
Skip movements can kill!
If the drop/pick-up seems unsafe, don’t do it!
Protect yourself, your workmates and the public.

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“The 7 Secrets to Successful Skip Hire”

“The 7 Secrets to Successful Skip Hire”
How to avoid the nightmare of a bad skip hire experience,
help the environment and save money
At some point in our lives, with some of us even more so, we all need to hire a skip. Whether it’s for a spring clear-out, ripping out a kitchen or bathroom, that new extension or garden waste – skips are often a great way of getting rid in one easy go.
Well, that’s the theory!
“The 7 Secrets to Successful Skip Hire” is a free guide from Topskips – the UK’s number one online national skip hire service.
In it, we answer the same questions we used to ask ourselves when we tried to hire skips around the country:
How can I tell which skip companies in the Yellow Pages are the good ones?
You can’t, but we’ll tell you what you need to look out for.
Why do skips cost so much money?
The killer question – we’ve got the answer.
Why isn’t my skip dropped off and picked up when I ask for it?
Lots of reasons; and it’s not the skip company doing it deliberately to annoy you.
Why do I get quoted so many different prices for the same service from different companies?
You don’t get the same service from different companies!
Why won’t my local skip company take a credit card or even tell me prices over the phone?
It’s mainly a historical thing – we’ll explain it all.
Why won’t they take the skip away if the rubbish is just over the fill line?
It’s the law.
What actually happens to my rubbish when they take it away?
A question you really should be asking. We’ll tell you why.
TopSkips.com serves tens of thousands of happy customers with a smooth and carefree skip hire experience, and are committed to taking the guesswork out of skip hire. Even if you never use their service, this guide will ensure that you know everything you need to know about successful skip hire.
Just fill out your name and email address in the form at here – we’ll then send you a verification email (we don’t want to send anything without your explicit permission). Just respond to that, and then sit back and relax while we send the secrets to you over the next seven days.

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