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Diogenes Aug 2022 10:53am, 5 Aug 2022 71,815 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes How hard it is to find a local skip hire company where I live and just call somebody. They all seem to go to a central number linked to a national group trading under various names. Thought I'd found one, the map and postcode areas on their website showed they covered me, so I booked it with an online discount. Today I noticed in my spam folder that they'd refunded my payment as they don't cover our area. This is despite seeing one with their name on in the village. Maybe that was a commercial hire...
Fields Aug 2022 10:58am, 5 Aug 2022 5,934 posts	Quote Pin Fields Call the council highways team and ask which companies they issue skip licences to (Even if you don’t need a skip licence as it’s not on the public highway)
Mushroom Aug 2022 11:06am, 5 Aug 2022 2,447 posts	Quote Pin Mushroom [ Skip hire companies are notorious for not stepping on each others geographical patches - bit of a cartel ]
Nicholls595 Aug 2022 11:07am, 5 Aug 2022 29,496 posts	Quote Pin Nicholls595 I asked the builders who did our extension for a recommendation.
Diogenes Aug 2022 11:10am, 5 Aug 2022 71,818 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes [when I hired one when clearing my mum's house in greater London it couldn't have been easier. Now I've just been via one of the various central numbers, paid £50 more than my original booking, only to find that it has routed it back to the same company who have said they don't cover the area! I think I will have to put this on the Kafka thread]
um Aug 2022 11:24am, 5 Aug 2022 6,355 posts	Quote Pin um None nearby with a phone number or name on?
Diogenes Aug 2022 11:29am, 5 Aug 2022 71,819 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Only the one that said they don't cover us!
Rosehip Aug 2022 11:54am, 5 Aug 2022 25,971 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip Have you tried hippobags? They cover everywhere and I think they still have a skip option
ChrisHB Aug 2022 12:47pm, 5 Aug 2022 21,838 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB Never had any kind of difficulty with a skip. You could go the hippo bag way.
Diogenes Aug 2022 12:55pm, 5 Aug 2022 71,832 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes [Got one from the only small, local company. Apparently we live in a black hole for domestic skip hire]