Skip hire website design that plans the skip before it arrives

Your pages, the features on them, the final price and the timescale, in writing before you pay a deposit. Hosting, care and any ongoing SEO are listed separately, so you can see what is one-off and what is monthly. On the Business package the first year of hosting and care is included.

It depends on the council, so the site should say who does it where you work. In England and Wales the Highways Act 1980 says a skip must not be put on a highway without the highway authority's permission, and GOV.UK says that in most areas the skip hire company gets the licence, though in some the customer has to. GOV.UK adds that a skip cannot go on the pavement, that one entirely on private land needs no licence, and that skip bags on the road need one too. Once it is out, the Act puts duties on the skip's owner, which means the hire firm unless the hire runs for a month or more: light it during the hours of darkness, mark it with the owner's name and telephone number or address, and remove it as soon as practicable after it is filled. In Scotland the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 asks for the roads authority's written permission and the owner's name and number or address on the skip. In Northern Ireland, consent comes from the Department for Infrastructure's Roads office. Councils set their own fees and conditions, so check yours before you put a figure on the site.

Yes, because your customer has a duty to check it. In England and Wales the Environmental Protection Act 1990 says the occupier of a home must take all reasonable measures to hand household waste only to an authorised person, and a registered carrier is one. Scotland's version of the Act asks for reasonable steps, and Northern Ireland's Waste and Contaminated Land Order 1997 sets the same duty. The code of practice for England and Wales names skip hire and says a householder should check the firm has valid upper tier registration, with a number starting CBDU. Customers can search the Environment Agency's public register in England, NRW's in Wales, SEPA's in Scotland and DAERA's in Northern Ireland. In Scotland, SEPA's standard condition for transporting waste asks for the authorisation reference in any advertisement for waste transport services. Put the number in the footer and beside the quote request.

Because a few materials change how a whole load has to be handled, and customers ask before they start filling. In England, GOV.UK says hazardous waste, such as asbestos, chemicals, batteries, solvents and fridges, must not be mixed with other waste. Plasterboard and other gypsum waste must not go to a landfill cell that takes biodegradable waste and has to be separated for re-use or recovery, and asbestos goes to a hazardous waste landfill or a separate cell. Upholstered sofas, armchairs and other household seating may contain persistent organic pollutants: mixing them with other waste, in a skip included, must be avoided, and a mixed load is then managed as POPs waste. These rules fall on whoever holds and disposes of the waste, so the site can present the list as your policy and say which items you take separately. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland publish their own guidance.

Only with care. The CMA's price transparency guidance says it is illegal to hide charges the customer will have to pay until later in the purchase, that the total price should normally include mandatory charges, and that a from price is fine if it includes every applicable mandatory charge and does not mislead about what it covers. Where part of the price depends on the customer, the information to work it out must be as prominent as the price, and normally next to it. For skip hire that may mean showing what a road position adds, or how that is set, beside each size, rather than a line saying permits are extra. The CAP Code says the same of advertising: charges that are not optional belong in the quoted price, and one that depends on the customer's circumstances must be flagged with how it is calculated. The site should also give your business name and address. We do not quote an average price: no official source publishes one.

You could, and several of the firms that come up for skip hire website design sell booking platforms with postcode pricing. A template gets a site live cheaply. It will not write your size guide, your keep-out list, the permit line for your council or price wording that holds up, and that is the part we do with you. If you want customers to book a date or pay by card online, which system and how it connects is checked and priced before the quote; our pricing page lists what each package includes.