Grab Hire in Guildford
Grab Lorries, Muck Away and Soil Removal, Ten Minutes From the Yard.

Grab Lorry Hire in Guildford

Our eight-wheel grab lorries carry sixteen tonnes and reach 7.6 metres from where they park. On a typical Guildford street that is enough to lift a pile of soil or rubble over the front wall, out of a side return or across a drive without anything being barrowed through the house. The driver does the loading, the lorry is gone in about twenty minutes, and there is no skip on the drive for a week and no council permit to pay for.

For the narrower streets around the town centre, the older lanes towards Shalford and St Catherine's, and the tighter cul-de-sacs on the estates, we send the mini grab: a four-wheel lorry that carries up to nine tonnes and turns in a much smaller space. If you are not sure which lorry the road will take, send us a photo of the parking spot and we will tell you.

Muck Away and Soil Removal in Guildford

The ground in Guildford changes quickly. On the Downs side of the town and along the Hog's Back the spoil from footings is often chalk. In the Wey valley and to the south of the town it is more likely to be greensand and clay, and clay is the heaviest common spoil there is. We price muck away per load rather than per tonne, so the weight of what comes out of the ground is our problem rather than yours, and a full sixteen-tonne load is the same price whatever it weighs.

Soil removal for gardens works the same way. Turf, topsoil and subsoil from a levelling job or a new patio go in one load, lifted over the fence, and screened topsoil or MOT Type 1 can come back on the same lorry for the lawn or the new drive.

Getting a Grab Lorry to You in Guildford

Most of Guildford is straightforward for an eight-wheeler: the A3, the A25 and the A281 bring us into every side of the town, and the estate roads at Merrow, Burpham, Bellfields and Park Barn are wide enough to park and load. The exceptions are the one-way streets and narrow lanes around the High Street and the old town, the roads down towards the river at St Catherine's, and some of the older village streets at Shalford and Chilworth. For those we plan the parking spot with you first, or send the mini grab.

We ask for two things when you book: a photo of the pile and a note of where the lorry can park. With those we can price the job, choose the lorry and give you a time window, usually the same day or the next.

Areas of Guildford We Cover

Guildford town centre, Merrow, Burpham, Stoughton, Bellfields, Park Barn, Westborough, Onslow Village, Guildford Park, Charlotteville, St Catherine's, Shalford, Chilworth, Jacobs Well, Worplesdon, Normandy, Bramley, Wonersh and Shamley Green. Postcodes GU1, GU2, GU3, GU4 and GU5. If your postcode is not listed, ring us: most of west Surrey is within half an hour of the yard.