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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Neath 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 Neath
Neath — Castell-nedd in Welsh — is a town in Neath Port Talbot, south Wales, sitting on the River Neath around eight miles north-east of Swansea, with a population of around 50,000. It began as the Roman fort of Nidum, built around AD 74 to guard the river crossing on the road west, and the excavated remains of its gateways can still be seen. The Normans built a castle here in the twelfth century, and Neath Abbey, founded in 1130 for the Savigniac and later Cistercian orders, became one of the wealthiest religious houses in Wales — the antiquary John Leland called it the fairest abbey in all Wales.
The abbey ruins survive alongside something unusual: after the Dissolution the site was used for copper smelting, and the remains of the eighteenth-century Neath Abbey Ironworks stand nearby, one of the most important early industrial sites in Wales. The ironworks produced beam engines, locomotives and machinery exported worldwide, and its Gothic-arched furnaces are a striking survival.
Neath's industrial era was built on coal, copper, tinplate and later chemicals, with the Neath valley and the surrounding hills heavily worked. The Neath Canal, opened in 1795, and the Tennant Canal carried coal and ore down to the coast, and substantial stretches survive with towpaths and restored locks.
The town sits at the mouth of the Vale of Neath, which runs north-east into some of the most spectacular waterfall country in Britain. Waterfall Country around Ystradfellte and Pontneddfechan, within the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, holds Sgwd yr Eira — where the path passes behind the falling water — along with dozens of other cascades, and is one of the most visited walking areas in Wales. Aberdulais Falls, a National Trust site just outside Neath, combines a waterfall with the remains of tinplate works and a working waterwheel.
Neath has a strong rugby tradition through Neath RFC, the Welsh All Blacks, one of the oldest clubs in Wales and a founding component of the Ospreys. The town sits on the A465 and A474 with the M4 close by, and Neath station gives services to Swansea, Cardiff and London Paddington. Housing ranges from Georgian and Victorian property around the town centre to dense terraces built for the industrial workforce across the valley communities, interwar and post-war council estates, and modern development on the edges, with property among the more affordable in south Wales.