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We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Porthcawl 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 Porthcawl
Porthcawl is a coastal town in Bridgend county borough, south Wales, sitting on the Bristol Channel around eight miles west of Bridgend, with a population of around 16,000. It began as a small port — the name means the harbour of sea kale — and was developed in the 1860s with a dock to export coal and iron from the Llynfi and Garw valleys. The dock was never a great success; the trade moved to Barry and Port Talbot, and by 1906 the dock had closed and Porthcawl reinvented itself as a seaside resort.
That reinvention was completely successful. Porthcawl became the favourite holiday destination for the mining communities of the south Wales valleys, and Trecco Bay — one of the largest caravan parks in Europe with thousands of pitches — filled every summer with families from the pits, particularly during miners' fortnight when whole valleys effectively decamped to the coast. The Coney Beach Pleasure Park, opened in 1918 and named after Coney Island, ran for more than a century before closing in 2023.
The town has an unusual and much-loved annual event in the Porthcawl Elvis Festival, held each September since 2004 and now the largest Elvis festival in Europe, drawing tens of thousands of visitors and hundreds of tribute artists who fill every pub, hotel and street in the town. It is a genuinely extraordinary spectacle for a small Welsh seaside town.
Porthcawl's lighthouse, standing at the end of the breakwater, is the last coal-and-gas-powered lighthouse in Britain to have been converted, and images of waves breaking over it in winter storms are among the most reproduced photographs of the Welsh coast. Rest Bay, to the west, is one of the best surfing beaches in Wales and a Blue Flag beach, and the Royal Porthcawl Golf Club is among the finest links courses in Britain, having hosted the Senior Open and the Walker Cup.
The town sits on the A4229 with junction 37 of the M4 close by, and Bridgend station around fifteen minutes away giving services to Cardiff, Swansea and London Paddington. Housing ranges from Victorian and Edwardian villas and terraces around the seafront and John Street to interwar and post-war housing, substantial modern development at Nottage and Newton, and the large Porthcawl waterfront regeneration on former dock and fairground land, with values above the Bridgend average and a notable retirement and second-home presence.