Skip hire in Slough, made simple
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01753-360049Skip hire in Slough & across Berkshire
We’ve delivered skips across Slough for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the SL postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Slough
Do I need a permit?
A skip on your driveway or private land needs no permit. For a public road in Slough, a permit is required from Slough Borough Council — we arrange it for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Slough
Slough household waste recycling centres
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? These are the council tips serving Slough:
- Chalvey Household Waste Recycling Centre — White Hart Road, off Spackmans Way, Slough, SL1 2SF. Open 7 days a week. Vans and pickup trucks are not permitted. Residents only.
Chalvey is operated by Slough Borough Council and can be used by residents of Slough and the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead. Summer hours (1 April – 30 September) are typically 9am–6pm and winter hours (1 October – 31 March) 9am–5pm, with last entry 15 minutes before closing – check slough.gov.uk for current hours. Vans and pickups are banned from the site.
Why choose Select A Skip in Slough?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most SL postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Slough 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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Choose your skip size in Slough
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Slough.
Local area guide
Skip hire in Slough
Slough is a town in Berkshire, sitting around 20 miles west of central London just north of the Thames at Windsor, with a population of around 165,000. It was a small village on the Bath Road until the Great Western Railway arrived in 1838, and for a century it remained modest — known chiefly for its proximity to Eton and Windsor, and as the place where Sir William Herschel, the astronomer who discovered Uranus, built his great forty-foot telescope and did much of his work.
Slough's transformation came with the trading estate. In 1918 the government established a vast motor vehicle repair depot on farmland west of the town, and when it was sold off in 1920 it became the Slough Trading Estate — the first industrial estate of its kind in the world, and still one of the largest in single private ownership in Europe. Mars built its first British factory here in 1932, and the Mars bar was first made in Slough. The estate drew workers from across depressed areas of Britain in the 1930s, and later from the Commonwealth, and it remains a major employment centre with data centres now forming a significant presence.
The town has an unusual literary reputation. John Betjeman's 1937 poem "Slough" — "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough! It isn't fit for humans now" — was a protest against the rapid unplanned industrial growth, and it stuck to the town for decades, though Betjeman later regretted it. Slough gained a second, affectionately mocking, fame as the setting of Ricky Gervais's The Office, whose Wernham Hogg paper company was based in the town.
Slough is one of the most ethnically diverse towns in Britain, with large South Asian, particularly Sikh and Pakistani, communities and a young population. Upton Court and St Laurence's Church in Upton are among the older survivals, and Herschel Park preserves some of the astronomer's grounds. Eton College lies just across the M4, and Windsor Castle is two miles south.
Slough is exceptionally well connected, with the Elizabeth line giving direct services to central London since 2022 and the Great Western Main Line to Paddington, the M4 at junctions 5 to 7, and Heathrow around ten minutes away. Housing ranges from Victorian and Edwardian terraces around the town centre to interwar semis, extensive post-war estates at Britwell and Langley, and very substantial new high-density development around the station and town centre.