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01792-260034Skip hire in Swansea & across West Glamorgan
We’ve delivered skips across Swansea for over 30 years — for homeowners clearing out, tradespeople on site, and businesses managing regular waste. Fast delivery throughout the SA postcode area, with a local team you can actually get on the phone.
Skip sizes available in Swansea
Do I need a permit?
A skip on your driveway or private land needs no permit. For a public road in Swansea, a permit is required from City & County of Swansea Council — we arrange it for you as part of the booking.
Areas we cover near Swansea
Swansea household waste recycling centres
Prefer to drop off smaller amounts yourself? These are the council tips serving Swansea:
- Llansamlet Household Waste Recycling Centre — Ferryboat Close, Swansea Enterprise Park, Llansamlet, Swansea, SA6 8QN. Open 7 days a week (check swansea.gov.uk for current hours). Advance booking of a date and time slot required.
- Clyne Household Waste Recycling Centre — Derwen Fawr Road, Sketty, Swansea, SA2 8DU. Open 7 days a week (check swansea.gov.uk for current hours).
- Tir John Recycling Centre — Danygraig Road, St Thomas, Swansea, SA1 8NS. Open 7 days a week (check swansea.gov.uk for current hours). 2m height restriction applies.
Sites are for Swansea residents disposing of household waste only and proof of address may be required. Llansamlet requires you to book an allocated date and time slot in advance. Check swansea.gov.uk/recyclingcentres for current opening hours and to book. No commercial or trade waste is accepted.
Why choose Select A Skip in Swansea?
- 30+ years’ skip & waste experience
- 1,100+ licensed, vetted suppliers
- Domestic, trade & commercial welcome
- Next-day delivery in most SA postcodes
- Council permits handled for you
- Transparent pricing, no hidden charges
Skip hire FAQs.
We provide cheap, local and reliable domestic skip hire in Swansea 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!
What we can provide
Other Services.
With more than 25years of trading history we have continuously developed the services we are now able to provide on a nationwide basis.
Choose your skip size in Swansea
Not sure which size you need? Compare dimensions, capacity and typical uses — every size below is available in Swansea.
Local area guide
Skip hire in Swansea
Swansea — Abertawe in Welsh — is a city in south Wales, sitting on Swansea Bay where the River Tawe meets the sea, with a population of around 245,000 — the second largest city in Wales. The English name is thought to derive from Sweyn's Ey, the island of Sweyn, suggesting a Viking origin; the Welsh name means the mouth of the Tawe. A Norman castle was built here around 1106, and its fourteenth-century remains survive in the city centre.
Swansea's industrial history is extraordinary. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it became the copper-smelting capital of the world — known as Copperopolis — processing ore shipped from Cornwall, Chile, Cuba and Australia with Welsh coal. At its height around two-thirds of the world's copper was smelted in the lower Swansea valley, and the smelting produced such dense toxic smoke that the valley became one of the most polluted landscapes in Europe. Its reclamation from the 1960s was one of the first great environmental restoration projects in Britain, and the Hafod-Morfa copperworks site is being regenerated.
The city's great literary son is Dylan Thomas, born at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive in the Uplands in 1914, who called Swansea an "ugly, lovely town". His childhood home has been restored, and the Dylan Thomas Centre holds a permanent exhibition. Swansea also has the Mumbles, the fishing village at the western end of the bay, from which the Swansea and Mumbles Railway ran the world's first fare-paying passenger railway service, beginning in 1807 with horse-drawn carriages.
Swansea was heavily bombed during the Three Nights' Blitz of February 1941, which destroyed much of the city centre, and the post-war rebuilding reshaped it. The Maritime Quarter, redeveloped from the old docks, holds the National Waterfront Museum and the marina, and the recently completed Swansea Arena and Copr Bay development have transformed the waterfront. Swansea University's Bay Campus and Singleton Park give the city a substantial student population.
Swansea is the gateway to the Gower Peninsula, the first area in Britain to be designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1956, with Rhossili Bay regularly voted among the finest beaches in the world. The city sits on the M4 with Swansea station giving services to Cardiff and London Paddington. Housing ranges from Victorian terraces climbing the hills of Mount Pleasant, Townhill and the Hafod to substantial villas in Sketty and the Uplands, post-war estates, and modern waterfront development.