Skip hire and rubbish removal
Registered carriers onlyLocal skip hire and rubbish removal firms
Firms based in your town, each found on the public register of waste carriers, with their own numbers and what a skip or a load should cost. No brokers.
Council permit fees
188checked on each council's site
Skip hire
Hire a skip, fill it yourself
Skip hire costs £140 to £550 for a 7 to 14 day hire depending on size, from a 2 yard mini to a 12 yard maxi, on rent-a-skip's 2026 UK ranges, while MyJobQuote puts the same sizes at £60 to £440 (September 2026).
Rubbish removal
A crew loads it and takes it away
Rubbish removal by man and van costs £60 to £150 for a small load and £250 to £400 or more for a full van load outside London, including VAT (Fantastic Services cost guide, October 2026).
Skip size calculator
Rooms, bags or a job type in; skip size, weight warning and what a skip bag or man and van would cost out.
Size your job
Skip permits by council
What a skip on the road costs in every UK council, how long the permit lasts and who applies, from each council's own page.
Find your council
Can it go in a skip?
Sofas, plasterboard, mattresses, fridges, tyres and soil: what a skip takes, what it refuses and where the rest goes.
Check an item
What do you need?
Skip sizes, grab lorries, skip bags, clearances and single items.
Mini skips
A 2 yard mini skip costs £140 to £220 for a 7 to 14 day hire on rent-a-skip's 2026 UK figures, while MyJobQuote puts a 2 to 3 yard skip at £60 to £130 (September 2026).
Midi skips
A 4 yard midi skip costs £180 to £280 for a 7 to 14 day hire on rent-a-skip's 2026 UK figures, while MyJobQuote puts a 4 to 5 yard skip at £100 to £250 (September 2026).
Builders skips
An 8 yard builders skip costs £280 to £420 for a 7 to 14 day hire on rent-a-skip's 2026 UK figures, and £160 to £370 on MyJobQuote's September 2026 guide.
Large skips
A 12 yard maxi skip costs £370 to £550 for a 7 to 14 day hire on rent-a-skip's 2026 UK figures, and £220 to £440 on MyJobQuote's September 2026 guide.
Roll on roll off skips
A 20 yard roll on roll off skip costs £300 to £600 and a 40 yard £400 to £800 on MyJobQuote's September 2026 guide, but rent-a-skip quotes £350 to £1,150 and £600 to £1,450 (April 2026).
Grab hire
A grab lorry load costs £250 to £400 for a 6-wheeler and £320 to £500 for an 8-wheeler on rent-a-skip's July 2026 figures.
Skip bags
A skip bag with collection costs £212.99 to £336.99 inc VAT from Hippo, depending on size (October 2026), while rent-a-skip's July 2026 guide puts a bag at £5 to £35 and a collection at £70 to £120.
Wait and load
Wait and load costs about the same as a skip of the same size, according to Mick George, which advertised the service from £99 in October 2026 with 15 minutes' waiting included and £60 an hour after that.
House clearance
A typical house clearance costs £450 to £650 in 2026, and a full 3 bedroom house £600 to £1,200 outside London (RubbishBids, July 2026; Fantastic Services, October 2026).
Garden waste removal
Garden waste removal costs £60 to £100 for a small load and £160 to £200 or more for a full van load outside London, including VAT (Fantastic Services cost guide, October 2026).
Garage clearance
A garage clearance costs £150 to £250 for a half van load and £250 to £400 or more for a full load outside London, including VAT (Fantastic Services cost guide, October 2026).
Office clearance
Office clearance costs £65 to £100 per person, covering a desk, chair, pedestal, storage and a share of sundries (Clear Workspace cost guide, March 2026).
Builders waste
Builders waste removal costs £100 to £200 for a small van load of 3 to 4 cubic metres and £250 to £400 for a large load outside London (Fantastic Services cost guide, October 2026).
Furniture disposal
Furniture disposal costs £30 to £90 per item for a professional collection in 2026, with a sofa usually £60 to £120 (Fantastic Services cost guide, October 2026).
Sofa removal
Sofa removal costs £60 to £120 for a 2 or 3 seater in 2026 (Fantastic Services cost guide, October 2026), and Clearabee's published price for a 3 seater sofa is £73 including VAT.
Mattress disposal
Mattress disposal costs £40 to £70 for a single or double mattress as a one-off collection (Fantastic Services cost guide, October 2026).
Fridge disposal
Fridge disposal costs £35 to £75 for a fridge and £65 to £110 for a tall fridge freezer as a one-off collection (RubbishBids prices, October 2026).
Property clearance
An end of tenancy clearance costs £150 to £350 for a room or studio and £250 to £450 for a 1 bedroom flat outside London (Fantastic Services cost guide, October 2026).
How it works
Three steps, no sign-up, no middleman.
Pick the job
A skip if you will fill it yourself over a few days; a man and van if you want it loaded and gone today. The calculator shows which costs less for your job.
Find who is local
Firms listed in the town they work from, never a national booking line passing your job to whoever is free. Each one was checked against the public register of waste carriers.
Ring them
Call the number on the page, ask what the price includes, and ask for a waste transfer note. No sign-up, no commission, nobody sells your enquiry on.
Run a skip or clearance firm?
Every listing is free and stays free, with no lead fee and no commission. Claim yours to correct the details and receive enquiries by email. Premium adds your own price list by skip size and load, availability, photos and a check by a person, and never changes where a listing appears.
Send a correction and it is checked against the business's own sources. Modify a listing