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Clydach is the big Swansea Valley village just north of Morriston, and our trucks and vans cover all of it, from High Street to Vardre, Faerdre, Graigfelen, Glais and Craig Cefn Parc. We hire out skips and skip bags, run man and van rubbish removal, clear houses and gardens and supply trade bins, about 15 minutes from our yard at Jersey Marine. We are a registered waste carrier, and we aim to collect within 48 hours of booking.
Wales has more than one Clydach, so it is worth being plain. This page is about the village in the lower Swansea Valley, roughly six miles north-east of Swansea city centre, where addresses carry an SA6 postcode. Clydach in Monmouthshire and Clydach Vale in the Rhondda are separate places under different councils.
Swansea Council is the authority here, with Clydach Community Council alongside it for village matters. That is worth knowing if you are comparing notes with someone further up the A4067. Trebanos and Pontardawe come under Neath Port Talbot Council, on SA8 postcodes, so skip permits, bulky collections and tips all work differently a short drive north. Morriston, to the south, stays under Swansea and shares the SA6 district.
From our yard at Jersey Marine the run is 9.1 miles, about 15 minutes. Our office is open Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm, and collections run five days a week. Clydach lies between our Morriston and Pontardawe areas, and each has a page of its own.
Clydach owes much of its growth to the nickel refinery on Glais Road, which began production in 1902 and is still known locally as the Mond. We have no connection with the refinery or the company that runs it: we mention it because it explains the village. Swansea Council's ward profile describes a core of older terraced housing with semi-detached and detached homes added later, and building has continued with Bryn Onnen, Pobl's scheme of 70 homes at Bryn Hawddgar.
The 2021 Census figures in that profile set Clydach apart from the wider county. Semi-detached homes account for 47.4 per cent of households in the ward and detached homes for 29.4 per cent, against 34.5 and 24 per cent across Swansea. Terraces are only 14.4 per cent and flats 8.8 per cent. In practice, your type of home often decides which of our services makes most sense.
The centre of Clydach is compact. The library and shops on High Street, Forge Fach on Hebron Road and the homes along Vardre Road sit close together, with the Swansea Canal running through the middle of the village. Streets like these are where a collection tends to make more sense than a skip, because nothing is left standing outside afterwards.
A two-person crew carries from wherever the waste sits, whether that is a back bedroom, a loft, a shed or the far end of the garden. Sofas, wardrobes, mattresses, white goods, bagged rubbish and mixed household loads can all go on the same truck or van, and you receive a waste transfer note for the collection. Swansea Council asks householders to check that anyone removing their waste is authorised to carry it. We are on the Environment Agency public register as a registered waste carrier, number CBDU624489.
We price by the volume the load fills on the vehicle, plus VAT, and the office confirms the price after a quick call or a few photos. If you have been searching for a man with a van in Swansea from an SA6 address, this is the same service.
We hire 4, 6 and 8 yard skips in Clydach, which falls within the Swansea council area, so skip hire in Swansea and skip hire here are one and the same service from us. A 4 yard skip suits a garden tidy or a single-room refit, a 6 yard suits a kitchen or bathroom, and an 8 yard takes renovation waste or bulkier loads. With so many semi-detached and detached homes in the ward, a good number of addresses can keep a skip on the drive, and a skip wholly on private land needs no permit.
If a skip has to go on the road or pavement, it needs a Swansea Council permit first, and our office sorts that as part of your booking. The council asks for applications at least 24 hours ahead, a permit runs for 28 days and covers up to two skips, and some stretches of highway also call for lights and cones. The council does not treat silence as approval, so the skip goes down only once the application has been processed.
Plasterboard must be kept apart from mixed waste by law, so we collect it separately. Mattresses, fridges, tyres and upholstered seating also stay out of a skip and travel by van instead: add them to your enquiry so the office can plan for them.
Faerdre, Vardre and Mount Pleasant are among the older named corners of Clydach. Where a frontage has room for a bag but not a metal skip, a skip bag is often the sensible middle ground between a van visit and a full hire.
We deliver the bag flat. You open it out on your drive, forecourt or garden and fill it as the job goes, then tell us when it is ready and we collect. Because it stays on your own property, no council permit is involved. We offer small and medium bags, and they suit DIY offcuts, garden trimmings, small furniture and the packaging that follows a move.
Keep hardcore and soil out of the bag. Mattresses, tyres and fridges stay out as well, but we can take them on the van at the same visit if you list them when you enquire.
This is a village of settled households. More than two-thirds of homes in the ward are owner-occupied, 39.8 per cent are owned outright, and over a fifth of residents are 65 or older. A clearance here can mean a family home with decades of contents in the loft, the garage and the shed, rather than a quick turnaround.
We clear single rooms or whole properties, and the crew sweeps through before leaving. When a clearance follows a bereavement we work to the family's timetable, and the office will talk the job through with you first.
Landlords have a particular gap to fill. Private renting makes up 14.8 per cent of households in the ward, and the council's bulky waste service is not for landlords' furniture or appliances. We clear rented property between tenancies and provide a waste transfer note for your records.
West and north of the village the ward opens into upland green space and scattered farms. The B4291 runs through Craig Cefn Parc, and the Cwm Clydach RSPB woodland on Lone Road follows the river between there and the village. Properties out here can come with more garden than the council's bags were designed for.
Swansea Council collects garden waste in its own reusable white bags, up to ten per collection, and there is no kerbside round for it in December or January. Its bulky waste service takes no sheds and only one fence panel per booking. We can remove hedge cuttings, old fencing and sheds in a single load, whichever month it is.
If you would rather work at your own pace, a 4 yard skip on the drive suits a larger garden project. Send a photo of the access if you are on the upland side, so the office can judge which vehicle will get in.
We are a private business, not Swansea Council, so your bin day and any missed collection are matters for the council's website. Its black bag limit is three per household each fortnight, each under 15 kg. For larger items it offers residents a bulky waste collection of up to six items, with no more than two mattresses or two fridges or freezers, booked and paid for in advance online, by phone or at Y Storfa.
The council emails a date within three working days, usually your normal collection day, and items go out at the kerbside between 7pm the evening before and 7am on the day. Crews do not enter homes or gardens, and they refuse bathroom suites, radiators, builders' rubble, sheds and anything containing glass or mirrors.
There is no council recycling centre in Clydach. Swansea Council runs five: Llansamlet, Clyne, Penlan, Garngoch and Tir John. The closest for most of the village is Llansamlet, on Ferryboat Close at the Enterprise Park, and it takes pre-booked visits only: slots run every 15 minutes from 8.30am to 4.45pm, you get ten minutes on site to unload, and you should bring proof of your Swansea address.
Vans and trailers need a council permit on top, which works only at Llansamlet or Clyne, allows 12 visits in any 12 months and can take up to 15 working days to arrive. That system suits a sorted car load. When the waste is still in the loft, or the load will not fit in a car, our crew is the simpler route.
Players Industrial Estate, on SA6 5BQ, is the working side of Clydach: warehouses and numbered units let to trades, contractors and service businesses. High Street is the smaller end of the same picture, with food shops, takeaways, pubs and independent traders. Waste from either is commercial waste, and Swansea Council does not allow it at its household recycling centres, even in a permitted van.
We supply 240, 660 and 1100 litre wheelie bins with weekly, fortnightly or monthly collections, quoted to your address, and we also collect one-off loads, clear units and take away strip-out waste. Every collection comes with the waste transfer paperwork your duty of care records need.
Workplaces in Wales have had to separate paper and card, glass, and metal, plastic and cartons since 6 April 2024, with food waste included where premises produce 5 kg or more in seven days. Natural Resources Wales regulates those rules. A general bin paired with a separate cardboard or glass bin is a common set-up, so tell the office what you produce and we will quote the round to suit.
For anything else, our office is glad to help on 01639 630282, Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm, closed weekends.
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