Rubbish clearance & skip hire in Rainham
Rainham combines an old village centre and inter-war and post-war housing with one of east London's main industrial areas along Ferry Lane and the A13. New flats are being built along New Road (A1306) at Beam Park.
Every service in Rainham
Each one has its own Rainham page with prices and local detail.
Rubbish Clearance in Rainham
No skip, no permit. Tell us what's going, add a photo, and we'll price it. Our crew does all the lifting.
Get a free estimateSkip Hire in Rainham
2 to 16-yard skips delivered across Essex. Domestic driveways, building sites and commercial yards.
Prices & bookingMan & Van in Rainham
Our crew and a caged truck for the items and bags you want gone. Leave it out the front and we load it, with a waste transfer note every time.
Prices & bookingHouse Clearance in Rainham
Full or part house clearances handled with care: probate, end of tenancy, downsizing. Priced from your photos.
Get a free estimateWait & Load in Rainham
The truck by the load. It waits while you load, with our driver helping. No skip on the road and no permit.
Prices & bookingGrab Hire in Rainham
8-wheel grab lorry for soil, hardcore and mixed loads. 16 tonnes a load, lifted over the wall in minutes.
Prices & bookingGarden Clearance in Rainham
Green waste, soil, turf, branches, sheds and fencing cleared and recycled. Priced from your photos.
Get a free estimateBuilders Waste in Rainham
Rubble, plasterboard, timber, packaging and strip-out waste taken from site by the truck load, same or next day.
Prices & bookingSite Clearance in Rainham
Plots, yards and building sites cleared of vegetation, rubble, rubbish and old structures, ready for the next trade.
Get a free estimateWait & load prices in Rainham
The truck by the load: you load, our driver helps, and nothing is left on the road. Want us to do the lifting? Build a collection from the item list instead.
About 25 to 30 bin bags, or the waste from a small bathroom strip-out.
About the same as a 6-yard skip, without a skip sitting on the road.
Builders' waste after a refit, a shop strip-out or a big flat clear-out.
The whole truck: site clear-ups, office strip-outs, large garden and shed jobs.
Local knowledge: Rainham
Collections across Rainham
- Postcodes
- RM13
- From our yard
- Rainham is about 35 minutes from our Wickford yard via the A132 and A127 to the M25 (junction 29 to 30), then the A13 west and the A1306 New Road. Collections are booked for the next working day. Item collections run on our Tuesday and Thursday rounds, booked by 4pm the working day before.
- We cover
- Rainham Village, Rainham Hall, Rainham Marshes, Ferry Lane Industrial Estate, Fairview Industrial Park, Beam Park, South Hornchurch and Wennington
- Access
- Inter-war and post-war semis and terraces, mostly with driveways, alongside new-build flats at Beam Park with managed parking and large industrial estates carrying HGV traffic south of the railway.
- Council
- Havering Council · about 29,335 residents
Nearest tip to Rainham
- Site
- Gerpins Lane Reuse and Recycling Centre, Gerpins Lane, Upminster, RM14 2XR
- Hours
- Open every day 7.30am to 5.45pm (last entry 5.30pm); closed Christmas Day
- Rules
- Free for residents of Havering, Barking and Dagenham, Newham and Redbridge who show a current council tax bill or driving licence. Cars with ordinary household waste need no booking, but vans under 3,500kg, trailers and any DIY or renovation waste must be booked in advance, and Luton vans, tippers, flatbeds and tail-lift vans are refused. Alternative: Frizlands Lane Reuse and Recycling Centre, Rainham Road North, Dagenham RM10 7HX is open to Havering residents for household waste and accepts larger vans with a booking.
Skip permits in Rainham
Havering Council issues skip licences in Rainham. A skip on your drive needs nothing; on the road it needs a licence, and we apply for you. Allow at least a week. Enquire online and we'll confirm the permit price and timing for your street before you book. Skip prices for Rainham →
About Rainham
Around 29,335 people. Rainham comes under Havering Council. Commercial and trade waste collections from the Ferry Lane and Fairview industrial estates; house and garden clearances on the semis and terraces off Upminster Road; builders' waste and fit-out clearances on the new-build schemes along New Road.
Rainham at a glance
Homes
Rainham grew outwards from its village. Roads laid out in 1880 were built with semi-detached and terraced houses, and after the First World War estates were broken up and plots sold to smallholders, leaving a mix of house types and plot sizes. South Hornchurch, in the Rainham post town, includes Orchard Village, built on the 1960s Mardyke Estate after six 13-storey blocks were demolished. New Green on Dunedin Road replaced two tower blocks with 197 homes, and Beam Park is a new neighbourhood off the A1306. Lift access and parking matter in the newer blocks.
House clearance in RainhamBuilding work
Major construction follows the A1306, where the Rainham and Beam Park Housing Zone is planned to bring about 3,500 homes to a former industrial area, next to Beam Park on former car plant land. In the older streets the work is extensions and loft conversions. Rainham Conservation Area covers the village core around the Church of St Helen and St Giles and Rainham Hall, and Havering treats it as a priority conservation area, so external works need checking first. The A13 through Rainham is a red route, where red lines prohibit stopping.
Skip hire in RainhamBusinesses
Town centre shops are on Upminster Road South and Broadway, within the historic core. The southern part of Rainham, towards the Thames, is an employment area inside the London Riverside business improvement district, with food processing, steel stockholding, warehousing and distribution. These sites produce pallets, packaging, metal and general trade waste. Run-down industrial and warehouse premises along the A1306 are being replaced by mixed-use development. Industrial premises generally have yards for lorries, whereas the village streets offer little room for loading.
Commercial waste in RainhamWhat Havering Council offers
The council's own collections, for comparison. They take items left outside. We collect from the front or somewhere easy to reach on our Tuesday and Thursday rounds, and can carry things out from inside for an hourly charge.
- Charge
- For 1 to 3 items the cost is £71.50; for every additional item the cost is £18.50.
- Leave items
- At the front boundary of the property or the communal bin area, at ground floor level, visible and accessible from the road, by 7am.
- Not taken
- Maximum height or length of items is 6 feet; residents only, not commercial waste; only items listed and paid for are taken; no refunds under any circumstances.
As published by the council, October 2026. Council page
- Charge
- £87 per bin, per year (annual contract 1 April to 31 March; collected every other week).
- Takes
- Garden waste that fits the bin or sack. No soil, rubble, sheds or fencing.
As published by the council, October 2026. Council page
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Questions people ask
How quickly can you get to Rainham?
Not usually the same day. Rainham is about 35 minutes from our yard in Wickford via the A132 and A127 to the M25 (junction 29 to 30), then the A13 west and the A1306 New Road, so we book Rainham jobs for the next working day and give you a two-hour arrival window by text. Item collections run on our Tuesday and Thursday rounds, booked by 4pm the working day before.
Do I need a skip permit in Rainham?
Only on the public road. Havering Council issues skip licences in Rainham, and we apply for you. On a driveway, nothing is needed. Enquire online and we'll confirm the permit price and timing for your street before you book.
Where's the nearest tip to Rainham?
Gerpins Lane Reuse and Recycling Centre, Gerpins Lane, Upminster, RM14 2XR. Free for residents of Havering, Barking and Dagenham, Newham and Redbridge who show a current council tax bill or driving licence. Cars with ordinary household waste need no booking, but vans under 3,500kg, trailers and any DIY or renovation waste must be booked in advance, and Luton vans, tippers, flatbeds and tail-lift vans are refused.
Which Rainham postcodes do you cover?
RM13, and everything around them: Rainham Village, Rainham Hall, Rainham Marshes, Ferry Lane Industrial Estate, Fairview Industrial Park, Beam Park.
Book a collection in Rainham
Pick what needs collecting, see the price, choose a day. We confirm by text and take card payment.