Dumpster Rental in Swansea, SC

Roll-off containers for Swansea homes and jobsites

Swansea is a forty minute run south on US-321, past Gaston, and it is a small Lexington County farming town in the truest sense — a short main street, a high school that anchors the community, and fields and pine timber running out in every direction to the Calhoun County line. We do not get called here every day, but when we do it is usually a real job rather than a weekend clear-out, and we plan it properly because it is a long haul.

Housing is farmhouses and small-town frame and brick stock on brick piers over vented crawlspaces, 1960s through 80s ranches along the main roads, manufactured homes on rural acreage, and a scattering of newer slab-on-grade construction. Everything here is pier-and-crawlspace or slab. What the older houses have underneath is a vented crawlspace that has spent decades in Midlands humidity, which means the same job we see everywhere in the Midlands: wet or fallen batt insulation, a torn vapour barrier, rotted band joists and floor joist ends, mould, ruined ductwork and termite damage under the insulation. Outside town, septic tanks, drain fields and wells are universal.

The calls that bring us out are cleanouts, tear-downs and storms. Family properties changing hands with a lifetime of accumulation in the house, the barn and the yard. Old outbuildings, sheds and mobile homes coming down. Roofs after a hail spring, which the Midlands supplies dependably. And tree work — this is sandhills pine country, ice storms snap loblolly limbs and the summer thunderstorm lines drop whole trees, and hurricanes that reach the Midlands do it as inland wind and rain rather than surge, which is more than enough to put a pine across a fence line.

What we know about working in Swansea

Plan a Swansea job in advance. We are forty minutes out, so a wasted trip is most of a morning for both of us, and everything that could stop a delivery is worth mentioning when you book: the length and surface of the drive, whether a truck can turn around at the far end, where the septic tank, drain field and well head sit, and whether there are low pine limbs over the approach. Sandhills soil out here gives way under a loaded wheel more readily than people expect, and protection boards, while standard on every set, do not make deep loose sand into a driveway. If the drive is soft we will set nearer the road. The disposal rules do the rest of the work for you if you sort first: South Carolina keeps grass, leaves, brush and limb wood out of landfill disposal, so a storm or land-clearing load rides clean and separate to a mulching facility, and whole tires, lead-acid batteries, used oil and appliances need their own routes rather than the container. Leftover paint, solvents and household chemicals go to a Lexington County household hazardous waste drop-off. Anything pre-1980 coming down should be tested for asbestos first — we cannot take asbestos-containing material in any container — and demolition generally triggers an inspection and notification through SC DES. Lexington County handles the local permitting, and requirements change, so confirm before you start. Call SC 811 before any digging.

• CountyLexington County
• Distance from our yard26 miles south of our Broad River Road yard
• Main routesI-26 east then US-321 south through Cayce and Gaston
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

US-321 south through Cayce and Gaston, forty minutes from the yard. SC-6 if the address sits east toward Sandy Run, and the county roads west if it is out toward Pelion. There is no traffic to speak of — the cost is distance, which is why we book Swansea jobs with a day or two of notice. Give us the drive surface and length, the turnaround, the septic and well locations, any low limbs, and a clear description of the load so we bring the right container the first time.

Routes we run: I-26 east then US-321 south through Cayce and Gaston, US-321 through the middle of town, SC-6 east toward Sandy Run and the Calhoun County line, the county roads west toward Pelion.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Swansea

On a private driveway in Swansea you generally do not need a municipal permit. Placement in the public street or right-of-way is a different matter and normally requires approval — from the city or county where the road is locally maintained, or from SCDOT where it is a state route. Every municipality in Lexington County runs its own form and its own lead time, and older streets here often have narrow shoulders and deep drainage ditches, so plan the permit before you plan the delivery. It is a ten-minute call that saves a week.

Our permit and placement guide walks through the whole process, and SC DES publishes the Covered Device Recycling Act rules and the other statewide disposal restrictions that apply to every load we haul out of Swansea. County recycling and household hazardous waste dates are published by Richland County.

Sizes we deliver to Swansea