Bins — Supply & Install
Precast concrete and galvanised steel bins for complexes, office parks, schools and retail centres — supplied, anchored down properly, and the surface made good afterwards. All from one contractor.
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Supplied and Installed
Two things sink a bin installation: units that are not anchored, and units the cleaning crew cannot service. We fix both at the specification stage — bolting down into the right substrate with the right anchor, and specifying liners that lift straight out.
As a building contractor we also make the surface good around every fixing, fit the signage, and can refurbish your existing bins instead of replacing them where the bodies are still sound.
The Range
Sizes and finishes can be made to spec — send us your drawing or a site photo and we will come back with what fits.
Mass is the anti-theft and anti-vandalism feature. Concrete bins stay where you put them, survive being knocked, and never need recoating — the trade-off is weight, so placement needs planning.
600mm across and 150 litres — the larger of the round concrete bins, and at 250kg heavy enough that it stays where it is put. The moulded lid keeps rain off the contents and narrows the opening, which discourages people emptying household bags into a street bin.
Finish: Exposed aggregate as pictured, off-shutter or painted to your colour
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The open-top version — no lid, with the bag liner simply folded over the rim, which turns emptying into a few seconds for a crew working a street round. Smaller than the 600 at 500mm across and 750mm high, and it sits on the surface rather than in a footing.
Finish: Exposed aggregate as pictured, off-shutter or painted to your colour
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The same 500mm concrete body, but slung between two posts on galvanised brackets so the whole bin pivots forward to empty rather than someone lifting a wet liner up over the rim. It also hangs clear of the ground, so there is nothing to sweep or mow around and no damp ring left where the base sat.
Finish: Exposed aggregate as pictured, off-shutter or painted to your colour
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Same 500mm body and same 185kg as the open-top Round 500, but with the lid on a galvanised hinge instead of dropped loose over the rim — which matters, because the loose lid is always the part that goes missing. It swings right back for emptying and stays with the bin while the crew works. Allow for that swing when you place it: the lid needs somewhere to fall back to, so it suits a wall behind rather than being boxed into a tight corner.
Finish: Exposed aggregate as pictured, with a coloured lid for recycling colour-coding
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The same 500mm body and 185kg again, with the lid simply dropped over the liner rather than hinged. Lift it off and the whole rim is open, which is the quickest way to change a bag, and there is no hinge to seize up or get levered off. The trade is the obvious one: a lid that lifts off is a lid that can be walked off with, so it suits enclosed or supervised positions better than an open street.
Finish: Exposed aggregate as pictured, with the lid in black or a recycling colour
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A steel canopy cantilevered over the opening, so rain stays out and litter does not blow back out in the south-easter. Worth knowing what the hood costs you in volume though — 39 litres inside a 165kg bin, so on a busy route it wants emptying more often than the round bins do. It earns its place in exposed, windy positions where an open bin just redistributes its contents.
Finish: Exposed aggregate as pictured, canopy powder-coated to your colour
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The square counterpart to the Round 500 — same idea, no lid, but a narrower footprint that sits better against a wall or along a walkway where a round bin eats into the walking width. Open top means it empties in seconds on a cleaning round, and there is nothing on it to break or be levered off.
Finish: Exposed aggregate as pictured, off-shutter or painted to your colour
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Sand-filled, so a stub goes out where it lands instead of smouldering in with the paper — which is the whole reason to keep ash off the litter bin at an entrance. Same 400mm square body as the Square 400, so a pair either side of a doorway reads as one set, and 750mm is a comfortable height to use without stooping.
Finish: Exposed aggregate as pictured, off-shutter or painted to your colour
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The pyramid is the point — no flat top, so nobody parks a coffee cup, a bottle or themselves on it, and rain runs straight off instead of pooling in the ash. Stubs go out on the steel plate at the apex and drop through into the body below. At 245kg it is not going anywhere either, which matters outside a bar or a function venue at closing time.
Finish: Exposed aggregate as pictured, off-shutter or painted to your colour
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For the parts of the Peninsula where an ordinary bin is really just a feeding station. The lid is weighted and latched so a troop cannot lever, slide or tip it open, and the body is heavy enough that it does not get rolled — which is what actually keeps refuse off the verge in Simon’s Town, Scarborough, Kommetjie and along the Tokai and Constantia edges.
Finish: Exposed aggregate as pictured, off-shutter or painted to your colour
Request a QuoteLighter and quicker to service, and the only route to a swing, wall-mounted or perforated bin. Hot-dip galvanised for anywhere near the sea, powder-coated where a bin has to match a scheme's colours or carry recycling colour-coding.
The steel option, and a different argument entirely: 300mm across on a single pedestal, so it takes up almost no walking width and sits clear of the ground with nothing to sweep or mow around. The perforated body drains rather than collecting a puddle in the bottom, and you can see at a glance whether it needs emptying. It has none of the concrete bins' mass, though, which makes the fixing the whole job — anchored properly into the slab it stays where it is put, and a bin this light that is not anchored properly walks.
Finish: Galvanised as pictured, or powder-coated to your colour
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The same 300mm footprint as the perforated pedestal bin but 900mm tall, which buys 75 litres out of the same bit of pavement. The expanded mesh drains completely and shows at a glance when the bin is full — the flip side being that anything wet or fine goes straight through it, so this one wants a liner rather than being used bare. At 8kg it is light enough for one person to carry in, which keeps installation cheap across a large order and equally means it is only ever as good as its fixing: bolted down through the base plate as shown, or planted into the ground where you would rather not drill the paving.
Finish: Powder-coated green as pictured, or to your colour
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The steel counterpart to the Round 500 Swing: a perforated body slung between two posts on pivot brackets, so it tips forward to empty rather than someone lifting a wet liner up over the rim. Hanging it clear of the ground is the real gain — nothing to sweep or mow around, no damp ring left on the paving, and the perforations drain instead of holding water in the bottom. Both posts land on bolt-down base plates, so it goes onto existing paving without digging; it has none of the concrete swing bin's mass to fall back on, though, so the anchors are doing all the work.
Finish: Powder-coated as pictured, or to your colour
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The same swing action as the dual leg version but carried on one post, which halves the footprint and leaves a single base plate to anchor — worth having where the walkway is narrow or the bin has to sit tight against a wall. 390mm across and 600mm deep for the same 75 litres, hung at 750mm so the body tips forward into a bag without anyone stooping over it. It comes hot-dip galvanised rather than painted, which is the right specification anywhere within reach of the sea; the trade against the dual leg is that the whole load goes through one set of anchors, so what is under that base plate matters more.
Finish: Hot-dip galvanised as pictured, or powder-coated to your colour
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The one bin here with no footprint at all — it cantilevers off two brackets into a wall or column, so it takes nothing off the walking width and a cleaner can run a machine straight underneath it. That suits arcades, walkways, stair landings and lobbies where a freestanding bin either blocks the route or ends up shoved out of the way. At 300mm across and 450mm deep it holds 30 litres, the smallest in the range, so it works as a top-up point rather than a main bin. The fixing is the whole job on this one: 30 litres of rubbish plus somebody leaning on it is a real pull-out load, and brick, block and concrete each want a different anchor.
Finish: Powder-coated as pictured, or hot-dip galvanised
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The one bin here that is not trying to look industrial — hardwood slats on a galvanised frame, which is why it turns up at office park entrances and reception forecourts where bare galvanised or concrete reads as back-of-house. Same 400 × 400mm footprint as the Square 400 and Square Ash concrete bins, so the three sit together as a set, and 75 litres inside a galvanised rim that the liner drops in behind. It is shown standing on a weighted precast base, which puts it down on existing paving without drilling and lets you move it later. The timber is the honest caveat: in Cape Town sun it silvers off within a season or two unless somebody re-oils it, so either budget for that or accept the grey — it is the only thing on this page that asks for maintenance.
Finish: Oiled hardwood with a galvanised frame — re-oiled, or left to silver
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The round version, and the one to take if volume actually matters — 500mm across and 125 litres against 75 in the square, which is most of what the 250kg Round 600 concrete bin swallows without any of its weight. It differs in the other useful way too: a moulded lid with a drop-in aperture, so rain stays off the contents and the narrowed opening discourages somebody emptying a household bag into a street bin. It stands on the paving as pictured rather than on a post, which leaves placement free and makes anchoring a decision rather than a given — worth taking on an open street. Same timber caveat as the square: re-oil it, or let it go silver.
Finish: Oiled hardwood with a galvanised frame and a black lid
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The decorative one: a powder-coated steel frame with timber slats as infill panels and a band of ringed discs around the top, rather than the plain hardwood body of the Square Slatted. It is the larger square as well — 450 × 450mm and 100 litres against 400mm and 75 — and it stands on its own legs with the liner dropped in behind the frame. The powder coat is the difference worth using: this is the one to colour-match to a centre's scheme, where the galvanised bins will always read as site furniture. Two finishes to keep up rather than one, though — the coating on the frame and the oil on the slats — so it suits a covered walkway or an atrium better than an exposed street corner.
Finish: Powder-coated frame with oiled timber slats, colour to your scheme
Request a QuoteMaterials & Finishes
Bins get the worst conditions of any site furniture — permanently damp, permanently dirty, and regularly knocked. Material and finish choice is what decides whether they last three years or fifteen.
Mass is the anti-theft and anti-vandalism feature. Concrete bins stay where you put them, survive being knocked, and never need recoating — the trade-off is weight, so placement needs planning.
The right call within reach of the sea, and the right call for liners anywhere. Bins live in a permanently wet, permanently dirty environment, and hot-dip galvanising is the only finish that reliably handles it.
Where the bins have to match a scheme's colours or carry recycling colour-coding. Specify it over galvanised steel — powder coat straight onto bare steel will not last on a Cape Town site.
Every bin we supply takes a removable liner. It sounds minor until you have watched a cleaning crew try to empty a fixed concrete bin — liner choice drives whether a bin actually gets serviced.
Installation
Everything below is in the quote. You should not be arranging a separate contractor to patch the paving or fit the signage after your bins are delivered.
How It Works
Six steps, one contractor, one firm price.
We walk the site with you, look at where litter collects, how the cleaning crew moves, and what the substrate is at each proposed position.
We recommend bin type, capacity, liner and fixing per position, and mark up a layout so nothing lands somewhere awkward to service.
One itemised quote covering supply, fixing, making good and signage. The number on the quote is the number you pay.
We source or cast the units and confirm lead times upfront, including any custom colours or branded signage.
Fixing, anchoring and mounting, scheduled around residents, tenants or trading hours where the site cannot stop.
Surfaces reinstated, signage fitted, site cleared, and a walkthrough with you before we leave.
What Cape Town facilities managers, trustees and business owners ask before ordering bins — anchoring, liners, recycling streams and refurbishment.
Both. Supply-and-install is the usual choice because bolting bins down properly, and making good the paving afterwards, is building work. We will quote supply only if you have your own team for the fixing.
Yes, and we recommend it in any public or semi-public area. We anchor into the slab or paving with chemical or expansion anchors depending on the substrate, and make the surface good around each fixing.
Yes. Every bin we supply takes a removable inner liner — usually galvanised. It is the single biggest factor in whether a bin actually gets emptied properly, so we treat it as standard rather than an extra.
Yes. Twin-bin recycling stands with colour-coded, labelled apertures are the usual starting point, and we can supply signage matched to your building's recycling scheme.
Yes. The usual answer is a precast concrete body with a weighted, latching steel lid — heavy enough not to be rolled over, and with no edge a baboon can get a hand under. The fixing matters as much as the lid: we anchor into the slab or paving and make the surface good around each fixing, because a bin that can be tipped is not baboon-proof whatever the lid does. This comes up most in Simon’s Town, Scarborough, Kommetjie and along the Tokai and Constantia edges, where an ordinary open or hooded bin gets emptied onto the verge and turns into a daily cleaning job.
Yes. Powder-coating in a specified colour is straightforward, and we can fit signage or plates carrying a complex name, estate branding or recycling instructions.
Often that is the better spend. If the bodies are sound we strip, treat and recoat them on site and replace the liners — which is usually a fraction of the cost of a full replacement. We will tell you honestly which way makes more sense.
Regularly. We quote per phase so trustees can approve the spend, schedule around residents, and provide the documentation managing agents need for their records.
Our installation carries the same 12-month workmanship guarantee as the rest of our building work — if a fixing or the making good fails in that time we come back and fix it at no charge. The bins carry their manufacturer terms, and we tell you what those are before you order.
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Contact UsFour promises, in writing, before any work starts.
Pay the number on your quote. Nothing is added without your approval first.
Get any workmanship defect fixed free within 12 months of handover.
Deal with the owner who quoted your job — first visit to final walkthrough.
Hear what your money is better spent on, even when that means a smaller job for us.
Send us a site photo or a drawing and we will come out, mark up the positions and quote the whole job — supply, fixing and making good.
We supply and install bins across Cape Town — the Southern Suburbs, Northern Suburbs, Atlantic Seaboard and the city's industrial precincts. If your area isn't listed below, get in touch; chances are we cover it too.
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