Recently I made a video the should help you with ordering a skip bin and the do’s and don’ts of rubbish removal.
Ordering A Large Skip Bin
Hello I’m Paul, from Totally Wasted Bin Hire, and we’ve been operating for nearly 20 years in Geelong. My business consists of bins, from six cubic meter up to 20 cubic meter. Majority of my business would be light commercial, but I also do domestic, cleaning outs of garages.
We also do removal of concrete, hard concrete paths, driveways, dirt, clean spoil, renovating work, all different sized bins for different size renovations, demolition work, all the do’s and don’ts are on the website. Do’s and don’ts meaning I can’t take food waste, gas bottles, car tires, asbestos.
What To Do With Asbestos
If you think it is asbestos, you will need a specialized contractor to come in and remove it. If you’re trying to determine whether it’s asbestos or not, anything pre-1985 would normally, usually have asbestos in it, and you’ll normally find the asbestos in your old meter box, eave linings and around your bathrooms. If you turn it around, you’ll see if it’s got dimples on the back, it is asbestos.
Mattresses Need Breaking Down
We do take mattresses, but we do take them at a cost because of the work, the tips don’t want them, because they can’t compress them. Where the cost is, in the mattresses, is the labor to pull them apart, they’ve got to be completely stripped, back to the steel and have nothing else on the steel springs and if you’re willing to do that, you can strip them yourself and throw everything back into the bin at no charge, but if we have to do it, there’s a $40 cost, plus GST, per mattress.
Dumping Carpets
So couple things, carpet’s a big no-no, we don’t take full bins of carpet, well we can take it, but there’s a charge. If you’ve only got a couple of rooms, please let me know that you’ve only got a couple of rooms and cut them into small, one meter width lengths and roll them up, and you can put them in the bin. These extra costs for carpet, are charged by the tips themselves.
Council Fees & Permits For Skip Bins
If the bin goes outside your property line, as in if it has to go on the nature strip, or on the roadway, I do have to obtain a permit by law, whether it be Surf Coast or Geelong Councils. I don’t deal with the Surf Coast, if you’re down the coast, you’ll have to deal with them yourself. But if you live in Geelong, I can organize the permits, they tell us two days notice, so the more notice you can give me the better, there is a cost of that, they’re $50 for a permit.
Will A Skip Bin Fit In Your Driveway?
If you’re worried about your driveways, as long as your driveway has a minimum opening of 2.3 meters, I can get in to drop the bin off. Things to look out for are Telecom cables above and power cables, ’cause the bin, as you’ll probably see in this video, when I tip the bin off, it rolls off the back of the truck and it does get some height. I can adjust the height, and I can get into 99% of driveways and get the bins in, but just be wary of that.
How To Order A Large Skip Bin
The easiest method to order a bin, would be to hope on our website, all the bin prices are there for you to see, and also the tip fees. You’d have a rough idea of your weight, roughly what your weight is, so you’ll have a pretty generalized idea what the cost of your bin and tip fees would be together. If you’re not sure about the weight, of what you’re putting into the bin, by all means, just ask me, I have a pretty generalized idea what it’s going to weigh. If you tell me exactly what you’re putting in it, I’ll have an idea of what the cost will be.
Thanks for listening to me today, if you have any questions, please give me a call
Ph: 0409 861 039
and I look forward to hearing from you, thank you.
