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Help! How do I get a skip removed and traced?

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  • Ozzuk
    Ozzuk Posts: 1,884 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts
    What a pain! You could order a skip, put the other skip in it, then have both taken away. I'm sure that would work.
  • Avoriaz
    Avoriaz Posts: 39,110 Forumite
    Fill it with water and use it as an outdoor swimming pool.
  • Avoriaz
    Avoriaz Posts: 39,110 Forumite
    pimento wrote: »
    If it's empty, drag it into the road. It will be moved quick smart
    Put some wood or rollers etc under it or you will have a badly marked driveway pavement and road.
  • Put it up on eBay , buyer collects !
    You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe (Henry IV part 2)
  • dotdash79
    dotdash79 Posts: 1,069 Forumite
    scrap metal, phone i local place who will come up and pick it up and pay you.
  • huckster wrote: »
    Make use of the free skip. The company who provided it will collect it after a week or before when the error is realised. Skip hire is not that cheap, so I doubt it will be there long.

    It's the landfill tax that's expensive. Doing what you suggest may lead to a demand for 150 notes or the contents emptied on the front garden.
  • techspec
    techspec Posts: 4,464 Forumite
    It's the landfill tax that's expensive. Doing what you suggest may lead to a demand for 150 notes or the contents emptied on the front garden.

    Not is they say passers buy have used it.

    Besides - whats the going rate for storage or parking on someones driveway?
  • techspec wrote: »
    Not is they say passers buy have used it.

    Besides - whats the going rate for storage or parking on someones driveway?

    True. He can say what he likes but in my experience people in that line of business aren't to be messed with.

    Remember it's on his drive outside his home.

    If the skip company don't want to take the pass! bys waste, where do you think it's going?
  • Stooby2
    Stooby2 Posts: 1,195 Forumite
    pimento wrote: »
    If it's empty, drag it into the road. It will be moved quick smart

    Not really an option as the OP will have placed an unlicenced and unlit skip in the road. He could well find himself liable if it caused an accident.
  • Niv
    Niv Posts: 2,562 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I think the councils can identify who owns the skip from the serial number of the skip so it would be worth giving them a ring to find out. I know that's how the council near me identified an old skip of ours (that we had scrapped years ago but someone decided to use it...).
    YNWA

    Target: Mortgage free by 58.
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