Skip Issues

Hermione_Granger

bris said:

You can hire skip lorries buy the day for about £100. Hire one, and dump the skip outside their premises, any fines would need to be court ordered, they wouldn't win in court given the circumstances.

And if the OP gets prosecuted for fly tipping or leaving a skip on a road without a licence, am I to assume that you will pay the fines for them?

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the_lunatic_is_in_my_head said:

In the interest of keeping the client happy I'd hire another skip, transfer the waste and have that gone (same day if possible, £20 to the driver to wait if you have enough people to empty the skip sharpish). 

Does the council require skip permits if the skip is on the road? If they do and a skip doesn't have a permit what do they do?

If there is no comeback to you or the client I'd drag it in the road and report it to the council as abandoned, the company that owns the skip has no contract with yourself and they can't fine you. 

The hire company may have comeback but how far are they going to get in small claims after 7 months of refusing to have it collected? 

Any comeback will be on the householder, it would also need to be lit and nighttime. 

Manxman_in_exile

How has this continued for seven months?  Your customer must have the patience of a saint, because if I were them I'd have been talking to a solicitor about taking action against your company months ago!

Your company should offer to fund legal action on behalf of the householder to get the skip owner to remove the skip from their property immediately.  You tell the skip company you are going to do this.

In the meantime the householder could give the skip company xx days notice to remove the skip from their property, otherwise a storage fee of £xxx per day will be charged.  Their leaving the skip in situ will be taken as agreement to this charge.

Your company should be making a generous goodwill payment to your customer for allowing this to have dragged on for so long.  Your company really ought to be seeking legal advice on behalf of your client, and paying for it.

EDIT:  And if the local paper is anything like mine they'd love a headline like:  "Local man's seven months of hell as cruel and heartless skip hire company unfairly vent their rage at another company against an innocent victim."  Plus sadface 'photos and crying children who can't play safely on their drive blah..blah..