Skip left in drive

Alan2020

AdrianC said:

There ain't no way Joe Average would get a skip delivered without paying for it up front...

Exactly, that skip has been paid for, the cost of waste disposal, pickup vs scrap value of skip far exceed the trouble.  I calmly await for @lucypilates to start a thread on how to dispose of a skip full of waste

GDB2222

What happens when the neighbours fill the skip up, way past the limit, and the skip company demands extra money?  One solution to all that is for the solicitors to keep a retention of a couple of hundred pounds until the skip is cleared. Either that, or the buyer trusts that the sellers will do the decent thing. I’m not sure what strangers on a forum, who have never met either party, can add?

Alan2020

I think the OP needs to google for skips left on the drives and never collected.  My builder had this issue, but I doubt the OP is going to be able to drive to the skip owners home and convince them to drive and pick up the skip.  That is why I always use my builder for this sort of service or use a removal service.  Skips that are already paid for can be a nightmare that a retainer of a couple on hundred won't help.
If the skip isn't collected what will the OP do?  No body legitimate is going to shift it and unless the OP is connected to the trades, will they skip the skip and then the original skip companies demands for their skip?  OP might be lucky, but I think they will have to live with a skip for months, if not an year

saajan_12

I would certainly check the cost to get a 3rd party to remove a skip + rubbish, and then ask for a retention in that amount - to be released when skip gone. 

If the original skip hire company is already paid, they have that much less incentive to come collect, and most of the cost is in the delivery / pick up / rubbish disposal, not the value of the physical thing. The OP won't have a contract with the company to enforce removal of the skip.