[Edited on 12/11/10 by JoelP]
A friend of mine is due to complete the sale of his house today, but buyer is threatening to pull out as the skip on the front drive hasn't been removed. My mate has been calling the skip hire company for 6 weeks, on more than a daily basis, to get it removed, everytime they promise it will be gone and they never turn up. Yesterday it even got to the point where they said it would be gone in the next 15minutes!! He lives about 60 miles away now so can't keep an eye on it, so i drove past the house this morning on the way to work to check it had gone as i they promised yesterday at 4.45pm (for the 3rd time that day), and guess what, its still there. I called the number this morning at 6.15am and the bloke answered, who after i said it was early for a skip hire company to be in, "i'll empty the skip on your drive of you call at this time"!!! This was before i had even mentioned anything about the particular skip! When i said what road it was on he put the phone down!! He obviously has no intention of picking it up. So what can my mate do to get rid of it, if its not gone by 1pm the other party are threatening to sue for breach of contract and drop out.
Can you not ring the skip hire company and say that for every hour that the skip has not been removed you will be charging a storage fee and after 3 days the skip will then be taken away by another skip company?
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Originally posted by Tatey
Can you not ring the skip hire company and say that for every hour that the skip has not been removed you will be charging a storage fee and after 3 days the skip will then be taken away by another skip company?
I guess it is a "local" company, so going to a head office is obviously not an option.
In this case, how about asking the advice of the Police (I know, I know, but you may get a copper who cares). I would suggest the skip is the
property of the hire company and it is currently causing an obstruction to private property. Bit of a long shot, but worth a try ?
pay another company to pickup the skip and put it in the road,its then the councils/companys problem
job done.
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Originally posted by lewis
pay another company to pickup the skip and put it in the road,its then the councils/companys problem
job done.
I am not sure another company would not do that. They are bound by so many rules on waste disposal, any company found "dumping" a Skip
somewhere other than an official waste disposal plant would be in a lot of trouble.
Worth a couple of calls though.
[Edited on 12/11/10 by karlak]
Have you tried calling the company as "someone else" and trying to arrange a skip hire. Just to get an idea if they still in business ??
Is it on public or private land?? I'd ring the council if on public land, or Trading Standards and Citizens Advice if on private land. Can his solicitor not make a call at all if it is under threat of falling through? I had a skip outside my house last week that wasnt removed for only 4 days admittedly, but a call from "the council" (my brother in law) had it moved within 2 hours.
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Originally posted by Paul TigerB6
Is it on public or private land?? I'd ring the council if on public land, or Trading Standards and Citizens Advice if on private land. Can his solicitor not make a call at all if it is under threat of falling through? I had a skip outside my house last week that wasnt removed for only 4 days admittedly, but a call from "the council" (my brother in law) had it moved within 2 hours.
Use a jack or crow bar to lift the one end of the skip a few inches and slide some steel tube about 2" diameter, such as scaffolding tube. Once you have 2 or 3 rollers under the skip it will move fairly easily.
Use a jack or crow bar to lift the one end of the skip a few inches and slide some steel tube about 2" diameter, such as scaffolding tube. Once you have 2 or 3 rollers under the skip it will move fairly easily.
i had the same prob but at work, just phone the scrapyard and they will take it if th money is right lol.
adam
order a new skip and hoik it all over. I assume he's paid for the skip thats there? Small claims court for that i guess
[Edited on 12/11/10 by JoelP]
plasma cutter or angle grinder + 100 cutting discs should see the end of it.
if you were local, I'd give a hand.
send invoice to skip company and charge them for storing their skip. 2 weeks to pay else small claims court.
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Originally posted by JoelP
order a new skip and hoik it all over. I assume he's paid for the skip thats there? Small claims court for that i guess
[Edited on 12/11/10 by JoelP]
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Originally posted by JoelPorder a new skip and hoik it all over.
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Originally posted by Mal
Use a jack or crow bar to lift the one end of the skip a few inches and slide some steel tube about 2" diameter, such as scaffolding tube. Once you have 2 or 3 rollers under the skip it will move fairly easily.
I'd do a transfer job. If you move it onto the public carriageway okay the council will have to remove it but they might start asking how it got their in the first place.....
The solution to this is money based!
£500.00 cash to another Skip company will see the problem gone!
UPDATE: My mate phoned him up at 8.30 to be met with a torrent of abuse, my mate stayed calm and just replied with," i've had enough now my solicitor will deal with you" and put the phone down. He called back straight away and said there was no need for that, my mate said he wasn't dealing with him any more and his solicitor would be in touch. The solicitor called him, he was rude to the solicitor but has agreed it will be moved this morning. But we will wait and see.
strap it to the back of a decent size car and pull the f**ker up the road.
or tell them your off to weigh it in at a local scrap merchant.
dave
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Originally posted by jossey
strap it to the back of a decent size car and pull the f**ker up the road.
or tell them your off to weigh it in at a local scrap merchant.
dave
And the hire company is:-
Bennets Skip Hire, avoid at all costs!!!!
http://bennettsskiphire.com/
I wonder if they have the right to use the Wombles image on their website? Maybe worth tracking down who has the copyright and get them to give the skip firm some hassle?
tell the local pikeys, one of them will have a skip lugger, tell them they can have it FOC if they 'remove' it
YEah... and then watch them dump the soil all over the garden and take just the skip!! Never trust pikeys. Ever.
Chris
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Originally posted by ChrisW...Never trust pikeys. Ever.
Yeh i would have cracked ages ago and transfered it to a new skip and cut the old one up. Steel still fetches a price even now in the recession.
now we all know who the company is, lets all call them up and ask lots of silly questions, if enough of us do it, say 100+ calls a day that would really pi$$ him off........
Hire a bigger skip, ask said driver to put old skip in big skip and take away.
Cheers
R
Is it gone yet?
If you could pick it up yourself somehow and transport it then I vote you dump it right outside their gates, sideways, so no-one can get past it. Then
fill it with bags of "white powder" and tell the police you've just found it there
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Originally posted by AndyW
now we all know who the company is, lets all call them up and ask lots of silly questions, if enough of us do it, say 100+ calls a day that would really pi$$ him off........
Sorted?
Cmon how???/ We need all the gossip please LOL
They never collected it even though they repeatably promised it would be gone in the next hour, but the buyer didn't pull out, although with held
£150 from the agreement on purchasing some of the furniture.
What a bunch of cowboys, hopefully the solicitors will nail him
They never collected it even though they repeatably promised it would be gone in the next hour, but the buyer didn't pull out, although with held
£150 from the agreement on purchasing some of the furniture.
What a bunch of cowboys, hopefully the solicitors will nail him
You should get it sent in for scrap, and charge the skip company £500 a day storage.
If they ever come for it "Sorry someone took it yesterday"