About Our Skips

Sunshine Skips Story

Sunshine Skips is a Queensland based business, owned and operated by a family who have been in the skip business for over 25 years.

Sunshine Skips operates 9 trucks and owns over 500 skip bins in 2, 3, 4, 6, and 10 cubic metre sizes.

Sunshine Skips also offers Concrete/Tile Skips which are available at reduced rates in  3 and 4 cubic metre sizes.

Sunshine Skips also offers Asbestos Skips in 3, 4, 6, and 10 metre sizes.

Servicing From Noosa to Yatala, from Ipswich to Redlands and all areas in between.

Sunshine Skips prides itself in offering superior service to it’s many customers both in the commercial and domestic sector.

Terms & Conditions of Hire

Definitions:
  • These terms and conditions are set out by Sunshine Waste Services Pty Ltd, trading as Sunshine Skips herein referred to as “Sunshine Skips/us/we/our”
  • The customer is herein referred to as “you/your”
  • “Skip Bin/Skips/Skip Bins “ refers to the bins provided by Sunshine Skips to the Customer for the purpose of waste removal.

 

General Hire Terms:
  • Our standard hire period for customers who do not hold an account is 10 days from the date of skip hire. An additional hire fee of $11 per day, or $77 per week is payable after this time
  • The standard hire period for customers who do have an account is 12 weeks from the date of skip hire. An additional hire fee of $11 per day, or $77 per week is payable after this time
  • We may, at our discretion, withdraw any additional hire charges
  • The skips, and any accessories supplied to you remain the property of Sunshine Skips at all times. You are not entitled to sell, transfer or sub-lease our skips
  • We do not specify delivery times, due to the nature of logistics, but can accept deliveries within an AM (6am – 12pm) window, or PM (12pm – 3pm) window
  • All waste is still considered your property until collected and disposed of by us
  • In the event of default of payment, we reserve the right to collect our skips from your site empty – the waste will be left at your site

 

Site Access, placement, movement of skips and collection:
  • Access to sites must be clear and unimpeded (eg, vehicles/fencing must not block access to where skip is to be placed)
  • Access to our skips once on your site must be clear and unimpeded, ie: no rubbish in front of, around or overloaded on the skip itself
  • Once placed, our skips are not to be moved by you, or people employed by you, or anyone else working at the site, either by hand or by machine (eg, forklift, bobcat etc). This may result in damage to the skip which you will be held liable for
    • Skips moved to underneath scaffolding, carports etc may not be able to be picked up without causing damage due to skips being dragged out, or damage from the lifting booms on our trucks
  • The skip must only be placed where it is safe to do so, without blocking other people’s property or pedestrian throughfare
  • Skips cannot be placed on the road, or on the shoulder of the road under any circumstances
  • We will not be held liable for any damage by truck tyres (upon either delivery or collection) should you instruct our driver to place the skip in an area that requires the truck to drive over surfaces where damage may occur (including, but not limited to: footpaths, driveways, lawns, in-ground boxes etc)
  • You may be asked to sign a liability/damages waiver if you want your skip placed in an area not recommended by our drivers
  • Skips for collection must not be overloaded – ie, waste placed within the skips should not be stacked over the height of the bin, no debris should be hanging from the sides of the skip, etc
  • If a skip is found to be overloaded when due for collection, the driver can refuse to transport the overloaded skip. If this occurs:
    • The excess waste must be removed by you before the skip is deemed safe for transport
    • The excess waste will be “tipped off” the skip before being deemed safe for transport
    • Another skip will be provided, at your expense, for you to offload excess waste into

 

Additional Charges:
  • All of our skips have weight loading limits – these limits are noted on our price lists, and on our website booking forms
  • We reserve the right to back-charge any additional weight over and above these weight limits at a rate of $105 (inc GST) per tonne
  • We may, at our discretion, choose to waive any back-charges for overweight skips
  • If our skips are damaged by you, your employees, or representative whilst on your site, we reserve the right to charge you for the cost of repairs and/or replacement of the skip
  • If a concrete/brick/tile/recyclable skip is ordered, and is found to have general waste in the skip, we will back-charge the skip to the rate for General Waste
  • Cancellation fees may be payable if you cancel your skip after we’ve dispatched it to a driver