About Our Skips

About Sunshine Skips

Sunshine Skips is an established Queensland skip bin hire operator with over 25 years of experience in waste management. We provide reliable, affordable skip bin hire services for residential, commercial, and construction projects across South East Queensland.

With a fleet of 9 trucks and more than 500 skip bins, we are equipped to handle jobs of all sizes — from small household clean-ups to large-scale building and demolition projects. Our skip bins are available in 2m³, 3m³, 4m³, 6m³, and 10m³ sizes, ensuring the right solution for every job.

We offer a range of specialised waste solutions, including general waste, green waste, construction and demolition waste, as well as heavy materials such as concrete and tiles. Our concrete and tile skips are available at reduced rates in 3m³ and 4m³ sizes, providing a cost-effective option for heavier loads.

We also provide compliant asbestos skip bins in 3m³, 4m³, 6m³, and 10m³ sizes, supporting safe and regulated disposal requirements.

We service a wide area across South East Queensland, including Brisbane, Ipswich, Logan, Redlands, and from Noosa through to Yatala, with fast delivery and reliable collection.

Sunshine Skips is trusted by both domestic and commercial customers for dependable service, flexible scheduling, and straightforward pricing. Whether you’re renovating, clearing out your home, or managing a job site, we provide a skip bin hire service you can rely on.

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