Mega Skip Order
Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions for Skip Hire - by continuing your order, your are accepting our terms. If your skip is to be located on a public highway then you must have a licence - this is something we will obtain for you once the order has been placed. A Skip Licence is not required if your skip is to be located on private property. Finally, choose your desired delivery date.
Terms and Conditions for Skip Hire
The owner (L&S Waste Limited)
The Hirer (the customer)
The owner will hire to the hirer the container along with lamps and cones where applicable.
The owner will pay to the owner in advance the agreed charges, unless credit account arrangements have been made. Non account transactions will be postponed until payment is made.
The hirer will take proper care of the container, lamps and cones (where applicable), while in possession and shall be responsible for all claims, costs, damages and expenses arising out of the position of the container of the use thereof during the period of hire and indemnifies the owner against any claim that may arise.
It shall be responsibility of the hirer to ensure that the container is properly illuminated during all such times as the law demands and shall indemnify the owner against any claims, demands, damages or expenses in respect of the failure to light and cone the container, (see lighting and coning section)
The hirer shall at all times during the period of hire to use the container in such a manner that it shall not contravene any act of parliament, local by-law of statutory instrument or regulation for the time being in force and shall indemnify the owner against any breaches thereof
Hirers ordering the vehicle to be driven from or the container to be placed on private property do so entirely at their own risk. The hirer thereby accepts liability caused to their or third party property.
On the termination of the hire the hirer shall return the container to the owner in a good and proper condition. Any damage caused to the container will be charged for.
Unless otherwise stated in writing the standard hire period will be a delivery on day 1 and a collection on day 7, no times are guaranteed are made for deliveries or collections, and we reserve the right to collect the container on a later date than specified.
The hirer shall not move the container from its original position placed by the owner. (On occasions we may not be able to collect the container if it has been moved from its original position).
LIGHTING AND CONING OF CONTAINERS
Only lamps and cones supplied by our office and through our drivers are suitable to comply with the requirements of the Highways regulations. If lamps and cones are required please contact the office where the order was placed.
A container on the carriageway shall be protected by three cones positioned on the ‘traffic approaching’ side of the container.
During the hours of darkness an amber lamp shall be attached to each corner of the container and where the container has been placed on the carriageway, lamps must be placed between the traffic cones. Different local authorities interpret these arrangements in different ways.
CONTENT OF CONTAINERS
Containers should not contain flammable, explosive, noxious or dangerous material, which is likely to putrefy, or become a nuisance to the users of the highway, the contents of the container must be kept damp to prevent nuisance from dust.
No container shall be used in such a way that its content overflows on to the high way.
No container shall be filled beyond the height of the containers sides.
Asbestos, tyres or tree roots should not be placed in the container without prior agreement.
The contents of the container become the property of the hiring company upon collection, not withstanding this’ The producer of the waste’ has a legal responsibility to ensure that only permitted wastes are deposited in the container, prosecution can follow if breaches of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 are made.
