Builders Waste Skip Bin Hire in Brisbane
Builders waste skip bin hire in Brisbane is priced on weight rather than volume, which is why a 4m³ heavy bin across Brisbane, Logan and the Gold Coast costs roughly double the same bin of household rubbish. Same steel, same truck, a very different weighbridge ticket.
Book this bin if there is any rubble in the load
The line between this bin and a light builders skip is one question: is there soil, brick, concrete or tile going in?
Any amount and it is this bin. Not most of the load, any of it. Loads are classified at the tip on what is in them, so a light bin with half a bathroom floor through it gets reclassified there and charged at the heavy rate, plus the trouble of sorting it out afterwards. Booking it right the first time is cheaper.
What goes in and what does not
Brick, concrete, tile, mortar, mixed demolition rubble, soil, and the timber and plasterboard mixed through it
Soil and excavated dirt. Bricks, blocks and pavers. Broken concrete and slab. Floor and wall tile, mortar bed and all. Render and plaster off the wall. Rock and gravel. And all the light material that comes with it: framing, sheeting, cabinetry and packaging.
If the load is only dirt, with nothing else through it, book a soil and dirt bin instead. Clean soil is reused as fill.
Asbestos in any form, liquids, chemicals, and anything on the sitewide banned list
The sitewide banned list applies here the same as everywhere, and it is on the waste types page. Asbestos is the one to be careful about on this stream, because old fibro sheeting, vinyl backing and eaves lining turn up in exactly the kind of house that generates a heavy bin. We do not take it and no skip bin operator can. If there is any chance of it, get it tested before you start pulling things down.
Weight is the whole story on this bin
Every bin has a tonnage allowance and on this stream you will use all of it. Some rough weights, so the numbers above mean something. A cubic metre of dry soil is somewhere near one and a half tonnes.
Why it costs what it costs
A construction and demolition facility with a crusher, where the masonry is recovered as road base
A mixed heavy load cannot be pulled apart economically, so it goes to landfill, and Queensland charges a waste levy by the tonne on everything landfilled in the south east. A heavy bin weighs several times what the same bin of household rubbish weighs, so the levy on it is several times larger. The gap you see between the two prices is mostly that.
There is a way around it, and it is worth the effort on a big job. Clean concrete on its own is cheaper than mixed heavy waste, because clean concrete gets crushed and sold as road base rather than buried. If you are taking up a driveway or a slab and you can keep it separate from everything else, do that and book the concrete bin.
What happens if the load is wrong
Asbestos found in a load stops the whole job and the clean up is charged to the hirer
This bin is the most forgiving of the heavy streams, because it is already priced for mixed material. The two things that still cause a problem are a banned item buried in the load, and a bin loaded above the top rail. A bin filled past the rail cannot legally travel and the driver will not take it.
Which size to book
2m3 through to 6m3. Heavy waste hits the weight limit long before it fills the bin, so the small bins are the honest choice
Small. Smaller than feels right. Start at the 3m³ for a bathroom floor or a small dig out, the 4m³ for a typical reno with rubble in it, and the 6m³ only when there is a lot of light material going in alongside the heavy.
On a big job, two smaller bins beat one large one, because you get two tonnage allowances instead of one. Builders and demolition crews who need heavy bins every week or every month can open a trade account.
Book a builders waste bin
Tell us roughly what is coming out and we will size the bin on weight rather than on how big the pile looks, which is the mistake this stream punishes.