Skip bin questions, answered

The rate card starts at $340 (3 m³, green waste). For general waste, builders or household, it steps from $535 (3 m³) to $590 (4 m³), $830 (6 m³), $1,050 (9 m³) and $1,650 (15 m³ hook bin). GST, delivery, pick-up and 14 days on site are all inside those figures. The rate card has every combination.

Soil is priced over the phone on 1800 462 674. If you book a dirt bin online, the form sends a quote request instead of taking payment, and you get a reference starting with REQ.

An extra week is $35. Unlimited hire is $50 and replaces the extra week, so you pick one or the other. A walk-in door is $30 and only fits the 3 m³, 4 m³ and 6 m³ bins.

Stripe handles it on a Stripe-hosted page, collecting for East Coast Waste Pty Ltd. Expect to see that company name, or BOSH Bins, on the payment page and your statement. Card numbers never reach Tiger Skips and are never stored here.

Yes. Cancel with more than 48 hours' warning and it costs nothing. Inside 48 hours of the scheduled delivery there is a $50 fee.

At least 36 hours. Book before midday and the bin can arrive the next day. You choose AM or PM. Treat it as a preference: no exact time is promised, and the driver gets in touch before turning up.

Fourteen days come with every hire. Add a week for $35 or take unlimited hire for $50, either at booking or by calling before the pick-up date.

Kingscliff to Coomera. That means the whole Gold Coast and, across the border, Tweed Heads, Banora Point, Terranora, Tumbulgum, Kingscliff, Cudgen, Kings Forest, Casuarina, Cabarita Beach (including Bogangar), Pottsville and Murwillumbah in New South Wales. See the service areas.

Prices and rules are the same as on the Gold Coast, with no NSW surcharge. The one thing to watch is the clock: dates, AM/PM windows and opening hours are all Queensland time, which runs an hour behind NSW during daylight saving.

Tell us your preferred spot, but the driver makes the final call on safe placement. Once the bin is down it must not be moved, and no fires are allowed in it.

Asbestos, tyres and batteries (car and lithium included) are banned from every bin. Never accepted either: polystyrene, food waste, chemicals, paint, oil, any other liquid, cement or plaster that is still wet, gas bottles, fire extinguishers, dead animals and tree trunks wider than 25 cm.

Dirt goes in a 4 m³ bin at most and concrete or clean rubble in a 6 m³ at most. Bins of 6 m³ and above never take sand, soil or dirt. Too heavy for one bin? Ring 1800 462 674 and the job is spread over two or more.

Two. General Household comes with 150 kg per cubic metre, and Green Waste stops at 500 kg per cubic metre. Whatever the waste, nothing can sit above the fill line.

Most bins accept mattresses, but each one has to be declared when you book and costs $100.

Contamination fees apply: $200 for a concrete or dirt bin, $150 for a green waste bin, and $1,500 if asbestos turns up.

Not when the bin sits on private property such as your driveway. Kerbside placement (road, footpath or nature strip) needs council approval. Queensland addresses apply to the City of Gold Coast; Tweed addresses need Tweed Shire Council's "Approval to Place a Skip Bin in a Public Place". You arrange it and you are responsible for it; we do not apply on your behalf.

BOSH Bins, a skip bin business at 1/14 Fremantle Street, Burleigh Heads. The company is East Coast Waste Pty Ltd, ABN 25 675 571 954. More on the about page.