Reedy Creek skip bins for hillside blocks

Elevation runs from roughly 10 metres in the north of Reedy Creek to over 190 metres at the high end of Abbey Ridge Road. Choose the flattest, firmest stretch of driveway for the bin. Plan the loading route as well: barrows travel downhill to a bin more easily than uphill. Very steep or narrow drive? Describe it on 1800 462 674 before you book.

Who lives here

Old Coach Road marks the eastern edge, and the suburb lies on the hinterland side of the M1. Reedy Creek itself starts in the southern hills and heads north-east, passing beneath the motorway on its way to Varsity Lakes. Homes run big. Places with four or more bedrooms made up about six in ten at the 2021 Census, and almost all dwellings were houses or townhouses. About 30 per cent are townhouses or similar; in those complexes the common driveway is a body corporate matter. Schools: Hillcrest Christian College, Bridgman Drive; King's Christian College, Gemvale Road.

Big houses, heavy ground

The usual work: garage and storage clear-outs in larger homes, landscaping, garden waste, and digging for retaining walls or paths. A full garage or house clear-out generally starts at 6 m³, about 24 wheelie bins. Landscaping a big block may need a 6 m³ or 9 m³ Green Waste bin. A small bathroom is a 3 m³ or 4 m³ job.

Excavated soil is the catch: no Dirt bin larger than 4 m³, no concrete bin larger than 6 m³. Anything over one bin's weight is split by phone.

Walk it in

The $30 walk-in door is available on 3, 4 and 6 m³ bins. On a hillside block it means you wheel loads straight in rather than heaving them over the wall of the bin. Neither the 9 m³ nor the 15 m³ takes the door.

Council permits

Keep the bin on your own block and there is nothing to apply for. Once it sits on the roadway, verge or footpath, the hirer must hold a permit from council, the City of Gold Coast, and answers for it. Tiger Skips does not.