Skip hire in Tugun

• Measure. Footprint: 3 m³ is 2.4 × 1.5 m; 4 m³ is 3.0 × 1.5 m (approximate).
• Clear it. Shift cars and wheelie bins off the spot before the truck arrives.
• Shared driveway? Townhouse complexes need the body corporate's sign-off, and no one's garage should end up blocked.

Fits on your land? Then no permit comes into it.

Where Tugun sits

Tugun is where the Pacific and Gold Coast highways join. Its beach runs south from Flat Rock, on the Currumbin border, to Bilinga. Shops: Golden Four Drive. O'Connor Street: surf club. Inland Drive: John Flynn Private Hospital. The Tugun Bypass, open since 2008, took the pressure off the old highway junction.

The housing

Census 2021: a little under half separate houses, roughly 30 per cent townhouses or semis, and apartments (beachfront holiday units included) for most of what remains. Two entries on the heritage register are worth knowing. One is a beach house called Ar Dee, in San Michele Street. The other is a Moreton Bay fig at the junction of Toolona Street and Golden Four Drive.

Common jobs

Older beach houses being updated, townhouses refreshed between tenancies, kitchens, bathrooms, garden tidy-ups. For a fast clear-out of furniture, cartons and old appliances, book a 3 m³ General Household bin. Green Waste bins take the garden material. Weight caps: soil 4 m³, concrete 6 m³.

Street permits

Verge, footpath or roadway: City of Gold Coast permit. The customer applies and holds the responsibility. Tiger Skips does not lodge permits.