On 28 Feb, 09:31, Harry Bloomfield
wrote:
Stephen Howard formulated on Friday :

As in have you ever known anyone in charge of a skip to say 'No' when
you ask if you can remove something from it?
The usual response is "Blimey guv, sure - *take the bleedin' lot".

The more you remove from the skip, the less they pay for it to be taken
away to landfill, the less landfill...

Savvy skip hire companies ought to employ their own totters.

Basically one of those rare case where everyone wins. I do think the
law ought to be changed to make it legal for items placed in bins and
skips to be reclaimed without concerns about being accused of theft.

It would have to be conditional on the contents being marked "free to
good home" (and how do you know the sign's genuine?) It's not unusual
to see, for example, a wheelbarrow and a couple of planks on top ready
for tomorrow, and I suspect the I-beam someone mentioned was only
there as the most convenient place to store it, as well as to save
lifting it from ground level.

I had asked the builder if I might take the (above) chain link fencing,
as expected he had agreed, but I needed my trailer to be able to shift
it and it wasn't until the evening that I could organise it. In the
early evening whilst collecting it out of the skip still in broad
daylight, some busy body came out and threatened to call the police if
we didn't put it back. All you can really do is say go ahead, there is
my cars registration number, make a note of it.

Since you had actually asked the builder, there would have been no
problem, but if you hadn't... Personally, I wouldn't have the nerve to
ask, but I've never found anything that couldn't be picked up "on the
run".

Chris