Here are the errors that people tend to make most often when they hire skip bins.

They assume that all skip bin hire companies have the same rules

Skip bin hire companies usually have rules that their customers need to follow when using their bins. One common error that people who've rented skip bins before tend to make is assuming that all of their local bin companies have the same rules. For example, whilst almost all skip bin companies have rules regarding the kind of rubbish they'll allow their customers to put in their bins, the list of banned refuse can differ from one bin rental business to another.

If a person rents a bin from a rental business whose services they've never used before and doesn't read through this business' list of acceptable and banned refuse, because they assume this list is the same as the one given to them by another skip bin business whose services they used in the past, they might end up tossing some form of banned refuse into their bin.

If they do this, the employee who picks up their full bin may not be able to take it away until the person has removed the banned refuse from the bin (which might require them to climb into it and rummage around) or, if the employee only notices this unacceptable form of refuse after they've taken it away, the skip bin hire company may have to increase the customer's fee to cover the expense of having to dispose of this banned rubbish separately. As such, for the sake of everyone involved in this rental process, those who rent skip bins should not make any assumptions about a bin rental company's rules and should instead carefully read through any information leaflets the company gives them.

They fill their bin past its maximum weight capacity  

All skip bins have a maximum weight capacity, beyond which there is a chance that they might crack. Whilst the weight capacity of a typical skip bin is very high, it can still be exceeded, and this is something that people occasionally do when they rent these bins.

This tends to happen not as a result of a person adding one extremely large and heavy item to their bin, but rather a lot of relatively compact but heavy items over the course of the rental period (such as old kettlebells or dumbbells, radiators, concrete bricks, pieces of structural steel, etc.). If a person makes this error, the bin could crack whilst it's in the air when the employee uses their truck equipment to lift it up. This could then result in the heavy items in the bin falling out and the bin itself having to be discarded by the rental company.

To prevent this, customers who know that they'll be putting lots of heavy things into their bins should mention this to the skip bin hire company owner. He or she may then provide them with a bin with a very high weight capacity that can cope with the heaviness of their refuse.