Skips.

Now, here’s a recurring problem that confronts builders time and time again. Your job will need a skip, your builder has included it in the price and it arrives on site. Hopefully that’s where it goes on site away from your friends and neighbours.
You’ve noticed skips out on the road with boards and tarps over them? That’s because they’re being left there over night. Why cover them, so they don’t get filled up at dead of night by your neighbours and various travelling itinerant skip fillers.
You see it’s not illegal to chuck stuff into a builders skip but it is illegal for him to drag it all out in the morning in a rage and leave it on the pavement! Why would he do that? Because the thing has probably just cost him £250 and if it gets filled up with other people’s rubbish, he has to hire another one!
That’s open and shut. But what happens if you decide to fill the skip when it’s on your property being used on your job. Obviously you think it’s your skip or you wouldn’t have filled it and lets face it, you will be paying for it ultimately, so is it yours?
It’s a difficult one, so lets move the goalposts a bit. What if, one weekend when he wasn’t there, you decided to build a porch and helped yourself to the bricks he’d just had delivered for your rear extension. They’re your bricks after all, you will ultimately be paying for them. Would you really expect him just to shrug it off and buy a load more out of his own pocket? If you just said yes, then think again!
The space in the skip is the same as the bricks, it’s been allocated, accounted for, there won’t be any left over at the end. If you use it, you will be just as much a thief as if you nicked his bricks. Now then, you don’t want to be shamed in the local paper as the areas first “space thief” do you? No, so go to the tip like a good boy.
Oh, by the way, what will the builder do with any bricks he does have left over?…. Why, he’ll chuck ‘em in your skip of course!