Owning your own home

Those are commonly known as dumpy bags, normally seen filled with sand for building etc. You used to be able to buy second hand ones from the tip for a quid, not sure if you can anymore.

I need to do this, whats the source on those white bags? how do you move them (to the front?) once they are filled?

We had loads of moving rugs that our movers didn't want to take back with them. I ended up bundling up all the brambles and shit in them, then driving them to the tip and unloading the bundles into the green waste bin.

interesting .. so for the same I will have to Zipvan is as lewisham are cunts and wont accept things brought on a bike

I mean I transfer the shredded stuff into my brown bin, supplied by Croydon, and they empty it every other week. Haven't had to go to the dump yet.

The sacks are just a holding space while the bin is full

how do you shred?

sorry I am just a child in an adult's body.

lewisham are cunts and wont accept things brought on a bike

https://lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/wasterecycle/reuse-and-recycling-centre-covid has opening times for 'Vans, pedestrians, and bikes'. Perhaps they have changed?

Some councils don't care where you live, could you take it elsewhere with a similar journey?

if you guys ever move to india I can tell you how to do these things e.g once I spotted a neighbour burning leaves and took a bucket of water, jumped over fence and poured it over, then we fought loudly for 30 mins or so.

I went to his wedding next month.

I bought one of these, it is mostly a 2.5kw motor with spinning blades and a chute;

https://www.screwfix.com/p/mac-allister-mis2500-2500w-80kg-hr-cutting-shredder-220-240v/354fg

I justified it by originally planning to get someone in to do the clearing and that would have cost waaay more. So with this, big bulky stuff gets chopped down to more manageable stuff.

It is great for sticks and thick roots. Up to about 1.5" in diameter. Leafy soft stuff is no good. You have to be able to get it through the hole and pushed down into the blades (which are revesible for when, like me, you try and stick a bit of rusted iron in there that you thought was a root - and replacements along with the allen bolts are easily found on ebay). It's like stabbing someone with a wet rope at times (any man approaching 40 knows what I'm talking about).

But when you get the hang of it, it's great. Massively reduces the overall volume of stuff. I've fed mine with holly, ivy, brambles, rose hip and laurel so far.

The shredder is fairly safe. I would not be able to get my hands near the blades either from the top or bottom. It can block up on the output, but that's easily cleared. Some people have even removed some of the safety vanes on the output to help with that, but I haven't yet.

excellent! thank you.

I have a Bosch thing https://www.bosch-diy.com/gb/en/p/axt-25-d-0600803100-v21316

I wanted the TC but no one had any stock of that. It is fantastic at munching through sticks, wonderful noise.

I nearly bought that one, but went for the lower cost as I wasn't sure yet that a shredder would do what I wanted. Next time round I'd go for the bosch. The bin must be handy too. I have mine over the edge of one of those bags so it's not so bad. But would be handy to just dump the bosch bin directly into the brown bin.

@amey - if you have the space/funds, go for the bosch

The Macallister is pretty quiet (unless it's munching something particularly beefy) so I reckon it's been well balanced. Satisfying, meaty HUMMMMM when it's idling.

if you have the space/funds, go for the bosch

bought

comes with a bag too

jealous

never thought my first shredder would be for garden

You'll never put a whole stick in the bin again

So our council tax is going up by 5.3% and also having to pay for garden waste on top of that.

Rant moan etc.

You can buy them from Screwfix/Toolstation for a few quid. I use them constantly as they squish up better then rigid containers and I can tie the tops to avoid spillage

I have a few tonne and a few half tonne. I find this size works best for me

Yeah, but (and check my privilege), paying £150 a month even just to have someone come by my house on a regular basis and take all of my rubbish, shitty nappies (not mine, yet) and recycling away (even lifting my bin over the wall when I forget to put it out) seems like something I'm willing to pay. Then the £65 a year to save me from having to drive to the dump/get garden shit all over the inside of my car, is another bargain.

Let alone all the other shit that Croydon needs right now.

Actual CSB

Your council tax pays for Adult Social Care (or, it almost does). Everything else is a bonus.

Sigh, another offer we put in at asking price (having been told it would go to full and final offers) was trumped by someone with a deposit only a little bit more than ours and the vendors asking the winning bidder to up their offer by £10k

Where do i find inspiration for nice carpet? Ive not lived somewhere that wasn't all nice wooden flooring of some form for a while.

The bedroom (and office) upper floor of our place was stripped back to the pine floorboards and painted, but they're soft, squeaky, gappy, and very noisy.
Carpet seems to make sense but I struggle to picture nice carpet.

I was contacted about a house that we registered interest in (by automated email as it turns out) saying it had been reduced (been on the market since August), went to have another look at the listing and it's gone up 10k!?!

Called the agent and yep that's what's happening.

I’m close to the posting letters of interest through people’s letter boxes stage