Owning your own home

So disposing of your building waste on a country lane isn't enough, you also have to burn it for extra points?
One of those things that makes me so angry, it's the same here in Germany.
If you can drive your shit to a quiet lane/the woods you can as well drive to a recycling centre. Unless you save money because no one ever gets caught, of course.

, just perplexed by the incredible insanity that is the UK property market

Plenty of places that aren't crazy, move to a Northern industrial town and you can pick up a bargain.

I think we are saying the same thing, which is that the hoped for Chinese demand did not materialise.

People do get caught just not the guys who actually do it.

What normally happens is someone doing DIY or small building works will have bags of rubbish outside their house. A person in a clapped out white van will offer to dispose of the rubbish for £xxx (amount varies but it is less than the cost of disposing of it legally). Said person proceeds to flytip the rubbish wherever they can. When the council eventually comes to clear it they will sift through it and look for evidence of who did it and if they find a receipt will prosecute the person who has been duped into paying someone to flytip.

Meanwhile the government's idea for tackling this is to make it MORE expensive for businesses and homeowners to dispose of rubbish.

Quite a few stained glass folk in Bristol.
Putting the original window in a new bespoke timber frame with glass either side seems best option buy split into 2 for the weight

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Thanks for this. The previous owners did that for the boiler and don't think anything bad came of it. My only concern of doing it there is how close it would be to my neighbours' windows. At my dad's house, steam going out strips the white paint on the wall outside and if I did that to their windows I'd know about it. Only met them once and I think I can tell (when asking if someone could stand on their porch to work on the window 'You'll need scaffolding / I'll need to check'

Would be great if I could fit a minimum bathroom where the sink and toilet are now, but i think it's too tight. If that dividing wall could go and I could end the bathroom at the edge of the window, that'd be good.

Really stuck on kitchen/bathroom layout design

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you also have to burn it for extra points?

Yup, make it harder to trace it.

Like those stolen European hatchback dotted in closed road around Kent.

Meanwhile the government's idea for tackling this is to make it MORE expensive for businesses and homeowners to dispose of rubbish.

Fucking hell yes, it is already expensive to the point that flytipping actually seemed very compelling to save a couple hundreds quid.

I was a fly-tipper once right next to the recycling centre because they wouldn't let me in without a car.

Ha had this once, went on a cargo bike with trailer and they turned me away. Rode in next door to the council tip/office place and had a word, they then let me in and no problems ever since. Think it was just some super jobsworth type asshole (I mean we have multiple vehicles, I just wanted to go by bike, because reasons)

Think its in the job title to work there.

Just to back up what @stevo_com said, it could be that this is making the room too dry. For the one we've just bought the laundry setting just keeps dehumidifying, whereas the standard (non-laundry) setting cuts out at a fixed humidity (40%-50%) depending on the setting.

You have to be particularly naive to let some cold caller take your rubbish away for a below market price. You should check their waste removal license. If you don't, you can have no complaints when someone comes knocking.

In my experience a lot of homeowners don't know the cost of removing waste. When I organise a skip for a client as part of work I'm doing in their house 90% of the time the cost comes as a shock. Sometimes the client will ask me to bag up waste so they can dispose of it themselves. What they do afterwards I don't know but if someone comes along and offers to get rid of the problem for relatively little money I'd imagine more than one or two people would be tempted

FYI there is no such thing as a waste removal licence. There is a waste carrier's licence, it costs £164 and lasts 3 years, most people who own a commercial vehicle have one.

FYI there is no such thing as a waste removal licence. There is a waste carrier's licence,

Apologies

What is the cost of a skip?

In my experience a lot of homeowners don't know the cost of removing waste.

100%, caught me out the first time.

The most recent 8 yard skip (medium size for domestic builders) I hired was £245.

That is outside London hiring from a skip company I do regular business with so I would imagine that in London it would be more, also most people would have to pay for a parking suspension so they had somewhere to put it as well as hoarding round the skip to stop the neighbours filling the thing up.

We had a great deal from a waste carrier collecting scrap wood from our workshop for a few months. Turned out it was too good to be true. Nephew was pocketing the cash while processing the stuff on his uncle’s account at the tip. All good from a chain of custody perspective but not so great for the uncle running the business 🤨

Had a skip at work recently fired between a few of us, not much change from £300
Within 1 day thing was full of all the neighbours junk, thankfully have good cctv so went and suggested they remove it, after a day most of them bothered, but was still a load of building materials and personal junk, put footage into council (felt like a right nimby) who spent more than the 20 seconds that I did working out who was who, they found two persistent offenders in vans that they'd been trying to get for a while. No action against neighbours just two fake waste removal types.
In Glasgow they've just got rid of free bulk collection of waste (you had to book items like fridges and other dangerous items) from back lanes (Inc in council tax), to a ring and pay us and we'll think about removing it system.
Immediate massive increase in fly tipping all over city and just outside of it. Le sigh.

Thanks

And going to the dump is an absolute shambles too, its like they wanted an increase in fly tipping. Usual from GCC

I like how a normal estate car with a roof rack on can barely fit inside the anti (van/truck?) railings they put on. Seen as most folk round here now have suv type cars, automatically means they couldn't drive to the tip if they wanted to.

they found two persistent offenders in vans that they'd been trying to get for a while. No action against neighbours just two fake waste removal types

Seriously impressed that you managed to get the council to do something about this. A conspicuous CCTV camera trained on a skip seems like a good precaution, one to remember.

Because I'm doing lots of bitty work in stages, I constantly have rubbish out front (my side of the garden wall, obvs). I don't want my neighbours so have to look at a tip so I try and at least keep it neat. I tend to save it up until there's enough to make it worthwhile getting someone to clear it, and I use a local firm who are listed as licenced carriers on Croydon's website.

But, because it's out front, as has been said, I get a lot of chancers. Some guy just yesterday offered to do it for £30 (usual cost from the firm I use is about £200 for what I can reasonably fit out front without it being an eyesore). Even the bin men are at it. They were taking the recycling bins late the other week (paper and card, I think) and they rang the door bell. I thought they were going to tell me I had put something stupid in the wrong bin. But he said "we'll take this away for you", pointing at the old laminate flooring and bags of underlay. Because I wasn't expecting this conversation, I thought he meant they'd just do it as part of their run, like some kind of extra service. So I just said "oh, thanks, that's very kind". But then he stood there in silence before saying "we normally do it for a bit of pocket money". Then I twigged and just said I'd sort it myself. It was only after I realised they were just going to hoof it into the back of the bin lorry with the recycling.

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