Owning your own home

Are you right or left handed? That is to say, after rinsing the crap off a heavy dish do you want to be holding it in your right or left hand as you try and ram it into the dishwasher?

Just in case anyone is thinking about using VSA Group for renovations, this is how they cart away their rubble. Note the cap trying to doubly secure the loose stuff with another ratchet strap. He gave up after about 5 minutes of blocking the side road I park on. Then they took off with tyres about to explode and no number plate on the trailer.

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Super easy to fly-tip though, so, you know, silver linings and all.

I imagine that's exactly what happened on the first sharp corner. Whatever happened, they're back again this morning with an empty trailer.

S90 MTA - for posterity

I rarely if ever see any flytipping in Denmark, but see it mentioned frequently on here. Does it happen due to lack of recycling stations or price or something else?
In Copenhagen we paid around £40 for an hours access. A recycling station was never more than 5(?) km away and a few were open 24/7.

It's free to take your own domestic waste to the local council run site but commercial waste (which includes paying someone to take away your old fridge) has to pay for disposal.

Doesn't really matter how much the actual disposal cost is there is always room to undercut the people doing it properly by flytipping.

OK. Domestic waste is free here too. Maybe the labour market plays a part too then. Our hourly wages for craftsmen are quite high, so £40 on top of the price is less than an hours wage.

One big cause seems to be unscrupulous landlords dumping stuff. You see plenty of mattresses being dumped.

It's also pretty difficult to get rid of stuff without a car.

London has some of the worst fly-tipping in the UK. Most authorities turn a blind eye to grey areas that lie between boroughs as they don't want to be responsible and are bad at cooperating with one another.

Hopefully, the GLA will continue to work on it... it's also a problem when it comes to roads/infrastructure.

A lot of the things I see flytipped aren't really linked to craftsmen. It's things like old sofas and fridges. Difficult to take to the dump yourself, even if you have a car they might not fit. So you pay someone to take it away and they then dump it and keep the change.

We’re a country who voted to leave the EU, voted for a straw thatched boiled gammon to be our anointed leader and in majority a nation of idiots. So we’d rather dump rubbish than pay to have it disposed properly even though the cost will ultimately be consumed somewhere along the line.
At least we’re consistent, anyone remember the national wealth fund we built from the North Sea oil?

Well, we're a nation of idiots too. And I'll assume our North Sea oil fund is as big as yours...

Ah. Almost every apartment complex has a place for stuff like that and the council does pickups - both for apartments and houses.

there's a communal waste disposal area attached to the council estate a bit down the road from us. folks are supposed to put their rubbish in the one big ol steely wheely wotnot provided but it just get overwhelmed with shite in a matter of hours resulting in a giant fucking eyesore made up of people's unwanted crap (toys, old furniture, knackered white goods and no small amount of bussed in and dumped builders waste). The good thing is, someone - council presumably - clears it up. But that just makes way for another pile of crap. Part of me wonders if perhaps it's best if they don't clean up after these feral shits and let them drown in their own feculence. There's a proper fucking tip down the road, but nah - easier just to dump it on the pile and let some other poor sap deal with it.

subhuman scum.

Bulky collection from my council is £35+. I tried to work out when they would come but I have to book a collection to get a date. given there are no charge cancellation options if cancelled more than 7 days before collection day it doesn't seem all that swift.

My Google search to find the council bulky waste collection service turned up an advert from someone that will be round same day, no idea how reputable they are.

I've never seen a bulky refuse items place for a block of flats either.

I've ordered new mattresses for my daughters so will have this problem soon.

That is looking fantastic, I am mucho jealous, my whole house needs that kind of work to be honest but no way we can afford it.

Thanks. It's getting squeaky bum time on costs. This project might break me yet!

Fly tipping every day in E17... had a load dumped on my road this week.
Looks like landlords clearing out dodgy rentals.
I would genuinely be fine with public executions for fly tippers.

Do you have a current project thread for this bathroom reno BRO?
Would be interested if so...

in a previous flat I lived in, trying to get rid of a mattress, paid council £30 odd was told to leave it in a specific location and it would be collected within a week.

someone saw me put the mattress and told me to take it back and that I couldn't dump stuff there, told them council told me thats where they collected it from and with some back and forth passive aggression, went on my way.

next morning mattress was infront of my flat block door, clearly moved back by busy body who saw me.

it was there for at least 3 weeks before it finally disappeared, council or not, who knows who picked it up in the end, there was no comms.

On the fabled labouring job I did for Fiddy, I dug the foundations for a conservatory. Heaped the spoil up in the garden as instructed, the builder was going to get someone to clear it.

The folks who turned up, seemed to be a couple, and her mum (or they were siblings, or both statements are true), in a knackered transit, with no tools. They borrowed my shovel and went door to door picking up the rolls of orange plastic recycling bags. They got about two shovel fulls into each bag and carted them between them into the back of the van.

The builder handed them a wad of cash and they fucked off. Only for a neighbour to come up and say they had got around the corner and just turfed all the bags out onto the pavement. Builder rang them and they just said their van was sounding funny and they'd be back. They did not come back.

I had to then use a knackered wheel barrow to bring it all back up Gipsy Hill to the skip the builder then forked out for. I could have done that in the first place and only had to shift it 30 yards, on the flat.

Used to see building waste dumped all the time around Harringay . Not as often as plaid mattresses though

Because I'm end of terrace stuff gets left next to my house for some reason. Some bloke across the road was very surprised when I returned the table he'd "forgotten" next to my house.

Poor people, eh, aren't they disgusting?!?