something handy to know

[devonwoody]

I wanted to have my old freezer taken away to the tip.
Local man asked £40.
Council asked £14.

Passed our local garage which had vans for hire and said I want to take a freezer up the tip can I have the van for an hour. Negotiated £10. Going to call in B & Q on the way back for a new door. So this sort of thing could be handy for timber collections.

 

[wizer]

hehe All we have to do is leave stuff like that at the end of the drive. They'll be gone within the hour.

 

[devonwoody]

hehe All we have to do is leave stuff like that at the end of the drive. They'll be gone within the hour.

Its a bit large to put in a charity bag isn't it.

 

[StevieB]

TGBs round our way don't even bother to ask sometimes - anything like that is gone before you can stick a sign on it!

Steve

 

[Ironballs]

I've got a bust 32" CRT TV sat by the bin at the minute, been there since the weekend. Could do with someone lifting that but no chance. Speaking of lifting it's one of those cunningly designed models with no handholds, just a a couple of razor sharp ledges that destroy your hands and so placed that the TV wants to overbalance as soon as you pick it up.

Resorted to putting it on a sheet, dragging it to the door and then doing a lift with the sheet

Good call with the TGBs by the way

 

[Night Train]

Good call on the van.

This is why I have built two trailers, one big, clean and water proof box and another open and extending for big or long stuff that doesn't mind the weather.

 

[maltrout512]

A friend of mine put a working order fridge freeze outside his house with a sign on it saying Free Please Help Yourself. It sat there for nearly a week when he decided to change the sign to, For Sale £25.00. The fridge disappeared over night.

 

[kityuser]

TGBs?

Steve

 

[RogerS]

TGBs?

Steve

I'm guessing something to do with certain roaming personages with larcenous tendencies and of dubious parental relationships?

 

[wizer]

THE GYPSY BOYS

No signs needed outside our house. About 4 of them come past at varying times of the day. My neighbours (both sides) sadly died recently. Their respective families have got skips outside, clearing the houses out. Every night I come home and the skips are less full than when I left.

This is why I don't like working with my workshop door open!

 

[RogerS]

THE GYPSY BOYS

No signs needed outside our house. About 4 of them come past at varying times of the day. My neighbours (both sides) sadly died recently. Their respective families have got skips outside, clearing the houses out. Every night I come home and the skips are less full than when I left.

This is why I don't like working with my workshop door open!

Oh.. :shock: Not Thieving G...... then :wink:

 

[devonwoody]

I had to take the freezer up the tip myself, nobody took it away. :wink:

 

[CHJ]

I'm surprised you have to pay for council collection John, bulky items here get collected FOC.

http://www.stroud.gov.uk/docs/environment/recycling/bulky_items.asp

Used to be just for senior citizens but now for anyone, reduces fly tipping problems.

 

[devonwoody]

CHJ, our local refuse people are on a private contract to our Borough Council, they even block our roads when collecting refuse and nothing will budge them

 

[CHJ]

John, the household waste refuse collection here is contracted out, but it is the environment section of the council that manages the bulk refuse.

Have you checked your local council web site?

 

[devonwoody]

John, the household waste refuse collection here is contracted out, but it is the environment section of the council that manages the bulk refuse.

Have you checked your local council web site?

Thanks chas, I will check it out but the freezer has now gone, but perhaps next time!

Anyway driving the van myself this morning made me feel like a young man, (it had got 6 forward gears! )