Can I complain now or is it too late?

[rebl]

We completed on our house on 11th December. So dead of winter and then stupid amounts of snow etc. Today we've got into the garden properly and realised that the amount of rubbish left is just in astromonical amounts. We did think on the day we moved in that there was some stuff in the garden but when we move things we just find more. We've done 3 car loads to the tip today and we've not begun to touch it. There is piles of broken glass, rotten wood, breeze blocks, kitchen units, scrap metal. There is just tonnes of it and endless.

We don't mind the hard graft but its the constant trips to the tip, plus the mess its making of my car. We could get a skip but would need a large one which is expensive. Could we go back to the vendors via the solicitor and say that the garden wasn't vacant on possession and ask for them to pay for the skip? Or have we left it too late? We honestly didn't realise how much rubbish they had left until today.

[traumaqueen]

Definitely worth a try but unlikely you will get any joy from it.

Didn't you see all this c* when you were looking at the house?

I would have thought it would be cheaper in the long run to fork out for a skip and have it all done and dusted. Treat it as a present for yourselves!

[wingandprayer]

You could also contact your council. Ours will do one household collection a year for free of anything we want to get rid of. It's a bit of a palaver because you have to list it all, but they must have taken away two skip loads of similar crap from our place

[rebl]

traumaqueen We saw alot more crap than is actually there now and I think thats why we thought there wasn't much left on the day we moved in. TBH there is so much stuff under stuff, behind sheds etc, in sheds you just don't see it all.

wingandprayer Thanks for that, I'll call the council on Monday and see what they can offer. Do you just dump it on the driveway and they come and get it or do you have to put it in boxes because that would be a mare.

A mini skip round here is £60 so I hate to think how much a large skip is, plus I'm not sure we've got access for a large one so we'd end up having to pay more for multiple smaller skips.

[fanjolina]

Def try complaining.

Also look into whether there are people around who clear yards. We found that cheaper than skip hire when doing renovation work. Where in country are you?

[rebl]

fanjolina I didn't realise there were people who did that. I'll have a look in the yellow pages. We're in Cheshire.

[fanjolina]

Not close enough to me to recommend who cleared our yard then!

But a quick google has found a few firms in your area.
Here is one
and another
one more

Look in your local phone directories as well.

[rebl]

Thank you . I really hadn't realised there were people who did this stuff. Only problem would be we couldn't easily keep the 1% that we think we might want. Today for instance we found a greenhouse heater, in the greenhouse but it took a car load of rubbish to even find it and it was the only thing we kept.

[fanjolina]

Just stand by and watch as they clear then and tell them what stuff to keep. Set yourself up with a chair and a mug of coffee whilst they build up a sweat