Buyers want wheelie bins included.. after discount

If you move out of your local authority area, you might find that your old bins are incompatible with the lorries ... and that a reasonable previous occupant has left theirs for you anyway.

I wonder if these bin charging councils are also the ones with the highest council tax

Some councils have loads of bins, imagine having to load them on the removal van, taking up loads of room

Take it!

We didn't and had to pay £50 to the council for a new one that, when it finally turned up weeks later, was half the size of the original bin.

We live in Cornwall and wheelie bins are provided by the council, in fact everyone has just been given new bins and food waste caddies.

I would expect to leave them behind if we ever moved, along with all the other recycling stuff.

You sound quite difficult to be honest.
Never in a million years would you take bins with you.

Who cares about some old ashes anyway, they are for the relatives surely so do what you want with them.

Never knew councils provided bins

Our council for it's many, many faults provided bins to each house and I thought they were part of the sale so I left them whenever I've moved.

The new houses had bins left for me to use. You will end up with multiple bins if you take yours surely?

I live in the UK and we buy our own wheelie bins and take them with us when we move .

Was a bit of an eye opener to me as in England bins were supplied by the council and stayed with the house

Where I live, and in every neighbouring council everyone has a green waste bin for food and garden waste, only flats don't have a large green wheelie bin....so I challenge your "most people"

And the councils here require developers to pay them to supply them for new builds which seems reasonable as its a new property that will need to be collected from. The payment covers admin and delivery not just the bin.

People move house every day.....can you imagine the extra work, and truck journeys, and money spent if everyone had to buy new bins (4 for us!) When they moved in?
My street is one council, the adjoining Street is a different council. We both have 4 bins each but different colours and different collection days (and all with council logo on) so putting your purple bin out when everyone else is on grey is going to cause confusion.

I thought you might be in Ireland @Sellthishousetorhosecunts

Who takes wheelie bins when they move house? We do!

I remember moving ours in the boot of my car (one at a time) when we moved from rented to our new home about 10 miles away.

If you’re in rural Ireland, there’s no council bin collection services so you have to set up a contract with a private contractor for rubbish removal. Ours costs around €300 a year. Some people don’t bother and try to use other people’s bins, so a bin lock on the lid is essential.

The cottage across from us is used as a holiday home and they used to try and bung their crap in our bin when they went home. I wouldn’t have minded if they’d at least stuck to the rules and put the recycling in the correct bin instead of bags full of crap that poor DH had to empty out and sort, before he could put the bins out for collection!

I live in an area where you have to buy your own bin. And I've never had a wheelie bin (I live on my own, and have barely any non-recyclable rubbish)! They said, I would probably leave my dustbin (it has my house number and street name on it).

Haven’t the bins got the house numbers on them and don’t they in that sense belong to the property?

We took ours....

It was a 360 rather than the normal 240 size though

Yes, councils charge now if you need a new bin for any reason.....like if the previous owner took it with them.
But they also delivered them for free to every house in their area when they first introduced them, and they require developers to pay for them for new builds. So every house had them and if people didn't take them with them still would.
Councils can only collect waste in containers that suit their collection vehicles so buying random bins from amazon seems stupid.

The bins have to stay.

Nan is a whole other issue …

That wouldn't bother me. The people in my mums old house don't know my dad's ashes are under the rose bush

The bins do not belong to the council. New builds do not have bins provided by the council. Bins belong to the householder.

Most sane people leave them, apart from the garden waste bins because most people don’t have them.

Wouldn’t dream of taking them .Whilst I understand that they belong to the seller , I assumed it was an unwritten rule to leave them - a bit like the light bulbs ?

Weird...

As people have said the bins belong to the council and you should leave them at the house.

Mine also have the house number on it so it would be odd and impractical to take them somewhere else...

Seriously leave them at the house. If you are buying somewhere else the owners will also have left the bins in situ.

Wow! It is staggering how petty and unpleasant people can be. I would have felt so disappointed in your friend's shoes having had to be on the receiving end of such spiteful rotters. I hope she has cleansed the property of their toxic energy !!

I have never known anyone to take bins with them, but we have lived in 2 new builds, one we had to buy bins from the council, one they were provided.

So replacements then....because someone took them when they shouldn't.

I suspect them asking that you leave the cat flap is because they know the kind of person you are. No one takes their cat flap with them either fyi. That would mean leaving a hole in the door..