Buyers want wheelie bins included.. after discount

Now come on now Op, the stress of the move is clearly getting to you. With respect- get a grip - on Nans ashes yes, council bins no!

i moved into a new build last year. When I contacted the local council to ask for bins they said yes and that’s £72! £50 for the bins and £22 delivery. So I would argue the point that the bins belong to the council!

Currently moving and this hadn't even crossed my mind? They're surely part of the house?

Are you in the UK? Then you should know to leave your wheelie bin(s) 🤷🏼‍♀️

WTF?! I've never even considered taking the bins when we have moved house. And neither had the people we bought from. They stay with the house. 🙈

When a neighbour moved out, another neighbour went straight round to steal the bins they’d left for the new owners!

Are you quite mad?
What else do you think to take, C.H. radiators, the front door?

As others have said, they are the property of the council who supplied them in the first case. You have to pay for replacements, unless you can prove garbage peoples fault. So yr buyers will have to pay, unless they also bring their acceptable replacements.
If you move to a another council area, the bins are likely dif colour or style and would be ignored anyway.

Id leave the bins, the light bulbs and toilet seats. 😂 If you're moving to somewhere without bins I'd order them now if I was you. I bought new ones when I moved and they took weeks to come.

@PerkySnail yes!!! 🤣

Sorry, I didn't realise that! Wow. It'd be better buying them off Amazon just so you can take them with you when you leave!

I thought wheelie bins were owned by the council?! You can’t take them anyway and they won’t own them ?!

Things appear to have changed. When I bought my house 1980 the bins were supplied free. Now each one is £34. The bins have to be Council approved.
Request a Bin
Domestic Waste (Black) and Recycling (Blue) BinsA charge of £34.50 is made for the provision of new or replacement bins and also for additional recycling bins. Please note that you cannot order additional black bins.
The circumstances for charging for new or replacement bins include:

• Where a bin is reported lost or stolen;
• Where a bin is required for new properties ;
• Where a bin is required for new occupants at existing properties
• Where an additional recycling bin (blue) is required

@PerkySnail yes because you bought them from the council. You didn’t have to source you own bin. Some councils do not supply the bins at all and you have to source your own wheelie bin eg buy it off Amazon. Then the council do not own your bin in any way shape or form. It is yours do with as you wish - and mine go with me.

All I remember is the council lady telling me over the phone it is the property of the council when I argued about paying the £38. I said, we'd just moved in and there was no wheelie bin. We still had to pay for a replacement and was told its the property of the council. I wasn't impressed.

When we lived in Yorkshire and bought a new build house we had to buy our own from the council, they were £136 for 3 of them and they told us 4 days before we moved in. Waiting list for delivery was 6 weeks.
It’s up to the builder to request the council supply them as part of the purchase agreement but Redrow builders don’t do that. We still left them for our buyers when we moved out. I know what it’s like to move in without a bin after all!

Not when you have to source and buy them yourself. Not all councils provide wheelie bins - not even for a fee.

Eh, I would never think of taking a wheelie bin when I moved house, do people do this?

No the OP bought them - they aren't provided by her council

Nobody takes the bins, they are owned by the council!

The wheelie bins are not yours. They belong to the local Council. They are also part of the property you are selling. They stay with the property.

Fit nicely and brilliant transport and storage for tall plants. Went in the car.

My friend’s just bought a house and I was very bemused (and thought immediately of this thread) that sellers have taken bins with them! Well… they’ve taken 2. The third one (brown so I assume garden stuff) as I pointed out, they have converted into a water butt, complete with tap 🙄

Edit: Brown is for recycling there! I guess water collection kind of counts as recycling!

Haha I'd take them with if these people have really annoyed you but bear in mind they take up a huge amount of space so might require a bigger removals van?

We have to pay similar for ours but still the conditions are that they don’t belong to you and are kind of ‘rented’. They have to stay if you move

@PerkySnail nope. When the council tell you to source and pay for your own wheelie bins, they are most definitely yours and not the councils. If they provide them and ask you to pay an admin and delivery fee, then that is very different. Unfortunately not all councils operate the same way, consequently mine go with me when we move.