Just completed the most disgusting household task of my life...

[ShackUp]

...I can post pics on request!!

Refuse collectors missed out our section of the close last week, so 3 weeks' worth of rubbish in green bin, with another week to go.

Went to bing another black bag in this morning, green bin ALIVE with maggots, literally couldn't see any green.

Phoned the council, they're able to pick it up in 4 days as long as I leave maggoty bin on drive 😱

Nose-peg on. Took all the black bags out, quadruple-bagged them, bleached bin inside and out, washed bin out with several kettles of boiling water, jeyes powder in, quadruple-bagged bins back in.

Nice clean very full bin now sitting neatly on drive. I've set fire to my clothes and bathed in dettol and feel marginally better for killing spree

Still feel like I'm crawling with maggots though

Gah, that must have been minging. I think you should post the photos, so we can all vicariously shudder with you!

When we have maggots in our green bin (food & garden waste, unbagged) I wait till it's emptied then put it on its side in the hen enclosure for then to have a feast 🤣.

It does make my skin crawl when I see them though.

Eeep!!

I found 5 maggots on my brown bin last week. That’s the first time I’ve ever found any! I wash my bins out every time they’re emptied which I think helps. It certainly helps with the smell and gunk factor.

Oh god I saw one maggot the other day in the black bin I’m still shuddering. Running away now before pics are posted

🤢🤮

Lucky hens!

We've got a perfect storm of DS2's nappies (he's 2 so they're peak grimness) and a cluster fly infestation somewhere in the roof.

The pics aren't that spectacular because I only thought to take them (to show DH) about halfway through. Should've taken a maggot selfie, come to think of it, to prove I was there.

Do I need MN to post a warning if I put photos up? ⚠️

Possibly @ShackUp - not for the feint hearted

I'm just here for the photo

Oh god, I always thought if everything was in bin bags there wouldn't be any maggots. Will I get maggots?! Some food waste but no nappies in my bin.. Now I'm terrified of opening the bin later today...

Oh OP you have my sympathies, I had to do that the other week. I've started putting Zoflora in the bin every time I put something in there and (fingers crossed) it seems to be working

If you just leave them and wait, they hatch into bluebottles and will simply fly away when you lift the bin lid. They’re just a natural larval stage, exactly like caterpillars becoming butterflies. I think people just find the wiggling a bit yukky.
They perform a useful function in digesting your waste meat products. Try to think of them as miniature carrion crows, or tiny wingless vultures!

Oh the nappies bit is grim!

You say you put nappies in the bin ? do you wrap them up complete with poo (I know most people do). If you do then poo should be going down the loo.

If not them you have my sympathy, I hate the little nasty buggers.

Not even thinking about OH and DS who have just gone off to actually buy the wriggly things, s they are known in our house

I had to do similar the other week at one of our rented properties. Black bins are on a fortnightly collection and one tenant has a cat. The cat catches all sorts of wildlife which the tenant put in the wheelie bin as it was, not in a bag, and has been doing the same with the cat litter trays. One of the neighbours complained to us about the flies and smell! DH said I should have left it for her to clean out but there was no way after seeing all that, that I thought she'd do it properly or do it at all.

Like you I wanted to burn my clothes and the smell was stuck in my nostrils for days after!!

bab am totally on-side with the maggots, they're performing a uniquely useful function eating shitty nappies - I just had to make sure the neighbours didn't know

Here is a bin pic! This is after I'd taken the maggoty bin bags out and bleached/boiled the bin a bit, so not as spectacular as it could be been!

PMSL at a maggot selfie!!!!!!

Is the pic up? I can’t see it.

Apols for typos, autocorrect is determined to render me illiterate. Hope the posts make sense.

Here is poor bin now. The white stuff is Jeyes Powder no fucking idea but it looked poisonous not maggots

Maybe I'll go round the outside of the bin with a baby wipe

I'm the world's worst slattern ('slut' as some UKIP MEPs would have it). I don't think I'm good with executive function so I never know which order to do practical stuff in. I'm quite proud of myself this morning

What a horrible job well done!

I feel your pain OP, in order to get into my back garden you kind of have to squeeze past the green bin sometimes (if its been placed weird the night before) did this last week and felt this weird sensation of something dropping onto my lower legs/feet? kind of like hailstones/heavy rain sensation. Looked down and it was in fact loads of maggots that i had knocked loose from the bin when i tried to squeeze past. Queue instant internal and external screaming cry

I can't see a picture. That is properly grim though I think you deserve some sort of medal.

scrivette you are the first person in 37 years to congratulate me on any household task!

I'm being rewarded with an episode of Pokémon XY with DS1. Gotta Catch 'Em All! (The maggots).