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How do I get my bin on to the main road?

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Gigantasaurous · 25/02/2021 21:38

A bit of a mundane topic
I've moved house and I'm living in a back to back terraced house, sort of an under dwelling. Tomorrow is bin day and my grey bin is full of the last Tennants crap and it weighs a ton. The problems is I need to somehow get it up approx 20 low steps (about half the height of a normal step) to get it to the main road as I dont suppose the bin men will collect it from the back.
I cannot get it up the steps at all, obvs its top late to knock on a neighbours door (who I am yet to meet) to ask for help and the rubbish bags have all split and it's pretty grim in there, so I dont really fancy trying to take some rubbish out before hauling the bin up.

Any magical solutions from wiser mumsnetters before I don my marigolds and a mask and have to get stuck in
Plus I dont really fancy having this issue every fortnight.. how do people get round it?

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redcandlelight · 25/02/2021 21:42

can you get it through the house?
ask your neighbours how they do it?

user18467425798532 · 25/02/2021 21:43

How did you try to get it up the steps? Lifting it or laying it close to the ground and dragging it?

Got any planks of wood to create a ramp? Or some kind of pulley system?! Tow rope on your car?!

user18467425798532 · 25/02/2021 21:44

Is there a road at the back? Are you sure about the collection route?

redcandlelight · 25/02/2021 21:45

or is there a bin collection point at the end of the all,ey?
listen out for the binsbeing wheeled about.

swapsicles · 25/02/2021 21:45

Any wood you can use as a ramp?
Long way round perhaps or even through the house? I had to do this when I moved in as mine was in the garden, only other way out was through the neighbors garden. Kept them out the front after that!

TheSpottedZebra · 25/02/2021 21:46

Ramp.

Where do other people's bins live - front or back.?

TheSpottedZebra · 25/02/2021 21:47

Oooh -it could be a trad terrace where you have right of way over the neighbours, so you go sideways?

GeidiPrimes · 25/02/2021 21:52

This won't be any help for your immediate problem, but round here the refuse collectors will accept rubbish in bags, but it has to be local council ones that you can obtain from them or the binmen. Much easier than dragging a wheely bin through the house. Worth finding out if you can do the same?

donewithitalltodayandxmas · 25/02/2021 21:58

Do you have access through neighbours ? My friend has terrace which backs on but they have right through middle of gardens? My mum had a terrace and they had to keep bins in front garden

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Gigantasaurous · 26/02/2021 13:40

Cant go through the house, mines sort of an under dwelling so there isnt a 'front door' to the main road.

I havnt seen any of the neighbours to ask, I just noticed their bins were at the top of the steps.

In the end I had to call my brother to come help me haul it up the steps but I dont think I can do that every other week

The steps are too long to make some sort of ramp, its roughly the length of two houses, but the steps are make really low and further apart presumably to help with the bin situation.

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Happytentoes · 26/02/2021 13:51

Can you leave it at the top of the steps and just run your rubbish to it ? Or will that be in neighbours way?

NoSquirrels · 26/02/2021 14:02

So do you need to keep it at the bottom of the steps all the time? Are there other houses like yours (cannot picture an ‘under dwelling’ is it like a basement flat?) and what do they do?

redcandlelight · 26/02/2021 14:05

ask your landlord, they should be able to tell you.
unless it's an unofficial/illegal conversion there must be arrangements for refuse collection.

flapjackfairy · 26/02/2021 14:08

What's an underdwelling ? I am intrigued.
I have a romantic vision of something akin to a hobbit house built into a beautiful hillside

Saisong · 26/02/2021 14:08

Presumably you will not fill the bin up with so much crap each week? Could you have moved the bin if it was less full? Otherwise leave it at the top and just run a bag up now and again?

CoffeeRunner · 26/02/2021 14:09

Totally irrelevant to the thread but, do you have no windows on the back of the house?

The only arrangement I can think of that might class as an Under Dwelling only has windows on one side. The house is sort of under a small flyover.

2bazookas · 26/02/2021 14:17

Listen for the bin men, go out and explain. and add "here's a fiver for anyone who will fetch it for me; it's just this once".

AnnieJ1985 · 26/02/2021 14:21

Going forward can you bag up your rubbish tightly, and on bin night lift some of the bags out to lighten the load until you get it up the steps, then add bags back in?

Admittedly it is a faff and possibly stinky!

Justforphoto · 26/02/2021 14:27

We have quite a few underdwelling houses in my area. The hillsides are very steep so you can have the main road running about 10m above the river by it so you will have one row of terraced houses that face onto the river but above them you will have another row of terraced houses that face onto the road, the top ones have windows both sides and normally a door that opens onto a balcony that runs the full length but the lower level will just have windows and a door at the front. The houses were all generally built about 150 years ago.

BarbaraofSeville · 26/02/2021 14:33

When I lived in a back to back the people round the back either kept their bins on the road side, or brought them round to the front on bin day.

Unless there's a road at the back, which a lot don't have, this is your lot and you have to be careful about what you put in your bin so you can move it, if you can't leave it at the front.

OP, a back to back seems to be something that few Mumsnetters have come across, all queries might need to be accompanied by a diagram to explain why it isn't possible to drag your bin through the other houses.

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Gigantasaurous · 26/02/2021 15:35

Maybe underdwelling isnt the right word? From the main road there is a 2 story terraced house, I'm below that and to the back, so only windows to the front of my (tiny) house, so no possibility to take the bin through the house. Justforphoto explains it best really.

Cant really leave the bin on the main road as it's a narrow pavement and if everyone did that it would leave little room on the pavement. My neighbour to the right of me, although very friendly and I'm sure helpful, doesn't speak enough english to understand my predicament when I met him this morning.

I notice only 2 other bins from my row up there, but the bin men deffinatley didnt come down for the bins.

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CallforHecate · 26/02/2021 15:42

So just to be clear, the only entrance to your house is down an alleyway and then down a long flight of steps? and your bin has to be kept at the bottom of this flight of steps and dragged up them every week for the gunmen?

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Gigantasaurous · 26/02/2021 15:52

Basically, yes

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ApolloandDaphne · 26/02/2021 16:20

In future I would tie up all your rubbish in black bags but keep them beside the bin. On bin day pull up your empty bin then take the bags of rubbish up and pop them in. Easier than lugging a heavy bin up.

CallforHecate · 26/02/2021 17:38

Can you leave your bin in the alley?

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