To not stop people raiding our skip?

[pepperyrocket]

We're having work done in our house at the moment so there's a skip outside with our old bathroom, rafters, bricks etc in.

Today a truck drove up and two men started loading the old bathroom stuff into it. They'd driven off before I could decide whether to run out and stop them.

It is stealing (and trespassing...) but surely it's just going to waste anyway?

Should I have gone out all guns blazing??

Take the metal to a scrap yard - cover the cost of the skip. You'd be shocked how much you get for it.

In the Autumn we hired a mini skip intending to clear the garage and garden but filled it with old fridge, metal garden furniture, old bike and other rubbish. No room for garden rubbish and we were kicking ourselves for not paying for a bigger one.
The day after, we went to work and came back to an empty skip!
Room for garden stuff after all.
Moral of this story: never pay for a big skip because you'll get to fill a small one twice.
:o

jubilee : People wouldn't generally help themselves where we live so we have to take our rubbish and leave it outside my dsd's house. Goes like magic!
Too posh where you live or rural? I thought they went everywhere!

Fairly rural, (Scottish Highlands) end of quiet cul-de-sac, a wee bit posh. Dsd, through road, lots of passing traffic. Great for moving things on.

I always put anything vaguely decent next to the bin so people can easily help themselves, my version of freecycle and it's nice that all my junk doesn't end up in landfill. I live in Africa, the leaving rubbish on the pavement probably wouldn't go down well in the UK