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AIBU?

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To empty out all the crap that someone has put into OUR skip!

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Twiddlebum · 16/08/2013 07:20

We have hired a skip (£150) and it is sitting out the front of our property (we have permission from the council) as we are sorting our house out before the arrival of our baby in 2 months.
Budget is tight but to save time we thought we'd hire the skip to just get it done without numerous trips to the tip in my fiesta but......... It got delivered yesterday and this morning it it full!!! The f***g cheek of it!! AIBU to remove all this stuff and leave it beside as it wasn't my stuff that was dumped there??
We do not have enough money to pay for this to be taken away and replace it with another

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frogspoon · 16/08/2013 10:26

OP, leave the skip a while and you might find that some of the crap... disappears.

When we had a skip, we had the opposite problem. We would put our rubbish in there, in the morning it was gone! It was great because it meant we could keep filling it up again and again!

PenguinBear · 16/08/2013 10:35

How long is the skip on your drive for? It's awful that people have filled it up with their crap.

I would wait till your stuff is ready to fill the skip then under the cover of darkness and get DP and a few of his friends to empty it all out onto the road and call the council saying its been dumped (which is technically true!)

quoteunquote · 16/08/2013 11:07

As a building contractor we have endless problems with skips,

It is illegal to add or take anything from a skip without permission,

but if someone has fly tipped you, and the items are in or on your property(in your skip) you are now responsible for them, if you take them out of the skip and put them on the road, you are then fly tipping.

we tend to use a license collection service, the local council will supply you with the contacts, they cost less than skips these days, but you do not have to pay for others rubbish,

You can appeal to the council to come and pick up the rubbish, but you will be very lucky if they do,

fly tipping is a huge problem as recycling yards are privatised and make it difficult for households to dump easily, so they dump their ripped out bathroom tile and plasterboard into farmers gateways,

as plasterboard cannot go into landfill because of the paper on it,

I would get advice as if you do put the items on the ground you could end up with a hefty fine.

thebody · 16/08/2013 11:11

what a bloody cheek.

mrsminiverscharlady · 16/08/2013 11:26

How bloody annoying!

KhloeKardashian · 16/08/2013 11:43

What a cheek, sadly it looks like you have to suck it up.

MoominsYonisAreScary · 16/08/2013 11:49

My dsis had a skip people kept taking stuff out, saved her a fortune. I wouldn't be paying fir other peoples crap in my skip

mrsminiverscharlady · 16/08/2013 12:00

Hey - that's an idea! Why not put on freecycle/Gumtree that you've got a skip full of stuff and people are welcome to come and skip-dive. You might be able to get rid of some of your own stuff too.

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 16/08/2013 12:57

Get a Hippo bag instead. It's cheaper for a start and you can keep it folded up in your house until you need to use it. We had one recently.

www.hippobag.co.uk/

Fairylea · 16/08/2013 14:56

I feel your pain.

We had exactly the same thing happen to us recently.
We hired a massive skip to have a total clear out. It was delivered quite late in the day and we half filled it and went to bed.

At about 3.30am (I know because I was up with our baby) I heard a big thud and looked out to see a group of lads in a pick up truck throwing two huge old mattresses on top of our skip!!

I was livid! Dh called out to them but they got back in the truck and drove off!

I was so angry as apart from anything else they'd obviously seen our skip and gone home and specifically come out at some random time of night to do it!

Sneaky fuckers!!

Coconutty · 16/08/2013 15:02

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quoteunquote · 16/08/2013 15:28

Because of the cost involved we have either pick up only, or locking skips, if we have an open skip at anytime we have to pay someone to stand next to it at all times.

Caboodle · 16/08/2013 15:46

Are you me?
Same thing happened to me recently - builders working on houses over the road started to dump their plasterboard etc in our skip. Fortunately I caught them at it - unfortunately I decided to go out and shout at them...at 8.30 am...in my nightie.
It worked though - they emptied their rubbish sharpish. They didn't seem to see a problem with it though.

jessicagreen22 · 28/10/2013 11:34

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Lilacroses · 28/10/2013 11:47

The bloody cheek of some people! When we last had a skip we invented a semi humourous game called "skipwatch" whereby one of us sat in the living room on the rocking chair at all times waiting to see whether people would take stuff out (hooray!) or attempt to put stuff in (grrr)! We caught a couple of people putting stuff in and soon scared them off by simply opening our door and staring! Not easy for everyone or very persistent skip abusers though!

TheSmallClanger · 28/10/2013 11:51

Emptying it out would be flytipping, which is illegal and anti-social.

I feel less sympathetic towards you than I might have done after your snooty comments about council estates.

Longtallsally · 28/10/2013 11:58

Can you burn the contents in the skip and then fill it with your own stuff? Or do you live in a smoke free zone/risk burning down your house?

TheWomanTheyCallJayne · 28/10/2013 11:58

Have a quick nosy to see of there are any clues as to who did it.

I don't understand why it's the skip holders responsibility. If these people dumped stuff on another persons drive I'm sure that's some kind of criminal offence.

Jan49 · 28/10/2013 12:00

I think if you hire a skip you need to be organised to fill it the same day so that no one else can fill it overnight. Or use a junk company which collects the stuff from you instead. There's also one called Hippobag (sorry, not sure if it's OK to mention a name) where they deliver a large folded bag and you use it like a skip. That avoids the problem of someone else dumping their rubbish in your skip.

holidaysarenice · 28/10/2013 12:02

They will have left something with their name and address.

Tip it out, call the council, don't tell them you tipped it out. They will clear it. If their is a name and address tell the council exactly that, that you had a look and this name is on it.

Icelollycraving · 28/10/2013 12:02

jessica how handy that you could point us to a company. On an old thread.

Lilacroses · 28/10/2013 12:10

Oh right......!

Jan49 · 28/10/2013 12:13

I know it's an old thread but the info about dealing with it is still relevant. Unfortunately it's probably not a good idea to have a skip delivered and leave it empty overnight. You have to be ready to fill it or use alternatives. When I was clearing my garage I used a car for most of the junk and a junk company charged around £50 to do one load of the stuff that was too big for a car.

TheWomanTheyCallJayne · 28/10/2013 12:17

Must remember to check dates

whatever5 · 28/10/2013 12:37

We had the opposite situation as someone/people kept taking stuff out of our skip. We then asked our neighbours if they wanted to put anything in which they did and that got taken as well! Obviously I would have been happy for people to take stuff if they had asked but I wasn't happy about people just walking into our front garden to have a look!

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