To tell you I've just cleaned...

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My big outdoor bin (green here but yours might be a different colour).

It was GRIM! It absolutely stank and was full of stuff I don't even want to think about 🤢🤮

I've been avoiding it for a while months while I tried desperately to find someone I could pay to do it for me! Apparently that's not a thing where I live

No point to this post really except DH is at work so I've no one to tell how traumatic it was

Thanks!

All of our rubbish has to. Be tied in binbags before putting in the bin so it doesn’t need cleaning

I've never cleaned mine either. All of our rubbish is in bin liners so it doesn't seem to get very dirty.

YesQueen I thought I was doing well because my neighbour puts out & takes in my bins. He’s over 90 so occasionally I try & get ahead of him but am never quick enough.
Power washer and Zoflora - I’m going to tell him he needs to up his game!

@MrsFezziwig yeah he does all the putting out and taking in too
I also have a mysterious person who de ices my car every single day in winter. If I leave the house at 6am, it's scraped and de iced

There's a bloke that comes round once a month and cleans my wheelie bin. Best £4 I could spend.

Never cleaned any bins in my life - and we seem to survive

I've never done this, I just try not to look inside it tbh (general waste one is bagged though so can't be that bad).

I have a man and van for that job.
Good business - £3.00 a time and he does 16 houses in our road alone which takes him about an hour and a quarter.

I use a wheelie bin liner in mine and then just jet wash it once a month or so after its been emptied on bin day.
It never usually gets dirty due to the bin liner.

We have 2 kids in nappies and are a bit slack about just chucking them in on their own if they're stinky I'll leave the rest to your imagination!

I really don't understand why more don't start a business.
I power washed ours, black one it was awful.
When I lived in the UK there was a van who followed the bin lorry, gave it a good wash with a power hose and a bag for £3, every house got it down, a handy 900 euro a day around here, the bins are collected on different days for they can earn most days.

We have 2 kids in nappies and are a bit slack about just chucking them in on their own if they're stinky

Oh my God!

@Juells I know it didn't occur to me that might cause a problem tbh. I have well and truly learnt my lesson! Xx

I learned a horrible lesson when I started chucking my dog poo bags into my wheelie bin. All the other rubbish goes in bagged, but somehow the dog poo bags wiggled their way down through it all, then got squashed on the bottom by the weight of the bags above. The result wa truly disgusting, with burst bags stuck to the bottom of the bin.

TMI?

Eww that's worse I think!

So, my bins are fine, but in curious, where are you all emptying the water you use to clean these bins? What I mean to say is, you've made magot- filled water. Where are you putting that????

There's a chap who visits here and jet-washes the wheelie bins in the back of his truck for the princely sum of £2.50 each time. I love him. We have many pets and the thought of a dog-poo-bin-bottom makes me clench in places a lady shouldn't clench.

Birds love maggots. Tip them out, if you can, and leave them to it, before cleaning. We have a couple of young blackbirds who would think all their christmases have come at once.

Maggots are fairly normal in bins in hot weather (not that we've had any here, this year, thank goodness!)

My OH puts unwrapped nappies straight in the wheely bin. I only know this because the twat put them in recycling and they refused to take it.

We've since had new bins delivered and I was very excited that they were shiny and new. We have maggots already so I guess he's still up to his tricks. As a result I won't even take the rubbish out because I don't want a face full of flies if I open the lid. His mistake, he can deal with it.

As for washing it myself - hell no!!

I’ve never seen maggots in my bin but the water gets emptied down the grate drain.

We have lived in our house, and had the same wheely bin for almost 16 years

I have never cleaned our bin, nor paid someone else to do it and I'm sure as hell DH hasn't!

I actually enjoy cleaning but that is one job I cannot bring myself to do and pay to have it cleaned monthly.

I pay a lovely man in a van to clean my bin, as i just dont think I could do it. I'm only a little short arse (4"10.5) so I would probably have to climb right in to give it a good clean 🤣🤣🤣🤣

A massive high five to OP, I love a job well done!!!!