To not let neighbours put skip on my grass?

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Neighbours who are lovely, are having their roof replaced and want to put a skip on our grass for 2 weeks!

I’ve said yes to them putting the scaffolding on our property as long as any damage is rectified but I feel a skip in my front garden for 2 weeks is a little bit much!

Am I being a bad neighbour?

It will damage your lawn, especially this time of year. A permit on road sounds better. But failing that, they do need to pay for repair of lawn.

I like that tie thinking this through and trying to help them OP, that’s definitely a lovely neighbourly a attitude. I would do it for my neighbours.

It's probabaly been said but watch out for when the skip arrives.

We had a skip on our lawn when we had an extension built. Nearly 9 years later the grass has still never properly recovered there. Weeds grew back instead of grass and despite putting down some grass treatments it hasn't really improved.

I would not let a neighbour put a skip on my lawn. You sound like you are being very helpful already but you are entitled to say no to your lawn being wrecked.

Is it a skip or a RoRo

I know you said no already but I just wanted to say not to allow it on your drive either (incase you change your mind), we had ours on our drive and it left great big rust stains on it :(

We had a skip on our drive and the driver smashed it through our front window! We had to have the whole bay window replaced. I was especially gutted as I’d just had a new window cill made and fitted and it was destroyed! Is say no lol

I'd say no, my parents were stuck with a skip outside theirs for 6 weeks as the company never came back for it - they only wanted it for 1 week! My Dad phoned them several times and eventually had to threaten them with calling the police before they uplifted it. Your grass will definitely be dead even if it is on rollers - its the lack of light that will kill it off.

We had a skip on our drive and the driver smashed it through our front window!

How the hell did they manage that😱😱

I live in a listed building so any damage would be ££££

We've had our bathroom and kitchen redone in the last year, and both times the installers wanted to use our drive for their vans and place skips elsewhere. When they realised the parking situation at ours they settled for skip (well hippo bag with the kitchen) on drive, their van in front of the drop kerb and a nice neighbour letting us use their drive for the duration. It could well have been the builders pushing for it. I think you've done plenty allowing the scaffold and offering a parking space.

How big is the skip determines whether it will fit.1 mtr, 2mtr, 4 mtr, 6 mtr, 8 mtr, 12 mtr or a RORO. WHAT SIZE IS IT.

I knew it would be the builders. They are buggers for this kind of thing. All about making their lives easier.

I think your solution is perfect and is more likely to retain long term good neighbourly relations which will be sorely tested by the roofers as you will get fag ends in your garden, broken pots and slabs.

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Not enough info to decide, but in the same circs would you want, and would they do it, to put one on their grass?
Done many of these, it will kill the grass

And 2 weeks will very likely extend to.........

No no no this is just going to create far more problems than it is worth.
You simply say “thank you for asking but that won’t work for us close” Then change the subject.

I’m glad you’ve refused the skip.
I wouldn’t agree anything until I’ve seen them at work. Builders can be deeply unpleasant to have around.

I was reading this and thinking "Why don't they put the skip on neighbours' drive and allow neighbours to park on OP's huge driveway?" Then @Potnoodleforbrains suggested that (and others followed and credited a subsequent poster for it).

I had a skip on our drive for nearly a month, I was livid with the skip company in the end as they clearly didn't care about the hassle it was causing us. There's only room for one skip or car on our drive so DH had to park down the road in the church's car park and walk back up to our house.

There were weeds growing in it in the end and I blew my top and rang the skip company. I told them I was going to ring them hourly until they came and removed their bloody skip from my drive. That seemed to do the trick, although they were still awkward and pretended they didn't know where our house number was, even though the houses followed the regular numerical fashion. But still! I've yet to find a skip company that doesn't take the piss, so on the road or neighbour drive is definitely the way to go...

No way. They can pay for a permit like most people do!

I feel it’s up to you as it’s your property. And I don’t feel it unreasonable of them to ask. It’s good to communicate with neighbours and if anything went wrong re scaffolding on your side I’d be guessing hopefully they’d deal with it. I always try to be neighbourly but sometimes you just have to say no.

It would be a no from me too. Last time we had a skip on the drive it took 4 weeks of calling to get it removed once it was full (and we'd filled it in 3 days! Was fed up as we had no access to our garage or drive for over a month!

If their drive isn’t big enough for a skip and they can’t afford to pay for waste management services then they can’t afford to get the work done. You do not need to faciliate anything

You also need to consider the rubbish dumped in it and people rummaging in it for metals etc our previous neighbours had a skip close to our entrance for months and practically every morning around 630/7am inc weekends people in vans would come round rummaging for iron pipes etc and hammer them to break etc to get on their van flinging unwanted stuff all over our adjacent drive additionally dog walkers flung bags of dog doo in it and during the height of summer the smell was foul - it was really stressful and upsetting - we plan work in the future and will pay extra to get it covered or behind a fence thing when builders not using - don’t even get me started on the guy untying my bags of rubbish (4 knots) to put his two large stinky bags of dog doo into - he lives just up the road !

I would, if they are nice. It's a neighbourly thing to do.

I was going to suggest that you suggest they put the skip on their drive and offer them parking on yours, so glad to read that's the option you went for!