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Mattress outside a house. Pissing me off.

82 replies

DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou · 10/10/2021 15:45

But why? It makes no difference to me. It's not even on my street. They aren't my neighbours.

Yes it irks me every day when I drive past it.

It's been leant up against their fence for weeks and weeks and now a washing machine has joined it.

Reminds me of Shameless.

OP posts:

Simonjt · 10/10/2021 16:28

Our council are crap at collections, they do collect sofas, mattresses etc, but when I used them they gave me a two week window so I had no choice but for the fridge freezer so be sat on the street for two weeks (it wasn’t blocking the pavement). They used to give you a specific date which was much better.

beigebrownblue · 10/10/2021 16:35

Where we live South West the recycling hasn't been collected for three weeks. Due they say,to shortage of drivers.

So, not saying it is that problem but they may be waiting a long time for a pick up.

GreyhoundG1rl · 10/10/2021 16:37

Maybe they can't afford to get it removed
So they keep it on their own property until they can. What's not to understand?

simitra · 10/10/2021 16:41

We have a council uplift on a tuesday. You book it on the website. Free for 2 items pa and thereafter £20 per item. One chair counts as an item so a 3 piece suite would be £60.

JesusIsAnyNameFree · 10/10/2021 16:42

@Simonjt

This is what I had a few years ago when I was getting rid of a dining table. Within 10 working days they said and to leave at the front. I just said I'll leave it in the back and put a note on the door to say where it is because that's not happening. Luckily they did pick it up from the back.

DrCoconut · 10/10/2021 16:42

I waited months for my old sofa collected by the council. It became an ongoing saga. First they admitted the booking had somehow been overlooked. Then they claimed they'd been and couldn't find it. My front garden is postage stamp sized, I don't see how they could miss it. Then they said I'd have to pay because the failed attempt was counted as my free collection (we get one a year). Eventually I gave up and paid privately.

GreyhoundG1rl · 10/10/2021 16:49

@simitra

We have a council uplift on a tuesday. You book it on the website. Free for 2 items pa and thereafter £20 per item. One chair counts as an item so a 3 piece suite would be £60.

Wow! Ours is £120 per uplift, with a maximum of 8 items. So disposing of a mattress would still cost £120. Still no excuse for dumping it in the street, however.

Anotherlovelybitofsquirrel · 10/10/2021 16:49

Maybe they can't afford to get it removed

So they are just entitled to dump random shit wherever? Er no. Not how it works.

liverpoolnana · 10/10/2021 16:50

Another vote for Fixmystreet.com. It can be used for flytipping, ASB, broken pavements, potholes, vandalised bus shelters, any annoyance like that which makes a neighbourhood unpleasant. You don't need to be a local resident, either, just need the postcode. Fixmystreet will then forward the complaint to the relevant dept. in the local authority involved. Your name won't be mentioned.

dementedpixie · 10/10/2021 16:50

OP hasn't actually clarified as to whether it's on the inside or the outside of their fence

GreyhoundG1rl · 10/10/2021 16:51

Oh, and ours are adamant that it must be left for collection outside, but on your own property. They won't touch anything already on the street.
Not sure where this leaves people living in flats.

BashfulClam · 10/10/2021 16:51

I out my bed outside and booked a special
Uplift with the council…it took 5 weeks!

longtompot · 10/10/2021 16:57

It could be taken like one was from outside of a house near me and used as a massive sledge in the local field by a load of teens. No snow, just grass. I'd loved to have seen them carrying it up the road. The council then cleared it from the field.

Anotherbrokenairer · 10/10/2021 17:04

Our local council specifies you leave it on the pavement or as close to the evening before collection. Problem I've had in the past is items not been collected and advised to leave it on the pavement to be added to another job. This has then taken 3 weeks. If you're alone and someone has kindly come round as a favour to help shift the stuff in the first place there aren't many options except waiting especially if the stuff will be left if moved too far into the property away from the pavement.

HopeYourHighHorseBucks · 10/10/2021 17:10

I paid for my council to collect my large fridge freezer, had help moving it out to the front the night before and thought I would suck it up for a night. A month it sat there while I was constantly pushed back stating no room on the van etc. Like fuck i was wheeling it in every evening to wheel it back out, just so nosey fuckers driving by didn't judge me.

girlmom21 · 10/10/2021 17:14

I agree with reporting it as fly tipping. Our council remove fly tipping within about 12 hours. They're brilliant.

Funnylittlefloozie · 10/10/2021 17:26

Set fire to it.

No, really, don't do this.

beigebrownblue · 10/10/2021 17:30

@simitra

We have a council uplift on a tuesday. You book it on the website. Free for 2 items pa and thereafter £20 per item. One chair counts as an item so a 3 piece suite would be £60.

We don't have any council pick up service at all anymore.

BootyMcBootFace · 10/10/2021 17:32

It makes me really angry too.

Recently someone dumped a load of cardboard at the bottom of our road. Helpfully their delivery address was on one of the boxes so I returned it to their front garden. Hasn't been a problem since.

GreyhoundG1rl · 10/10/2021 17:34

@BootyMcBootFace

It makes me really angry too.

Recently someone dumped a load of cardboard at the bottom of our road. Helpfully their delivery address was on one of the boxes so I returned it to their front garden. Hasn't been a problem since.

Good on you 👍

RonaKnob · 10/10/2021 17:41

It may not be theirs. In my last property people used to fly tip down my side return. Because it was private land council wouldn't take it away. I was supposed to. After a year of paying the council to take stuff (I don't have a car) I gave up.

I once had a bit of time left on a van I had hired for the day and cleared it out. I kid you not, in the 45 minutes I was away emptying my van at the tip some wanker had fly tipped again. Luckily now I've moved.

FrankGrillosWrist · 10/10/2021 17:54

I booked the removal of my mattress with the local council for £12, as I didn’t want to be fined £1000 for fly tipping. Although it was wet a puny little geezer wrestled it onto the back of his pick up truck one afternoon. 2 days later I was woken at 5.30am by the council wanting to know where my mattress was. I needn’t have paid after all. Over 60s get 4 freebies a year or so many black bags.

FrankGrillosWrist · 10/10/2021 17:55

I booked online, missed that bit out.

nordica · 10/10/2021 18:00

There are always mattresses on the streets in my area. It's a running joke in the local Facebook group by now. Very annoying of course. Seems to be mostly due to a high number of HMOs and other short term rentals so tenants change often and leave their old mattresses behind.

user1471538283 · 10/10/2021 18:01

I would be wound up as well. It is inconvenient but you keep that indoors until the council come.

My awful ex neighbor fly tipped mattresses and junk in the lane at the bottom of our backyards. Because of course magically someone was going to take it away.

If it's in the street I'd contact environmental health.

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