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Mattress outside a house. Pissing me off.

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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.

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Ricekake · 10/10/2021 18:02

@girlmom21

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

I love this, council's charge a lot to remove items (here it's bloody expensive and the list is fairly limited on what they will actually take), but they will do it for free if it's reported as fly tipping. So council tax pays for others shite to be removed and you have to pay for your own, sounds like the general overall gist of a lot of taxes.

Anotherbrokenairer · 10/10/2021 19:43

@user1471538283

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.

@user1471538283 Only bringing it out when the council come is fine if you don't work full time or the collections are reliable. The other issue being that they won't knock, if the stuff isn't there when they drive past they're not stopping.

Anotherbrokenairer · 10/10/2021 19:44

*unreliable

CorianderAndCream · 10/10/2021 21:52

We get this kind of stuff behind our house all the time. People fly too crap back there and it stays until the council comes to get it.

CorianderAndCream · 10/10/2021 21:52

Flytip*

Posterity · 10/10/2021 22:21

@WildRosie

I used a private waste disposal firm to take away an old mattress earlier this year. Cost £20.00.

What public waste disposal firm is this? i need to get rid of 2 mattresses asap, our local council are charging from £45. I found a local private company, they charge a flat fee of £160! so if you know someone who charges £20 please could you pm.

DogsandCatsB4u · 10/10/2021 22:46

Council are not taking mattresses which is why so many are being flytipped

GreyhoundG1rl · 10/10/2021 23:13

@DogsandCatsB4u

Council are not taking mattresses which is why so many are being flytipped

Bit of an own goal when they have to clear up the flytipping anyway, and without charge

GreyhoundG1rl · 10/10/2021 23:15

I used a private waste disposal firm to take away an old mattress earlier this year. Cost £20.00.
That's suspiciously cheap. Did you check they had a valid waste licence?
If they didn't, they probably charged you 20 quid and flytipped it themselves...

girlmom21 · 11/10/2021 06:51

@DogsandCatsB4u

Council are not taking mattresses which is why so many are being flytipped

Since when? They took ours last year.

girlmom21 · 11/10/2021 06:52

@Ricekake ours is reasonably priced. I think it's £13 for one item, £25ish for up to 4 bulky items (or 4 bin bags)

Posterity · 11/10/2021 07:08

@DogsandCatsB4u

Council are not taking mattresses which is why so many are being flytipped

Yes they are, that’s just your area.

Ricekake · 11/10/2021 07:18

[quote girlmom21]@Ricekake ours is reasonably priced. I think it's £13 for one item, £25ish for up to 4 bulky items (or 4 bin bags)[/quote]
Thats not too bad. £26 an item here, we'd be fine paying but if I was struggling I can see why it's tempting to fly tip.

rrhuth · 11/10/2021 07:19

@Mamamia7962

Report it to the council as fly tipping on their website and they will come and collect it.

Yes this.

MyMabel · 11/10/2021 07:22

I wish I took photos of the feral neighbours front garden before they were kicked out. Absolutely disgusting, you could build and furnish an entire house with what they had piled up on their front garden. Sofa, a armchair, baby car seat, absolutely tons of crap that you couldn’t make out what it used to be. - we tried to sell our house and almost all of the feedback we got was “house is great but area concerns” and almost everyone came in and started with “what are your neighbours like?…. I see they’ve got a lot of stuff out the front?” With raised eyebrows. It was such a shit time.. they ended up being kicked out, then a huge clean up started, multiple skips later it looks like a really lovely house and ours is sold hoorah!

I feel you OP. It doesn’t affect you, but it does in a sense. It’s an eye sore.

tttigress · 11/10/2021 07:24

I understand your point, it drags the whole area down.

It may only be a small thing, but these add up.

Dahliadelight · 11/10/2021 07:41

Where I live (in East London), there are so many dumped mattresses that you used to be able to buy a calendar of them. There’s fewer dumped now though I have to say, but my favourite ‘dumping’ was a cot mattress with a fox poo on it.

EastWestWhosBest · 11/10/2021 07:56

My next door but one neighbours are like this. They only moved in a couple of years ago but the front garden and side are filled with crap. She drives and has a car. It would only be a couple of tip runs.
They are a council house so I could report them but that seems mean.

YouTubeAddict · 11/10/2021 08:10

It’s not affecting you in any way. Let it go.

EastWestWhosBest · 11/10/2021 12:34

@YouTubeAddict

It’s not affecting you in any way. Let it go.

But it does if you live near it.

TheAntiGardener · 11/10/2021 12:48

Not quite the same, but a mattress and bed base appeared in the garden of next door last year and was joined by additional bits of mattresses and bed until there was a teetering tower. The tower remained in place for many months before finally disappearing. The bottom layers had gone sludgy grey-brown well before that, which was a real treat. Thankfully, nothing like it before or since, but I agree it gets you down. We were thinking about selling at one point (not for that reason) and the tower had me pretty worried!

GreyhoundG1rl · 11/10/2021 13:43

@YouTubeAddict

It’s not affecting you in any way. Let it go.

🙄

Posterity · 11/10/2021 14:46

@YouTubeAddict

It’s not affecting you in any way. Let it go.

Of course it affects everyone. Once an area is marked for flytipping, it because a dumping ground for everyother flytipper. The odd 'sofa' very quickly builds up to become a refuse heap with bins thrown in, mouldy food. Have you never noticed any area where flytipping has accumulated, lots of rats and foxes around the area as well scavenging?

Really shocked at how ignorant you can be to think flytipping is not harming anyone.

safariboot · 11/10/2021 14:59

If it's been there for weeks I'd assume it's fly tipped. Yes it's annoying. The pavement's not your personal skip.

But posts here suggest it could in fact be waiting for a collection that's delayed or did a no-show.

Right now what annoys me is the car that's parked in an on-street space, up on jacks and stands with its wheels off, and the jacks stick out into the traffic lane. That's been like that for a few months now.

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DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou · 11/10/2021 19:39

I LOL'd at someone's post "the op hasn't clarified whether the mattress is on the inside or outside of their fence."

Mate, if it was on the inside, it would be on their property. Which is exactly what I suggested upthread.

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