Buyers want wheelie bins included.. after discount

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Our lovely FTB 🙄have requested wheelie bins be included after generous discount… many unreasonable requests met!

AIBU to leave dead nan ashes under the floorboards & take the wheel bins as a summer plunge pool for the kids 🫣

Not when you have to source and buy them yourself. Not all councils provide wheelie bins - not even for a fee.

When we lived in Yorkshire and bought a new build house we had to buy our own from the council, they were £136 for 3 of them and they told us 4 days before we moved in. Waiting list for delivery was 6 weeks.
It’s up to the builder to request the council supply them as part of the purchase agreement but Redrow builders don’t do that. We still left them for our buyers when we moved out. I know what it’s like to move in without a bin after all!

All I remember is the council lady telling me over the phone it is the property of the council when I argued about paying the £38. I said, we'd just moved in and there was no wheelie bin. We still had to pay for a replacement and was told its the property of the council. I wasn't impressed.

@PerkySnail yes because you bought them from the council. You didn’t have to source you own bin. Some councils do not supply the bins at all and you have to source your own wheelie bin eg buy it off Amazon. Then the council do not own your bin in any way shape or form. It is yours do with as you wish - and mine go with me.

Things appear to have changed. When I bought my house 1980 the bins were supplied free. Now each one is £34. The bins have to be Council approved.
Request a Bin
Domestic Waste (Black) and Recycling (Blue) BinsA charge of £34.50 is made for the provision of new or replacement bins and also for additional recycling bins. Please note that you cannot order additional black bins.
The circumstances for charging for new or replacement bins include:

• Where a bin is reported lost or stolen;
• Where a bin is required for new properties ;
• Where a bin is required for new occupants at existing properties
• Where an additional recycling bin (blue) is required

I thought wheelie bins were owned by the council?! You can’t take them anyway and they won’t own them ?!

Sorry, I didn't realise that! Wow. It'd be better buying them off Amazon just so you can take them with you when you leave!

@PerkySnail yes!!! 🤣

Id leave the bins, the light bulbs and toilet seats. 😂 If you're moving to somewhere without bins I'd order them now if I was you. I bought new ones when I moved and they took weeks to come.

Are you quite mad?
What else do you think to take, C.H. radiators, the front door?

As others have said, they are the property of the council who supplied them in the first case. You have to pay for replacements, unless you can prove garbage peoples fault. So yr buyers will have to pay, unless they also bring their acceptable replacements.
If you move to a another council area, the bins are likely dif colour or style and would be ignored anyway.

When a neighbour moved out, another neighbour went straight round to steal the bins they’d left for the new owners!

WTF?! I've never even considered taking the bins when we have moved house. And neither had the people we bought from. They stay with the house. 🙈

Are you in the UK? Then you should know to leave your wheelie bin(s) 🤷🏼‍♀️

Currently moving and this hadn't even crossed my mind? They're surely part of the house?

i moved into a new build last year. When I contacted the local council to ask for bins they said yes and that’s £72! £50 for the bins and £22 delivery. So I would argue the point that the bins belong to the council!

Now come on now Op, the stress of the move is clearly getting to you. With respect- get a grip - on Nans ashes yes, council bins no!

The only time I had issues with bins, was when I moved into where I am now. The council couldn't decide whether I should have my own bins or bags. My front door opens directly onto a well used pavement. In the end they decided that I should share bins with (I think), 5 other flats.
So if I ever move and waltz off with the bins, I don't think I'd be very popular.

It is completely normal to leave your wheelie bins!

Wheelie bins are allocated to the property by the council, usually left with the house as standard when people move

I don’t understand surely wheelie bins are owned by the council? Clean streets and efficient rubbish removal is what you pay council tax for.

I thought that but when we moved into
our current house 7 years ago the general
waste bin was missing and I had to pay about £60 for one. So as far as I’m concerned it’s mine. I wouldn’t be keen on taking bins if I moved though, so it is probably something I’d check..

Don’t the bins belong to the local authority, who use them to take the rubbish yoy generate away.?

There are 18 pages of this thread. Most of which are full of posts asking or saying the exact same thing, which the OP and others have proved wrong.

Wheelie bins do not always belong to the council or are supplied by them. In some parts of the UK you buy them yourself and they are your own property.

I’m really confused by this and am wondering if there is some type of wheelie bin that I’m not aware of! If you’re talking about rubbish/recycling bins, these belong to the council, not to you. If you take them the new owners will have to order new ones and might even get charged for them. Are you expecting your new house to have no bins when you move in? Just bizarre.

you would of been better adding the detail about the bins in your original op, as usually they are council owned and belong with the property