how do we clean wheelybins?

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cos after having it for only a month it seems to have something like vomit coating the bottom of it

please tell me I don't have to go in there

I would fill it with water - do you have a hosepipe?

Leave it to soak, whilst you busy yourself on mumsnet then lie it down to empty and scrub with a broom and washing up liquid, rinse and turn upside down to dry.

There are companies who will do it for you - a dedicated band of wheelie bin cleaners. No idea re cost though.

In fact I could set up a franchised company and start cleaning bins myself!

Hand over £1.60 once a fortnight to the guys who come round and pressure wash it.

Yes we have bin cleaners, dahling, give em £1.50 and they pressure wash it.
No more minging bins in this area!

crap

we have no handy men with pressure washers

Scrubbing brush, bleach and hosepipe and don't wear your best jeans.

Our bin cleaners charge us £2-feel I am being ripped off now.

I would try a whole pot of bicarb with a bicket of hot water and a long stick/broom handle....

I want bin cleaners

Used a stiff brush floor broom and water out of the waterbutts with some liquid soap mixed in. Bins don't get too bad because we compost & double wrap everything in plastic carriers/other bags -- all left over from other product packaging, etc. I hasten to add I don't buy bags for bins!

I thought everywhere had bin cleaners now [naive emoticon]. Perhaps I live in a 'poncy' area

Whooosh - ours charge £2 too. But he does pressure wash it, disinfect it and then line it with a large wheelie bin liner

Ours charge £2.50 and you have to sign up for six months of fortnightly cleans in advance

We don't have the large wheelie liner, so not that poncy then!!

i pay £3 per month to have it disenfected and jet washed,its worth every penny i think.

Do other people's bins really get that dirty then? We've had ours years and it has never got dirty or pongy - it has one or maybe two smallish bags a week in it, all wrapped, so no chance of anything yucky dirtying the bin.

If you want to clean it though I would personally go for the hose-pipe and deck brush approach, I'm to mean to pay the few pounds the cleaning people charge!

In 3 yrs I've only cleaned the recycling bin once (something wrong ended up in there). Never had to clean the ordinary rubbish bin, am just very careful to keep things well-wrapped before they go in.

all the bags have been wrapped

but there is a Yukky Substance & it smells

We don't get ours done by the manny, but think he charges £3 a fortnight

Now a wheelie bin liner-that really is posh!
Ours squirt smelly stuff in.....

boil a kettle, bung some disinfectant in bottom of bin. add boiling water. swirl around a bit. tip bin upside down. job done.

we never have, it's ok, just a bit dusty at the bottom. there is a compnay round here that do it, they follow the bin men round in their own van. but we've never had to use them.