Household waste uplift

[Anonymous002]

Hello. Wondering if this is gonna be ok.

I’m getting new carpet so old carpet and heater must go for fitters to come in to do work. Fitters unfortunately don’t help get rid of waste, floor must be free of carpet before fitting.

I’m only 150cm and weigh about 50kg live by myself. All my friends are about the same. I managed to get all the carpet downstairs and to recycling centre. Heater was super heavy (and I mean heavy!) and I managed to get it down to the stairs but I hurt my back doing it. I left it outside of the flats near the storage bins. However I don’t think I can physically move it anymore without hurting myself.

2 issues-

1. I don’t want annoy the new neighbours by leaving it a week early before the scheduled uplift but it was the only day my friend could help. Do you think I need to say to the neighbours and explain? I lm gonna put a note next to it saying ‘council uplifting booked, sorry for the inconvenience’
2. it says from council website, items must be in front of property on pavement. It’s at the side pavement- do you think it’s ok and they will uplift it anyway? Or would they make it difficult and make me move the heater. I’m just worry they will say no, and make me book another date, which might annoy the neighbours even more.

I honestly cannot move the heater any further after it. It’s so so so heavy for me! I also have asthma so when I was moving it I was so breathless! I mean if you were my neighbour would you be annoyed??

it doesn’t get uplifted for a week (earliest date I can get sadly..)

In our area you would get fined for putting it out before the day of collection.

Our council expects it to be at the edge of your property. They won’t come onto the property and collect it from a side pavement.

Is it made of metal? You might be able to get a scrap metal person to take it sooner.

If the heater is an old night storage heater then you can take them part and take the bricks out and they are a lot easier to move them. However, they are sometimes full of asbestos and so the council may refuse to take it anyway when they arrive.

You can check by looking for the make and googling it.

For this and other future heavy lifting jobs it’s worth buying a little hand trolley like this. I’ve used mine over the years for all kinds of things from disposing of an old washing machine and fridge to bringing heavy items home from the shops to pulling my camping gear at festivals. Ikea sell them for about £15, Amazon probably similar.

Every council I’ve ever lived in has been really strict about the conditions of uplift so unless yours is unusually benevolent they will almost certainly just leave it behind if it’s not left where they stipulate.