Caught on camera - neighbour filling up my skip

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I need some guidance here please!

I have a skip outside my house. Several times a week, whether there is someone in the house or not, my neighbour comes and deposits something there. Bulky items, not small tiny things. I'd say about a quarter of the skip's contents is now my neighbours. I can see him on the camera crossing over the road, walking about 6 doors up and going back into his house. I don't know him personally, though I've lived on the street about 3 years.

What should I do about this. I do need that space for myself. I have also learned that I am responsible for the contents, so if it is rejected by teh skip company when they come to return, or god forbid there is anything illegal etc in there, I am liable. Also, it's just my skip!

What should I do? My parents say I should report it to the police. My uncle says he'll come and put the stuff back in my neighbours front yard!

Are you a women living on your own or with kids by any chance? I have had this if so! People see your on your own and take the piss.

What on earth can/will they do? They're not going to send around a 24/7 guard service with somebody standing next to the skip, approving all deposits!

If he is dim enough to believe that, he's going to come a real cropper when he sees a shop in the neighbourhood and assumes it's a free community pantry where anybody can just go in and help themselves to whatever they want!

Cheeky entitled wanker, this is making my bloody boil.
Put in back in his garden.

I am astounded at the rection of most people, the world is so full of grief that I think this is trivial.

You've outed yourself as a major CF. There's no such thing as "normal use of a neighbour's skip". It's not trivial at all, it's theft.

I didn't say skips are for anyone, I said the bloke might think <mistakenly> as it is on the public road amd not someone's drive it is for communal use.

Try not to parrot 'on what planet???'again. A pp has just said in Europe skips are communal so y'never know, maybe the neighbour has travelled a bit.

All that is required is for the op to have a conversation with him instead of gnashing teeth whilst doing nothing.

FFS - when you're paying for something like this, let's see how much sanctimonious perspective you have then.

Indeed. Man puts items in a skip, log it with 101!! take pics! chuck his item in his garden! The cf! It's discusting

Talk to him and tell him to desist.

If you didn’t pay for it, you don’t use it, I can’t see how hard that is to understand!

I have travelled A LOT in Europe, I spend time there repeatedly and have done for a very long time, and I take note of what happens in the UK not what happens in the many countries I have been to. Rubbish collections are done very differently in, for instance, Spain. You take your rubbish to the communal bins which are located in convenient positions. They are not skips and there is a designated day of the month where you can leave larger items.

All that is very irrelevant really because there is no excuse for anyone to dump their crap in a skip that has obviously been hired by a neighbour and is quite obviously not a communal skip, that being an unheard of occurrence.

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Oh whatever. I can't get my knickers in a knot over someone chucking rubbish in a skip on the road. He shouldn't do it but, meh.

Why hasn't the op shoved a note through his door or, very unmumnsetty I know, knocked and had a conversation?!

Skips are expensive. Having to replace it early because someone else has filled it is expensive. The OP says this guy has now take up a quarter of her skip. That’s a quarter she can’t use, so that means getting it replaced so she has to pay for that. It is too expensive to go “I can’t care about that.”

You sound like you’ve never had building work done or paid for a skip but keep giving out as if you’re an expert.

The police won’t be interested. Just knock on his door and say, ‘my camera has recorded you placing things in my skip. Please come and remove them’. He’ll hopefully be mortified at having been caught on camera!

'You sound like you’ve never had building work done or paid for a skip but keep giving out as if you’re an expert'

Oh we've had both. I even let neighbours shove some tat in our skip, granted they asked but even so I don't think I'd have been fummin if they hadn't. If I had have been I'd have asked them to remove said items like a grown up.

This. Also there are often rules about what can go in a skip and if you put the wrong stuff in, the skip won't be collected.

I'm baffled at how many people don't seem to understand that this is basic theft - the same in principle as if a scammer somehow managed to fraudulently use your debit card to buy themselves something online; and/or how many people brush theft off as nothing of any importance - even blaming the victim of the theft for making a fuss about it.

Small tip (pun not intended) for "skip hunters" who want scrapped stuuf for their prrojects ... save yourself the hassle and put the request on NextDoor or similar

You'll be inundated with folk keen to get rid of whatever and probably manage to pick up extra bits as well

I agree the OP needs to challenge him, I just would love there to be community skips, I've got a load of crap here I need to dump!

Did you read my first post? We hired a skip and overnight, before we used it, we woke up to a toilet and a bath in it! That took up a LOT of room!

Can't you go round and talk to him and tell him to take it out ? Or share the cost of the skip alternatively?

If no luck then I'd put it in his garden

and save the CCTV of him putting his stuff in your skip

If he is unreasonable enough to continually dump crap in the skip, I would not share the cost. He'll probably decide to build an extension and fill it as "I've paid!"

Send them an invoice for the skip, tell them you have documentary evidence of them filling it, so either pay or remove their items. Should they not respond send a letter telling them you are taking them to the small claims court if they do no pay or remove their items within 48 hours- and do it you have the evidence they will be made to pay or have a judgment against them-at the very least it will stop them doing it in future.

why would they think that? I mean on what planet would they think that?