Caught on camera - neighbour filling up my skip

[cannehelpit]

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!

@cannehelpit dump it back at his door for goodness sake!! dont be a wimp and complain on here without taking any action!!

Just take it back

This.

Knock on his door, say “I really need all the space in my skip for our work, so will you please stop putting your stuff in it? I can’t afford a second skip if this one gets overfilled”

You know, use your words!

He thinks it’s ok to use your skip, it’s ok to ask him not to.

Reporting him to the police is ridiculous.

Talk to him.

And if he does it again, deploy uncle.

Actually this

Knock on his door, say “I really need all the space in my skip for our work, so will you please stop putting your stuff in it? I can’t afford a second skip if this one gets overfilled”

I wouldn't be quite so polite to be honest. I would knock on his door and say... I have seen you repeatedly using my skip. It has cost me a lot of money. Either give me half the cost, or come with me now and remove it and take it all back to your property.

You need to sound very firm and not weak or he will just tell you to sod off and ignore you

Just go round there and tell him to take all of the stuff he put in your skip out.

If he denies it or refuses to, get your uncle to sort it.

Also, if you have a street WhatsApp group, you might want to update that with a “just so you know, I have a skip on my drive and a video doorbell/CCTV, so I know exactly which neighbour has been filling it with their rubbish, I’ve asked him politely to remove it but he’s refused, so we will be returning his goods to him. In case any one else on the street gets a skip that mysteriously gets filled with someone else’s rubbbish, I can let you know who the culprit is.”

The neighbours will LOVE the gossip and he’ll be eyed with suspicion going forward.

Send bolshy uncle round saying you have it on camera, no point denying it and give him to the end of the day to remove all his items or they’ll be deposited back on his lawn and he’ll be reported. As you say, skip companies can be particular about what goes in them and they are horrifically expensive these days. He’ll probably be horrified he’s been caught on camera.

You forgot the end of your sentence.
....by cheeky cunts.

This. Cheeky sod. I assumed if he had asked you may have said yes. But he didn’t.

Your uncle’s idea! 😄

Knock on his door and tell him to remove his stuff within the next six hours or you will do it for him and leave them in his garden.

It might have been the neighbourly thing to do years ago but it isn’t now without permission.

We had this when we moved into our house.

We asked the neighbour to remove their items out of the skip (or we would do it) and if there was space at the end of our work we'd let them.put it in for free.

They removed the stuff. Gave us some guff about how our street shares skips - er no they don't.

NO ITS NOT! Get your own!

Also I’m looking to hire a skip. They’ve doubled in price this last year. A very small 4 yard skip is approximately £200 plus bat now to hire for a couple of days. Plus they are very particular regarding the type of waste that you can place in them.

Take it back and leave it in his garden with a message taped to his front door saying.
We saw you !

100% this.
My BIL did this, without the note though.
Nothing came of it and neighbour was very sheepish and avoided BIL for a long time.

Sorry, but how long has the skip been outside your house?

i think you might have to go and talk to him.

What? Why would anyone let a neighbour fill a skip you've paid for?

We once ordered one. It arrived one afternoon. Next morning in it was a toilet and a bath! Never did find the culprit.

There's being neighbourly and there's being daft!

You could set up the folding table on his drive, with the other items arranged artistically round / on it. I’d love to see the look on his face when he gets home and sees it!

You can’t be done for fly tipping returning his stuff when you have evidence he’s uses your skip. He’s hardly going to Sue you is he.

How long has the skip been on your driveway?
Is it just the one item he has added, or more?
Do the items added mean you don't have enough space for your own rubbish?
Do you have a street WhatsApp group?

I would be keen to preserve relationships with my neighbours, but I also would be keen to say or do something. What I said, where I said it and how I said it would depend on all the above.

Do not say please at any point.

I would just go and tell him and I’m a very small woman but if not confident enough then get your Uncle to go round. Tel, him it’s all on camera and he needs to come and remove it.

On a very weird side note I actually need a folding table.

Take your uncle up on his offer this needs nipping in the bud

This put it on his lawn cheeky bollocks