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!

Definitely team uncle here. It is not fly tipping to give someone their property back. I would leave it on his garden with a note, saying 'I found these in my skip, and I have you on camera leaving them there. I recommend you book your own skip in future, and not use mine.' I would take photos of what you leave as well, just in case.

I work in the waste management industry. If you return the skip to the skip company, you are legally liable for the contents, and will be charged for anything that should not be in there. There are a surprisingly large number of small household items which are not allowed in skips, such as paint cans, chemicals, light bulbs etc. Your neighbour could easily hide these in your skip. You can also be charged if the skip is overfilled, or over weight.

Next time you hire a skip, ask the skip company for an 'enclosed lockable skip'. It's a standard skip with a metal roof and a hatch. You will be able to put a padlock on it to stop anyone else putting stuff in it.

This is one for the residents group surely?!!!

I’m with your uncle, I’d get a few people to help collect all he’s added & take it back round, I would cheerily tell him that he has mistaken your driveway and skip for a public refuse site, that you’re absolutely sure it must be an oversight because surely no one is such an entitled dickhead to fill up a neighbours skip.

As you cheerily say wave goodby I’d mention he’s on CCTV

I'm with your uncle.

Or, put a note through his door telling him he has till the end of the week (or whenever) to remove the items from your skip.

Your uncle has the right idea. Go with him and tell the neighbour to stop. He can dispose of his own waste or you will report him to the council for fly tipping as you will not keep it in your skip.

I like this. Repurposing/ reconditioning etc. As long as it doesn't just get dumped elsewhere

@GoingToGraceland me too! Every part of the buffalo is used where I live. People come take old bricks, one neighbour always comes and asks for any wood for her fire. Nothing useful in a skip or left in front of the house lasts long. Metal poles would be gone in an instant!

This is not true. The person who hired the skip, and who signs the waste transfer note returning the skip has legal liability for the contents of it. If anyone was allowed to put stuff in it, then the person returning the skip would not be able to vouch for the contents.

The only difference if a skip is on the road is that the person booking the skip also has to buy a licence to have it dropped on the road rather than on private property.

I would either speak to the neighbour or put a note through their door asking them to remove their items by the following day or you'll be putting them back in their garden. I would say it was caught on camera or they may deny.

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Good Lord, i'd have gone round after the first time he was caught on camera. You are too nice OP.

Take his stuff out. Dump it on his lawn. If he asks what you are doing, tell him returning his shit he has dumped in your skip, and that you have this on camera. Don’t even understand the ‘what do I do’ aspect to this?

what????

where did you get that nonsense from?

They obviously aren't suitable for every job, but you can get giant skip bags - the same size as a 1-ton builder's bag.

You buy the bag from B&Q or wherever, then unpack and open it out and use it when you're ready and then go online to pay the balance and arrange collection once it's full.

If you're able to time it right, you can go from having no skip on your drive to having a full one there in the space of an hour or so. Still doesn't help if you have the kind of CFs who will pile it up high, though.

I'm surprised more skip companies don't offer ones with a strong lockable cover.

go to neighbour, tell him you have him on camera and that he must remove his rubbish or you will do it for him. If you feel uncomfortable going alone take bolshy uncle.

It can be illegal and considered as fly tipping.

I would put it all back with a note that you have him on video dumping, so if he would prefer you didn't report him/share that, then he will need to take his shit to the dump like normal people.

Happy to provide the skip company details if you need them.

This is beautifully passive-aggressive!! I've never yet seen a skip that doesn't have the company's name and phone number/website painted in massive letters on the side!

yes on the first occasion we have had a skip, its was like a magic trick. New stuff appearing and disappearing over night every night. Fortunately we didn't need to use the whole skip and our stuff had gone in first so it was more funny than annoying. Where I live now I know all the neighbours and its quite enclosed and once all my stuff was in, I knocked the neighbours and offered the spare space. people were putting stuff in and others were taking it out and I scored loads of neighbour brownie points!! but yes CF's using your skip need dealing with!

It doesn't sound like a very nice area when people think it's acceptable to dump their rubbish in other people's skips, happily letting them pick up the cost of the disposal.

Indeed.

Nah. I think she just dreamt that up.

I’d let him know you have him on camera, (possibly by sticking a picture of him doing so on the skip) give him a time/date you expect his contents to be removed by. Why on earth should you have to go to the trouble of taking his stuff back? I’d only do this as a last resort. He had the energy to put the stuff in. He can jolly well take it out again!

I'm not sure if returning his rubbish is fly tipping but surely him using your skip is?

Does he always chuck his rubbish in at roughly the same time of day/night? If so, just before he's 'due', wear some old clothes (and maybe a peg on your nose) and quietly hide strategically under a rough-looking old blanket in the skip.

If you jump out at him and roar loudly right in his face, just as he's about to dump his load, I can pretty much guarantee that he'll spontaneously dump another kind of load - the bloke will be utterly terrified of ever going anywhere near a skip for the rest of his life

Let your uncle do his thing OP. Your neighbour will know that you're watching then.

This is why I won't have a skip, despite husband's whinging about tip runs. Too many cheeky gits.