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Garden Rubbish

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  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    davidmcn wrote: »
    Could be a fine malt...
    Or even something more valuable still, like real creosote!
  • glasgowdan
    glasgowdan Posts: 2,967 Forumite
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    Or even something more valuable still, like real creosote!

    Just get that stuff online and tell them you're a fencer! I've still a 5 gallon tub in the garage that I barely touched when I did the last wooden garage. The stuff doesn't half splatter everywhere though, as my neighbour's poor little plastic shed found out.
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    glasgowdan wrote: »
    Just get that stuff online and tell them you're a fencer!

    Farmers can still get it from the usual farmer outlets.

    I'm not entirely sure why, but luckily, I'm a 'farmer.' :)
  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    Penitent wrote: »
    There are two things I'm oddly desperate to find out:

    1) What's in the barrel?

    2) What was the small change that was so devastating to the new build buyer in that other thread?

    Sadly, I think I'm going to be left wanting.

    Gfd - After 18 months, whatever it is is yours now.

    You forgot the third one:

    - Why would previous owner have been such a slob as to just leave a barrel sitting around in their garden for so long?

    ***********

    But...yep...they were a right slob and you're having to clear up their mess for them OP. Unfortunately - being a home-owner means having to clear up previous owners slobbing/cheap-skate bodge repairs/etc/etc.
  • glasgowdan
    glasgowdan Posts: 2,967 Forumite
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    Farmers can still get it from the usual farmer outlets.

    I'm not entirely sure why, but luckily, I'm a 'farmer.' :)

    So can landscapers and pretty much any trade
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »
    You forgot the third one:

    - Why would previous owner have been such a slob as to just leave a barrel sitting around in their garden for so long?
    Out of sight, out of mind, behind a bush...
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    Give it a sniff to see if you can ID the substance. If if it's in a blue plastic drum and sweet smelling, it could be liquid soap or detergent. Fruit juices were also put into some of these. I inherited both here and I'm still using the drums for water butts and rodent proof storage.

    The last 25 litres of creosote I got came from someone who inherited it with a bungalow. He put it on Freecycle under 'Creosote?' It wasn't terribly hard to ID!
  • sparky130a
    sparky130a Posts: 660 Forumite
    AdrianC wrote: »
    Out of sight, out of mind, behind a bush...

    I could comment but i won't....
  • LandyAndy
    LandyAndy Posts: 26,377 Forumite
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    sparky130a wrote: »
    I could comment but i won't....


    First time for everything. :D
  • sparky130a
    sparky130a Posts: 660 Forumite
    LandyAndy wrote: »
    First time for everything. :D

    Get back to the forest you... :p
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