advice pls, on removing a door from a second floor flat

bundance

who will come and remove an item from a second floor flat...
....would love some help, please.

My front door got smashed in (long story, for another thread) so I got a new one fitted.
The old one has a big wired glass window. The glass got smashed, so I duck taped, very well, all of the loose glass.
I am on the second floor of a flat.
The door is too heavy to move and is in my way.
I want to know, if there is anyone who will take it away for recycling, or just dispose of it.
I have been procrastinating this task, as I had a bad experience with removals years ago. I paid a bloke £30 to move a sofa from my friends house to this flat. A friend also got roped into helping the man transfer the sofa.
Who would be the best people to contact, to remove my door?
Will everyone be reluctant because of the fact I am upstairs, and there is glass involved, although taped up?
I cannot get the council to do it, as they will not come upstairs, but I dont know anyone who can get the door downstairs.
I live in Wiltshire, but posted in the suburban thread, as I thought i would get more answers.

thanx in advance

diable

Cant you just cut it up in to smaller pieces?

frank.hopper

Simples!


Pick up a 6 pack of beer from your local tesco,

phone the council for your uplift,

wait for the council guys to turn up,

limp across to their vehicle carrying the 6 pack,

They'll be up those stairs like a couple of hare's.

27col

Well, obviously it is not too heavy to move or it could not have been fitted in the first place. It is likely that the weight is due to it possibly being a fire door. The wired glass and the fact that is a second floor flat tend to bear this out. Have you actually asked the Council whether they will come upstairs for it, or are you just assuming that they will not.
If it is as heavy as you say then it is presumably a two-person lift. Surely you must know a couple of friends or neighbours who could get it downstairs between them.
As has been suggested, cutting it up might solve the problem. But, if it is a fire door it might well have asbestos in its construction, so maybe not a good idea.

bundance

27col wrote: »

Well, obviously it is not too heavy to move or it could not have been fitted in the first place. It is likely that the weight is due to it possibly being a fire door. The wired glass and the fact that is a second floor flat tend to bear this out. Have you actually asked the Council whether they will come upstairs for it, or are you just assuming that they will not.
If it is as heavy as you say then it is presumably a two-person lift. Surely you must know a couple of friends or neighbours who could get it downstairs between them.
As has been suggested, cutting it up might solve the problem. But, if it is a fire door it might well have asbestos in its construction, so maybe not a good idea.

its too heavy for me to move. I know nobody who can shift it. our council likes things placed outside the house at ground level. Surely, no i have nobody who will help. I dont know how that makes me sound, I am an ok woman really.
If there is asbestos in it, I am already !!!!!!ed, as some of the wood has been broken, when the door was smashed in, so I have already breathed it in.
The flat was built in the late 70's so I assume it wont have asbestos in.
It was the police who broke it (no i am a law abiding citizen) so they will have breathed it in, so I better not worry about asbestos.
I was wondering if there is a recycling company, or mr shifter sort who would come and take it off my hands.

diable

If the Police broke it then who fitted the replacement door as they should have removed the old one. Phone the Police and ask them to sort it out, don't dial 999 though.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

if you're in a flat, you must have neighbours, just ask a couple of them to give you a hand to get it downstairs, if it's on the landing and in your way, then it must be a nuisance for them too.

They are probably thinking, 'why is she keeping an old smashed up door, wish she would get it away'.

bundance

I got a house clearer to remove it in the end, £25 well spent.
Most my neighbours are elderly but thanks anyroad.
I gotta say its nice to have got rid of it.
I never thought of houseclearers.

27col

Glad to hear that you have solved your problem. It is nice when op's let us know the final result.