Banned from the local tip

virgin_moneysaver

we've been renovating an old house & also clearing 2 house of relatives who are moving - in the last 18 mths we've rung the coucil 3 times to request a permit for my husbands van - the chap has come to the house the same day to check the number plate & he asks us how many trips over how long a period & what sort of items we're dumping. The last permit just finished and it was for 5 trips over a month - and you name it, we've dumped it & they don't ask about quantities - also the binman were collecting the refuse in my sisters street and we had just finished knocking up an old sideboard (she's moving house) - the 2 lads came & helped us take it to the back of the dumptruck & they took it all - can't praise our local council department highly enough

have you rung to check if your local coucil run a permit scheme & borrow someones van?

GreenNotM

a lil late but if it was a brick wall, you could have cleaned the bricks up and reused them in the new front wall, the mortar didn't sound that well bounded.

As said, Freecycle has alsorts being offered and asked for http://uk.freecycle.org/ try not to destroy the items you are taking out.

Final point my local council does 3 free collections a year per household for large items.

Woby_Tide

Curley wrote:

How do you know that's possible? I live in a block of flats and there is no space to put one.

the fact that the front wall fell down and the garden was now filled with rubbish sort of gave it away for me that there might be space for a skip

badmumof1

Thrifysister i see you are from southend
what tip are you trying to use cos i know that some have restrictions and you have to have a tip pass to be able to get in
this is because of people from rochford and wakering using the one at stock road as multiple drops.

Madstuthe1st

I had this problem at Basildon tip, took a astra van full of hardcore as I knocked down our wall. They weren't best pleased but I didn't know the 3 bags rule, thats 3 bags very 28 days. They let me get rid of it all that time as it was quiet but told me not to come back for a month. So it took me over two months to get rid of the hardcore, wife was not pleased with it sitting on our drive!!!!!!!!

nearlyrich

I got done by the jobsworths at our tip for "trade waste", I had maybe 10 or 20 leftover spec sheets in amongst my newspapers, I saw a guy from the local computer shop blatenly dumping his cardboard at the tip but they picked on me and said I should drive to the other side of the county and pay to dispose of them. How green LOL.

Tom_Jones

Thrifty_sister wrote:

To those of you sugesting a skip have a heart My kitchen is being done on such a tight budget if I have to pay out for a skip that will eat into my even tighter budget for my bathroom.
As a single parent, working full time just scraped onto the property ladder with a small flat a dont want to get into debt any further that the mortgage.

Thanks to the rest of you for the usefull sugestions. I will just have to start loading up my car and doing it myself

Apologies if you find my post offensive, but when you carry out any building work you should allow for disposal of waste, but hat's off for what you appear to be doing on what seems a tight budget.

BTW most tips will not allow multiple trips with what is classed as builders waste.

navig8r

Our local tip will only take house hold waste which they define as anything that you take with you when you move home so doors and kitchen units are a no no and vans of any description are not allowed. You can take a small bag of rubble and they empty out the green waste to make sure you have not hidden any.

dave

Coveredinbees!!!!

My local council will only let you take 3 100L bags a month (not that you could lift 100L) to the tip. So I go to the neighboring council up the road where you can dump as much as you like but you can only go in once a day which is equally bizarre but at least you can get rid of more stuff. They wonder why people fly tip:mad:

HugoSP

Thrifty Sister

How have you got on with this?