Tenant wants garbage bins cleaned!

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Annie1960 wrote: »

Bin liners? I imagine the OP is talking about the wheelie bins, and I don't think you can get liners for these.

You can get wheelie bin liners ,most supermarkets sell them.

00ec25

Annie1960 wrote: »

Bin liners? I imagine the OP is talking about the wheelie bins, and I don't think you can get liners for these.

clearly you are so rabidly anti LL that common sense is not your strong point

as a householder I use Sainsbury's carrier bags as bin liners for my waste bins inside the hosue. Those bags are then tied off and placed in the wheelie bin, patently therefore you do not need bin liners for a wheelie bin since everything is already bagged up

obviously there will be (some) leakage from the carrier bags so over time the wheelie bin will become dirty. For those who find this offensive there are entrepreneurs who now offer wheelie bin cleaning services, I have better things to spend my money on than paying such people to clean the inside of a bin

IMHO the tenant may have "high" standards but unless this is a very high class let I would tell them to take a walk off a short plank

Annie1960

CHRISSYG wrote: »

You can get wheelie bin liners ,most supermarkets sell them.

I stand corrected.

Annie1960

00ec25 wrote: »

clearly you are so rabidly anti LL that common sense is not your strong point

I am not anti LL, I've just been very surprised (not in a good way) since reading this forum to see the sort of thing tenants have to put up with. Dangerous electrics, no gas safety certificates, fences falling down that LL does not bother repairing, damp, LLs using a key to walk into the property without notice (sometimes into bedrooms when someone is in bed) ... need I go on?

I understand there are some bad tenants too, but expecting the property and bins to be clean on check-in is reasonable, in my view.

Obviously you have different standards, and would be satisfied if you moved into a property with dirty bins.

googler

Annie1960 wrote: »

Bin liners? I imagine the OP is talking about the wheelie bins, and I don't think you can get liners for these.

Yes, you do.

Every week the cleaner comes round and power washes my neighbour's bin and puts a fresh liner in it.

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The other way of looking at it is to use bin liners in all internal bins, then when you put them in the external wheelie, the rubbish is already bagged - and you don't need a wheelie liner.

Annie1960

googler wrote: »

Yes, you do.

Every week the cleaner comes round and power washes my neighbour's bin and puts a fresh liner in it.

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The other way of looking at it is to use bin liners in all internal bins, then when you put them in the external wheelie, the rubbish is already bagged - and you don't need a wheelie liner.

The latter is the method I use. Thanks for outlining the options.

BitterAndTwisted

I wouldn't dream of asking for such a thing. If the bins weren't up to my incredibly high standards of fastidiousness I would clean them my ruddy self.

Start as you mean to go on, or the tenant will be asking for all sorts of pointless and petty things.

Pandilex

30 seconds with a hosepipe, job done... lol @ 30 quid

Only annoying part from a tenant point of view is when they don't have a hosepipe or other item they'd never use more than once.

My property has an enclosed rear garden but the LL didn't provide a lawnmower. It was fine through winter but now it's grown, so I have to spend 30 quid to buy a cheap strimmer to do it which I will use once.

I don't mind maintaining it but if the LL wants to rent out a property with a garden it might be nice to provide a lawnmower, since my previous property nor my next property are gonna have a garden, and if a property doesn't have a garden it rarely has anywhere to store a mower.

londonmaiden

I would expect the bins to be clean on moving in but if they weren't I wouldn't ask the landlord to clean them as I'd know that would pi** them off, I would just clean myself and be annoyed about it but that's life and a lot of people are more messy and inconsiderate than others. If you start being accommodating for this kind of request they could ask you all kinds of silly things.

POPPYOSCAR

If they have been left dirty by the previous tenants then I would clean them but make it clear to the new ones that it is their responsibility in future and they must leave them clean when they leave.

I most certainly would not pay £30!!