Wheelie bins in terraced houses?

Pandilex

This may be a silly question, but I just bought a terraced house and I am wondering how the rubbish collection works.

At my current place we have a small garden where the bins are and on rubbish day I put them in the street, but the property I am buying is a terraced house, immediately opening onto the street with no garden of any kind. There is no side access and the rear garden is completely enclosed.

How does the rubbish system work for a house like that? Do I have to keep a wheelie bin inside my house?

booksurr

go back to the property you are buying and look/ask.

we can't see how your local system works from here

PasturesNew

Pandilex wrote: »

Do I have to keep a wheelie bin inside my house?

Pretty much so, yes. See what the neighbours do with theirs all week .... if everybody's leaving theirs out all the time, then do that until told otherwise. If no other bins are left out then you'll have to keep it inside.

One's a nuisance... you wait until you've got 5-7 of them

ilikewatch

It would probably be worth speaking to your neighbours to see what they do, or just watching on bin day to see what happens.
I've seen this issue dealt with in several ways - in some cases householders have special permission to put out black bags instead of having a wheelie bin, I know other people who have to wheel their bin through the house to put it out on bin day. Sometimes there is a nearby alleyway where people store their bins.

Pandilex

I can't imagine wheeling a dirty smelly bin through my house never mind storing it in there

Luella-14_2

I would imagine there are no wheelie bins but rubbish goes outside in black bags on the relevant day. My council's website gives instructions and collection dates for each address, maybe try yours.

GwylimT

It depends on your local council, when I was in your situation we had the choice between black bags or wheelie bins. I chose bins, for me it was easier to give the wheels a quick clean and wheel it through the hall way instead of lugging several bin bags, especially if they were wet, it also meant the seagulls had nothing to tear up in my yard.

PasturesNew

Pandilex wrote: »

I can't imagine wheeling a dirty smelly bin through my house never mind storing it in there

If you bleach it clean to start with - get it under cover in the back garden (eg a small bin shelter) and make sure you don't create smelly waste, then the worst case is going to be dragging it through when the weather's been atrocious all day. In this case you can be prepared to lug it inside, then give it a wipe down before dragging it through the rest of the house.

This is one of the things most buyers think about before they buy/rent a house and it is one of the things that puts some buyers off some houses.

geri1965_2

You keep it in the back garden and wheel it through on rubbish day.

comeandgo

A bin is only dirty and smelly if you don't clean it. Maybe there is a communal large bin in the street that you put your black bin bags in? I know that's what my daughters old house had, she had no bins.

WestonDave

Worst case scenario, if you have to put the rubbish out in a wheelie bin - get another dustbin to keep in the back garden and use strong black bags in it, then on bin day put the bags into the pristine wheelie bin and take it through to the front. However in such houses its not uncommon for bags to be used instead. I suspect if you look on Google Earth you'll either see every house on the street storing a wheelie bin in the back garden (in which case you have to use them) or you won't in which case its bags.