All bins full at new house

James-may

Hi, I'm hoping to complete in the next month,  just waiting on the solicitors doing their stuff.
The property I am purchasing is sold as vacant, as the seller is a former landlord who is selling up.

I went over for a look the other day and the black, blue and green bins are rammed with general waste, the black bin I can obviously just pop over and put it out, then transfer the blue bin stuff into the black, then the green, that would take nearly 2 months due to the bin pick up dates .
However speaking to a neighbour they said the last tennant was a bit of a druggie, I'm really not comfortable going anywhere near the contents of the blue and green bins to move the stuff over.

What options do u have, am I better to contact the estate agent and ask them to sort it?, Or would the binmen empty a blue or green bin into the truck if I explained?

If it was just 3 full bins if the correct stuff, I'd just go over and put the bins out, really don't fancy digging through someone's rubbish to sort it.

Thanks for any advice.

AnnaLMLH

Id insist they were emptied prior to completion

eddddy

If you haven't exchanged contracts yet, you can tell the seller that you won't exchange unless all 3 bins are emptied first, It might be quickest to do this via the EA.

I guess the seller would then arrange a waste removal firm to empty them.


If the seller refuses, you could decide whether to arrange a waste removal company yourself after completion - but I guess you'd need to tell them if you suspected it contained needles etc.

FaceHead

Leaving a full black bin seems legit - they're paying the council tax up to the day before completion, so should be able to use the bin. 

Leaving incorrectly sorted waste in the other bins is clearly the problem. Tell the vendor (via solicitors) that they are to make sure the place is clean and tidy as the contract will say, and point out that that means any waste needs to be removed from the premises (including the garden) or in the right bins. If they don't then do it, as above, you get a waste removal firm and send them the bill.

You don't know there are needles etc. in the bins - only a certain type of druggy uses needles, so don't go telling the waste removal company what you don't know.
 

James-may

Thanks you, think I might contact the estate agent about the blue and green bin, the black one I can just stick out on the right day.
Thanks a lot.

eddddy

James-may said:

Thanks you, think I might contact the estate agent about the blue and green bin, the black one I can just stick out on the right day.
Thanks a lot.

If you're going to tell them to empty 2 bins, they might as well empty the 3rd one at the same time.

As I say, it's best to tell them to get it sorted before exchange of contracts (or accept you'll have to pay for it).

If you send a bill after completion, it's unlikely that it will be paid - and I doubt you'll want the hassle of threatening court action etc.

James-may

eddddy said:

James-may said:

Thanks you, think I might contact the estate agent about the blue and green bin, the black one I can just stick out on the right day.
Thanks a lot.

If you're going to tell them to empty 2 bins, they might as well empty the 3rd one at the same time.

As I say, it's best to tell them to get it sorted before exchange of contracts (or accept you'll have to pay for it).

If you send a bill after completion, it's unlikely that it will be paid - and I doubt you'll want the hassle of threatening court action etc.

Yeah, I ain't going to court haha.
Will probably cost £70 to get bins emptied, or slip the binman £20 to empty all 3 bins on black bin day.

I've sent a polite email asking the estate agent to arrange for it to be sorted.
I actually noticed the bins were overflowing when doing the second viewing along with rubbish like mattresses down the side of the garden shed, and when I offered I told them I needed the rubbish cleared and the overflowing rubbish sorted.

They did most of it, and granted the rubbish in the bin isn't overflowing anymore, but it's still the wrong rubbish for the bin🤣

Anyway, thanks, I'll see what they respond with.

Tiglet2

It is the seller's property until the day of completion, so does it matter if the bins are full now?  It is only if they are not empty on completion that you have a problem.  I would be inclined to raise this through your solicitor, just so it is in writing.

Irishpearce26

2 months for the bins to be emptied doesn't sound right to me, my black and green bins are done on a 2 week cycle. Not sure what a blue bin is for.

Its best to have a word with the EA on your concerns, the druggie bit is hearsay but I wouldn't be comfortable either.

swingaloo2

I have moved twice in the last 5 years. On both occasions I have been left with 3 bins rammed full of the incorrect stuff.

This was under  a different council each time but on both occasions i rang the council to explain that I had just moved in and inherited the bins. Both times they came and emptied them. They also both said that it is a common problem but that they will only do the empty on one occasion and also they checked the chnge of owner on the council tax first.

swingaloo2

Irishpearce26 said:

2 months for the bins to be emptied doesn't sound right to me, my black and green bins are done on a 2 week cycle. Not sure what a blue bin is for.

Its best to have a word with the EA on your concerns, the druggie bit is hearsay but I wouldn't be comfortable either.

Seems to vary a lot from council to council. We have a red, green and beige bin and a black one. Red, green & beige are emptied on week then black the following so never more than 2 weeks.

 2 miles down the road they have green, brown, black and purple and 2 of those are emptied every 2 weeks, the others are monthly.