Removing rubbish

davidlizard

I have spent today clearing out the end of the garden, and have a large amount of rubbish to remove.

The rubbish is mostly metal (the frame of an old trailer, corrugated iron, a chimney liner, old mattress springs, parts of an old car (a wing, taillights, half fuel tank), bits of old bikes and a couple of ancient shopping trolleys. All the metal is heavily rusted and has been there for some time. Anything remotely combustible has been burnt over the recent years.

I have heaped it up alongside the house, and I estimate that if I got the angle grinder out, I could fit it into a space of 4 cubic yards.

My options are:
1. Get a skip.
2. Hippo bags.
3. Take it to the dump myself (5 miles away + 1 hour queue, probably about 8 car loads).
4. Get a "rubbish" removal chap round to take the lot away.
5. Something else (legal!)

2 and 3 I can price up for myself, but can anyone advise how much I would expect to pay for a 4 yd/6 yd skip, or how much these rubbish removal "man with van" people would typically charge (ball park figure). I am in Hampshire if that makes any difference.

All advice gratefully received.

t_r

Man take it to the scrappy they will pay you for it deffo. Or wait for our traveller friends to come by, that's if they haven't already been.

Don't pay for it to be taken lol

davidlizard

Cheers - will they want the metal even if its seriously rusty? Its been laying around for at least 8 years (when we bought the house), probably much longer!

I got shot of a bath that way a year or so back!

t_r

metal is metal they will not be bothered about rust

jetcat

if you do decide to pay someone to take it away, i have just had someone take all my rubbish away - a yard full - old sofa bed, mattress and single bed frame, old frdige, really big rabbit hutch etc - cost £70. am in north east england. i just looked on a listings site, for domestic waste. he came and took it all the next day, and as there was no way i could have done it myself - was the best £70 i have spent in a long while!

libra10

Our local council WLDC will take up to three items for free. You might have to wait a couple of weeks. It's worth checking whether your local council do similar.

Good luck

roses

I am in London & cheapest place to get a medium skip size of rubbish collected was £250

I looked into skip hire but we have street parking here. Car parking on my street requires a permit and so does skip hire. The council won't reserve a bay if you hire a skip (what's the £50 permit cost for then?!). A skip would have cost £180 inc council permit and as the rubbish was heavy then I opted for someone to come & collect it all from my front garden. It was mostly rubble from home renovation.

davidlizard

Cheers all for the replies.

We have had a skip hire quotes - £200! Estimate it will need 4 hippo bags so that is not worthwhile either. Man with vans - we have phoned three and none have got back to us.

Local council will not even empty bins if the lids do not shut, let alone do one off collections - they did a few years back but that went the way of free parking, the library being open at the weekends and employing lollypop ladies.

Anyway, the stuff is piled up in a prominent location, so hopefully someone may spot it and take some of it, otherwise I will chop it up and take it to the dump over the course of the summer - we only get the wheelybin emptied once in May and August so will be going anyway.

davidlizard

Result!!

Knock at the door today. "Would you like me to take all of that scrap metal off your hands?".

No charge, but I will probably give the lad a tenner or so as he has saved me a couple of hundred, or at a good few hours of my time.

deanos

jetcat wrote: »

if you do decide to pay someone to take it away, i have just had someone take all my rubbish away - a yard full - old sofa bed, mattress and single bed frame, old frdige, really big rabbit hutch etc - cost £70. am in north east england. i just looked on a listings site, for domestic waste. he came and took it all the next day, and as there was no way i could have done it myself - was the best £70 i have spent in a long while!

Its probaby £70 for a reason, no doubt dumped down a country lane

fumken

jetcat wrote: »

if you do decide to pay someone to take it away, i have just had someone take all my rubbish away - a yard full - old sofa bed, mattress and single bed frame, old frdige, really big rabbit hutch etc - cost £70. am in north east england. i just looked on a listings site, for domestic waste. he came and took it all the next day, and as there was no way i could have done it myself - was the best £70 i have spent in a long while!

Hi. Did you get the person through a website or phone listing. I have to remove an old fridge, lots of rubbish which neighbors had been throwing behind my back garden (fenced ) which we discovered after removing the fence, mostly metal, replacement bulbs and what should have been cleared when they redecorated their house, before selling. They have now moved, so I cant even go to them.I live in London so your man cant do it. Thanks.