Bloody hell!!

[Deleted member 16999]

This is the sort of post that is put on our local community facebook page:

“Tumble dryer in front garden and few other bits of scrap purple bread bin purple tea coffee sugar and biscuit tin and slow cooker and 2 pedal bikes in front garden 34 xxxxxxx also have a huge trampoline with no net but needs taking down.”

I did similar with some scrap metal before Christmas and it was gone in under 7 minutes from me pressing post on the site.

 

[Orikoru]

Yeah I think it's very common that anything you leave outside the front of your house will get collected by travelling people shall we say, in a kind of 'everyone's a winner' scenario, where you get rid of your unwanted stuff and they get some cash scrapping it I suppose.

Smiffy's example is taking the mick a bit though as he said it was still inside his property technically. If you can't even leave anything in your front garden safely then that's a different story.

But personally I wouldn't leave things out the front of the house, I'd keep it by the front door or in the alleyway behind the gate until the person collecting actually turned up.

 

[Imurg]

Unless they flytip it and it can be traced back to you ...then you're in trouble.

 

[Bigfoot]

We had a new kitchen last year and a skip on the drive. We had a couple of instances of people knocking on the door and asking if the could take any metal. It made no difference to us so long as the put everything they weren't taking back in the skip.

 

[Smiffy]

We had a new kitchen last year and a skip on the drive. We had a couple of instances of people knocking on the door and asking if the could take any metal. It made no difference to us so long as the put everything they weren't taking back in the skip.

I wouldn't have a problem with that at all.
They had the decency to ask

 

[larmen]

Same happens when you leave washing on the bedroom or bathroom floor, seems to end up washed!

But you pay for that, one sock at the time.

 

[chellie]

In some places, leaving stuff out on the road is an invitation for people to take them, though, innit?

That's what happens here. Put our old boiler out the other week. It was gone in hours.

 

[Dando]

That's what happens here. Put our old boiler out the other week. It was gone in hours.

Might try that with my old boiler but after 10 mins they’ll bring her back

 

[clubchamp98]

There have been instances where plumbers have removed radiators, drained the water outside and left the radiator there with the intention of replacing the radiator later. Only for said radiator to have grown legs when the plumber has returned to fit it. A couple of years ago the local parish councillors stopped the “ travelling community” from coming round nigh on twice a day. They were calling over the PA system “ scrap metal “. It was getting on folks nerves. It’s a fine line that when you leave out anything scrap from washing machines to radiators to be collected. You invite people of scrupulous nature to eye things up.

Always drain your radiators in the back garden if you can.
Schoolboy error.

 

[clubchamp98]

We had a new kitchen last year and a skip on the drive. We had a couple of instances of people knocking on the door and asking if the could take any metal. It made no difference to us so long as the put everything they weren't taking back in the skip.

I have been doing this over lockdown.
I do ask.
Got some nice wood and made my daughters school a mud kitchen for the kids.
Gave me something to do.

 

[2blue]

Surely if it's on the pavement it's fair game for anyone?

^^^^^ Is the correct answer..... happens all the time around our way. They don't want fridges, so they get left...... anything else on the pavement is fair game.

 

[clubchamp98]

^^^^^ Is the correct answer..... happens all the time around our way. They don't want fridges, so they get left...... anything else on the pavement is fair game.

Would stop those idiots parking their cars on the pavement.

 

[Slab]

I leave knackered stuff outside too, bicycle, camping chairs etc

If it's not gone within the hour I'm kinda offended that no one wants my crap ?

 

[patricks148]

sounds like not the sort of place to park your car on the road

 

[Don Barzini]

During my extension we had a skip out on the grass verge in front of our house. I came home one day to find two guys on top of it trying to extract some old window frames that had been ripped out. I was a bit annoyed about it, but on reflection I couldn't really think why! They were kind of doing me a favour, creating more room in my skip! Think perhaps I would just just like to have been asked.

Different scenario from the OP's, I realise.

 

[clubchamp98]

During my extension we had a skip out on the grass verge in front of our house. I came home one day to find two guys on top of it trying to extract some old window frames that had been ripped out. I was a bit annoyed about it, but on reflection I couldn't really think why! They were kind of doing me a favour, creating more room in my skip! Think perhaps I would just just like to have been asked.

Different scenario from the OP's, I realise.

Yes at £200 a skip they can take what they like.