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A pair of fibreglass kayaks from 1975. Final straw was going to the garage yesterday for the lawn mower and finding one of them had fallen onto it and a bike(only damage seems to be a bent bottle cage). Could have been a child's face etc. They haven't seen water since the mid 90s.
What project that you really will get round to soon junk have you been putting off getting rid of that should have gone years or decades ago?
Will you take my dad's fibreglass kayak of a similar, maybe older vintage, been stored uncovered on top of his shed for at least 15 years, got more than one hole in. Still might be useful though!
Edit, sure you don't want to make a catamaran?
No kayaks, but after a lot of IKEA assembling I'm on firsta name terms with the blokes at our local tip. Also our recycling bin doesn't allow glass (thanks, Northumberland CC), so I have to take that separately. Slightly embarrassing how much there is.
My scrap metal bucket is becoming like a game of buckaroo as I try and fit one more bit of scrap on the overflowing pile. Might also take those hoops from a wooden barrel (the wood rotted away years ago but the hoops will be useful for something, won't they?)
Replacement front door (without a catflap in) that I grabbed when a neighbour got theirs replaced, probably 2 years ago now!
Parts for a tandoor build, bricks flower pots, I need to cut some more fire bricks but I kept melting blades on the angle grinder as I wasn't watering them while cutting the bricks, since realising this I've still not finished the damn thing, at least 5 years in the making, possibly more.
There's a P7 frame which I've been meaning to do something with, probably not for the tip though.
Edit, sure you don’t want to make a catamaran?
Come to think of it, my son wears size 14 trainers!
Take stuff to the tip! When I win the lottery I'm buying the tip.
Some tubes and part worn tyres,how big is your car truck 😉
I have a hand riveted stainless steel pottery kiln flue.
Removed it from the garage roof and put it in the corner of the carport… just in case… erm
My fil is clearing his garage a bit currently. This seems to consist of insisting I take all his odds and sods that he insists will be useful 😒. I have far too much of my own thanks.
My tip run today includes an old metal travel chest which judging by the address on the lid was last used in 1972 when my parents returned to the UK from Canada.
Timely thread. At the weekend I took a small shed, too rotten to be repurposed, to the tip which had been sat in our garden in bits for about 2 years. Only to be told that they don't take sheds - they suggested I burn it. It's now sat back in our garden undoubtedly for another 2 years until I can be bothered to do something with it - unless it goes out in the normal bin one plank at a time.
I've got a small amount of concrete (about 10kg) which my local tip wanted to charge me extra for. Would you like to give it a go at yours, before it goes into the household waste bin here?
our local waste :
if you are female they will swarm around your car emptying the waste out of boot.
If you are male, can I get a hand? nah heath and safety mate I can't touch anything.
I'm booked in for 10. See you there?
I've got a hard-drive that came out of my old crypto mining PC, that I need to get rid of.
Pretty sure I didn't leave anything on it, such as several thousand bitcoin so it should be OK to toss it in the........oh, bollocks.
I've got some asbestos garage roof panels if you are nipping down later and have space.
I have a green painted pallet I tried to get rid of down the tip that some garden furniture was delivered on, but I was told they couldn't take it as it belonged to someone (presumably the shipping company).
Anyone know how I can persuade either the tip to take it, or Palletline to take it back?
Just take your normal everyday rubbish to the dump and break up the pallet and put it in your bin
Room for pieces of a stool that I was stood on to fix my garage door? It collapsed under me! Bloody thing is only about 30 years old.
All the clothes and old toys that our kids had when they were toddlers (they are teenagers now) that my wife still wants to keep 'just in case'.
Just take your normal everyday rubbish to the dump and break up the pallet and put it in your bin
Yes that's probably the way. In which case if anyone's getting rid of a crowbar I'll take it.
Anyone know how I can persuade either the tip to take it, or Palletline to take it back
Why would a Sith Lord want it?
Why would a Sith Lord want it?
Well done, that make me chuckle.
Only to be told that they don’t take sheds –
The trick is to make sure it no longer looks like a shed.
i.e chop it up into smaller chunks*
*Apply same logic to .....
Rubble
Plasterboard
Ceramics
All of which our tip tries to charge you for disposal.
China & Russia.
Well done, that make me chuckle.
Likewise, and I had to hide it quickly as I'm also in a stressful work meeting where I shouldn't have been...
You can help me by taking a bit of the mountain of crap my parents have at their house. I currently can't get rid of it qouicker than they add to it!
Anyone know how I can persuade either the tip to take it, or Palletline to take it back?
Palletline don't take them back, made that mistake when I did an agency shift for them. Judging by the reaction form the warehouse boys when I unloaded 3 you'd think I'd just brought back a grenade 🤣
I had a pair of 70s fibreglass kayaks in my shed unused for 20 years. In the end I stuck them on FB marketplace -free to a good home". It went mental . I reckon I had 30+ offers to come and collect in the next 24 hours. First to arrive was a chap in a saloon car (see recent thread - useless!) with no roof rack or bars. We simply sat them on the roof of the car and tied them around through the open windows and front/rear to the bumpers He seemed happy enough and I was glad to see the back of em TBF
I’m off to the tip in a bit. Got anything you need rid of?
The wife. Saves me laying a new patio 😳
if you are female they will swarm around your car emptying the waste out of boot.
If you are male, can I get a hand? nah heath and safety mate I can’t touch anything.
Same here, I was away for the week so the OH went without me to get rid of some stuff in a sports bra and short-shorts. Apparently she just had to stand back whilst every member of staff and half the public emptied a car packed waste for her 🤣
Fridge Freezer and a double height fridge if you've got room - be good to get some room back in the shed
Anyone know how I can persuade either the tip to take it, or Palletline to take it back?
Just break it up - then it's just bits of green wood! 🙂
My local tip won't take pallets of any sort if complete. Broken down - "yeah, that's fine mate".
Two VW engines and associated pipework ? Son's car obsession ! I've finally got them out to the shed and not in my bike palace (garage).
I was away for the week so the OH went without me to get rid of some stuff in a sports bra and short-shorts.
What stuff did she have in a sports bra that she wanted rid of? I might've taken them off her hands.
Palletline don’t take them back, made that mistake when I did an agency shift for them. Judging by the reaction form the warehouse boys when I unloaded 3 you’d think I’d just brought back a grenade
So the company that owns it don't want it, and the tip won't take it because it belongs to a company that owns it, who don't want it. Definite lack of joined up thinking there!
Can you drop the cast of Love Island and Towie off whilst you're there? There might be a small charge for the plaster which is attached to their faces.
All the clothes and old toys that our kids had when they were toddlers (they are teenagers now) that my wife still wants to keep ‘just in case’.
That's what the polythene charity bags they stick through your letterbox are for. Well, that and the lawn mower clippings.
I need to get rid of a 2-section ladder (about 3m per section), not used it in 20 years and can't even remember how it got to my house in the first place (as I don't have a roof rack). No clue how I get it to the tip unless I buy an angle grinder or something and cut it up 🙁
Ill have that ladder ta
No clue how I get it to the tip unless I buy an angle grinder or something and cut it up
Car roof. Tied with a couple of old socks
So the company that owns it don’t want it, and the tip won’t take it because it belongs to a company that owns it, who don’t want it. Definite lack of joined up thinking there!
Palletline won't own it - they'll just move it. The people who shipped the stuff from China will probably own it.
The company who sold the furniture would be the people to contact. But I'd break it down and get rid that way.
I need to get rid of a 2-section ladder (about 3m per section),
Leave it outside with a 'Free' notice on it. It'll be gone before you get back in the front door! 🙂
Knackered petrol lawnmower - been under a tarp outside for 2 years since we bought an electric one. I find it in the garden by regularly falling over it.
Plasterboard that we have to schlep over to Hereford as local recycling considers it about as welcome as aforementioned grenade.
The entire contents of the loft* as I don't want to transport it to a THIRD house when we move
What's your local recycling centres policy on grown up offspring?
*except for the collection of specialised bike boxes. They clearly have value
I dislike going to the tip as it's out of my way and can be silly busy, so if you'd take the growing volume of used engine oil, currently at about 5 gallons, that would be really handy.
I dislike going to the tip as it’s out of my way and can be silly busy,
Ours tends to be silly busy with old people taking one very small black bag of rubbish per trip - roughly the same amount of rubbish that my kids generate every 30 minutes. Maybe they are disposing of a body very slowly.
Our guys at the tip help no-one. Mrs was there with a car rammed full of junk from her late mother's house - the guys just said 'looks like you are enjoying yourself getting rid of all the old junk'. Still need some more visits, but we're ANPR'ed and allowed a visit per week.
I have just done a tip run. Big flattened cardboard boxes that i thought might be useful and some bags of rubble. Tip is ok, anpr for a limit on visits and not much of a queue during the week. Then headed to the diy store to pick up more stuff.
What junk have you been putting off getting rid of that should have gone years or decades ago?
My anxiety and social awkwardness.
Leave it outside with a ‘Free’ notice on it. It’ll be gone before you get back in the front door! 🙂
Leave it outside with a ‘please do not steal’ notice on it. It’ll be gone etc etc...
I dislike going to the tip as it’s out of my way and can be silly busy
Ours introduced a pre-booking system with slots every 10 mins during covid times.
They have stuck with it and for me it works. Never had to wait since.
Before ( especially bank holiday weekends) you could be queueing right back up the road.People still moan about it though. Obviously miss the traffic jams 😉
Can you get the 2.5t 1980's CNC mill in your truck? Either it or the garage will need to come apart and the 20m of concrete drive upto the garage is now lawn.
Also our recycling bin doesn’t allow glass (thanks, Northumberland CC)
thats pretty normal and there is a reason for it.
Glass absolutely destroys MRF ("murf") plant. You really don't want to be footting the bill for that every year or so in your council tax. ITs also really easy to recycle and no sorting required so the less contaminants the better (thats why you are asked to take the lids off.)
Similarly if the council asks for clean recycling rinse stuff out clean MRFs are cheaper to operate than dirty MRFs.
There's a really crap cabinet that I'm wanting shot of. Bits keep getting replaced, but if anything that just makes it worse. Nothing about it works and it keeps coming up with new ways of making me poorer.
The chief cabinet maker is away soon but I can't see the new one being any better so I just want to dump the whole thing.
It's down in Westminster if anyone can help get rid of it?
thats pretty normal and there is a reason for it.
Is it?
Recycling glass (and card/paper) are pretty much the basics of recycling. Glass goes in a separate container though.
Kids. Other people's kids to be exact.
Large gas canister of unknown origin / contents? Inherited it with the house, took it down the tip, who said they don’t take it. Skip company won’t take it. Wtf am I supposed to do with it?
if you’d take the growing volume of used engine oil, currently at about 5 gallons, that would be really handy.
We can put engine oil in sealed containers in the weekly recycling collection. Might be worth checking.
Oooooo, yes it's all sealed in old engine oil bottles (old bottles that they new oil came in.....I didn't need to clarify that did I). Thanks, I'll check.
Kids. Other people’s kids to be exact.
Please take mine. They're horrible.
Next doors Dashound and mother in law, both seem to compete to see who is loudest.
Recycling glass (and card/paper) are pretty much the basics of recycling. Glass goes in a separate container though.
yes because broken glass eats machinery for breakfast then nothing gets recycled.
thats pretty normal and there is a reason for it.
And yet, literally, just down/along the road in the sunlit uplands of North Tyneside, they do take our glass away. 🤔
The 4 foot cylinder full of mystery sludge from an old water softener needs chucking out.
I can barely move it, even when helped by the largest of sons.
It was sitting in the corner of the garage when we moved in 11 years ago.
Old metal shed, some random bits and a BSO in the front garden. Offered it to the metal scavenger a few weeks ago but hasn't shown face. Getting tipped as soon as I have the car space.
And all the carboard in the loft.
And about 10m of fencing at my mums.
The joy.
Ooh carp. Just checked the Croydon website to see if they collect the used oil. No, and or seems the recycling centre no longer takes it either! That's absurd. In fact the list of things they do still take seems to have shrunk to, 'not very much mate'
yes because broken glass eats machinery for breakfast then nothing gets recycled.
Makes me wonder what Bucks cc actually recycle, coz everything goes in one big wheely bin for recycling here 🤔
A Basque and French Maid outfit, stained with burst eyelets to go in the clothes charity bin if they are ok mixing fabric and metal.
Inflatable lady, split but empty for plastic recycling
Lovesense burnt out, maybe electricals along with the rusty Rampant Rabbit.
Gimp mask, zip broken, landfill or plastics as it's vinyl.
Hmm. Think that's everything for now.
I've got some potentially crippling debt, do they accept that?
Glad I live where I do. All recycling goes in one big kerbside bin and is collected fortnightly. Pretty much everything being turned away in this thread (except the asbestos) is accepted at the tip/recycling centre. Separate skips for metal/wood/plasterboard and rubble. Nice separate caged area for gas cylinders and big tank for engine oil.
4 recycling centres within 10 miles, but only the bigger 2 take non recyclables. If turn up with a big mix usually someone will help as it saves their time sorting stuff in wrong places, and no I don’t go wearing my wife’s sports bra.
That's how it used to be here clubby, other than its only two and they could be busy, but they used to take everything. Seems like that's changed. No wonder the fly tipping had gone mental.
'pieces of a stool that I was stood on' yuk!
About two dumpy bags worth of sawdust needs putting in to smaller bags and taking. I can’t bear to start the job but the longer I leave it the messier it will be
Piles of Action Man stuff.
Lego
Timber
Bbrugo cars in boxes.
Metal
Heaps of conifer cuttings.
Old artwork
Books
Bikes
You name it I got...i wish I could dump the lot without that clinging onto ot feeling ...
🙁
Anyone know how I can persuade either the tip to take it, or Palletline to take it back?
Pallets are in huge demand on our local FB group, people offer them for free and get overwhelmed.
I wouldn't throw out anything you can burn, you might be needing it come winter.
Pallets are in huge demand on our local FB group, people offer them for free and get overwhelmed.
I put it on the local freecycle (I don’t have a fb account) and got nothing. However I won’t try too hard as this house has a working fireplace and
I wouldn’t throw out anything you can burn, you might be needing it come winter.
Is a really good point.
Rubble
Plasterboard
CeramicsAll of which our tip tries to charge you for disposal.
Let me guess, fly tipping is particularly bad where you live?
I have one slightly smaller than 4x8 sheet of 3/4 drywall. Since I bought it my in-laws have sold the truck it would fit in. For some reason cutting it up to take to the tip seems like too much effort.
If you have any room then there’s 160,000ish Tory members who are well past the use by date, doubt they’ll be missed and we’re better off without them, be sure and dump them in a big skip so they can’t climb out