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powderblast
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Used to keep lovely and warm in the shed with the burner but environmental health stopped that threatend to take me to court hull is a smoke free zone its all got stupid
addjunkie
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But can you see smoke in the dark?
powderblast
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To be fair i use to have a flame coming out the pipe out the roof or little sparks
Soon as they mentioned court i just ripped it out the shed she had an answer for everything i said i would of never one
the snooper
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I'm in hull, never had a problem, you must have grumpy neighbours, once you get the burner really hot they don't smoke when burning wood as long as you don't put too much on, fuel to air ratio
how many of you are there to have overflowing bins ? were a family of 4 and if its half full every 2 weeks !
I once paid the council to take away a 4 seater corner sofa, they said leave it out the same day bins get collected ! I did so expecting a van lorry to come round and pick it up but instead i saw them trying to push it into the back of the bin lorry
I once paid the council to take away a 4 seater corner sofa, they said leave it out the same day bins get collected ! I did so expecting a van lorry to come round and pick it up but instead i saw them trying to push it into the back of the bin lorry
powderblast
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Yeah hull is a smoke free zone check online see what you make of it
rtcosic
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Wheelie Bins?
Wheelie BINS??
Wheelie BINS???
Wheelie BINS????
We get thin plastic bin liner bags.
The same size as a 'standard' traditional bins. But thinner than any I've ever seen for sale - even in the grottiest pound shops. But they do have our councils logo on them. There's posh for you.
Which means when you put them inside a bin there isn't enough length to turn over the bin lip to hold them in place. Or to tie them off when you take them out. So you might get 75 litres in them. Maybe.
Next year they will only collect one black general bag once per fortnight, but any number of orange recyclables every week.
I guess a lot of stuff is going to become recyclable.
They have to be out very early in the morning.
We are near the sea.
We have herring gulls.
And feral cats.
And foxes.
Black plastic bin bags for general rubbish and orange plastic bin bags for 'recyclable' is a very good idea - somewhere else.
But I keep looking at the drive mechanism for electric seats in cars and trying to figure out a 'trash compactor' design using those.
Wheelie BINS??
Wheelie BINS???
Wheelie BINS????
We get thin plastic bin liner bags.
The same size as a 'standard' traditional bins. But thinner than any I've ever seen for sale - even in the grottiest pound shops. But they do have our councils logo on them. There's posh for you.
Which means when you put them inside a bin there isn't enough length to turn over the bin lip to hold them in place. Or to tie them off when you take them out. So you might get 75 litres in them. Maybe.
Next year they will only collect one black general bag once per fortnight, but any number of orange recyclables every week.
I guess a lot of stuff is going to become recyclable.
They have to be out very early in the morning.
We are near the sea.
We have herring gulls.
And feral cats.
And foxes.
Black plastic bin bags for general rubbish and orange plastic bin bags for 'recyclable' is a very good idea - somewhere else.
But I keep looking at the drive mechanism for electric seats in cars and trying to figure out a 'trash compactor' design using those.
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And they wonder at the rise in fly tipping
Some councils are now trialing "street skips" as it's cheaper than clearing up after fly tipping.
rtcosic
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I like the general idea, but they would need CCTV coverage.
Otherwise I can see a lot of small 'businesses' avoiding trade waste charges and there being no room left for legitimate householder's rubbish.
On the other hand there's little to stop skip diving for treasure!
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Apart from the CCTV.
In the last 40 years sometime we had a Council street collection. Everyone was told they could put bulky items on the pavement and the Council would collect them. First off were the neighbours helping themselves to each others' stuff, then the Pikeys after the scrap then the Council with a drop-side lorry for the rest.
Just this morning a neighbour put a fridge out, the compressor will disappear in the next 24 hours (NOT me!) and then the carcass will just stay there for a few weeks.
Same here, we often put two recycle bins out but some weeks we don't even put the black bin out.
We bought a couple of our own wheelie bin at our old house so the foxes didn't rip the bags, they were about £20 in Costco at the time. On recycle week they have no issues taking two bins.
The one interesting thing is our own bins are probably 16 years old and they are in better condition than the council supplied one which seems a bit flimsey in comparison.
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We had black bins delivered in 1993 and they're going strong. We've had brown bins delivered yesterday and as you say they're really flimsy. It will be interesting to see how they last, although they won't have as much weight in them as the black ones.
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We get weekly collections, alternating between recycling stuff and 'general' waste.
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One was at the end of my street a couple of months back. Filled to overflowing within 30 minutes and replaced three times in the first 2 two days. Was meant to be a week long event. Council ran out of budget for emptying the skips.
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Read the actual article (I preached "Always go back to Primary Sources, Boy" and failed to do so myself.). Seems the skips will be set up, supervised and removed when full.
Probably within the first 30 minutes too.
Our bin wagons come with wheelie bin lifters as standard.
So the LA 'fitted' 2 wheelie bins to the back of the wagon.
The bin men lift the bin bags up, load three of them into each wheelie bin, then press the button for the mechanism to empty the wheelie bins.
Some folks have bought their own wheelie bin.
You have to put the rubbish into the LA supplied bin bags then put the full bin bags into the wheelie bin. The bin men then lift the bin bags out of your wheelie bin, carry them to their wheelie bin, lift them into their wheelie bin - you know the rest.
Anything heavier than the dust from the vacuum cleaner has usually fallen through the bin bag by now.
You really couldn't make it up!
Do I have a 'thing' about our LA's approach to refuse management???
Same here, the general one only gets full summer time with the garden trimmings, recycle only when I don't crush the beer tins first
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@powderblast I am going to rip off your idea with a few mods, going to make something along these lines for scrunging barbed and fencing wire into 200 ltr barrels. The scrap yard here hates taking wire, this would be a good packaging solution 
Bob
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