Tradies - disposal of stuff

[zanadoo_56]

You get a tradie in to fix or replace something, you ask (in advance) that they take all the old stuff away with them....and they agree. 

Then you find that apparently this promise only applies to extremely large items.  The rest has been jammed in your household waste wheelie bin on the tradie's way out  Grrrrrrr.  Or the alternative is...if the bits and pieces are not to be put on the recycle or garden waste bins then that's where they will be.

Is there a solution for this issue?  I don't have any extra storage space (ie no shed or garage). I don't want to get in trouble with the council, and I'm not at all impressed to find my bin is already sometimes already more half full when I go to put rubbish in it.

[zanadoo_56]

I was willing to pay extra for the tradie to take everything away....but I was told by the company that wouldn't be necessary.  There would be no extra charge and he would take everything.  Ha.

When I buy a new bed, washing machine, whatever, I always negotiate that the old item is removed.  No removal, no sale.  I don't care what it costs - I simply don't have any room to store old appliances etc.  As I explained earlier, I don't have a shed or garage or any undercover area...other than my very modest sized house.

The household rubbish collection is weekly.  Sometimes it needs to be, but even if not, when the bin has already been filled with various odd sized items (especially is they will only fit diagonally in the bin like pieces of timber) then you may not have much space left for a full standard green garbage bag.

[amber-eyed-girl]

Yes, appliances are taken away. Good to confirm this beforehand, but generally they are.

[amber-eyed-girl]

When the new house was built next door, each different subcontractor did their own thing,

Rubbish in my bins.

Parking in my drive.

Rubbish left in my drive.

Bottle of pee thrown over the fence.

I am not kidding about the bottles. In the end, I got a shovel and carried them back over. When the owner/builder was there, so he could see.

After that it stopped.

[debra9275]

Yes Bump same here, when we purchased a new fridge, the delivery men took away our old one.

[katymatey*]

Fair enough. However I am betting the retailers built the removal costs into the price. 🙂

No such thing as a free lunch.

[lloydslights]

Just as the tradesman should have done.  DEB

[amber-eyed-girl]

I bet they do too 🙂 and that is cool, saves one trying to lug it onto the nature strip for a hard rubbish day. Minus doors etc.

One supplier was going to charge 55$ to remove the old dishwasher, as a specific charge...if the total price was the same or cheaper, that would have been OK. But they were more expensive anyway.

[debra9275]

We negotiated it into the delivery price and we got a good deal.

We are lucky to have some pretty good tradies who always clean up after themselves. A plumber and an electrician, they even sweep everything up and put it in the bin. I realize they are a rare breed though, they are definitely keepers.

[debra9275]

OP I don't think you can do any better than that unless you have a skip on site.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@lloydslights wrote:

BUT the poster asked if the rubbish would be taken away.  The tradesman said that he would.  

DEB

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But I bet it was never specific. Tradie probably took away HIS waste only.