Do you clean your waste wheelie bin?

Santa Cruz · 28-05-2014 05:23PM

Ruubot2 wrote: »

Can't someone else do it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpYVqZM4NnA&feature=kp

Aquagakka · 28-05-2014 05:25PM

There's guys who come round our estate and wash them for you once a fortnight.

They have a good setup. A lorry with pressure washers in it.

They've been doing it for about twenty years. Only £2 as well.

Red Nissan · 28-05-2014 05:26PM

It'll have maggots in there, so overalls and have a good shower after.

The smell NEVER goes away, it's just lessened a bi, plastic absorbed the molecules and it bonds with the pollynomials in the plastic which remain reactionary.

The Backwards Man · 28-05-2014 05:49PM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Do you even have a rubbish collection service? :-)

Sure do, recycling and waste.

I might be a bogger but I ain't a philistine.

Tail Docker · 28-05-2014 06:11PM

Our neighbour is fastidious about cleaning his bin. Me, not so much. Happily though, I'm really good at swapping bins. I think he quite likes cleaning bins though, so it keeps him off the streets. Win/Win.

Teyla Emmagan · 29-05-2014 07:54AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Sure do, recycling and waste.

I might be a bogger but I ain't a philistine.

Ooooooo, fancy!

Arthur Beesley · 29-05-2014 07:56AM

I do in me swiss.

Red Nissan · 30-05-2014 10:08AM

cloud493 wrote: »

Smelly bin is nasty. Smells when you go out to put rubbish in it, might smell to the neighbours, takes about 2 minutes to give it a good rinse out with the hose every week. Simple.

It's not that simple.

It's a very messy job and not for the elderly either.

pattyburns · 02-06-2014 10:49AM

When bin is emptied, wash it out with pine toilet duck and give it a good scrub, leaves a lovely smell in it.Then leave an old newspaper in the end of it each time before throwing rubbish back in.

Tail Docker · 02-06-2014 11:16AM

pattyburns wrote: »

When bin is emptied, wash it out with pine toilet duck and give it a food scrub, leaves a lovely smell in it.Then leave an old newspaper in the end of it each time before throwing rubbish back in.

Thanks for the tips - I'll tell the neighbour. I notice he's slipping a bit lately.

Red Nissan · 07-06-2014 10:38AM

I used a cup of washing powder this time and let the bin soak with maybe a gallon of water in it for half an hour seems to have killed the maggots and made cleaning much easier overall.

I got a nice clean bin this time and this method is superior to using the fluids which just are not strong enough [seemingly] at least imo anyway.

For the first time I've also made a dent on the smell ~

corner of hells · 07-06-2014 11:16AM

Dunno , I'll ask the butler has he cleaned it recently , if not I'll send the maid out to do it.

Jeefff · 07-06-2014 11:19AM

I filled the bottom of my bin with paving blocks once, didn't know where else to chuck them..
You should have seen the bin lad trying to move it..
Then around christmas they'd knock on your door while they grab your bin to get a tip, my great uncle used to shout out the window to 'fcuk off with yourselves'
But no never washed it, it never smelled

Ah bins..

07-06-2014 11:20AM

It's wheelie dirty

Red Nissan · 07-06-2014 11:20AM

corner of hells wrote: »

Dunno , I'll ask the butler has he cleaned it recently , if not I'll send the maid out to do it.

Go on ou dat yer tight fisted hammock, the cleaning service will actually clean it cheaper than taking your staff off duty for an hour or two and not forgetting a complete change of uniform and related cleaning costs.

Joey the lips · 07-06-2014 11:23AM

I have a wall paper stripper and I drop the head into the bin for. 30 min then wash it out . A bucket of jeyes fluid pine or dettol is great

Outside that if your near Drogheda

Ubincleaned does it for. 4 or. 5 euro

Red Nissan · 07-06-2014 11:24AM

Jeefff wrote: »

I filled the bottom of my bin with paving blocks once, didn't know where else to chuck them.. ..

Good old days, two points to remember, those bins would have been galvanised steel or tin. And more importantly they were daily collections in urban areas and weekly collections in the suburbs.

They actually understood waste back then, to be fair to them.

smellmepower · 07-06-2014 11:30AM

Nah,we just put any food waste in a tied biodegradable bag before putting them in the brown bin,no smell and keeps the flies away.

tfitzgerald · 07-06-2014 11:30AM

I use bleach on the inside of my bin. When I'm doing a bit of powerhoseing I clean the outside.

Jeefff · 07-06-2014 11:34AM

Red Nissan wrote: »

Good old days, two points to remember, those bins would have been galvanised steel or tin. And more importantly they were daily collections in urban areas and weekly collections in the suburbs.

They actually understood waste back then, to be fair to them.

Well this was only about six years ago, plastic wheelie bin.. Since I nearly killed the poor fella who was wheeling it, I discovered the 'skip bag', I got it for a tenner or something, filled it to the brim and was supposed to ring some place to have it removed for fifty quid, that morning the travellers came and robbed it with all the rubbish, so happy days

suicide_circus · 07-06-2014 12:10PM

RayM wrote: »

No. Being an adult is dull enough, without throwing bin-washing into the equation.

Now, if you'll excuse me, these clothes won't dry themselves.

+1
Imagine you had a stroke when scrubbing
"RayM - he died like he lived, washing a ****ing wheelie bin."

fleet_admiral · 07-06-2014 10:55PM

I bought a flytrap plant in supervalu last week for €2.99 that I keep on the lid. havent seen a fly on it since

D1stant · 07-06-2014 10:57PM

WhiteWalls wrote: »

Smell from ours is rancid, we have the same bin ten years. Thinking of cleaning it the next time its emptied with the power hose

Nah. Twice a year a throw the kids into it and roll it down a hill. Shining at the end so it is

corner of hells · 08-06-2014 11:20AM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

I bought a flytrap plant in supervalu last week for €2.99 that I keep on the lid. havent seen a fly on it since

Them flys just fooled you , they're all in SuperValu now on the donuts.

Reggie. · 08-06-2014 11:21AM

Yeah give I a belt of the powerwasher twice a year if not three times

Do you clean your waste wheelie bin?

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