Do you employ the services of a wheelie bin sanitizer?

[danny la rouge]

There's obviously a demand for it otherwise these firms wouldn't exist.

A demand has certainly been created. This is not necessarily a good thing, although in the instance if people are stupid enough to pay to have their wheelie bin cleaned, then they deserve to be taken for a ride. Good luck to the cleaners.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I have my wheelie bin serviced annually. They examine the axles, check the tracking on the wheels and lubricate the lid hinges. I clean it first and polish the outside before they do it though to keep up the image of the neighbourhood.

 

[chooch]

Not quite. Broken windows theory posits that small problems left unchecked will invite crime and disorder, leading to larger problems. It's about what other people will do to us if we don't maintain our property, not about how we might become increasingly blasé about maintenance of supposedly more important things if we neglect the lesser ones.

Yes, radically different. Next time I'll sharpen my pencils and rule some blue lines before making a throwaway comment.

And we all know that in a capitalist society, demand just sits there impatiently waiting to be met

 

[untethered]

Yes, radically different. Next time I'll sharpen my pencils and rule some blue lines before making a throwaway comment.

Quite right too.

And we all know that in a capitalist society, demand just sits there impatiently waiting to be met

I always find human ingenuity and creativity inspiring. Cleanliness is next to godliness, after all.

 

[chooch]

I always find human ingenuity and creativity inspiring. Cleanliness is next to godliness, after all.

I always find near-universal rich human willingness to buy escape from even the mildest personal unpleasantness profoundly depressing.

Cleanliness is a good thing, particularly when readily available to all. Godliness would involve thunderbolts and smiting, wouldnt it?

 

[untethered]

I always find near-universal rich human willingness to buy escape from even the mildest personal unpleasantness profoundly depressing.

Society progresses by people with greater ability paying those with lesser ability to do lesser work while they themselves concentrate on higher-order tasks.

That's why I employ people -- so I can spend more time on U75.

Cleanliness is a good thing, particularly when readily available to all.

One can clean one's own wheelie bin if one is so minded. The kind of person that would is the kind that will soon enough be in a position to pay someone else to do so.

Godliness would involve thunderbolts and smiting, wouldnt it?

Perhaps we should just stick to the bins.

 

[chooch]

Society progresses by people with greater ability paying those with lesser ability to do lesser work while they themselves concentrate on higher-order tasks.

Ah. progress.

One can clean one's own wheelie bin if one is so minded. The kind of person that would is the kind that will soon enough be in a position to pay someone else to do so.

One can. One might. If one were not, and one had believed in the inevitability of a clean-wheelie-bin-related rise above the proles, one might feel rightly abashed, and take further such remarks with an appropriately sterilising pinch of salt.

 

[kittyP]

I don't have wheelie bins, we have communal bins for the block.

If I did have them and I didn't have an out side tap or means to clean them my self, it was a reasonable enough price, plus being as busy as I am (when working) and lazy (when not) I would consider it in the summer to stop them stinking.

Shoot me but I don't think its a totally ridiculous idea.

As someone mentioned, I don't clean the out side of my windows as I cant reach them with out a ladder (which I don't have and probably wouldn't be arsed to even if I did). I don't need to clean them as I can still see through them fine, they don't smell, no one really looks that high up but if I were to bother paying someone to clean them for me, no one would have started a thread about how stupid it was would you?

 

[bluestreak]

Nope, I have self-respect, dignity, and not enough money. Plus I find the smell stops people hanging around.

I keep meaning to stencil a longcat on the side though.

 

[kittyP]

I always find near-universal rich human willingness to buy escape from even the mildest personal unpleasantness profoundly depressing.

I wouldn't pay it to avoid doing it myself because I think "oooh an icky bin, I can't possibly get my hands dirty". It would more be the fact of not having time, having other house work to do, having better things to do with my free time and as I said earlier, not actually having the means to do it.

 

[chooch]

It would more be the fact of not having time, having other house work to do, having better things to do with my free time and as I said earlier, not actually having the means to do it.

I'd put it at maybe two minutes with a bucket, a brush and a drain if for some reason it was thought necessary. Marigolds if squeamish.

It's mostly hygiene creep though ain't it?

 

[danny la rouge]

It's mostly hygiene creep though ain't it?

Down with that sort of thing!

 

[kittyP]

I'd put it at maybe two minutes with a bucket, a brush and a drain if for some reason it was thought necessary. Marigolds if squeamish.

It's mostly hygiene creep though ain't it?

With some people maybe but doing my job, things that are unhygienic rarely even get a batted eye lid from me any more

 

[bi0boy]

Have my window open this morning at home as I'm sat inside trying to do some work.

The peace of the neighbourhood is currently being shattered by a wheelie-bin sanitizer and his diesel van and trailer with petrol motor-powered jet washing apparatus. At least two households near me appear to employ his services. What kind of people are these

 

[cypher79]

Two blokes in a knackered out old van come down my street once a month or so cleaning wheelie bins out....they always leave a trail of dirty water and debris behind them too

 

[Puddy_Tat]

What kind of people are these

 

[8den]

Have my window open this morning at home as I'm sat inside trying to do some work.

The peace of the neighbourhood is currently being shattered by a wheelie-bin sanitizer and his diesel van and trailer with petrol motor-powered jet washing apparatus. At least two households near me appear to employ his services. What kind of people are these

You dug up a 8 year old thread for this? First world urban problems.

 

[bi0boy]

National Association Of Wheeled Bin Washers

 

[mauvais]

I pressure washed mine recently

We have bins that food waste goes directly into, collected every fortnight. It's grim after a while.

Plus we inherited our other bins - four, count em - from the previous tenants who left mystery excrement in pretty much all of them.

 

[bi0boy]

We have bins that food waste goes directly into, collected every fortnight. It's grim after a while.

It's only grim if the lids don't shut properly and you keep them indoors or under an open window.

 

[mauvais]

It's only grim if the lids don't shut properly and you keep them indoors or under an open window.

Nope, they're outside and the lids shut just like any dustbin, but the whole area smelt terrible. Better now.

More frequent collections and with bagged waste, probably not an issue. I've never done it before, after all.

 

[bi0boy]

Nope, they're outside and the lids shut just like any dustbin, but the whole area smelt terrible. Better now.

They obviously didn't shut properly then. My 2-week bins smell fine unless you open the lid and inhale, which it's perfectly possible to not do.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Give the green bin and the kitchen bin a douse with water now and again. Cleaning the outside bins can gtfo.

 

[weltweit]

Some years ago I used to pass this place every morning and there was a bin sanitizing company there. Every morning 4 - 5 pickup trucks with washing equipment on their backs would emerge from their base and head out into bin land. I never actually saw one clean a bin but every morning they would be there, emerging.

 

[antimata]

if putting the hose in and squirting it around counts then yes but no i dont pay he does.......

 

[gentlegreen]

I rarely put anything mucky in my wheelie bin.

The recycling bins on the other hand inevitably acquire liquids from the cans and jars I put in there.
When they get too mucky, I get out the biological detergent and brush.