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Do you clean your waste wheelie bin?

  • 28-05-2014 03:12PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭WhiteWalls


    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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Yep, otherwise it reeks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 898 ✭✭✭A Law


    Can't beat jeyes fluid for this.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    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

    You're a brave man... :eek:

    <wipes dirty bin juice off of WhiteWalls face>


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,196 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Usually twice a year, yes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    Nope, it's a rubbish bin

    21/25



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Can't someone else do it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    No. The nonsense part of washing a bin that contains rubbish outweighs the sensible part of washing it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    Definitely around summer as the flies get more active.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I can't, the maggots have mutated into some form of civilised society and have developed a defense system.

    Last time I tried they attacked me in their little maggot jets.

    Anyways, they're at war with the cardboard wheelie bin so I'll let that sort itself out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    What kind of waist are you guys putting in the bin that it smells so bad? :eek:

    in over 10 years i haven't once cleaned it and there is no unholey stench coming out of it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Starokan


    Rinse it with Jeyes Fluid once every six months or so, tends to be lot of flies around if left any longer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,196 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    mad muffin wrote: »
    What kind of waist are you guys putting in the bin that it smells so bad? :eek:...

    The rendered fat of my enemies. Oh yes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭Stiletto72


    I just had a guy on from Panda who told me that they are offering a bin cleaning service in my area on the 19th of June. For €10 they will clean all my bins in an industrial cleaner of some sort. He said they would be doing it again a couple of times ahead of Christmas.
    If you are with Panda give them a shout.

    Unless it's a scam! :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    I never heard of a panda cleaning a bin :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I don't because I don't hang around in or near the bin much. So long as the lid isn't open, the smell shouldn't be an issue.

    Having said that, I live alone so the bin is never very full, but if you've a lot of rubbish, with bags hanging out of it, I could see it being a problem.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,162 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    uch wrote: »
    Nope, it's a rubbish bin

    Had that argument with my parents throughout my youth. But nooo, we had to be civilized and sh!t, and wash it regularly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    cloud493 wrote: »
    I never heard of a panda cleaning a bin :pac:
    They doing using The Bamboo Method.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,695 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Oink wrote: »
    Had that argument with my parents throughout my youth. But nooo, we had to be civilized and sh!t, and wash it regularly.

    Was it necessary to sh1t beforehand?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    I've paid for the service a few times in a few different countries. We cancelled it shortly after buying a new house last year as part of a budgeting exercise and am sorely missing it now. My food waste bin smells like we've been storing roadkill in it. I'll be blasting it (carefully!) with the power hose as soon as some good weather coincides with recycling day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    I've paid for the service a few times in a few different countries. We cancelled it shortly after buying a new house last year as part of a budgeting exercise and am sorely missing it now. My food waste bin smells like we've been storing roadkill in it. I'll be blasting it (carefully!) with the power hose as soon as some good weather coincides with recycling day.


    Well that bin is going to be dirty for a long time so

    21/25



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭Mr_Red


    "Wont somebody think of the Children"

    Pay the kids on the street to do it.










    * Make sure they dont steal it and burn it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    I uses a big bin liner which keeps the bin nice and clean.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    jimgoose wrote: »
    The rendered fat of my enemies. Oh yes.


    Carry on so... :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Yes. I am a civilised, responsible and hygienic human being.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Do you mean the brown bin? Don't have one. My black one doesn't smell tho and it's years old.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    I live in a fancy apartment block so I don't have or need a wheelie bin (I know, I'm so wonderful), but if I did, yes I would wash it from time to time. Walking down some streets where people have them sitting in the garden and they haven't been washed in years, you get this unholy stench that tickles the gag reflex.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Yes. I am a civilised, responsible and hygienic human being.

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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭gg2


    A few years ago a company used to come round to clean the bins once or maybe twice a week.... They don't come round these parts anymore


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭Aquagakka


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


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

    Sure do, recycling and waste. :)

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Sure do, recycling and waste. :)

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

    Ooooooo, fancy!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    I do in me swiss.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 pattyburns


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    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 ~ :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭corner of hells


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Jeefff


    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..


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Stetson Flaky Dewdrop


    It's wheelie dirty


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 829 ✭✭✭smellmepower


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,286 ✭✭✭tfitzgerald


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Jeefff


    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


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