General Chat

Jude, When I took out the Lavatory and Cistern,Took the bits out of the top,filled themj both with dirt/Compost.and turned them into a miniature " Bog Garden.Looked Quite nice painted green.**M**.

During the summer months we have had them driving round bibbing their hooter and shouting scrap metal, bit not this time!! Before ll heard the banging l also heard a knocking, so that was probably them so called knocking next door. The bath was full of rubble, broken tiles, might even have been some copper pipe bits!!!!

jude:o)

Jean...l'm sure you could get a camera up somewhere if you felt the need!!

Laziness probably Sharron

I was down the road in my car talking to somebody one Sunday morning and we watched a caravan chassis being dumped in full view of us. I wrote the number of the dumpers vehicle and gave it to the parish clerk. A little later the owner of the vehicle was written to,I think it was by the police,and asked to remove their chassis.
A friend of mine,who actually has a scrap yard and has been my saviour throughout my motoring life, said he didn't know why they did not take it to him in the first place.

Round here they ring their bell, so just shout

"im clean im clean" they soon disappear :))))))

Around here they'd nick the camera.

http://www.maplin.co.uk

have a look here , or even wickes builders merchants!!

Now, how can I fix a security camera at the front? The back is more unlikely, can be seen from several places.

Just an example of prices they get,

alloy wheels a tenner each,

catalytic exhaust box, 60 to 80 quid.

Ohh l had forgotten about this thread!!

Jeam...that is awful:o((
Yes we should call them "Thieves"

In this instance l was daft enough to let them have it:o(( But we lock our garage all the time now!!....don't we vic...just going to check!!

£1000 a week, crikes!!!!

Helen thats worth knowing about, you just don't know do you what people will do!?

jude :o)

I know a couple of these scrap dealers & i can tell you when the scrap prices are up then £1000 a week is easy money.

Interesting thread.

For a while we had a scrap-metal merchant asking on a regular basis if we had anything for him.

Another time he knocked on the door and asked to check our trailer - full of junk for the dump, not of use to him.

We live on a straight stretch of road in the countryside and twice I've seen his truck parked outside our house when I've come back from the shops.

If you look at our house on Google Earth his truck is, again, parked right outside our home.

I warned OH and the kids and we are very careful about doors and windows - and we are missing an old lawn-mower ready to go to the dump. We didn't tell anyone they could take it.

What really spooked me was when my grown-up daughter rang me to ask if I had looked at Google Earth and whose was that scruffy old truck parked outside?

don't know where you folks live but in UK it is an offence to give "waste" to an unregistered carrier. If he dumps it somewhere illegally and it can be traced back to you, you can be fined something in region of £5,000 so be careful!!!

I don't think the title of this thread should be 'Scrap metal men'. It should just be 'thieves'.

Jude, we have had that lorry here, and they took a new bath that was waiting to be fitted in the house over the road. I have my suspicions who they are but no proof, unfortunately. Thats months ago and she still hasnt a new bath.

Scrap metal men - what a polite way of saying P***y!

Cheers Jude
Sandie.x

Sandie.......no offence taken honest:o))))

jude x

Oh Jude,

I didn't mean for my posting to sound as I thought you'd done anything wrong, please don't take it that way.
They did save you a job, think of it in that way.

There's always someone around for an opportunity to nick things and under different circumstances I'd probably let them have my bathroom suite, but it's the way that they van is always dangerously loaded that kicks me in the gut.

Emotionally
Sandie.x

Ooo eck l wish l had got them to put it back now. Thats what l would usually have done, but then thought it saved us a job....:o(((

jude