Contractor using our land to dump refuse from other jobs.

[Jothetaxi]

We are renovating our home and the work is coming to the final stages; the RIBA contract should complete this week. We are renting nearby and are not living at the site.

 

The contractors have been working since January.  The main construction is done and plastering and internal finishes taking place.

Recently they have not been at the site and it is locked up most days, other than our own trades going in.

 

It has come to our attention today that the builder is using our front driveway to dump building materials, rubble and debris from other jobs they are working on.  The house also has some rooms full of left over boarding and building materials.

 

We have asked them to clear this today but would like to know what other options we have here to ensure this is removed quickly.

The driveway looks like a scrapyard filled with rubbish. It is also causing further damage to the land: at some point we will be resurfacing the driveway but we do not have the budget to do this immediatel>We are so angry about this.

 

 

[markc]

You could start by asking where all the rubbish has come from? They may say other jobs and we are lumping together to then get one grab wagon etc. (more efficient than lots of small skips). If so then you should have been consulted and you will expect a discount and/or the area made good at their cost.

[Kelvin]

As above possibly intending to collect it all in one go. If so out of order not asking you although they likely assumed you’d say no. Do you owe them any money? 
 

A roofer swept the back of his van out onto my parking area. He hadn’t spotted the camera. He was due back a few months later to finish off so I collected it in a bag and kept it and emptied into his passenger footwell after he had finished. He was about to explode but recognised some of the rubbish as his so said nothing. The thing is had he asked for a site bag I’d have given him one and even took it to the dump since I went once a week anyway. 

[Big Jimbo]

You should have tipped it into his air vent @Kelvin. Nice one fella.

[Jothetaxi]

Thanks. We witnessed them dumping it as we were walking by. No money owed to them and always paid on time. 
We have asked them to move it and clear it. 
 

Such an amount of rubbish/rubble, so if they haven’t cleared it by Monday we will report to the council as fly tipping and let them deal with it.