Keeping the outside bin clean

[Baryonyx]

Afternoon all,


I've been fiddling around outside in the garden today and I've noticed that the outside bin fking stinks when you lift the lid off it. It's a hatched lid type green bin, collected fortnightly by the council. Due to this rather lax waste collection regime, I try to keep on top of bin maintenance, especially during the summer.

I've been using a spray called Bin Buddy:



I've had some decent results with this stuff, but on inspecting the bin today I noticed that a vile grume has appeared in the bottom of the bin. It looks as though waste from the bags that go in has possibly mixed with some rain water or condensation (though the bin is pretty much sealed with the lid down) and soaked into some magazines my wife has carelessly thrown in there. With the bin emptied today, I could see what the problem is. I've dumped the rest of a bottle of Bin Buddy into the bin today and plan on a second attack tomorrow. I'm going to have to reach in, get the vile ste out of the bottom and bag it up so I goes out on the next collection (it appears to have stuck to the bottom today). Usually, we're very careful about making sure that everything that goes in the bin is wrapped and bagged so it won't settle at the bottom.


Is there any better product than Bin Buddy for keeping the thing clean? I don't have a tap I can connect to a hosepipe, so I can't easily wash it out though I plan on swilling it with a bucket of bleach and water tomorrow. Even between empties, the bin can whiff a bit with the lid off (I suppose this is unavoidable on a two week collection cycle). Is there some sort of extra strength product I could try in the meantime?

[Muncher]

Bleach, water and a broom will sort it. I don't see how a little squirty bottle will cut it if there is proper gunge.

[Baryonyx]

I usually use the squirty bottle to coat the insides of the bin and stop anything growing/stinking there. In this case, it's going to be a strong bleach and rubber gloves job to bag up the slop from the bottom. In future though, I'd like something a little more industrial for keeping it clean.

[bigdom]

Power washer is your friend for keeping this clean, if you have no access to hosepipe, is there a local service you could get round? Most areas have one, and come on the days the bins are emptied, saves faffing around.

[SPR2]

A wheelie bin liner pegged at each corner before you put your other bags in helps. Also a cane underneath the lid keeps it from any smells.

[seadragon]

Jeyes fluid and a watering can/hose to rinse out the bin. Bins now smells like disinfectant, not sure which smell was better, the old one or the new one

[Vipers]

All our rubbish is bagged, then tied up and put in the wheelie bin.

Now and again after collection, bucket of hot water with some dettol, use old upright broom to clean inside, rubber and gloves and a spong for the outside, turn it upside to drain and dry, sorted.

[Spare tyre]

I just pop a bit of bleach round the top every so often when it's emptied

Once a year I fill it to the top with water and leave for a few days, brings all the skank to the top


Sometimes pop a stick in the lid to hold it open a few mm to let it vent, all rubbish is bagged to stop flies moving in

Park it in the shade when hot weather

[Tumbler]

I always use bicarbonate of soda to rinse my out.

[shocks]

All a bit too hard. Bloke comes round and cleans ours - 3 bins, quid a bin. They smell great.

[Little Lofty]

shocks said:

All a bit too hard. Bloke comes round and cleans ours - 3 bins, quid a bin. They smell great.

This

[herewego]

Baryonyx said:

I usually use the squirty bottle to coat the insides of the bin and stop anything growing/stinking there. In this case, it's going to be a strong bleach and rubber gloves job to bag up the slop from the bottom. In future though, I'd like something a little more industrial for keeping it clean.

Sounds like someone is putting liquids in there, no need for this. Could be the same person who puts in magazines which should be in the recycle bin.

[Pit Pony]

After 5 years of ownership, I decided to clean our bin. I got the spade and dug the st out - literally it might have been st, that went into the bin in a plastic bag, when bin was empty, and was squashed by the rubbish above, which might have been squashed further at Christmas, when I stood in the bin and jumped up and down to make more room.

Then I got 2 litres of neat bleach and poured it in to the bottom. Then I filled it with water from a hose pipe. Then I pushed it over into the drive and scrubbed the drive with a broom.

Give it another 5 years I'll have another go.

[dazwalsh]

Jeyes fluid and jetwash - job jobbed.

[Renovation]

I bag my rubbish with DECENT heavy duty bags with draw cords.

I have no horrid stuff in the bottom of my bin hence have never had a smelly bin.

[Laurel Green]

Muncher said:

Bleach, water and a broom will sort it. I don't see how a little squirty bottle will cut it if there is proper gunge.

This!

[TA14]

Renovation said:

I bag my rubbish with DECENT heavy duty bags with draw cords.

A lot of areas won't allow this for the kitchen and garden waste.

[TA14]

Baryonyx said:

I've been using a spray called Bin Buddy:



I've had some decent results with this stuff, but on inspecting the bin today I noticed that a vile grume has appeared in the bottom of the bin.

I just use Flash spray. A quick clean once a month keeps the bin as good as new.

[C0ffin D0dger]

We've been living in our house for seven years and in that time I've never washed a wheelie bin out. They do stink a bit but they're outside so I don't care.

Am I a bad person

[herewego]

If you keep the bin dry it won't smell and it won't need cleaning. I think the problem with these cleaning companies is they leave the bins wet. These seem to be the ones that have trouble with maggots.