No rear access - to bid or not to bid?

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frebel

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Hey, Would not having any rear/side access to the back of a house be enough to put you off bidding for a house?

this might seem a simplistic question for someone on the verge of bidding for a house but have found a great house that ticks all the boxes but does not have access to the rear - meaning bikes,wheelie bins etc at the back would need to be hauled through the kitchen and living room (tiled and hard flooring) from/to the small paved yard at the back.

Also, anything coming into the house would need to be negotiated through the front door which has an immediate 'cosmetic' wall less than a metre in front of it (meaning it could be taken down but is there for privacy)

Has been a long search to get a house in turnkey condition with 3 bedrooms, decent kitchen, great location, and all the rest to think that something like wheelie bins would be a stumbling block but getting the holler to put out the bins some rainy november night does fill me with dread, even now. It's so easy to be blinded by the 'lights' and not think of the boring realities of everyday life

Solutions such as leaving them out the front/ with neighbours dont seem to be feasible

Any have any experience of this?
Thanks, Frebel
 
Does the front door of the house open directly onto the street (i.e. with no front garden at all)? If so then I agree it would be unfeasible to put wheelie bins out in front, but if you have any front garden at all then you should be able to put them there. However I would never take a wheelie bin through a house, that would be a nightmare.

Is the house part of a terrace? (likely if it has no rear or side access). If so why not knock on a neighbour's door and ask what they do with their bins, and how much trouble it is.

Bikes however would be more of a problem - but if you don't use your bike every day, and that cosmetic wall doesn't make it impossible, then I think it's worth the tradeoff to have to lug it through the house now and again.
 
Unfortunately no option putting bin out front - basically door meets narrow path meets busy road meets student are = wheelie bin hell

Interested by what boxthefox said

BOXtheFOX said:
I don't use wheelie bins. You can get used to doing things differently after awhile.
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How do mean? different ways of recycling? Just moved recently living with my gf and staggered by the amount of rubbish just the 2 of us get through
 
frebel said:
Unfortunately no option putting bin out front - basically door meets narrow path meets busy road meets student are = wheelie bin hell
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What about chaining the bins together? If it needs to be a permanent solution it may be possible to do a very decent job- steel collars around the bins and connection points in the the external wall.

www.floorplan.ie
 
Floorplan said:
? If it needs to be a permanent solution it may be possible to do a very decent job- steel collars around the bins and connection points in the the external wall.

www.floorplan.ie
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Would you have an image of what that looks like? Does it need planning. I pass a house that has on the grass verge a kind of cage, about waist high, metal poles in black, nice wooden trim and they pop their bags into it when they need to be collected.
 
Are there definitely wheelie bins involved? When I lived in terraced house that opened on to the street, all rubbish was collected in plastic bags.

You could still use large plastic bags for recycling and bring them to the local depot yourselves.

The house we ended up buying has no rear access (however we do have a front garden for the bins). It was the one big compromise on an otherwise perfect property. There have been times when it has been annoying - during recent renovations it was a particular pain in the hole, but overall it hasn't caused too much consternation.

Also, there is a plus side; increased security.

Some compromise will always have to be made on a house purchase, unless you are totally loaded. The trick is to find one you can live with. The alternative may be a house with rear access but in a worse location, or one that needs lots of work.
 
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