I'm surprised [MENTION=38333]Swansman[/MENTION] hasn't put a bid in for his pizza palace
Yup, need it. Bring it to me or I'm going to write everything in small green Impact until it happens.
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[Misc] How to dispose of a three piece suite quickly
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Yup, need it. Bring it to me or I'm going to write everything in small green Impact until it happens.
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We moved house a year ago - downsizing to save money, and the trinkets from my wealthy days were up for grabs. £7,500 Natuzzi sofa - I wanted £500 for it. No takers. I ended up taking £95 for it, as long as I could help move it!
Solid oak furniture, I ended up giving away to a charity. Samsung american style double fridge freezer with twin doors and an ice dispenser... £200? No takers. £100 as long as I delivered it to Hastings.
People want shiny new stuff these days. If it's not, they want it for buttons - or preferably free.
Maybe we're just too used to new things being cheap and accessible. I have a feeling this will change...
Solid oak furniture, I ended up giving away to a charity. Samsung american style double fridge freezer with twin doors and an ice dispenser... £200? No takers. £100 as long as I delivered it to Hastings.
People want shiny new stuff these days. If it's not, they want it for buttons - or preferably free.
Maybe we're just too used to new things being cheap and accessible. I have a feeling this will change...
Jim Van Winkle
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This — will be gone in hours.
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If you don't have any luck, then you might just have to pay someone to come and collect it from you so it can be disposed.
Edit, I see you managed to sell it on Ebay.
giveusfalmerplease
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ive been trying to give away a brown (teak i think) 50s wardrobe but there are dozens of them even on facebook and no takers even for free!. Some idiots wanting like £200+ for ones that look almost identical to mine then i thought maybe im the idiot trying to give it away. then i noticed they had been trying to sell it since February..Irony is a need a workstation/computer desk and there is enough wood there to make one. i have some spare metal legs too so maybe i'll keep it after all and make it an upcycling project.. time to rewatch the Money For Nothing episodes on BBC iPlayer fr some inspiration.
What a missed opportunity ! You could have got a small fortune for it, by puking all over it and displaying it at 'The Tate Modern'. Works of art like that can fetch £millions.
schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
Normal Rob
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Another vote for FB Marketplace. We've shifted loads if stuff on it fridges, freezers, furniture, electronics. Nearly everything has gone in a day, if not hours/minutes.
Several years ago my elderly parents, non car owners, disposed of an entire 3 piece suite over the course of several months by breaking it up and taking small pieces, sometimes in my mum’s handbag, with them every time they went into town or on the bus to bingo and dropping them in public bins in several Sussex towns.
Obviously watched " The Great Escape " too many times
nicko31
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Freecycle, amazing what people will take if its free
Cowfold Seagull
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Yep that's exactly the problem l had with my old suite a few years ago, Horsham Matters came to collect but couldn't take it for this very reason. A visible fire resistance label is now a legal requirement.
If it wasn't such a bulky item you could almost leave it on the pavement outside your house and someone would be sure to take it. The local council may have something to say though.
I agree, its appalling, and utterly unsustainable. we've just renovated the house and changed some things, ended up chopping up and binning some stuff. Interestingly antique furniture, or anything 60's or older does have value and desirability. Largely because its a superior quality to most of the crap out there now. not fridges though ;-)
First you need to remove the arms...
...legs and head.
If the torso has no distinguishing features just bleach it and sling it in the woods.
Burn the legs.
Smash out the teeth, try to resist the urge to keep one.
Acid bath the hands and head.
You should be able to get rid over the course of a couple of days.
Happy to help.
...legs and head.
If the torso has no distinguishing features just bleach it and sling it in the woods.
Burn the legs.
Smash out the teeth, try to resist the urge to keep one.
Acid bath the hands and head.
You should be able to get rid over the course of a couple of days.
Happy to help.
Yep that's exactly the problem l had with my old suite a few years ago, Horsham Matters came to collect but couldn't take it for this very reason. A visible fire resistance label is now a legal requirement.
If it wasn't such a bulky item you could almost leave it on the pavement outside your house and someone would be sure to take it. The local council may have something to say though.
My three seater settee in the music room is stuffed with horse hair, is that safe? It was made in the early 30's.
Cowfold Seagull
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My three seater settee in the music room is stuffed with horse hair, is that safe? It was made in the early 30's.
It wasn't for the horse.
Are you related to John Haigh the acid bath murderer per chance?
I misread the title.
I thought it said 'how to dispose of someone wearing a three piece suit quickly.
My bad - as you were.
You're always gonna have problems lifting a sofa in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut it up into six pieces and pile it all together.
And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up sofa will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a sofa that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked sofa every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig."
Oh. No. Hang on. I’ve got mixed up here. Is it pigs or pugs?
And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up sofa will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a sofa that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked sofa every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig."
Oh. No. Hang on. I’ve got mixed up here. Is it pigs or pugs?
METALMICKY
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