I've had a hippobag collected and felt that it warrants a good review. I bought my bag from Wickes and filled it with wood scraps and broken furniture. It has been collected this morning and I never even heard the lorry take it away. I booked my collection online on Thursday of last week and have to say that even the booking system is simple to use. A leaflet in Wickes prompted me to use the service which said if I book in my bag for collection before 31st May I could be in with a chance to win a day's spring clean for my home if I qouted bigclearout08 so that I did and fingers crossed that I win. Therefore not sure when but I will definitely use the service again when the need arises. ...
RecyclingFanatic 10.03.2008
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Advantages: Cheaper than a skip, more convenient, easy to use Disadvantages: May have to wait for collection, bags only available in a few places
Over the Easter weekend this year, we decided that it would be a great idea to build a nice raised bed down one side of our back garden. All well and good, but it involved moving the shed (and painting it blue, but that's another story...) into another corner of our small urban paradise.
So, we waded in and created a new base for the shed, moved it to it's new position and started to remove the slabs it had been on previously.
TWO TONNES of rubble later, we were beginning to wonder where we were going to put it all. The original plan of breaking it up and leaving it in the raised bed for drainage didn't look so clever once the heap was higher than the planned bed...
Enter the HippoBag!
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HippoBags are available in two sizes, midi (1 metre cube) and mega (1.5m long x 1m wide x 1m ...
xalala 26.04.2004
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Advantages: Easy to buy and use Disadvantages: Collection is difficult or impossible if you live in a street with parked cars
We recently renovated our front garden and thought HippoBags provided an economic and convenient alternative to skip hire. That was until we tried to arrange collection.
Like many people who live in a busy urban area there are a large number of cars parked in our street. We don't usually know who owns the parked cars and have little control over who parks outside our house. It's a fairly normal picture for city dwellers but this appears to cause Hippo an insurmountable problem.
The people from Hippo arrived early this morning to collect our bag and refused to take it. The bag is within the stipulated four metres from the point they need to make the collection but they have refused to pick the bag up because there are parked cars in the street.
I rang the customer service helpline, thinking they would face this problem ...
EBartle 24.03.2005
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