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Bulky waste collection service
Arrange a collection of larger items of household waste from your home.
How much the bulky waste collection service costs
- Up to three bulky items for £38 (one item would still cost £38)
- Four to six bulky items for £76
- Seven to nine bulky items for £114
How the bulky waste collection service works
Once you have booked a collection, we will give you a collection day (Monday - Friday) and we will collect your bulky waste from 7am.
You must put your bulky items outside your property for collection.
To check which items we can collect, please see the table below.
Recycle your items instead
Before making your booking, have you considered giving your item to someone, who could make use of it?
Rather than send it to landfill, you could advertise your item for free on Freegle, Freecycle or another similar website to see if someone can reuse it.
Alternatively, charities such as British Heart Foundation can collect good quality items for free.
How to book a collection
By phone:
Call our Customer Services team using the contact details on this page. We accept all major debit and credit cards (excluding American Express).
In person:
At the Council Offices, Farnborough Road, Farnborough. You can pay with all major debit and credit cards (excluding American Express).
If you want to amend or cancel your booking, please contact our team by 10am, the day before your collection is due. We can not give refunds if we receive your request after this time.
Discounts
If you receive any of the following, you can have two collections a year (April - March) of up to three items on each collection at the reduced price of £19.50:
- Attendance Allowance
- Disability Living Allowance (mobility component at higher rate)
- Employment Support Allowance
- Guaranteed Pension Credit
- Income Support
- Job Seeker's Allowance
- Personal Independence Payment
- War Disablement Pension (with mobility supplement)
What bulky items we can collect
Because of their size and other restrictions, we may be unable to collect certain items. Some categories of waste item are counted as more than one item. The table below shows this.
| Item | Number of items | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Three-piece suite | 3 | Any combination of sofa and chairs = three items |
| American-style larder fridge | 3 | |
| Bath (cast iron) | 3 | Broken into two pieces |
| Bath (plastic/ceramic) | 1 | |
| Bathroom suite three-piece | 3 | Bath, side panel, sink, pedestal, toilet and cistern |
| Bed base/ frame (mattress separate item) | 1 | |
| Bikes | 1 | |
| Boiler | No | You can take standard household boilers to a household waste recycling centres |
| Bricks | No | You can take small quantities to a household waste recycling centres (approx car boot load) or hire a skip |
| Builders' rubble | No | You can take small quantities to a household waste recycling centres (approx car boot load) or hire a skip |
| Car tyres | No | Contact Hampshire County Council |
| Carpets | 1 room = 1 item | Rolled or folded. Doesn't Include underlay. No more than three rooms. Hall/stairs/landing = three items. Calculate underlay as above |
| Chemicals | No | Contact Hampshire County Council |
| Christmas tree - real | FREE | We collect at Christmas free-of-charge |
| Computer equipment | 1 | Tower, monitor, keyboard = one item |
| Cooker | 1 | Must be disconnected |
| Dining table | 1 | |
| Dining chairs set | 1 | Up to six chairs =one item |
| Dishwasher | 1 | |
| Doors internal | 1 | We can accept glass or mirrored doors as long as the glass is intact and attached to the door |
| Drain pipes | No | Contact Hampshire County Council |
| Fence panels | 1 | Panel and wooden post = one item |
| Fire extinguishers | No | Contact Hampshire County Council |
| Fridge/freezer | 3 | No commercial/trade |
| Garage doors (single) | 3 | We will only accept one door |
| Garden chairs | 1 | Up to six chairs = one item |
| Garden waste | No | Either use garden waste recycling service or take to a household waste recycling centres |
| Garden sheds | 3 | Up to 8' x 6' shed. No big windows; the shed must be dismantled and the sheets intact (no loose panes of glass) |
| Garden table | 1 | |
| Gas bottles | No | Take to a household waste recycling centres |
| Heater | No | Take to a household waste recycling centres . If it has gas inside ,contact Hampshire County Council |
| Household rubbish | No | Take any excess household rubbish to a household waste recycling centres |
| Lawn mower/strimmer | 1 | |
| Mattress | 1 | |
| Microwave | 1 | |
| Oil | No | You can take it to petrol stations or household waste recycling centres |
| Oil tanks | No | Contact Hampshire County Council |
| Paint | No | Contact Hampshire County Council |
| Paving slabs | No | Small quantities to a household waste recycling centres or hire a skip |
| Piano | 6 | Upright pianos only, no grands. No steps to access |
| Sink | 1 | Includes pedestal |
| Sofa/armchair | 1 | Including electric if dismantled/disconnected |
| Toilet | 1 | Includes cistern |
| TV | 1 | |
| Tumble dryer | 1 | |
| Underlay | 1 room = 1 item | Rolled or folded. No more than three rooms. Hall/stairs/landing = three items |
| Wall unit | 1 | Small unit 3' x 6' ft = one item |
| Washing machine | 1 | |
| Wardrobe | 1 | One double wardrobe = one item |
| Wood off cuts | 3 | Three items per cubic metre = 3ft 3" x 3ft 3" x 3ft 3" |
External links
Contacts
Customer Services
customerservices@rushmoor.gov.uk
Tel: 01252 398399
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