Following a mutual exchange of properties, Sammi was horrified by what she found in her new garden, and is now working to resolve the problem.
A woman who recently completed a property exchange was left stunned after discovering the hidden amount of work her new garden required.
Sammi took to TikTok to showcase the task at hand, describing the inherited problem as “decades’ worth of fly-tipping’.” Her clip began positively, revealing a neatly cut rear lawn and children’s play equipment including a swing, slide and trampoline.
Although she was forced to remove wooden decking that she deemed unsafe for her kids, that job was nothing compared to the horror she would go on to unveil. By the side of a shed stood thick pampas grass, which proved a difficult task to remove due to it’s “big, strong” roots. “We weren’t prepared for that,” Sammi said.
Once that had been cleared, meanwhile, she was presented with a whole new problem the tall plants had concealed. “We definitely weren’t prepapred for this,” Sammi admitted. “All this rubbish – it’s so much wasted space and it has a lot of potential.”
She panned her camera around the garden to reveal family members clearing away rubbish including ladders, bicycle frames, scooters and tyres. “We knew about the things at the front, but we weren’t prepared for what we couldn’t see – bamboo, washing machines,” Sammi said. “And look how high we are (referring to the trampled pampas grass and rubble beneath her feet).”
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Discovering a decades worth of fly tipping in our mutal exchanged garden Part one. #MutualExchange #Garden #GardenRenovation #FlyTipping
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So bad was the problem, Sammi returned to her platform with a part two with more discoveries from the depths of the overgrowth – including bizarrely, two canoes. “I mean what the f***?” she ranted. “Those aren’t going to fit in the car.”
By now she had uncovered “a dozen scooters”, further bike frames and a television, meanwhile. “This isn’t even garden waste,” Sammi continued. “When you lift something up there is just piles of waste underneath. There’s three more washing machines back there with bamboo growing through them – so we can’t even remove them. There’s a also a mattress and a sofa.” In a tight gap on the left side of her shed, meanwhile, Sammi said she’s had to remove numerous rolled up carpets.
She closed by explaining that a member of staff from the local Housing Association had visited and “couldn’t believe her eyes”. Sammi added: “We are still waiting on the outcome of what we have to do – whether or not it’s our job because we didn’t know it was here. I’m trying to remain positive.”
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Finding 10 years worth of fly tipping in our garden – part 2. #MutualExchange #Garden #GardenRenovation #FlyTipping
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Hundreds of TikTok users were quick to offer Sammi advice, with one person responding: “Dig the canoes out and offer them free on Marketplace, someone might have them. The effort to move three washing machines instead of putting them out for free scrap is mind blowing. Doing a good job.”
A second advised: “So unless you get all the roots out of the pampas /bamboo it will just keep coming back, it’s the devil that stuff.” A third shared a similar woeful tale: “When we rented our house the cellar was locked, when we got in it was full to the brim of the previous tenants unwanted stuff, estate agent thankfully got it all removed.”
A fourth encouraged: “Keep going” I know it’s so frustrating going through the process but you will get that garden back to how it should be. It’s mad how you can just see years and years of neglect. People are shocking.” And after a fifth questioned Sammi’s reason for the move, she replied: “We wanted more space and expected this to just be a case of decorating but apparently not the case. I guess we live and learn, hey. Hoping I can make here just as lovely eventually.”
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