They will even charge you for rubbish they made.  In my place they cut down a couple of stumps - had a contractor come with one of those stump chewing machines.  He chewed the stumps down to somewhere near ground level and left two big piles of wood chips.   This left me with the job of creating a lawn surface and doing something with the wood chips.    The chips were mainly all small chips, but not entirely. There were many large chunks, spiky dangerous (to little kids) pieces of wood.  So it couldn't be left there.    And the stumps had been ground down to roughly lawn level but not exactly. So I had an uneven patch of ground. Below level in some places, at the level in others, sticking up a bit in others.  How to get an even cover of soil so's grass would grow on that?  I don't know. Never did get it figured out. Just did the best I could.    So I decided these chips were best left in one special place. This is a place where an old dead tree had been there since before we came - a white ant riddled corner of the garden where the ground subsided frequently as you walked over it because of the roots of the tree being eaten out by white ants.  There were still parts of tree standing, even after this stump grinder had been there.     Why leave dead tree standing? Because that's the nonsensical way Katherine Housing issues its expensive work orders - and the way they are interpreted by the contractors.  The stump grinder was there to grind stumps, not to "help"  Katherine Housing (or Katherine Housing tenants) by doing something intelligently useful. He was there with a narrow and specific job: grind existing stumps. Do NOT cut down any dead trees, do not push over any dead sticks - do not do anything but grind the stumps.    Do NOT, for instance, remove the ground wood chips.  The operator told me they were to be left.   So I was left with a half completed dead-tree-removal job in one corner and a pile of wood chips right there and another pile where they other stump had been.   So I moved all the other chips onto this pile so's the white ants could feast to their hearts content and perhaps one day I could get the other dead sticks down one way or the other. Why not cut them down myself? Because they were too near the back fence and I was worried I might fall them over the fence and damage the fence or damage the rear neighbour's place some way or other. It needed to be done 'properly' - i.e. the job needed to be covered in a legal sense.     That's what I thought then. Consider how true that is now - knowing what we now know about the way Housing Katherine operates.   So there we are.  A pile of wood chips.  No problem. What hurt is there in that?  Wood chips being eaten by white ants. Wood chips making (for a while) some handy mulch if required.   But Housing Katherine has charge me for moving those wood chips off the block!   How ridiculous is that?  How rude is that?  How improper is that? How stupid is that? How much of a total affront and negation of all that is sound and sensible is that?   How much does that fly in the face of the frequent well-publicised desire of Housing for us tenants to build nice gardens? Check this as an example of the spurious encouragement Housing gives to gardeners: