House clearance is a service that can be useful in a variety of situations. Often used after a bereavement, it can also be used by landlords, councils and people simply moving house.
This guide will look at what house clearance companies do, how much it costs to clear a house and give you some tips when arranging a house clearance.
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House clearance is a service that can be useful in a variety of situations. Often used after a bereavement, it can also be used by landlords, councils and people simply moving house.
This guide will look at what house clearance companies do, how much it costs to clear a house and give you some tips when arranging a house clearance.
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When you have a home or even office that needs completely emptying but you don’t want to keep any or all of the items being cleared, it’s probably best to hire a house clearance firm. They can come and remove all the items for you.
A team will arrive and dispose correctly of all the items – whether it’s an old sofa, fridge, clothes, CDs, or books. A house clearance specialist will make sure that all items are properly disposed of – whether that’s to be reused, given to charity, or sent to the correct rubbish disposal centres.
House clearance doesn’t need to be the whole house. At Jorvik, we’re happy to clear out old garages, disused sheds or even abandoned outbuildings. We are also able to do bereavement clearance, which will be handled with compassion and understanding.
Once you’ve booked a house clearance company, they will arrive on the agreed date and start to remove all the items. To help speed things up, it’s worth going through the property and removing anything you want to keep, and then making piles of other items you want to dispose of.
The house clearance team will then start taking out everything. If you have told them there is going to be lots of rubbish, they might have organised a skip to be delivered to your home. Usually, they will use removal vans to transport the items away until they can be properly disposed of, so it’s worth speaking to them to organise a house clearance quote beforehand.
Once they have cleared the property, they will sort the items for:
Most house clearance companies will take most items, such as:
However, there are a few items that they will not remove due to their dangerous nature. These include:
With over 80 years of house removal and clearance experience, the team at Jorvik have seen it all – so let us know what needs doing, and we’ll get our team on it right away.
The cost of house clearance depends on both the size of the house and the amount of items you want cleared.
Costs can be impacted by having items that need specialist disposal, large items that need extra van and storage space, or simply having lots of items that need removed.
Call us today on 01904 591159 for a full house clearance quote.
House clearance firms do not normally pay for the goods they remove unless you agree to sell certain items. While some items still have value, the cost and hassle of disposing of them usually covers what you’d get back from a sale. Consider trying to sell a sofa and dining set without having a van to deliver them yourselves.
But, if you do have valuable items within the house clearance, you can make an agreement with the house clearance firm around selling them and splitting the profits or taking it from your final bill.
When someone dies, it’s often the responsibility of the executor of the will (or the next of kin if there is no assigned executor) to sort out the sale of their property. If they don’t want to keep the items in the home, or if no one in the family wishes to take them, then they will need to organise a house clearance.
The payment for this would come from the estate or from insurance policies related to the death. Another way is to simply pay for it from your own pocket and claim the cost back from the house sale.
Speak to your house clearance firm to get a quote and find out what they can take and what will go into landfill. This will give you a good idea of the skip size needed.
Skip sizes come in yards. These are the most common skip sizes:
These are good for a few big items or around 45-75 black bin bags full of rubbish. These size skips are usually the best for house clearance.
Use the sizes if you need to get rid of a lot of rubbish or have items like old wardrobes and beds that you’re not able to recycle or reuse. These are very large skips and are probably more suited to industrial use than house clearance.
To make the house clearance move smoothly, make sure you’ve been around the house first and removed anything you want to keep. If it’s for a bereavement, speak to other family members to make sure you’re not throwing anything away with any personal meaning for them.
Next, call your preferred house clearance firm to come and give you a quote. If you or the house clearance firm are hiring a skip, make sure you have space for it either on your driveway or on the road.
On the day, make sure the firm has access to your house and that they know which rooms to clear. Make sure to remind them of any outbuildings such as sheds or garages that are also being cleared.
Speak to Jorvik today to organise your house clearance.
