House Clearance in Colwick

House Clearance for Colwick homes

Two shapes of job here. A bungalow emptied after a long tenure, everything on one floor with the van on the drive, and the part load from a household that has just moved into one and found a third of it will not fit.

Clearances here take two forms and they are opposite ends of the same move. One is a bungalow emptied after a long tenure, for probate or because somebody has gone into care, and it is the easiest property we work in anywhere: everything on one floor, the van on the drive or in the turning head, and a carry of a few paces rather than down two flights with a turn in them. The other is the part load, from a household that has just downsized into one of those bungalows and found that a third of what arrived with them will not fit. The first is priced on volume almost alone, because the access adds nothing to it. The second is usually one room and a garage, done in a morning.

Colwick sits in NG4, under Gedling Borough Council. A small residential village pressed between one of the county's larger trading estates and the river. Warehouse and yard dust drifts in from one side, silt and mud off the country park paths walk in from the other, and both land on the same floors.

What we run into on Colwick house clearance jobs

The loft over a bungalow is not the loft people picture. It is the full footprint of the house rather than a hatch over a landing, it is boarded across far more of that area than anyone expects, and everything in it comes down a ladder in the middle of the hall with nowhere to stack while the next armful is fetched. Photographs of the hatch and the ladder move a quote more than the room count does. The other constant is the shed at the end of a long garden, which is where the things we cannot take live: half tins of creosote, weedkiller with the label gone, and a patio heater cylinder standing behind the door.

How a Colwick house clearance job actually runs

Access is what usually moves a clearance price, and in this village it moves it downwards, which is unusual on our patch. On the cul-de-sacs a van stands on the drive or in the turning head with the tailgate a few paces from the front door, there are no stairs, and no wardrobe has to be turned on a half landing. On the older streets the van has to hold a kerbside space for the whole day, so we start early and avoid bin morning. What we ask for beforehand is photographs of every room plus the loft hatch, the garage and the shed, and a nominated room for anything being kept, which nobody goes into at all. Timing is the other half of it. For probate, nothing moves until the contents have been valued and until anyone entitled to a keepsake has had the chance to take one. Where the house is being sold or relet, the clearance goes a day ahead of the clean rather than alongside it, because a floor cannot be cleaned while the wardrobe standing on it is still there.

Who books it here

On the practical side: The estate roads are numbered rather than named, so a satnav will happily send a van to the wrong Private Road. Give us the unit number and the road number together. In the village, on-street parking is easy except on racecourse fixture days.

We run Colwick on the same round as Netherfield, Sneinton and Carlton.

What we check on every Colwick job

The garden is where a clearance quote goes wrong, and on these plots the gardens run long. Behind the shed there is normally a greenhouse, and an old aluminium frame with putty glazed panes has to come down pane by pane into a glass load rather than be pushed over, because broken glass in a mixed load is a hazard to whoever handles it next. Then there is the growing side of it: bags of compost gone solid, stacked pots, half a ton of slabs lifted years ago and stood against the fence, and a heap of prunings. Garden waste, rubble and glass are three separate streams and none of them belongs in with the furniture, which is why they get counted and quoted separately instead of quietly absorbed. Photograph the far end of the garden along with the rooms and the number you are given will hold.

What the house clearance covers

A sample of what is included

• Where it goes: A written note of what left the property and roughly where it went
• Where it goes: Electricals separated for WEEE recycling rather than crushed into a general load
• Everything that comes out: Garden furniture, pots, bagged rubbish and accumulated boxes
• Everything that comes out: Carpets, underlay, curtains, blinds and light fittings if you want them gone

That is a sample rather than the whole list. The full house clearance page sets out every section of the scope, what is deliberately excluded and why, how long it takes on each property size, and what tends to go wrong.