House Clearance in Netherfield

House Clearance for Netherfield homes

Everything leaves through the front door onto the footway, because the back gate opens into an entry a metre wide with a turn in it. That decides the van position, the order of the load and how long the pavement is blocked.

Two situations produce nearly all of this work on these streets. Probate in the owner-occupied rows, where somebody has been in the same house for decades and the contents reflect exactly that, and voids in the let stock, where a tenancy has ended and what is left has to go before the property can be turned round. The buildings are near enough identical and the constraint is the same in both cases: two rooms down, two up, no hall, no garage, and a front door that opens straight off the pavement into the living room. Everything is carried rather than wheeled. Before any of it moves, ask whoever is taking the waste away for their waste carrier registration number and check it against the public register.

Netherfield sits in NG4, under Gedling Borough Council. Everything here sits low against the Trent flood plain, and the housing was put up quickly and cheaply for men working the railway yards. Solid brick walls with no cavity and a lot of it now rented, so damp, condensation and mould come up more often than ordinary dirt does.

What we run into on Netherfield house clearance jobs

Bedroom furniture is where a terrace clearance slows down. Flat pack wardrobes are built in the room they stand in, and a made up double wardrobe will not come back down a staircase that turns at the top, so it is taken apart on the landing or in the bedroom and carried out in panels. The same goes for a solid based divan and for most bed frames. It is worth knowing before the day, because a quote built on van loads assumes each item reaches the van, and half an hour with a screwdriver per wardrobe is real time. Older solid furniture that went up before a stair was reboarded sometimes has to be cut, and we ask first.

How a Netherfield house clearance job actually runs

The order of clearing is what keeps a terrace day on schedule, and it runs from the top down. Loft first through the landing hatch, then the back bedroom, then the front, then downstairs, so the staircase is worked once rather than crossed all day. The front room is cleared last because with no hall it is the staging area for everything else, and the kitchen and the yard come out through it too. That is worth knowing if you are keeping the floor coverings: the route from the back door to the van crosses every ground floor surface in the house, so it gets boarded and sheeted before anything heavy moves. Nominate the keep room before the day and, if you can, take that pile away yourself beforehand. On a two up two down there is no spare room for it to sit in while the rest is loaded, and a keep pile in the corner of a room being cleared is how something goes on the van by accident. If a bulky item cannot come down the stairs assembled, we would rather establish that at the quote than at four in the afternoon with a van half full.

Who books it here

On the practical side: On-street only across the terraced streets, with cars both sides and not much room to pass. The back entries are shared and usually gated, so equipment comes in through the front door. Commercial jobs are easier, because the retail park has its own parking.

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

What we check on every Netherfield job

The store in the yard is the thing to raise before the day rather than on it. A good many of these houses have a lean-to or an outbuilding off the yard roofed in corrugated cement sheet, grey, wavy, often mossed over and sometimes cracked at the fixings. Sheet of that kind in a building of this age is very likely to contain asbestos, and it is on the excluded list for good reason: it is a separately regulated waste stream with its own licensed route, and breaking it up to get it in a van is the single worst thing anybody can do with it. We will clear the contents of a store like that and leave the structure alone. If the roof is what you actually want gone, it needs a specialist to sample it and the right disposal route afterwards, and your local authority will tell you what they accept and on what terms.

What the house clearance covers

A sample of what is included

• Before we leave: Documents, photographs, cash and anything that looks valuable bagged and handed to you
• Before we leave: Meter readings taken and photographed
• Everything that comes out: Furniture, beds and bedroom contents, including flat pack that has to be broken down
• 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.