House clearance in Essex

Do you cover house clearance across Essex?

Yes. We are based in Sudbury, on the Suffolk side of the border, and north Essex has been half of what we do since the beginning. Colchester, Manningtree, Wivenhoe and the villages around them are ordinary weeks for us. We come and look at the property, then give you a figure in writing. There is no charge for that and nothing to sign.

Who do you do house clearance in Essex for?

Four kinds of customer, and the job is a different shape for each one.

Private customers

Somebody moving, downsizing, or emptying a house they have lived in for forty years. This is most of what we do. You are there, you decide what stays, and we take the rest.

Families dealing with a bereavement or a probate

We clear a great many houses after a death, and it is the part of the work we are most careful about. Nothing is rushed, nothing goes until the family has been through it, and we collect keys from the estate agent and invoice the solicitor where the executor wants it done that way. There is a page on probate and bereavement clearance that goes through it properly.

Landlords and agents

A tenancy that has ended and a property full of what was left behind. These are usually the jobs with a date on them, because something is booked in behind you. Tell us the date at the quote and we will tell you honestly whether we can hit it.

Businesses, offices and units

Offices, shops and units, cleared the same way as a house and usually out of hours. We have a page for office and commercial clearance, and the waste rules are stricter on a commercial job, which is worth knowing before you ring anybody.

Do you clear the garden, garage and loft on an Essex house clearance?

The garden, the garage, the loft, the shed and the outbuildings, and we would usually rather do them in the same visit than come back. A flat, a bungalow or a single floor of a house is a normal job too, and so is one room.

If the property is going on the market we can clean it afterwards so it is ready to photograph. The garden, garage and loft page covers the heavy end of it.

Where does the waste go after an Essex clearance?

To licensed sites in Essex, on an Essex job. We do not cart a load back over the border because it is nearer to us. Anything that can be reused, recycled or passed on comes out of the load first, and a good deal of what we take out of a house goes to charity rather than anywhere near a weighbridge.

You get a waste transfer note for your own job. That matters more than it sounds: if you pay somebody to take household waste away, the law asks you to make sure they are authorised to take it. We are Environment Agency waste carrier, Upper Tier CBDU634717, and here is our entry on the Environment Agency register so you can check it in about ten seconds.

Which parts of Essex do you cover for house clearance?

North Essex, and the honest edge of it is roughly the Colchester and Manningtree side of the county rather than the whole of it. If you are further south it is worth ringing rather than assuming, and we will tell you straight away whether it is a job for us.

• House clearance in Colchester
• Manningtree
• Wivenhoe
• Frinton on Sea

The full list of towns and villages covers both counties.

How quickly can you quote for a house clearance in Essex?

Send photographs and we can usually price it straight away. Otherwise we will come back to you the same day, and within 24 hours at the latest. There is no charge for a quote and nothing to sign, and we are not VAT registered, so the figure we give you is the figure you pay.

What it costs comes down to how much there is, how much of it can be reused rather than tipped, and what is actually in the property. There is a page on what a house clearance costs that goes through all three.