The biggest house clearance Dursley way that we have handled recently was a property up in Uplands, on the Stroud side of the GL5 district. It went to four full van loads before the rooms were bare. On top of all that there was a small fridge, a fridge-freezer and a mattress, none of which can travel in a general load, plus a clean-through once everything was out. The instructions came through a solicitor's office over in Warwickshire, which tells you how far from the house the people winding up the estate actually were. The person who commissioned the work was a relative handling it at a distance. Four loads out of one house tells you what a lot of Dursley house clearance work really is. Not a single skip's worth, but a lifetime of a place that has to come out room by room, cupboard by cupboard, with the loft usually saved until last because that is where the surprises live.
The other clearance from around here worth setting out is a cottage over towards Amberley, still GL5, run by a co-executor who was living in Chiswick and never came down for it once. That one was a single load, with a fridge-freezer and a mattress out of it on top. We photograph the emptied rooms on jobs like that, so somebody who cannot get to the property has proof it is done. And on that occasion the pictures did not go out with the first email. The follow-up began: "Apologies - the pictures had not attached to previous invoice sent." Not our finest hour. It is the reason somebody now checks the attachment before anything leaves the office.
That is the sort of job we do most weeks somewhere in and around Dursley. It is why this page reads the way it does rather than opening with a question about what you might be looking for. You have found us; here is who turns up and what we actually do.
The Dursley area we cover, and the postcodes
Dursley sits under Stroud District in Gloucestershire, down in the south-west of the county between the Cotswold edge and the Severn. Our branch here runs across a wide spread of GL postcode districts. GL2, GL3, GL4, GL5, GL6, GL7, GL8, GL9, GL10, GL12 and GL13 — so a house clearance in Dursley for us rarely stops at the town boundary. We are regularly out in Cam, in Stonehouse over in GL10, at Wotton-under-Edge in GL12, down towards Berkeley in GL13. Up the valley into Stroud, Nailsworth, Amberley and Uplands where that four-load estate stood.
Stinchcombe, Dursley's near neighbour under the hill, is on the doorstep. Along the valley floor we work Cainscross, Ebley, Eastington, Kings Stanley, Leonard Stanley and Frampton on Severn. Up on the tops Nympsfield, Bisley, Chalford and Brimscombe. North of us GL2, GL3 and GL4 run up into the city and its edges — Churchdown, Hucclecote, Quedgeley — and if the property is that end of the county then house clearance in Gloucester is the page written for it. Up the valley, the same applies to house clearance in Stroud, which is the bigger town most people here shop and register a death in.
We also go south and west across the vale: down the M5 on the Somerset side, house clearance in Cheddar is one of the smaller places we cover, and it is closer in road time than some of the villages on our own side of the river.
The train helps people find us as much as it helps them leave. Cam and Dursley station, out on the Bristol-to-Gloucester line, is how a good number of executors reach a house they have inherited but rarely visit. Down for the day, keys collected from an agent, and the clearance booked while they are standing in the empty front room with their coat still on. We work to that rhythm, because it is the only day some people can give it.
Getting a van onto Dursley's streets
Access is the thing that changes street to street here, and it is worth saying plainly. The older terraces climbing away from Parsonage Street and the town centre are tight. Cars nose to tail and not much room to turn a Luton van. We know which of them mean carrying a wardrobe forty yards to the tailgate rather than backing up to the door. We plan the day around it so nobody is standing about waiting for a space that is not going to appear. Out in the newer estates around Cam and towards Woodmancote the parking is easier. Drives, kerb space, a straight run to the front door — and a two-storey house comes out faster for it.
The valley properties above Uplands and Amberley are the awkward ones: narrow lanes, a pull up steps, sometimes no proper frontage at all. That Uplands clearance was one of those, and the four loads took the time they took partly because of how far every single item had to be walked before it ever reached the van.
The kinds of house clearance we do in Dursley
Probate house clearance in Dursley. Most of our Dursley work is probate. An estate being wound up after a death, the house going to sale or back to a landlord. The Uplands job was probate; so was the Amberley cottage, where a co-executor was running everything from London. On probate clearances we can invoice the solicitor, the power of attorney, or the executors of the estate directly. It can be settled out of the estate rather than from anyone's own pocket. There is no deposit and no payment up front — the invoice follows the work. For an executor who cannot be here, that matters, and we do a great deal of it.
Flat clearance and end of tenancy clearance in Dursley. Smaller jobs. A one-bed flat, a rented place being handed back — we clear the same way: cupboards, wardrobes and drawers emptied out, carpets and underlay lifted if you want the floor bare for the next tenant.
Garage and loft clearance in Dursley. Half the volume in an old Gloucestershire house is up in the loft or out the back. A garage you cannot get the door open on, a shed that has not been touched in years. That is normal, and it comes out with the rest. A garage and loft clearance in Dursley on its own. The house itself left exactly as it is, is a perfectly ordinary booking for us and not something you need a full clearance to justify.
Hoarder house clearance in Dursley. We take heavily overfilled and hoarded houses in our stride. No lectures and no fuss on the day. We have cleared far worse than most people fear their own place is. Said nothing to anyone about it afterwards. If the question is really "will you still do it when the rooms are full to the ceiling" — the answer is nearly always yes.
How the day runs
We arrive at nine in the morning and aim to have the property fully cleared that same day wherever the size allows. There is no need to box or bag a thing up beforehand. The team clears everything out of cupboards, wardrobes and drawers themselves, lifts carpets and underlay, and sweeps the place through at the end if that is wanted. On the bigger houses a garden cut-back or a clean can go on the same booking, the way it did on that Uplands estate once the last load had gone. On completion the team leader walks round and photographs the emptied rooms. An executor who was never able to come down has proof the work is done and can be sent the pictures. Abacus has been doing this across Gloucestershire since 2007. The routine has not changed much in that time because it works.
What we cannot put in the van
A few things cannot go in an ordinary clearance load. It is the law rather than us being difficult. Paint tins, gas bottles, solvents and the odd hazardous bit have to be handled apart from everything else and cannot travel in a general load. Fridges and freezers — and we shift a lot of them out of Dursley houses, small fridges and full fridge-freezers both — are taken under controlled disposal because of the gas in them. Upholstered sofas and armchairs fall under the POPs rules that have been in force since 2023: the foam has to go down a separate regulated route by law, kept back from the general waste. We deal with that properly rather than tipping it in with everything else and hoping nobody looks.
Where the contents actually go
We do not simply drive everything to the tip. Anything still usable — furniture that has years left in it, working white goods, boxes of household bits — we try to pass to a local charity or reuse project rather than see it landfilled. What is genuinely spent goes through a licensed waste transfer station, and every load is documented. Our waste carrier licence is CBDU419679, and if you need the disposal paperwork for the estate we hand it over without being chased for it.
Executors handling a Dursley house from a distance
We are used to the person in charge being nowhere near Dursley. On the Amberley estate the co-executor was in Chiswick; on other jobs the executor has been in another county entirely, or abroad, dealing with the whole thing by email. That works fine. We can pick up a key from an estate agent, a neighbour or a solicitor, clear the house, photograph it emptied. Post any items of sentimental value on to you if you flag them first. You do not have to set foot in the place, and plenty of people never do.
Getting a price
We do not quote sight-unseen on this page, and we would be wary of anyone who did. What we can tell you is how to get a real answer: call us on 0800 046 5555, or send a few photographs of the rooms through the form on this page and we will come back with a proper estimate. That is worked out from what is actually in the house, not a doorstep guess that changes when the van arrives.
Dursley house clearance — common questions
Do you cover Cam, Stonehouse and Wotton-under-Edge as well as Dursley? Yes. Cam and Stinchcombe are next door, and we are regularly in Stonehouse (GL10), Wotton-under-Edge (GL12), Berkeley (GL13) and up the valley to Stroud and Nailsworth.
Can you invoice the solicitor for a probate clearance? Yes. We invoice the solicitor, executor or power of attorney directly, and it can be paid out of the estate.
Do I need to be there on the day? No. We can collect keys from an agent, neighbour or solicitor, clear the house. Email you photographs of every emptied room.
Will you take a hoarded house? Yes, and without any fuss. We clear heavily overfilled properties routinely.
What happens to the things you take out? Usable items go to a local charity or reuse project where we can; the rest goes through a licensed transfer station with the paperwork kept for you.
