House clearance in Stockport is most of what we do in this part of Greater Manchester, and a fair share of it is estate work — probate cases where nobody local is left to open the door. The keys were in a key safe on the wall and there was nobody at the house to meet us: that is how one of ours started, and it is a more common start than you would think. The team did their walk round first thing, phoned the office with what they could see, and the assessment went up rather than down — three loads across two days, white goods included, carpets left down. The instruction was being handled from another county, so everything went by phone and email. That is normal for us and it works fine, as long as somebody says yes to the updated plan before the lads start lifting.
Out of that house came a washing machine, a fridge freezer, mattresses, upholstered items handled under the POPs rules (persistent organic pollutants — the foam in sofas and armchairs), and a shelf of half-used paint tins. One thing was to stay put. The office wrote it down before the day: "As discussed, we will remove the washing machine and tins of paint for you and leave the plastic storage box that the mobility scooter was in." That box was labelled and left exactly where it stood, and nobody touched it. Two days later the property was empty, swept and photographed room by room, and the keys went back into the safe. When the pictures went over afterwards the customer wrote back, simply: "Yes got them all, I'll send payment in the morning." No fanfare. Most of these jobs finish quietly like that, and that suits us.
If you want the same thing done and want to know what it comes to, ring the office on 0800 046 5555 or send photographs through the form on this page. We come back with a figure and a date. That is the whole of what we will say about cost here — the number depends on the house, and we would rather look at it than guess at it in print.
What sort of house clearance in Stockport people ring about
Probate house clearance Stockport
Estate work is the bulk of it. A probate house clearance usually means an executor or an administrator who has never been inside the property, a key with a neighbour or an agent, and a set of photographs at the end standing in for a walk round. We take pictures before we start as well as after, so nobody has to take our word for what the rooms looked like at half past nine in the morning. We can send the waste transfer note over for the file too, which solicitors tend to ask for sooner or later.
On probate jobs we invoice the solicitor, the executor or the administrator direct, and payment can come from the estate. There is no deposit. Several of our SK4 and SK6 clearances were settled that way, months after the van had gone, and nobody had to put their own money in front of it. If a grant is still being waited on, say so when you ring — we have done plenty on that footing and it is not a problem. More detail sits on our probate house clearance page.
Flat clearance in SK1, SK3 and SK4
Flat clearance is its own animal. A flat clearance in the town centre means a lift or, more often, no lift, a stairwell you cannot swing a wardrobe in, and a loading bay somebody else is already parked in. The blocks off the SK1 and SK3 side and the conversions round Heaton Norris and Heaton Chapel in SK4 are the usual ones. Tell us which floor, whether the lift is working, and how far the front door is from where a van can legally stand. That decides how many people turn up.
Garage and loft clearance
Plenty of calls are not the whole house at all. Garage and loft clearance on its own is a proper job around here — the Victorian semis at Heaton Moor have cellars as well as lofts, and forty years of boxes go up and never come down. Garages in Bramhall and Woodford are often the last thing anyone opens. We do those as a standalone, same as sheds and gardens, and you do not have to add the house to it.
Hoarder house clearance and end of tenancy
If the house is packed to the ceiling, say so plainly when you ring. It changes how many loads come out and nothing else. The team have seen it before, they will not comment, and they will work the same way they would anywhere. That is a hoarder house clearance and it is a normal Tuesday for us. End of tenancy work — landlords and agents wanting a property back in lettable condition — runs the same shape: clear, sweep, photographs, done. And if it is only a load of rubbish rather than a full house, house rubbish removal covers that.
Where we go in Stockport and the SK districts
Stockport itself, then the spread of SK around it. Our own districts are SK1, SK2, SK3, SK4, SK5, SK6, SK7 and SK12. Town centre and Portwood in SK1. Shaw Heath, Davenport, Great Moor and Offerton in SK2 and SK3, with Edgeley and Cheadle Heath on the western side. Heaton Moor, Heaton Chapel, Heaton Norris and Heaton Mersey in SK4. Reddish and Brinnington in SK5. Marple, Marple Bridge, Romiley, Bredbury, Woodley and Compstall in SK6. Bramhall, Hazel Grove, Woodford and Poynton's edge in SK7, and Poynton and Disley proper in SK12.
Some of that is the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, some of it slides over into Cheshire East once you get past Poynton and Disley, and the postcode map and the county map have never quite agreed round here. It makes no difference to a van. We work north into Greater Manchester and south into Cheshire on the same day without thinking about it.
Nearby, if you are on the wrong side of a boundary: house clearance in Manchester for anything in the city itself, house clearance in Sale over towards Trafford, and house clearance in Macclesfield once you are past Poynton heading south. If you are not sure which page you want, ring and we will tell you — the boundary matters to the council, not to us.
Stockport station is on the west coast main line and the viaduct over the Mersey is the landmark everybody gives directions by. If you are coming to meet us at a property and would rather leave the car at home, Cheadle Hulme, Bramhall, Marple, Reddish and Hazel Grove all have stations within a short walk of the housing we are usually working in.
Access, parking and the shape of the day
The housing stock varies enormously across Stockport and it changes the day completely. Around Heaton Moor and Heaton Chapel you get big Victorian semis with a cellar and a loft full of boxes, and a hall too narrow for a wardrobe to come out in one piece — so it comes out in two. Bramhall and Woodford are mostly post-war detached with a drive, which is the easy end: the van goes on the drive and the walk is ten feet. Terraces in Reddish and Edgeley mean parking on the street and carrying past parked cars, sometimes a long way past. Flats in the town centre mean the lift, or the stairs.
Then there is the high ground. Marple, Compstall and out towards Disley in SK12 climb quickly, and the lanes narrow as they go. In January that matters. If a job is up there in winter we say so when we book it, and we plan the route rather than gamble on it. Nobody gains from a van sat at the bottom of a hill.
Tell us about access when you ring: the stairs, the lift, whether there is a residents' bay we will need a suspension for, whether the garage door still opens. That is what decides how many people and what size van turn up, and getting it wrong on the phone costs a whole day. A typical full house clearance Stockport job starts between eight and nine, and the team will phone the office once they have walked round, before anything is lifted.
What leaves the house, and where it goes
On a Stockport house clearance we take furniture, white goods, carpets and underlay, loft contents, sheds, garages and garden waste — all of it. Usable things we run to charity shops and reuse schemes near wherever we are working that week, rather than tipping something a family could still use. What cannot be reused goes to a licensed transfer station and is weighed in, and we can send you the waste transfer note if a solicitor wants it for the estate file.
Fridges and freezers are hazardous waste and go for degassing on their own route. Sofas, armchairs and anything upholstered fall under the POPs rules, which since 2023 mean the foam has to be destroyed separately and cannot be tipped in with general household waste. Mattresses will not go in mixed either — the transfer stations will not have them, so they travel on their own. None of that is us being awkward; it is what the law does with those items now.
Paint we can usually take, tin by tin, as we did on the job above. Gas bottles, solvents in bulk and anything with asbestos in it are a different matter and need a specialist, not our Luton van. If you are unsure about something in a garage, photograph it and send it over before the day rather than on the day.
We are registered with the Environment Agency as an upper-tier waste carrier, licence CBDU419679, and we are insured for the work and for the property while we are in it. We have been doing this since 2007. The household waste recycling centre at Bredbury is there for a car boot's worth of rubbish; a whole house is a different job, and a skip on a Marple street means a permit, a wait, and you doing the carrying.
Common questions about house clearance in Stockport
Can you invoice the solicitor or executor on a probate clearance? Yes. On probate house clearance we invoice the solicitor, the executor or the administrator direct, and payment can come from the estate. There is no deposit and nothing is asked for up front. Plenty of our estate jobs settle months after the clearance, once the grant is through.
How do I find out what it will cost? Ring the office on 0800 046 5555 or send photographs through the form on this page. We look at what is actually there and come back with a figure and a date. We do not put numbers on a page, because a page cannot see your loft.
Do I need to be there on the day? No. A good share of our Stockport work is done with a key safe, a neighbour or an agent holding a key, and the executor several counties away. We photograph the rooms before and after and send them over the same day.
Do you clear just a garage or a loft? Yes. Garage and loft clearance on its own is a normal booking, as are sheds and gardens. You do not have to have the whole house done to get the garage emptied.
Can you do a flat clearance where there is no lift? Yes, and it happens often in SK1, SK3 and SK4. Tell us the floor and whether the lift works when you book, so the right number of people turn up. Stairs change the crew, not whether we will do it.
What happens to things that are still usable? They go to charity shops and reuse schemes near where we are working. What cannot be reused is weighed in at a licensed transfer station, and we can send the waste transfer note for the file.
Can you take a piano, or wallpaper off the walls? Those are separate jobs and we do both — see piano removal and wallpaper removal. Say so when you book so the right kit comes.
To book a house clearance in Stockport, or anywhere across SK1 to SK7 and SK12, call 0800 046 5555 or send photographs through the form on this page and we will come back with a figure and a date.
