Most of our house clearance work in Coalville is ex-mining stock: bungalows, colliers' terraces, and the sixties semis that went up on the estates while the pits were still working. None of it is glamorous housing and most of it is not difficult housing, but it has its own habits, and after enough house clearance jobs in the LE67 postcodes you learn what they are.
The Hugglescote one was a two-bedroom bungalow with a garage, booked in for a Monday morning in late April 2023. Loft contents unknown — that was written on the form, word for word, and it usually means somebody has looked at the hatch and decided not to find out. No garden work required, which was on the form as well. On paper it was one of the tidier bookings we get in the LE67 postcodes, and it ran the way those tend to: team at the door for nine, bungalow rooms cleared first because they empty fast, garage last because garages never do.
Garages are where the surprises sit in this part of Leicestershire. Half the ex-mining stock around Coalville and Whitwick has a single garage that stopped holding a car about thirty years ago and started holding everything else. Timber offcuts, a mower that hasn't turned over since the nineties, paint tins with the lids rusted on, tools nobody could name. We look at the house, then we look in the garage. Sometimes the garage is the job.
What actually leaves the house
A house clearance in Coalville splits about four ways once the van is back at the yard, and it is worth knowing which way things go.
Furniture that's still fit to use doesn't go to landfill. Solid pine, decent dining sets, unmarked mattresses still bagged, working small appliances — we run them past reuse outlets and the charity warehouses before anything else happens. Fridges, freezers and fridge-freezers travel as their own category, because the refrigerant has to be extracted under regulation and that can only be done at a site set up for it.
Televisions and monitors, the same. Sofas, armchairs and padded dining chairs are the ones people query most. Since the POPs rules came in, the flame retardants in old upholstery foam mean that stuff has to go into a permitted incineration route, and it gets handled piece by piece rather than tipped in with the general load. If you strip the cushions off a suite before we arrive, the count drops, and we've told customers that on the phone more than once.
The teams report back what they actually took, so the record matches what went on the van and not what somebody guessed at the door.
Paint, aerosols, gas bottles, oils, asbestos sheeting off a shed roof — none of that can travel in a general household load. We'll tell you where it goes locally rather than pretend otherwise. Everything else is weighed in at a permitted transfer station, and the waste transfer note comes back to us on paper. Notes can take a fortnight to come through; if you want a copy, ask and we'll send it on when it lands. That's normal, and we'd rather say so than leave you wondering.
The kinds of house clearance Coalville asks us for
Probate house clearance in Coalville
Probate work is the bulk of it. Somebody dies, the house sits for a few months while the grant comes through, and then it has to be emptied before it can be sold. Where a solicitor's office in the town is dealing with the estate, we can correspond with them directly, take our instructions from them, and send the paperwork their way rather than to a relative who has enough on. Executors often ask us to look out for particular things while we work — documents, photographs, a ring in a drawer — and a probate house clearance in Coalville nearly always involves some of that. Tell us what matters before the day rather than while the wardrobe is going down the path. There is more on how we handle probate house clearance across the board.
On the paperwork side, say so at the booking and we will invoice the solicitor, the executor or the estate directly rather than sending anything to you personally. Payment can come out of the estate, which is what most executors want, and it saves somebody fronting the cost and then claiming it back. There is no deposit — nothing is asked for up front, and the invoice follows the work once the property is empty. The quote itself is free and doesn't commit you to anything.
Flat clearance in LE67 and sheltered housing
Retirement flats and sheltered schemes are their own kind of job. A flat clearance in LE67 usually means there's a warden or a scheme manager to sign in with, communal doors that shouldn't stand wedged open all morning, a lift that may or may not take a wardrobe. Neighbours who are mostly at home. Two-bedroom flats in these schemes tend to empty quickly — the furniture is newer, there is rarely a loft, and there's no shed or garage behind it. We'd sooner book a start time that suits the scheme than force nine o'clock on everybody.
Garage and loft clearance in Coalville
Plenty of people don't need the whole house doing. A garage, a loft hatch nobody has been through since a parent stopped climbing ladders, a shed with a seized mower in it. We take garage and loft clearance on as jobs in their own right, sheds included, and they are worth booking honestly. A loft that has been filling since the nineties is not a half-hour job, and the ladder work is slower than the rooms below. If it's a single wardrobe or a fridge going, that's rubbish removal rather than a full house clearance, and it's a smaller booking.
End of tenancy clearance in Coalville
Landlords and agents ring us at the end of a tenancy with much the same list every time. Furniture the last tenant didn't want, a mattress, a fridge that's been switched off for a fortnight, a garden's worth of bits by the back door. We clear it, sweep through, and photograph the empty rooms so there's a record for the agent. Where a property is being turned round between tenancies, tell us the date the keys are due back and we'll work to it.
Coalville, and where else we go
Coalville sits in North West Leicestershire, and the district is a scatter of places, most of them LE67, and none of which are quite the same to work in. Hugglescote and Bardon are close enough that we treat them as the town. Whitwick, Thringstone, Swannington, Ravenstone, Ellistown — village stock, narrow frontages, some of it colliers' terraces with an entry down the side and no vehicle access to the back. Ibstock, Heather, Measham and Donisthorpe to the south-west, with Appleby Magna out towards the motorway and Worthington and Belton on the Loughborough side. Ashby-de-la-Zouch out to the west, which is a different sort of housing again: Georgian frontages on Market Street, big rear gardens, and loft hatches on the narrow side. Markfield sits east of the town under Bardon Hill. Between them, those are the places a house clearance in Coalville actually means, and the main road through the town does most of our driving for us.
Past the district boundary the county has its own pages. Down the A447 there's house clearance in Hinckley, over towards the Soar there's house clearance in Loughborough, and the city itself is covered on house clearance in Leicester. If the property sits somewhere between two of those, ring and we'll tell you which team is nearest rather than guess at it.
There is no passenger station in Coalville. The line through the town carries freight between Leicester and Burton. Has done since the passenger service went in the sixties, so relatives coming in for a clearance usually land at Loughborough on the Midland Main Line and drive across, or come into Leicester and drive out from there. It matters more than it sounds. A lot of the houses we clear here belong to people who moved away years ago and are handling the property from Nottingham, or Derby, or a good deal further. They can rarely give us a full day on site.
When the family isn't local
That's most of our work in this county, if we're honest about it. A flat in sheltered housing at Markfield, LE67, was booked in for a Wednesday in October 2024 by a relative living elsewhere. Two bedrooms, first floor, no loft and no outside space, washing machine and fridge-freezer to be cleared, no carpets or curtains to come up, no garden. Two things were to stay, and the instruction came through in writing, so we printed it for the team — "Armchair and contents in sitting room to be left. Vacuum cleaner to be left."
The other line on that form shaped the whole morning: "No parking restrictions, but bus needs to pass 3 times a day." That is exactly the sort of detail that saves an argument, because a Luton stood across a village road for six hours makes enemies quickly. We met them at the property for half ten rather than nine, to suit the family, and worked round the bus.
Small things to write down. It's usually those, and not the van, that decide whether a day goes smoothly.
Executors get treated slightly differently again. Where a house is being sold as part of an estate, the person instructing us is often two or three counties away and can't be at the door at all. We'll collect keys from an agent or a solicitor's office, photograph the cleared rooms and email them over, and post on anything of obvious sentimental value that turns up in a drawer. Where several relatives are involved, say at the booking stage which of you is instructing us, because on the day the team can only take direction from one voice.
What a day in Coalville looks like
A modest three-bed with the loft already emptied is usually a single day, start to finish. A house where nothing has left in twenty years is not, and we'll say so before you book rather than halfway through the afternoon.
Heavily overfilled properties are ordinary work here, and so are the ones with rodent damage behind the skirting. A hoarder house clearance needs protective kit, a different disposal route and, more often than not, longer than the two days people expect. That gets discussed openly with whoever is instructing us, and again mid-job if the picture changes once the first rooms are open. Nobody enjoys that conversation, but it is better had on day one. We describe that work in more detail on the hoarder house clearance page.
We arrive at nine as standard and aim to have the property empty by the end of that day where it's possible. Tell us what's staying and mark it if you can — a chair, a cooker, one wardrobe — because a team clearing at pace will take what isn't flagged. If you can be there to open up and point, better still; where you can't, we'll collect keys from an agent or a solicitor's office and return them at the end. There's no need to box or bag anything up beforehand: the team clears inside cupboards, wardrobes and drawers, lifts carpets and underlay where you want them gone, and sweeps through at the finish.
We're registered with the Environment Agency as an upper-tier waste carrier, licence CBDU419679, and we're insured for the work. We have been clearing houses since 2007. Household waste sites in the county are run by Leicestershire County Council, bins by North West Leicestershire District Council, and neither of them will take a full house off you in one go — that's what we're for.
Common questions about house clearance in Coalville
Which areas do you cover for house clearance Coalville-wide? All of LE67 — the town itself, Hugglescote, Bardon, Whitwick, Thringstone, Swannington, Ravenstone, Ellistown, Ibstock, Heather and Markfield — along with Ashby-de-la-Zouch and the villages in between. If you are just outside and not sure, ring and ask rather than assume.
Can you deal with the solicitor rather than with me? Yes. On a probate house clearance we can take instructions from the executor, the attorney or the solicitor's office handling the estate, correspond with them directly, and invoice the solicitor, the executor or the estate rather than you. Payment can come from the estate, there is no deposit, and the invoice comes after the work is done.
Do I have to box things up first? No. The team clears inside cupboards, wardrobes and drawers and lifts carpets and underlay if you want them gone. What you do need to do is tell us clearly what is staying.
Can you clear just a garage, loft or shed? Yes, and garage and loft clearance is a common booking around Coalville — the garages here hold more than the houses do. Tell us roughly what's in there and whether the door still opens.
What if the property is in a bad state? Say so when you ring. Verminous and heavily hoarded houses are normal work for us; they just need the right kit, the right disposal route and a realistic number of days.
Can I get a quote without anyone visiting? Usually, yes. Phone the office on 0800 046 5555, or send a few photographs of each room through the form on this page, and we can tell you what the job involves.
Ring the office on 0800 046 5555 with the address, the number of bedrooms and whether the loft, garage and shed are in scope. Or send the photographs through the form on this page — and you'll know exactly where you stand before anyone sets off for Coalville.
