House clearance in Melton Mowbray means, most weeks of the year, a house in LE13 and a run of villages out across LE14. We have been doing this work since 2007, and the town throws up what you would expect it to. Probate houses in the inter-war streets, an end of tenancy clearance for a landlord, bungalows the family has already half-emptied, farm outbuildings on the Wolds side, the odd flat over a shop near the market. Ring the office on 0800 046 5555 and you get someone who knows the roads rather than a call centre. Below is one of ours, told properly rather than trimmed to a sentence.
Two old motor mowers, both seized solid, and a few tins of paint on a shelf. That was the garage of a three-bed 1930s detached in LE13 that we emptied on a Wednesday in November 2023. The loft was already done and the shed was bare — the family had worked through those themselves — so what was left inside was furniture nobody had a use for, plus the kitchen. Washing machine, tumble dryer, dishwasher, fridge, all four out and into the van. The booking came in by email the evening before, with the answers to our standard questions written out plainly: "Three bed 1930's detached.
Loft and shed are empty. Garage contains two old rusty motor mowers (not working) needing disposal and a few tins of paint. Most of the stuff left in the house is furniture that is no longer required." Not much guesswork needed with a description like that. The white goods were listed just as flatly — "White goods - washing machine, tumble dryer, dishwasher, fridge." — which meant the sack barrow and the bolt croppers came off the van at nine in the morning instead of being sent for at eleven. The correspondence address for the whole thing was in another county, which is normal here and no obstacle at all.
That job had a tail to it, and it is worth telling. Our vehicle broke down on the way back and sat in a workshop, so the load was not tipped and logged as quickly as it should have been. We said so, in writing, rather than going quiet: apologies for the delay, the vehicle has been in the garage since your clearance and we have only just been able to unload everything this morning. The waste transfer note is raised at the point of tipping and both sides keep a copy. Getting ours back from the recycling centre can take up to two weeks on occasion, so we chase it and forward it on. If a sale is going through, the conveyancer may well ask to see it.
A whole-property house clearance, garden and all
Not every booking form comes back as tidy as that one. On another of ours the size of the job was given in a single line — whole property including garden to be cleared — and then the detail underneath made the day for us. Carpets: yes. Curtains: yes. Both coming out, which changes the order of the rooms, because you strip and load the furniture first and lift the floors last or you are walking over bare gripper rods all morning. Hazardous items: yes, flagged on the form rather than discovered by us at four in the afternoon, which is exactly what that question is for.
Then the garden, in the customer's own words: "Cut back & disposal of overgrown back garden". That is two jobs in one line. Cutting a garden back is not clearing it. The cutting has to happen before anything can be carried, and green waste travels separately from house waste, so it is a separate run and a separate note. A garden that has had a few years of nobody in it will fill more of a day than the bedrooms above it.
Our form also asks whether anything is to be looked for and left behind at the property — photographs, passports, bank cards, the things families most often ring about afterwards. On that one the answer was no, everything went. When the answer is yes, it is written on the sheet the team leader carries, and anything of that sort is bagged and put on the kitchen worktop rather than loaded.
What we cover around Melton Mowbray
Melton Mowbray sits in its own borough in north-east Leicestershire, with the town on LE13 and the villages spreading out across LE14. Asfordby, Frisby on the Wreake, Kirby Bellars, Great Dalby, Burton Lazars, Thorpe Arnold, Scalford, Ab Kettleby, Nether Broughton, Somerby, Wymondham, Long Clawson, Waltham on the Wolds and the rest of the Wolds villages up towards the Vale of Belvoir. We are on all of them, and all of that is house clearance Melton Mowbray work in the proper sense: LE13 and LE14, not a van sent up from somewhere else for the day.
Melton Mowbray station, on the Birmingham to Stansted line that runs through Leicester, Oakham and Peterborough, is a useful landmark for anyone directing us in. A fair few of the executors we deal with arrive that way, meet us for the morning and go home on an afternoon train.
Past the borough boundary the postcodes change and so do the pages. If the property you are dealing with is down the Wreake valley or in the city itself, that is house clearance in Leicester. North-west of here it is house clearance in Loughborough. South, past Twyford and Billesdon, it becomes house clearance in Market Harborough; and over on the coalfield side of the county it is house clearance in Coalville. Same firm, same licence, different page.
Parking, stairs and the awkward bits
Melton's older terraces near the town centre are the regular puzzle: narrow frontages, no driveway, and a market that fills the streets on the right day. Tell us the day you are thinking of and we will say whether it is sensible. Village properties out on LE14 are usually the opposite problem. Plenty of room, but a long carry from a barn or an outbuilding, and it is usually the outbuilding that holds the heavy end: bags of cement gone solid, roof tiles stacked behind the shed. Say they are there and they go on the quote.
Distance matters more here than doorways. From the Wolds villages the round trip to a permitted transfer station is what decides whether a house goes in one day or spills into a second. We work that out before quoting, not at four in the afternoon.
Flat clearance in Melton Mowbray, LE13
A flat clearance is its own animal and we price the stairs, not the square footage. The flats above the shops in the town centre are reached by one narrow staircase with a turn in it, no lift. A door that opens straight onto a pavement you cannot block for long. Sheltered schemes around the town are easier inside and stricter outside — a warden to sign in with, a bay to use and a time to be out of it by. For a flat clearance the useful things to tell us are which floor, whether there is a lift, and whether the bed and the sofa went in whole or were built in the room.
House clearance Melton Mowbray — how to get a figure
On cost the page says one thing only: ring the office on 0800 046 5555, or send photographs through the form on this page, and you will get a figure. The quote is free and it does not commit you to anything. Garage and loft clearance is where a Melton day quietly stretches. Photographs of each room, the garage, the loft hatch and the shed tell us more in thirty seconds than a description does in ten minutes.
Some items have to be handled separately by law, and it helps to mention them at that point rather than on the day. Fridges and freezers are classed as hazardous because of the gas in them. Sofas, armchairs and other upholstered seating are POP items — persistent organic pollutants, meaning the flame retardants in the padding — so they cannot ride in a mixed load and are counted one by one. Paint tins, aerosols, gas canisters, fire extinguishers and tyres are a different case again, hazardous or specially controlled for their own reasons. If there is a shelf of half-used paint like that LE13 garage had, say so on the phone.
Where the contents actually go
Furniture with wear left in it we would sooner see reused than tipped, so it is offered on to charity shops and reuse schemes that can take bulky items. Whatever cannot be reused is weighed in at a permitted transfer station under our waste carrier registration, CBDU419679, with a transfer note raised against each load. Melton Borough Council runs its own bulky waste collection, and if you have three or four items and no hurry, that is often the sensible route. We will tell you so rather than take the work.
We are insured for the work, and the team leader photographs each property on arrival and again once it is empty, so there is a record of the state it was in.
Probate, tenancies and full houses
Probate house clearance Melton Mowbray
Most of what we do around Melton Mowbray is after a death or a move into care. The instruction usually comes from a solicitor or an executor rather than the person who lived in the house. That is ordinary probate work and we are set up for it. We invoice the solicitor, the executor or the estate directly, the payment can come out of the estate, there is no deposit, and the invoice follows the work rather than preceding it. Nobody has to find money out of their own pocket to get a probate house clearance started, and if the estate is waiting on a sale, say so at the booking stage and it is noted.
We can take instruction from an executor in another county, collect a key from an agent or a neighbour, and email photographs of the cleared rooms the same evening. Anything that looks like it matters — deeds, service records, photographs, jewellery at the back of a drawer — is bagged and left rather than loaded. There is more on how we handle estates on our probate house clearance page.
End-of-tenancy work runs to a shorter clock: a landlord or managing agent with a date to hand back, carpets and curtains often staying, and everything else out in one day. Houses that are packed to the ceiling do not put us off and we make no performance out of them. See hoarder house clearance — and if it is a part-load rather than a house, that is rubbish removal instead.
Questions we get asked about house clearance in Melton Mowbray
Can you invoice our solicitor rather than the family? Yes. We invoice the solicitor, the executor or the estate directly, payment can be made from the estate, and there is no deposit — the invoice comes after the clearance, not before it.
How do I get a figure for a house clearance in Melton Mowbray? Ring 0800 046 5555 with the outward postcode, the number of bedrooms and whether the garage, loft or shed is still full, or send photographs through the form on this page. The quote is free and carries no obligation.
Do I have to be there on the day? No. We collect a key from an agent, a neighbour or a solicitor's office, meet the team at the property for nine, and email photographs of the empty rooms that evening.
What proof do I get that it went to the right place? A waste transfer note against each load, raised at the point of tipping under our carrier registration CBDU419679. It can take up to two weeks to come back from the recycling centre, and we forward it when it does.
Can you clear the garden as well as the house? Yes, and it is worth saying so at the start. An overgrown garden has to be cut back before it can be carried out, and green waste travels separately from house waste, so it is planned as its own part of the day.
Will you take something odd? Usually. Ask about it on the phone — mowers that have not run in years, a freezer in an outbuilding, a shelf of paint tins. The answer is nearly always yes, and the things we cannot take we will name plainly.
