Straight answer first, because everybody scrolls looking for it: **a full house clearance starts at £695 + VAT per load.** Every extra load on the same day is half price. That figure includes the crew, the labour and the disposal — there is no hourly rate running in the background while you watch.
What it does not include is a guess about your house. Read on and you will know how we get from that starting figure to a real one.
Why we price by the load and not by the bedroom
A three-bedroom house can be one van load or it can be six. Two houses on the same street, built the same year, and one of them has a garage you cannot open the door of.
So a firm that quotes a single fixed price for "a three-bed" before seeing it is guessing. That guess has to be wrong in somebody's favour, and it is not usually yours — either the price is padded to cover the bad case, or it moves on the day when the crew find the loft.
We price by how much there actually is. The per-load price is fixed. The number of loads is worked out before we start, from photographs or a free visit, and we tell you the figure before anybody touches anything.
What drives the number of loads
Volume, not floor area. The things that move the number are almost always the same:
- the loft and the garage, which between them usually hold more than the bedrooms;
- a shed, and a garden that has got away from itself;
- carpets, if you want them lifted;
- how much has already been taken by family or a removals firm before we arrive;
- access — a fourth-floor flat with no lift is not the same day as a bungalow with a drive.
How to read a "house clearance from £35" price
You will see very low starting prices advertised. They are not lies exactly, but they almost never apply to emptying a home.
That kind of figure is the price for one item — a single chair, a few bags left at the kerb. The moment a crew has to come inside, sort, lift and make more than one trip, the real number is nowhere near it. We would rather tell you our actual starting point and be the more expensive-looking result on the page than win the click and disappoint you on the day.
Items that carry a set extra charge
A few things cost extra to get rid of legally, because the disposal sites charge us for them. These are flagged when you book, not sprung on you afterwards:
- mattresses, counted individually;
- fridges and freezers, which travel separately for regulated degassing;
- tyres;
- tins of paint;
- anything pressurised — a gas bottle, a patio heater.
Reusable items go to charity where possible — bedding, clothing, bric-a-brac, furniture — and that reduces what goes to disposal. We do not remove asbestos.
No surprise bills
Booking locks in the base rate for the crew and one load. On arrival the team walks round, tells you what the clearance will take, and you agree it before work starts. If there turns out to be more than expected — a packed loft, a full garden — you are told at that point, not at four o'clock with the van already loaded.
Prices are plus VAT. We are VAT registered and every job gets a full written invoice with company and tax details.
Paying for a probate clearance
No payment upfront and no deposit, for anyone. On probate work we can invoice the solicitor, the executor or the estate, and **payment can be deferred until the estate settles — up to six months where a solicitor is handling it.** That means the property can be emptied and put on the market now, and paid for out of the estate later.
If the invoice has to be made out a particular way for the estate accounts, say so before the day.
How to get a real figure
Ring 0800 046 5555 with the postcode, or send photographs — a phone walk-round of each room, the loft hatch, the garage, the shed and the garden — by email or WhatsApp on 07838 213760. Include the postcode.
Photographs beat a description every time, because nobody describes their own loft accurately, and we would rather see it than guess at it.