Most of the towns on this list are what people here call the Black Country — Dudley, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Tipton, Bilston, West Bromwich, Smethwick, Wednesbury, Oldbury, Rowley Regis, Stourbridge, Brierley Hill, Kingswinford, Halesowen, Willenhall. Nobody living there says "West Midlands" out loud. It is a county name that arrived in 1974 and never really took.
44 clearances have landed in these postcodes. DY2 in Dudley comes up most, then B62 at Halesowen, B71 at West Bromwich, B73 in Sutton Coldfield, WV14 at Bilston and B92 in Solihull.
What the housing gives you
The Black Country terraces and the interwar semis around them are small, tightly packed and usually have an entry down the side rather than a driveway. Volume tends to be modest inside and heavy in the yard, the shed and the loft.
Birmingham, Coventry and Solihull are a different proposition — bigger stock, more flats, more probate work coming through solicitors, and more jobs where nobody attends and we work from a key.
What happens to the contents
Loads go through permitted transfer stations, not household tips. In this county that means sites like Grinsells at Park Rose Industrial Estate, B66 2DZ, and the operators around B11 and B30. A household recycling centre is for residents disposing of their own things; a clearance firm turning up with somebody else's house in the back is exactly what those sites are set up to refuse.
Our waste carrier registration is CBDU419679 and every load comes back with paperwork.
What we cover
Pages below run across the B, DY, WS, WV and CV districts.