Most weeks there is a house clearance in Crawley somewhere on the sheet, RH10 one day and RH11 the next, and we have been doing this work since 2007. Four mattresses. That was the first thing the lads counted on an RH11 job on the western side of Crawley, a Monday in early November — all of them needing to go off separately, because transfer stations take mattresses on their own and not on a mixed load. Then a small fridge freezer, degassed properly before it went anywhere. Then the cooker, which stayed in the kitchen until the cleaning was done and came out last.
The garden was treated as a job in its own right rather than a bit of tidying on the way out to the van, because it was a day's graft in itself. House emptied, cleaned through, garden stripped back. The paperwork afterwards was handled by a relative down in Hampshire. Bill settled from one county, house emptied in another. On this patch that's normal rather than unusual.
Instructed from Cambridgeshire, cleared in RH10
Last July we emptied a house in RH10 for a managing agent based over in Cambridgeshire. Nobody connected to the property was there on the day, and every instruction came by email through the agent's own portal. The brief was not a straight clear-and-tip. They wanted the sell-and-recycle route, which meant anything still worth using had to be identified and set out separately instead of being folded in with everything else going out of the door.
The instruction that shaped the whole job came through in one line: "On submission of your quote, you must ensure that the anticipated value of the items for sale are broken quote in the quote detail." Then came a fortnight of back-and-forth about which rooms and outbuildings were in scope. It took the estate's own representative to settle it before anybody loaded a thing. Once that was pinned down the clearance itself was straightforward and went through in a day. If you are handling a property in Crawley from another county, that is the shape most of these jobs take: photographs, a written scope, a named contact for the day, and a keysafe code. We do not need you standing in the hallway.
What sort of house clearance Crawley asks for
Probate house clearance in Crawley
A fair share of our house clearance work in Crawley is probate work, and the executor is very often nowhere near RH10 or RH11 — Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, sometimes further. That is fine. We invoice the solicitor, the executor or the estate directly, so the bill does not have to land on one family member's own card, and payment can come out of the estate once probate is through. There is no deposit: the invoice follows the work, not the other way round. Probate house clearance is also where the paperwork matters most, so the disposal tickets are kept and can be produced months later if a solicitor asks. If items are to be held back for the family — documents, photographs, a particular box in a bedroom — put the list in writing before the day and give it to the team. There is more on how we handle probate house clearance on its own page.
Garage and loft clearance in Crawley
Plenty of what we do here is nowhere near a full house. Garage and loft clearance is its own line of work in a new town. Crawley's neighbourhoods were laid out with garage blocks set back from the houses. A good number of those garages have not been properly opened since the family car got too wide for them. Same with lofts. The post-war and sixties houses across Tilgate, Furnace Green and Langley Green usually have a hatch, no fixed ladder, and forty years of boxes above the landing. We bring our own ladder and lights and we do not walk on unboarded joists. One warning worth giving: a lot of the older garages around here have corrugated cement sheet roofs. We will empty the garage, but we do not touch the roof — asbestos removal is a licensed trade and not ours.
Flat clearance and end of tenancy clearance in RH10 and RH11
Flat clearance in the town centre blocks, around Northgate and out towards Three Bridges, is mostly a question of stairs and doors. Tell us the floor, tell us whether the lift is working, and tell us whether the bin store is the only place a van can stand. The flats near Gatwick usually have a barrier and a resident's fob between the van and the front door. End of tenancy clearance in Crawley is the quickest sort of day we do — the flat is empty of people, the carpets are usually going, and the whole thing turns on getting the keys back to the agent by close of play. Single items count too. One sofa, one bed, one piano out of a first-floor flat is a booking like any other.
Hoarder house clearance in Crawley
Very full houses are ordinary work for us, not an exception, and we don't make a performance out of them. Hoarder house clearance goes room by room with the customer or the family deciding what is kept as we go, and it is slower than a standard day because everything has to be looked at rather than shovelled. Sharps, spoiled food and anything verminous get handled separately. Tell us on the phone what the house is like, honestly, so the right team and the right kit turn up on the morning. Our hoarder house clearance page sets out how those days run, and where it is one room's worth of bags rather than a whole house, house rubbish removal is the simpler way round it.
Where we go in this corner of West Sussex
Crawley itself covers a lot of ground for one town, and we work all of it: Three Bridges, Pound Hill, Maidenbower, Northgate, Southgate, Tilgate, Furnace Green, Gossops Green, Ifield, Langley Green, Broadfield and Bewbush. North of the town it's Gatwick, Crawley Down and Copthorne, and over the county line house clearance in Horley is the same run out for us. West and south the nearest town is Horsham — house clearance in Horsham has its own page. East, house clearance in East Grinstead covers the villages that side.
Down on the coast house clearance in Worthing is the bigger town we work from the other direction — worth knowing if an estate turns out to have a second property attached to it. Teams come down from the London side, so the run in is the M23 and then whichever roundabout gets us closest. Three Bridges station is the usual landmark when a client is meeting us and doesn't know the estate roads. Crawley station and Ifield do the same job further west. Gatwick Airport station is five minutes up the line if someone is flying in to deal with a property.
Parking, access and the way this town is built
Crawley is a new town and it parks like one. Most of the neighbourhoods are laid out in loops and cul-de-sacs with garage blocks set back from the houses, which means the front door and the nearest legal spot for a Luton or a caged tipper are not always the same place. Verges are soft after rain and we will not drive across one. Around the centre and near the station there are permit bays and time limits to think about, and the flats near Gatwick often have a barrier and a resident's fob between the van and the door. None of this is a problem if we know beforehand. Tell us on the phone what's outside — dropped kerb, shared drive, height barrier, bollard, a neighbour who parks across the entrance — and the team plans the walking distance into the day rather than discovering it at nine in the morning.
What can't go on the van
Tins of paint, white spirit, weedkiller, garden chemicals, patio gas bottles and old fire extinguishers can't travel with household waste. They go back to the gas supplier or to a specialist reception, not to a council site, so leave them out and say so when you book, and we'll tell you where the county's recycling centre will take them. Upholstered furniture is its own category now. Sofas, armchairs, padded dining chairs and footstools count as POP items, and the regulations require them to go for incineration at a permitted site instead of being tipped or salvaged. Fridges and freezers are the same story for a different reason: the gas has to be extracted under controlled conditions before the shell can be recycled. Mattresses go off on their own, as the RH11 job at the top of this page shows.
What a house clearance in Crawley costs
There is no figure on this page, and that is deliberate — we cannot see your house from here. Ring the office on 0800 046 5555 with the RH postcode and the number of bedrooms, or send photographs through the form on this page, and you will get a figure back for the job in front of us. The quote is free and there is nothing to sign at that stage.
Licence, paperwork and where things end up
We're registered with the Environment Agency as an upper-tier waste carrier, CBDU419679, and the firm insures both the crews and the vans. Furniture and household goods still worth using are offered on to reuse schemes and charity outlets rather than tipped. Metal, wood, cardboard and electricals are separated. Whatever is genuinely waste goes to a permitted transfer station and the tickets are kept, so if a solicitor or an agent asks for evidence of disposal months later it can be produced. If small personal items need saving — paperwork, photographs, jewellery, a particular box in the corner of a bedroom — write the list down and give it to the team before they start. That works. Shouted instructions halfway through a load do not.
Booking a house clearance in Crawley
Ring the office with the RH postcode, the number of bedrooms, and anything unusual: a garage, a loft that was never emptied, a shed, a piano, a stairlift. Photographs on a phone are worth more than any description. The team arrives at nine and aims to have the property cleared that day wherever it can be done in a day. If the house turns out different to the pictures, you hear about it while the team is still there, before anything else is loaded. Nothing needs boxing or bagging up first — cupboards, wardrobes and drawers are cleared as they stand, carpets and underlay come up, and the place is swept through if you want it. If you would rather not be there, we can collect a key from an agent or a neighbour and email photographs of the empty rooms afterwards.
Common questions about house clearance in Crawley
Can you clear just a garage or just a loft? Yes. Garage and loft clearance in Crawley is booked the same way as a full house, and plenty of our RH10 and RH11 days are exactly that. If you are out at work, leave written permission and a contact number for anything that needs a decision.
Can you invoice a solicitor or an executor? Yes. We invoice the solicitor, the executor or the estate directly, and payment can be made from the estate once probate is through. There is no deposit — the invoice comes after the work, once you are satisfied with it.
How much does a house clearance in Crawley cost? Ring 0800 046 5555 or send photographs through the form on this page and you will get a figure. We don't put numbers on the page because no two houses in Crawley hold the same amount.
Do we have to be there on the day? No. A good number of the clearances we do in RH10 and RH11 are instructed from another county entirely. We pick a key up from an agent, an executor or a neighbour, work to a written scope, and send photographs of the cleared rooms afterwards.
Which areas of Crawley do you cover? All of them — Three Bridges, Pound Hill, Maidenbower, Northgate, Southgate, Tilgate, Furnace Green, Gossops Green, Ifield, Langley Green, Broadfield, Bewbush — plus Crawley Down, Copthorne and Gatwick, and the RH postcodes either side of the town.
What do you do with things that are still usable? They are offered on to reuse schemes and charity outlets before anything goes near a transfer station. Waste goes to a permitted site under our carrier licence, CBDU419679, and the tickets are kept.
Ring 0800 046 5555 for a house clearance in Crawley, or send photographs through the form on this page and we'll come back to you with a figure.
