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General advice about organising a house clearance, whether you DIY or employ a house clearance company, information on charitable donations, waste disposal & skip hire, legal regulations and inheritance tax & probate forms.
Recent Posts
What do we do with the Teak & Chipboard Furniture?
If you are clearing a normal house, particularly if the person who owned the house was elderly, then you’ll probably find a large amount of chipboard and teak effect furniture. Gone are the days that houses were full of good quality antique ...
Ornaments and China; How do I seperate the rubbish from the antiques?
When you are doing a house clearance, then the natural instinct is that the furniture and contents in the house must be worth something. Unfortunately the value of much of the contents will be worth very little, and this can sometimes be upsetting ...
Clearing out the loft.
If you are doing a DIY house clearance then our advice is to start at the top. Start with the loft, because there is absolutey nothing worse that thinking that you’re nearly finished and then finding a loft stuffed to the rafters. Also wor...
Clearing a house yourself - where to start?
If you are doing your own house clearance, then inevitably there will be that “where do we start?” moment. First we recommend that you sort through the property and collect together all paperwork, personal documents and anything that...
Is there a car in Your House Clearance?
One of the things we frequently come across during house clearances are old cars. Frequently the car will have been stuck in a garage for a number of year, probably not MOT’ed or taxed, and probably in a kind of seized up state which makes it...
How much household contents need to be cleared?
If you are booking skips or planning disposing the household contents into your local council recycling facilities, then it’s a good idea to have of the quantity of waste that you’ll have for disposal. Over the decades we have done thousa...

