Clearance
House clearance
A full house or a single room. We load it, sweep up, and hand back somewhere an agent can photograph.
House clearance is the whole contents, or as much of it as you want gone. Furniture, carpets, white goods, the loft, the shed, the bit under the stairs that nobody has looked in since 2009.
You do not sort it first, you do not bag it, and you do not carry anything down the stairs. That is the job.
Full, or part
A full clearance is everything not screwed down, and often a fair amount that is. End of tenancy, a sale completing, a move where the new place is smaller.
A part clearance is one room, or one category — all the furniture but none of the kitchen, or just the loft and the garage. Very common, and priced the same way: on what actually goes.
What it costs, and what brings it down
Volume and access, mostly. A three-bed semi with a driveway is a different job from a first-floor flat with a shared stairwell and no parking, even with identical contents.
The thing worth knowing is that metal comes off the price. Most houses have more of it than people think — radiators, appliances, bed frames, garden tools, an old boiler, copper pipe from a bathroom that got ripped out. That value is set against what you owe rather than kept quiet about. On a metal-heavy clearance it can move the number a long way.
Anything genuinely saleable is worth more to you than to us, and we will point it out rather than take it. If there is a lot of it, sell it first and have us clear what is left — you will be better off.
The bits that catch people out
- Carpets and underlay. Bulky, heavy, and the thing most often forgotten when people estimate a clearance themselves.
- Lofts. Almost always more than remembered, and the reason a job occasionally takes longer than it looked.
- Sheds and garages. Frequently the largest single part of a house clearance. See garage clearance.
- Paint, oil and chemicals. Part-used tins need a different route; tell us what is there and we will be straight about what goes and what does not.
Timing
Clearances are nearly always against a date — a completion, a check-out, a handover. Tell us the date when you first get in touch rather than at the end, because it changes what we can promise. If it is tight we will say whether we can do it rather than book it and hope.
Afterwards
It gets swept. You get a waste transfer note showing what left and where it went, which matters more than it sounds: if any of it is later found somewhere it should not be, that note is the difference between your problem and somebody else’s.
On the job
What this actually looks like
How it works
Three steps. No site visit.
Send a photo
WhatsApp a picture of whatever needs shifting. No need to tidy it first or guess the weight.
Get a price
A straight number back, usually the same day. The real price for your actual load.
It’s gone
We turn up, load it, sweep up, and you get the paperwork showing where it went.
The money bit
What actually decides the price
Nobody likes “it depends”. Here is what it actually depends on, so you can guess pretty well before you even send the photo.
01
How much there is
The biggest single factor, and the one the photo answers on its own. We price by what it takes to shift — part of a van, a full van, one tipper load, three.
02
What’s in it
Some things carry a disposal charge by law — fridges, mattresses, tyres, plasterboard, paint. Others go the other way: if there’s real metal in the load, that value comes off your price.
03
How hard it is to reach
Kerbside and a wide drive is quick. Up two flights, through a narrow side gate, or forty yards down a wet garden is not. We’re charging for the time, not punishing you for the stairs.
04
Where you are
Wymondham and Hethersett are on the doorstep. Beccles is a run. It’s rarely the deciding factor, but it’s honest to say it counts for something.
Why there’s no “from £80” on this page
Because a from-price is a number chosen to get you on the phone, not a number anyone intends to charge. You ring, it turns out your job isn’t the one job in a hundred that qualifies, and the real figure lands once someone is already stood on your drive.
We’d rather you got the actual number for your actual load, in writing, before anyone turns up — and that you were free to ignore it. The price we send is the price you pay, unless you add to the pile, in which case tell us and we’ll re-quote.
Skip or us
A skip is a box you fill yourself.
Sometimes a skip genuinely is the right answer — a long refurb, a job where waste appears over weeks. For a one-off clear-out, it’s usually the more expensive way to do your own lifting.
| What | A skip | Us |
|---|---|---|
| Who loads it | You do, over several evenings | We do, while you make a cup of tea |
| Permit | Needed if it stands on the road, from the council | Never — nothing is left anywhere |
| How long it’s there | Sat on your drive for the hire period | Gone the same visit |
| How full | Level with the rim, no higher | Loaded properly, stacked, strapped |
| Fridges & mattresses | Usually excluded or surcharged | Taken, and handled under the WEEE rules |
| Sorting | Whatever went in goes as mixed waste | Metal pulled out and recycled, rest sorted |
| Paperwork | A hire invoice | A waste transfer note with our carrier number on it |
One thing worth knowing either way: your duty of care follows the waste, not the container. Hiring a skip from an unregistered operator lands you in exactly the same place as handing it to a van — here’s how to check either of them.
More waste clearance
Business clearance
Offices, units, shops and yards — out of hours where the trading day matters.
See more →
Garage clearance
Thirty years of paint tins, offcuts and things that might come in handy one day.
See more →Probate clearance
Unhurried, documented, and used to working alongside the firm handling the estate.
See more →FAQ
Straight answers
Do I need to sort or bag anything first?
No, and please do not feel you have to tidy. The most common thing people apologise for is the state of the house, and it is genuinely fine — sorting it is the job you are paying somebody else to do.
What happens if you find something worth money?
You get told, and it stays yours. If there is enough of it we will suggest you sell it before we clear the rest, because it is worth more to you than to us. Nothing valuable quietly leaves in the van.
Can you work to a completion or check-out date?
Yes, and tell us the date at the start rather than the end — it changes what we can promise. If it is too tight we will say so instead of booking it and hoping.
What areas do you cover?
Wymondham and everywhere down the A11 and A47 — Norwich, Attleborough, Thetford, Diss, Long Stratton and across into Suffolk to Beccles and Bungay. If you are not sure, just ask.
Is it all done legally?
Yes. We are a registered waste carrier and licensed scrap dealer, every load comes with a waste transfer note, and our registration numbers are on every page of this site so you can check them before you ring.
How quickly can you come?
Often the same week, sometimes the same day if we are passing. Tell us where you are and you will get the honest answer rather than the one that gets us the booking.