A garage clearance is priced by how much comes out and what it is, not by the garage, so two garages the same size can be very different jobs.
What decides the cost of a garage clearance?
How much comes out, counted in loads, and what it is: bags, boxes and old furniture are simple, while paint, tyres, gas bottles and rubble each need their own route. The carry to the truck counts too. Complete Waste Management prices a garage from one photo taken through the door, in writing, before anything is booked.
What moves the price
The first thing is how much there is. A garage is a box that fills from the back, so what you see through the door is usually half of it: the bags in front, and behind them the mower, the flooring someone kept for the spare room, the wheelbarrow with a flat tyre and the crates nobody has opened since the move. We price by the load, so the question is how much of the truck it fills, not how big the garage is. The second is what it is. Bags, boxes, garden tools, old furniture and timber all go the same way and cost the least. Some things cannot go in with the rest and each has its own route, which is what makes a garage of the same size cost more: tins of paint and chemicals, tyres, gas bottles, a fridge or a freezer, and rubble or soil in bags. The third is the carry. A garage on the drive with the truck at the door is the simplest job there is. A block garage at the end of a lane, or one through a back garden, means more walking for every load.
What brings it down
Take out what you want first. Tools, bikes and anything with a value are worth an afternoon of your time before the clearance, because once it is on the truck it has gone.
Then tell us about the awkward things when you send the photo: the paint, the tyres, the gas bottle at the back. Knowing they are there means the price is right first time, and nothing changes on the day.
How the price is set
Send a photo on WhatsApp to 07523 280964 from the garage door, with the door right up, and the price comes back in writing before anything is booked. It is the price you pay. We carry everything out, load it and sweep up behind us, and nothing is paid until the job is done. The load sizes and what a garage starts at are on our garage clearance page.
