House Clearance in Colchester
Whole properties in Colchester emptied and taken away. Probates, moves and tenancies ending, carried out by us rather than by you.
Photograph: PAUL FARMER, Castle Methodist Church, Maidenburgh Street, Colchester - geograph.org.uk - 2271544.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped.
What a Colchester clearance is carrying things out of
The Dutch Quarter, just north of the High Street, is the sharp end of it. Maidenburgh Street, the two Stockwell Streets, St Helen's Lane and Nunn's Road still carry more than sixty houses put up for Flemish weavers in the late 16th century, with the wide horizontal weaver's windows and lath-and-plaster walls that have no cavity in them.
Nothing about those houses was designed around getting a sofa out. Add the Victorian terraces of New Town, where the front door opens onto the pavement and there is no rear vehicle access at all, and most of a Colchester house clearance is a controlled carry down a staircase and out to a vehicle parked as close as the street allows.
Load sizes and prices
Our own price list| Load size | Waste | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Full load | Mixed waste | £400 |
| Three-quarter load | Mixed waste | £300 |
| Half load | Mixed waste | £220 |
| Quarter load | Mixed waste | £120 |
| Clean wood load | Single material | £300 |
| Hardcore load | Single material | £280 |
These are the load prices off our own price list. You are told the load size and the price before anything is booked, so there is nothing to work out at the end of the job.
Try the price calculator What the price covers
Tick off what you have got and it works out the load size and the price. It is an indication and we confirm it before anything is booked.
The same prices in Colchester
There is one price list and Colchester is on it. Send a photograph of what needs shifting on WhatsApp and you get the load size and the figure back, rather than being asked to guess it yourself.
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Get a price for Colchester
Three short fields and we come back with a written price.
Or price it yourself, right now
Tick off what needs taking and the tool works your price out two ways, off our collection list and off our load sizes, and shows you the cheaper one. Then pick a day. It takes about a minute and you do not have to wait for anybody.
Try the price calculatorOr send a photo, which is quicker
- A photo tells us the load size straight away, so you get a real price instead of a range.
- You are not asked to guess whether it is a half load or a full one. That is our job.
- The price you are given is the price you pay, and it covers the labour and the disposal.
- It goes straight to us, not to a call centre, and we are the ones who come back to you.
What house clearance in Colchester takes in
What a whole-property job in Colchester usually takes in.
- Bereavement clearance. A probate at the family's pace, room by room, with anything being kept set aside before a single item is loaded.
- End of tenancy clearance. Between tenancies, back to bare floors ready to photograph and re-let.
- Hoarder clearance. Sorted rather than shovelled. Paperwork, photographs and anything of value come out first and go to you.
- Shed clearance. Emptied and swept out. Where a terrace has no garage the shed at the bottom of the garden is doing that job instead, and it is usually full.
- Attic clearance. Cleared and carried down. In a weaver's house the staircase is the whole problem, and we would rather see it before quoting than after.
- Storage unit clearance. A storage unit emptied and handed back so the rent stops.
What the city council charges, and where it stops
Colchester City Council runs a special collection and publishes the figures: £73.20 for up to six large household items and £99.30 for six to twelve. Electrical items are priced separately, most at £18.80, with fridges and freezers at £37.50 each. Bulky collections happen on Mondays.
Twelve items is the ceiling, and a house is not twelve items. The other thing worth knowing before you book is that the collection begins where you leave it. In the Dutch Quarter or on a New Town terrace, getting a wardrobe from a first-floor bedroom to the kerb is not the easy part of the job, it is the job.
Colchester Recycling Centre is the other route, at 221 Shrub End Road, CO3 4RN. Household waste only, and you can book a van in.
Jobs like this one
Three of the twelve that match this kind of property: a front room emptied, a garage taken back to bare block, and a garden cleared with the house.
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House clearance
Front room emptied
- Found
- A leather chesterfield and side furniture still in place on the rug.
- Left
- Room emptied, rug and curtain the only things left.
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Garage clearance
Garage packed to the door
- Found
- Tools, timber, boxes and a mower filling the garage front to back.
- Left
- Swept concrete floor and bare block walls.
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Garden clearance
Garden buried under household waste
- Found
- Bins, garden furniture, a collapsed gazebo and children's toys heaped across the lawn.
- Left
- Cleared and a new lawn laid, slide and bench the only things standing.
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Questions we get asked about this
The staircase is narrow and turns. Will things fit?
Some will not, so they come apart on the landing rather than get forced round the turn. That is normal in these houses and it is in the price.
Can you park near a house in the Dutch Quarter?
Rarely right outside. It becomes a carry to wherever we can legally stand, which we price in rather than add on afterwards.
Do you take the shed at the bottom of the garden too?
Yes, and on the terraces it is usually where half the clearance is.