
House Clearance in Loughton
Whole properties in Loughton emptied and taken away, from Baldwins Hill and York Hill down to Debden. Probates, moves and tenancies ending.
Photograph: Spudgun67, 47 Poundfield Road Loughton Essex IG10 3JN.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
Two Loughtons, and both of them have a garage in the way
Loughton splits cleanly in two. Up the hill towards the forest are Baldwins Hill, Staples Road and York Hill, three of the district's twenty-six conservation areas, where the houses are older, bigger, set in gardens and reached off narrow lanes. Down towards the station is Debden, a planned post-war estate of brick and render with communal landscaping and a regular street pattern.
What they share is where the contents end up. In both halves the garage, the lean-to or the store is doing the work a loft does elsewhere, and that matters more here than anywhere else we cover, because the council will not collect from a garage or any covered storage at all. Everything it takes has to be out on the boundary, in the open, by half past six in the morning.
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.
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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 Loughton
There is one price list and Loughton 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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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 Loughton takes in
What a Loughton clearance takes in, starting with the part the council will not enter.
- Bereavement clearance. A probate at the family's pace, room by room, with the garage and the store counted into the same quote rather than treated as a second visit.
- End of tenancy clearance. At the end of a tenancy, down to bare floors. On the Debden side the turnaround is quick and the garage has to be done in the same visit.
- Hoarder clearance. Sorted rather than shovelled. Sorted, not shovelled. Paperwork, photographs and anything worth keeping come out first and are handed over to you.
- Shed clearance. Emptied and swept out, and worth saying plainly: this is the part the council's own service will not do, because it does not collect from covered storage.
- Attic clearance. Cleared and carried down. In the older houses up the hill the hatch and the stair decide the day rather than the amount.
- Storage unit clearance. Run out to bare walls and the keys handed over. Everything comes out with us in one go rather than in banded lots of three, seven and ten.
The council will not come into a garage, and the tip shuts Wednesday
Epping Forest District Council's special collection is a reasonable service with one line in it that catches almost every clearance: it does not collect from garages or any covered storage. Items have to be on the boundary, in the open and clearly visible by 6.30am, and the access has to take a vehicle 3.8 metres high and 2.8 metres wide. If the contents are in a garage, they are your problem until they are on the pavement.
The prices are £34.80 for one to three items, £52.80 for four to seven and £69.60 for eight to ten, and a bed, a mattress and a headboard count as three items rather than one. A four-bedroom house is not ten items.
The nearest recycling centre is Chigwell, on Luxborough Lane, and it is closed every Wednesday and Thursday. It takes no DIY waste and no rubble at all, and it will not book in a van, a pick-up or a large trailer. So the self-service route for a Loughton house clearance is a car, on one of five open days, with nothing heavy in it.
Jobs like this one
Three of the twelve that match a Loughton property: a front room emptied, a garage taken back to bare block, and a full clearance loaded off the pavement.
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Before
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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Before
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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Before
House clearance
House clearance loaded off the pavement
- Found
- A mattress, a television, pots, bags and a vacuum out on the pavement ready to go.
- Left
- Frontage and pavement completely clear.
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Questions we get asked about this
Everything is in the garage. Is that a problem?
Not for us. It is the exact thing the council's own service excludes, and it is why a lot of Loughton people ring rather than book a special collection.
Do you go up to Baldwins Hill and York Hill?
Yes. The lanes up there are narrow, so tell us what the turn-in is like and we bring the right size vehicle rather than the biggest one.
Is Debden the same price as the rest of Loughton?
Yes. The price is the load size, not the postcode. Give us the address when you ring and the figure already covers getting there.