House clearance in Rayleigh

Rayleigh is a hilltop market town with the Norman earthworks of Rayleigh Mount and its windmill near the high street, but most of the houses we clear here are twentieth-century: semis, detached family homes, and a great many bungalows and chalet bungalows, the kind with bedrooms in the roof and a long garden behind. Bungalows are easier on the stairs and harder on the lofts, which tend to be big, boarded and full. A family home in Rayleigh usually comes with a garage or a shed as well, and the families we clear for want all of it done on one visit, before a sale or after a move into care. We go room by room, set aside anything that matters, carry everything else to the vehicle and sweep up behind. Photos, a video or a viewing give us the figure, which you have in writing before anything moves; one bedroom starts at £349. Rochford District Council runs the bulky collection here, but we could not read its current charges from its own site, so none is quoted. The county recycling centre on Castle Road is for a householder's own trips. We price the whole house at once, in writing.

• From Great Dunmow

  26 miles by road, about 40 minutes without traffic.

• Local detail

  en.wikipedia.org, read 22 October 2026

• Bulky waste collection

  rochford.gov.uk, read 22 October 2026

• The nearest tip

  loveessex.org, read 22 October 2026