House clearance in Sudbury Whole house or one room

Sudbury sits in Babergh, on the Suffolk side of the Stour, so the council routes are Suffolk's and they are worth knowing before a house is cleared, because a family doing it themselves runs into both of them by the second day. The tip is Sudbury Recycling Centre at Sandy Lane, CO10 7HG, off Bulmer Road on Ballingdon Hill, open 9am to 5pm from April to September and 9am to 4pm through the winter, closed every Wednesday, and every visit has to be booked as a time slot first, as it does at every recycling centre in Suffolk. Hardcore, rubble, soil and plasterboard are not counted as household waste there and carry a charge past a small free allowance, plasterboard is only taken at four sites in the county and Sudbury is not one of them, payment is by card only, and anything that comes from a business or a trade is charged as trade waste. Babergh's bulky item collection is the other route: £72.00 for up to five separate items, or up to ten bin bags, with carpet and its underlay counting as two of the five, everything out at the street by 6.30am, and a list of what it will not take that includes builders waste, fixtures and fittings, paint, sheds, pianos and the big American fridge freezer. A probate house off Market Hill is thirty or forty items before the loft is opened, half of them on that list, up a staircase the van cannot see from the road. That is the job we quote in writing, from photographs of each room, as one figure for the whole house, with the right size vehicle for the lane rather than the biggest one.