House Clearance in Welwyn Garden City
Whole properties in Welwyn Garden City emptied and taken away. Probates, moves and tenancies ending, carried out by us.
Photograph: Paul Shreeve, Howardsgate Welwyn Garden City centre - geograph.org.uk - 2831086.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped.
A town that was drawn before it was built, and what that means
Welwyn Garden City was laid out from 1920 under Louis de Soissons, who with Arthur Kenyon designed more than half the houses in it: neo-Georgian, mostly red brick with sash windows, running from modest terraces, cottages and maisonettes up to large detached houses. Almost the whole of that original town is a conservation area with its own Design Code.
It was made a New Town in 1948 and the Development Corporation built heavily through the 1950s, mainly east of the railway. The practical effect for a clearance is that this is a town of planned estates with proper access roads. Compared with a medieval market town it is straightforward, and the constraint is usually the maisonette staircase rather than the street.
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 Welwyn Garden City
There is one price list and Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City
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 Welwyn Garden City takes in
What a whole-property job here usually takes in.
- Bereavement clearance. A probate at the family's pace, room by room, with anything being kept set aside first.
- End of tenancy clearance. Between tenancies, back to bare floors so the place can be photographed 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. On the planned estates the store or garage is generally a separate structure and it is generally full.
- Attic clearance. Cleared and carried down. In a maisonette that stair is the whole timetable.
- Storage unit clearance. A storage unit emptied and handed back so the rent stops.
An unusually good local tip, and what it still will not solve
Welwyn Garden City has one of the better arrangements in the county. The recycling centre on Tewin Road, AL7 1BD, is open seven days a week, 10am to 6pm, all year. It replaced the old Cole Green site in March 2023 and it has a large purpose-built reuse shop, so decent furniture can be left for somebody else rather than tipped.
For a few items that is genuinely the right answer and we will tell you so. Where it stops is volume and handling. A whole property does not fit in a car, the van and trailer ePass is one per household, and every load still has to come down the stairs and into the vehicle before any of it goes anywhere.
That carrying is what a clearance actually is. The tip solves the disposal. It does not solve the three flights or the eleven trips.
Jobs like this one
Three of the twelve that suit these properties: a front room emptied, a garden buried under household waste cleared, and scrap timber taken off a lawn.
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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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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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Garden clearance
Scrap timber across the lawn
- Found
- A long pile of scrap timber stacked over the lawn and the slate path.
- Left
- Timber gone, path and lawn clear again.
Our customers' own words, word for word, pulled live from our Google profile. Google hands out five reviews at a time. The score and the count above are for every one of them.
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Questions we get asked about this
Will you take things to the reuse shop rather than tip them?
If something is genuinely reusable we would rather it was reused, and we will say so when we see it. We do not promise where each item ends up, because that would be a claim we cannot evidence.
The flat is a maisonette with a shared stair. Is that a problem?
No, it is normal here. Tell us which floor when you ring so the figure is right the first time.
Do you clear the garage block as well?
Yes, and on these estates that is often where most of the volume is.