Waste Clearance in Colchester

Household and commercial waste cleared in Colchester and the villages around it. One item or a full load, priced in writing first.

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Photograph: PAUL FARMER, Castle Methodist Church, Maidenburgh Street, Colchester - geograph.org.uk - 2271544.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped.

Why Colchester jobs take longer than the pile suggests

A lot of Colchester's older stock sits inside a conservation area that was designated in 1968 and covers the whole of the walled town. Those streets have tight side passages, shared entries and no vehicle access to the rear, so waste that accumulated in a back garden has to come back through the house or down a passage barely wider than a wheelbarrow.

Out towards Severalls and the newer estates it is an ordinary load off a drive. The same quantity of waste can be two very different jobs depending on which side of the town wall it is sitting on, and that is what we are asking about when we ask for the address.

Load sizes and prices

Our own price list

Load sizes with the price for each
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 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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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.

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Or 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.

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Rubbish removal in Colchester is the same job

Rubbish removal, rubbish clearance and waste clearance describe one thing here: a pile that needs to go. It is the same vehicle and the same published price list whichever you typed, so it gets one page rather than three competing for the same customer.

What waste clearance in Colchester takes in

The jobs this covers in Colchester, and what each means here.

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Garage clearance. Front to back, to a swept floor and bare walls, including whatever went up into the rafters.
Garden clearance. Green waste, hedge cuttings, turf and the heap behind the terrace, barrowed out through the passage.
Builders waste clearance. Plasterboard, timber, packaging and rubble off a refit, carried through the house where there is genuinely no other route.
Fly-tip clearance. Waste dumped on an access road, a verge or a shared parking area, lifted and the surface swept back.
Wait and load service. The van waits, we load, and it leaves on the same visit. On a narrow street inside the walls that is often the only workable option.
Hazardous waste clearance. Some of what comes out of an old outbuilding cannot travel with general waste. Say what it is beforehand and you get a straight answer.
Warehouse clearance and rip out. Warehouses emptied and ripped out, racking, mezzanine and fittings included.
Shop clearance and rip out. Shop fits stripped and cleared, ready to hand the unit back.

Shrub End Road, and what it will turn away

Colchester Recycling Centre is at 221 Shrub End Road, CO3 4RN. It takes vans, pick-ups and large trailers, and it opens 9am to 5pm from 1 March to 15 October and 9am to 4pm through the winter. A slot has to be booked unless you are a Blue Badge holder, on foot or on a bike.

It is household waste only. Business, trade and commercial waste is not accepted at any Essex recycling centre, and neither is waste a tradesperson produced doing work at your house. Because Colchester sits close to the county boundary it is also worth knowing that the gate is for Essex residents, with reciprocal access for Suffolk.

So a kitchen you took out yourself can go. The same kitchen taken out by a fitter cannot, and that is the point at which most people stop trying to do it themselves.

Jobs like this one

Three of the twelve that look like Colchester work: builders waste stacked the length of a side passage, a fly-tip lifted off a parking bay, and bulk bags taken off a lawn.

All twelve jobs

Before

Builders waste

Side passage full of building waste

Found
Plasterboard, timber and cardboard stacked the length of the passage after a rip-out.

Left
Passage and patio cleared and swept, back to the brick and the paving.
Before

Fly-tip clearance

Fly-tip in a residential parking bay

Found
Broken furniture, cardboard, a wire trolley and a fuel can dumped across the parking bay.

Left
Block paving swept back to the surface, the whole bay usable again.
Before

Garden clearance

Bulk bags under the rhododendron

Found
Six bulk bags of garden waste sitting on the lawn.

Left
Bags lifted and taken away, lawn clear.