Tips for Clever House Clearance

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You may need professional house clearance because you’re moving to a new home, feeling the need to declutter, or clearing a deceased person’s house.

Sometimes this process can challenge, so use a variety of resources and techniques to help everything go smoothly. This will help you save money on the clearance and make as much money as possible from selling items.

Here you find the guide of 247 Waste Control, full of tips on how to conduct a cost-effective house clearance.

Create Time to Plan Things Out

Though it’s easy to procrastinate, taking time to prepare will help make things less stressful. If you’re doing the clearance yourself, plan on spending several hours clearing each room.

Then try to value each item so you can decide what to keep, sell, donate, and get rid of. You should also contact businesses for any services you’ll need in advance and reach out to friends to see if they can help you with the clearance.

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Categorise Your Items

After planning the clearance:

  • Pack up everything in the house.
  • Label each box or container based on what you plan on doing with the items after you finish.
  • Make sure you label each box so you don’t waste time trying to figure out what’s inside of it.
  • Use a shredder to dispose of documents that have personal information like health records, bank statements, or bills.
  • If you are clearing a house for a deceased individual, consult with their lawyer or executor to ensure that you do not throw away official documents needed for settling their estate.
  • Store items in separate rooms based on where they’re going afterwards to help keep things organised.

Estimate the Value of Your Items

Once you have categorised your belongings, go through the lists and decide on the lowest price you’d accept for each item you plan on selling. Compare prices by looking up similar products online. For rarer items, such as jewellery, antiques, and artwork, consult a professional for a more accurate valuation.

Start Selling Things off Before the Clearance

Selling items before the clearance will help reduce clutter in the home and save time. It can take weeks or months to find a buyer for your valuables. You should list all clothing, old records, and furniture online and for sale, once you learn that a house will need clearance. This will also help you raise funds for the clearance and other related costs, such as additional professional cleaning, which is often a must.

Make Use of Recycling Centres in Your Area

The most efficient way to get rid of recyclable materials is by upcycling or bringing them to the nearest recycling centre.

However, most of these centres have restrictions on the quantities they will accept certain items, especially those that classify as hazardous, such as paint, refrigerators, TVs and other equipment.

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Visit the website of your local council to see the exact quantity of dangerous products they will accept for free and the charges of any volume above that.

Alternatively, you can have the council collect rubbish at your home address for free, but this process might take weeks, so you will need to book a collection in advance.

Hold a Car Boot Sale

After placing the more valuable possessions online, a car boot sale is another way to sell off the remaining items.

You may not get the price you hoped for, but selling something is better than throwing it away.

Look up the most popular spots for car boot sales in your town and set up your stall. You can also try giving away the items you weren’t able to sell toward the end of the day.

Hire a Dumpster to Get Rid of Leftover Items

The final step of a house clearance is to get rid of the items you can’t donate, keep, or sell.

One of the most convenient ways to do this is renting a dumpster from a clearance company. Because your local waste disposal will not accept the large volume of trash your clearance will generate, hiring a dumpster is a reasonable alternative. 

Specialised experts offer various sizes of dumpsters to carry the waste. You will need to book the services of a dumpster company in advance to ensure that they are available. Professionals will take care of the heavy lifting by removing clutter from your house, categorising it, loading it into dumpsters, and transporting it.

Planning carefully, getting help to move items, properly disposing of them, and according to our expert colleagues, hiring dumpsters and bins can make a clearance cost-effective for any individual.

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