What a full house clearance in Chippenham actually involves
A house clearance is the whole property emptied and left ready to hand over, not a van-load grabbed from the hallway. We work through it room by room across Chippenham and the villages, so nothing gets missed: wardrobes and drawers, the airing cupboard, the loft, the garage and the garden shed, right down to the carpets and curtains if you want them gone. As we go we set aside anything you have flagged to keep, sell or pass to family, and box up the small personal bits that turn up in the back of drawers. You end up with an empty, broom-clean house and one fair price for the lot, rather than a stack of separate collections to chase.
End-of-tenancy and probate clearances handled properly
Most of the house clearances we do in Chippenham fall into two camps. The first is end-of-tenancy: landlords and letting agents around Lowden, the station terraces and the Cepen Park rentals needing a property stripped and broom-clean before check-out or the next tenant, often to a tight deadline. The second is probate and downsizing, where a family home in Pewsham, Monkton Park or Hardenhuish has to be cleared after a bereavement or a move into care. We handle those quietly and at your pace, work directly with solicitors, executors and agents where that is easier, and are happy to sort keys through an agent if you cannot be there yourself.
What we take and the few things we can't
In a normal Chippenham house clearance we take almost everything: sofas, beds, wardrobes and other furniture, fridges, freezers, washing machines and cookers, carpets and underlay, mattresses, bagged clothing and general household clutter, plus whatever has built up in the loft, shed and garage. The main exceptions are paint tins and similar hazardous waste, which we are not licensed to carry. If a garage has old paint, chemicals, gas bottles or asbestos sheeting in it, flag it when you ring so we can point you the right way and price the rest accurately. If you are unsure about a specific item, a quick call to 07742 791139 settles it before the day.
How volume pricing beats a skip for a whole house
House clearances are priced by volume, exactly like skip hire, but with no VAT and all the loading done for you. That matters more on a full house than on a single collection: a whole property usually fills several skips' worth, and hiring skips of that size means a permit for the terraced streets near the town centre, days of it sat outside, and every stick of furniture carried out and loaded by hand yourself. We bring the Luton box van, our team does the lifting from every room, and it leaves with us. As a rough guide clearances start from around £150 for a part job and scale with how much there is; the fixed price is always confirmed on arrival before any work starts.
Parking and access on Chippenham's older streets and flats
Access shapes how a clearance runs, so it helps to mention it when you book. The Victorian terraces around Lowden, New Road and the streets near Chippenham station rarely have a driveway, so we work from on-street parking and carry out with a sack truck. Upstairs flats and maisonettes, common around the town centre and off the Bath Road, mean stairs and tight landings, which we plan for rather than get caught out by. The newer Cepen Park and Pewsham estates are more van-friendly, though bin-collection days and narrow closes can be tight. Nothing here is a problem when we know in advance.
Licensed disposal, recycling and your waste transfer note
Everything cleared from your Chippenham property leaves with a registered upper-tier waste carrier, licence CBDU445737, and is taken to licensed transfer and recycling points such as licensed transfer and recycling points in the area. We re-use and recycle whatever we can, usable furniture and working appliances are kept out of landfill where possible, and we never fly-tip. For landlords, executors and anyone who needs a paper trail we provide a proper waste transfer note recording what was taken and where it went, which is your evidence the contents were disposed of legally and responsibly.
