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A good part of our clearance work follows a death in the family, often for executors dealing with it at a distance and under a deadline from a solicitor or an estate agent. It is not a job anyone looks forward to. This is what actually happens, so there are no surprises.
Take your time on the first pass
Before anything is cleared, go through the property yourself if you can and take out what matters. Photographs, letters, jewellery, documents, anything of sentimental value. It is worth checking inside books, in coat pockets, in the backs of drawers and in tins and biscuit boxes, because that is where paperwork and small valuables tend to end up.
If you cannot face the whole house, do one room. We can work around whatever is left marked as staying.
Full or part clearance
A part clearance means we take specific rooms or specific items and leave the rest. A full clearance means the property is emptied. Either is fine. Many families start with a part clearance while probate is going through and finish the job later.
Tell us which it is when you book, because it changes how long the job takes and what it costs.
How we work in the house
We work room by room and we do not rush you. If you want to be there, that is fine. If you would rather not be, we can work from a list and keys, and we will call you if anything looks like it should not be going.
Anything that is clearly personal, paperwork in particular, gets set aside rather than loaded. If we find documents or photographs after you have gone through the house, they come back to you.
Cost and paperwork
Clearance is priced by volume rather than by the hour, from around £150, and there is no VAT. For an executor that matters, because it is a straight figure to put in the estate accounts with nothing added afterwards.
We provide waste transfer notes for the disposal, which is worth having on file if you are accounting to other beneficiaries. We re-use or donate what we sensibly can rather than sending everything to landfill.
Getting a price
The easiest way is a few photos of each room sent on WhatsApp, or a phone call describing the property. We cover Bath, its neighbourhoods and nearby towns, with travel costed fairly from base. Call us on 01225 690 300 and we will talk it through.
