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Harbour terrace, bungalow or holiday house?
Tell us which of the three yours is and we can already picture most of the day. Skerries has all of them. Close to the harbour and the main street are older terraces and town houses, some on two or three floors with steep stairs. On the roads out of town, towards Rush, Loughshinny and Balbriggan, there are bungalows and dormers on decent plots. And all over the town are houses bought as holiday or retirement homes by Dublin families, some of them in the same hands for generations.
Newer estates on the edges of the town make a fourth type, much like what you'd find in Swords or Balbriggan.
A bungalow, step by step
Bungalows are common around Skerries, and they're often cleared when the owner has moved into care or passed away. Everything is on one floor, which helps, but a bungalow holds more than people expect. A typical day runs like this:
- A walk-round with you, marking what stays, what goes to family and what you're not sure about.
- Bedrooms first, with wardrobes and drawers checked as we go and papers and photos handed to you.
- Living rooms and kitchen, with bulky furniture taken apart where it needs to be.
- The roof space, if there is one. In a dormer, it may be a proper room with storage behind the eaves. See attic clearance.
- The shed, the garage and the side passage, where the sea air has usually got to the bikes and the barbecue. See shed clearance and garage clear-outs.
- A final sweep of every room before we hand back the keys.
A three-bed bungalow is usually a day, sometimes a day and a half if the garage is full.
Second homes and holiday houses
A holiday house is its own kind of clearance. It's often furnished for a crowd: bunk beds, spare mattresses, folding chairs, drawers of beach towels and enough delph for ten. It may have been closed up for a while, with the family living in the city, elsewhere in Ireland or abroad.
That's easy to manage from a distance. Send photos, or ask a neighbour to, agree the price on WhatsApp, and leave the keys with someone local. We'll send photos of the cleared rooms afterwards. If the house is being sold, the carpets can be cleaned once it's empty, ready for viewings.
Clearing a house in Skerries? Send photos of the rooms, the shed and the garden on WhatsApp, with a note on parking. We'll reply with a fixed price, usually the same day.
Terraces in the town
The older houses near the harbour are tall and narrow compared with the bungalows, often with a steep stairs, a return and a small yard or garden at the back. Furniture that went up those stairs decades ago may need to come down in pieces, so we bring the tools to take wardrobes and beds apart in the room. Stair carpets and hall floors get covers before anything moves.
Parking on the town streets is on the road, and spaces near the harbour go quickly. We stage the contents of each room in the hall, then load in short runs so the van isn't sitting outside for long.
Picking your day
Skerries gets busy on fine summer weekends, especially around the harbour and the South Strand. If your house is in that part of town, a weekday or an off-season date makes parking and loading far easier, and the neighbours will thank you for it. Out on the estate roads and the bungalow roads it rarely matters. We work Monday to Saturday, 8am to 8pm.
Family homes, cleared with care
Many Skerries clearances follow a death, often of a parent who retired to the seaside or never left it. We work at the family's pace, can clear one room at a time, and ask before anything you might want goes in a bag; our bereavement clearance page explains our approach. For a home that has become very full over the years, see hoarder clearance. Flats and apartments in the town are covered by apartment clearance.
What you pay, and where it goes
Before anything is booked, you'll have a fixed figure based on your photos. It accounts for the volume, the carry from the door to the van, and anything that needs its own disposal, such as fridges, mattresses and electricals. Gas bottles and old chemicals in the shed can't come with us; we'll say so up front and point you to someone who can take them.
Spotless is fully insured on every job and carries waste under permit NWCPO-25-13287-01 as an authorised waste carrier. Beds, linen, furniture and kitchenware with use left in them are kept for reuse where possible; metal and electricals are recycled; the remainder goes to licensed facilities.
The main house clearance page explains the full service, house clearance in Dublin covers the rest of the county, and there's a separate page for Balbriggan, up the coast.
