House clearance in Malahide

Downsizing from a Malahide family home

If you're leaving a family house in Malahide for an apartment or somewhere smaller, the clear-out normally happens in two parts. First, the things you're keeping go with your removal company or into family cars. Then we come in and clear what's left: the spare beds, the dining suite that won't fit the new place, the attic, the garage and the shed.

A few things make that second part go smoothly:

• Book us after the removal van, not before. The same afternoon or the next morning works well, and there's no confusion about what stays.
• Mark anything that isn't going. Coloured tape or sticky notes on furniture is plenty, or walk through it with us on the day.
• Settle family pieces first. If children or grandchildren want furniture, it helps to have it collected before the crew arrives.
• Tell us the closing date. If the sale has a deadline, we'll plan the clearance back from it.

Period terraces, big gardens and marina apartments

Malahide's housing is more varied than the village suggests. Near the village and along the coast there are Victorian and Edwardian terraces and older detached houses, with tall rooms, steep stairs and heavy furniture to match. Further out are mid-century detached houses on generous plots and family estates built from the 1970s onward, most of them with a garage or a big shed. In and around the village and the marina there are apartment blocks, which bring lifts, stairwells and management companies into the plan.

Bigger plots usually mean more to clear outside: sheds, greenhouses, garden furniture and years of green waste. We take all of it, and the shed itself if it needs to go; the details are on our shed clearance and garage clear-out pages.

Parking and access around the village

Parking in and around Malahide village is busy and often paid or time-limited, so on those streets we plan the loading carefully and keep the van outside for as short a time as we can. Houses with a driveway are straightforward.

For an apartment, check two things with your management company before the day: whether the lift can be booked or protected, and where a van can stop. Lifts, stairwells and set-down areas are covered in more depth on our apartment clearance page and in the apartment clearance guide.

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Things worth a second look

Houses that have been lived in for a long time hold things nobody remembers putting away: deeds and old bank books in a bureau, photographs in a suitcase under the bed, a ring in a coat pocket. We open every drawer and box as we go and hand over anything that looks personal or important.

When the clearance follows a death, we keep the pace gentle and can work in stages while the family sorts through things. Our bereavement house clearance service and our guide for executors and families explain how it works, including where probate fits in.

The attic, and everything up there

In a house that raised a family, the attic is where the years end up: school books, cots and high chairs, Christmas decorations, suitcases, boxes that were never unpacked after the last move. Clearing it is often the slowest part of the job, simply because everything comes down a ladder by hand. We stay on the boarded sections and joists, and we leave the insulation where it is. Our attic clearance page explains the rest.

If a relative's whole house has become hard to move around in, that's a different kind of job and needs a gentler pace. Our hoarder clearance service is discreet and works with the person, not around them.

Your price, and where it all goes

Send photos of every room and outbuilding, plus a note about parking and stairs. We'll come back with one fixed price that covers the crew, the van, the sorting and the disposal. It's based on how much there is, how easy it is to get out, anything that needs separate disposal (fridges, freezers, mattresses, paint), and how long the job will take.

Everything is sorted on the way out. Reusable furniture and household items are set aside, metals and electricals are recycled, and the remainder goes to licensed facilities. For more on how we work across the county, see house clearance in Dublin.