Rubbish and furniture out of Dublin 2 offices
Around Grafton Street, offices are tucked in everywhere: above shops, behind cafés, on the upper floors of old buildings on the side streets between Dawson Street and South William Street. Most are small, many are busy, and almost none have anywhere to put the rubbish that the regular bin collection won't take.
That's where we come in. We remove the bags, boxes and broken furniture that build up in a city-centre office: the chair with the snapped base, the printer that gave up, the cardboard from a big delivery, the filing cabinet nobody has opened in years. One-off jobs, small or large, carried down and taken away.
Offices over the shops
A typical office here is reached through a narrow door beside a shopfront, up two or three flights of steep stairs. There may be a small lift; often there isn't. That shapes how we work:
- Bags and boxes first, carried down in quick runs.
- Furniture taken apart upstairs, so desks and cupboards come down in manageable pieces.
- Stairs and walls protected in shared hallways.
- The shop below left undisturbed, with the doorway kept clear between trips.
Many of these buildings are shared, with a café or shop at street level and two or three different businesses on the floors above. We keep the common stairs passable for everyone else, don't leave bags on landings, and finish each floor before moving to the next, so the other tenants barely notice we've been.
Pedestrian streets and early loading
Grafton Street itself is pedestrianised, and so are several of the smaller streets around it. A van can't simply pull up at your door in the middle of the day. Instead, we plan for:
- An early start, inside the loading times for the street, before shoppers arrive.
- The nearest legal stop, on a side street or in a loading bay, with trolleys for the carry.
- Short, tidy runs, so nothing is left on the footpath unattended.
Loading rules vary from street to street, so tell us your exact address and we'll plan around the times that apply. If your building has its own arrangements, such as a rear lane or a set delivery slot, that makes it easier still.
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Grafton Street has its own calendar. Saturdays are busy from mid-morning, and the weeks before Christmas are the busiest of the year, with crowds that make carrying anything along a footpath slow and awkward. If the job can wait, a weekday morning outside the Christmas rush is easiest for everyone.
Offices on the streets around St Stephen's Green and Dawson Street are often in Georgian and Victorian buildings with tall ceilings, long flights of stairs and no lift. That's more carrying, but it's still a normal job; it just takes longer, and the extra time is in the fixed price rather than added on the day.
What we take away
| Rubbish | Furniture and equipment |
|---|---|
| Bags of general office waste | Broken and surplus chairs |
| Flattened cardboard and packaging | Desks, tables and pedestals |
| Old files and archive boxes, once anything confidential is shredded | Filing cabinets and cupboards |
| Dead cables, chargers and keyboards | Printers, monitors and PCs, with drives wiped or removed |
| Old promotional stock and display material | Reception sofas and stools |
Cables, screens and printers go for electrical recycling, cardboard and metal are recycled too, any furniture worth saving is put aside for reuse where possible, and the rest ends up at licensed waste facilities. Handing business waste to a permitted collector is the safe way to do it, and you can check our permit, NWCPO-25-13287-01, on the NWCPO register. We're fully insured as well.
Rubbish piling up in a Dublin 2 office? Send a photo of what's going and one of the stairs, with your street name, and we'll come back with a fixed price, usually the same day.
Small jobs are fine
Not every job is a full office. Plenty of Dublin 2 businesses just need a few bags, a couple of chairs and an old printer gone. That's fine; the price reflects what's there and how far it has to be carried. If it's a single piece of furniture, furniture removal works the same way, and for mixed household-style rubbish, see junk removal.
For larger jobs, such as clearing a whole floor before you leave a building, our office clearance in Dublin page covers city-centre clearances in more detail, and the main office clearance page explains the full service.
Before we come
A few quick things make the job smoother:
- Wipe or remove drives from any computers that are going; we don't do data destruction.
- Shred confidential paper with a specialist before we take the files.
- Check with the building about lift use, contractor sign-in and any delivery times.
- Label what's going if anything is staying in the same room.
Our office clearance guide has more on planning a bigger clear-out. And once the floor is clear, it's a good moment to have the carpet freshened up; see carpet cleaning in Dublin 2.
