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Top Tips on Preparing for a House Clearance
At Hamiltons Removals, as well as helping you (or your business) move and providing self-storage facilities, we also offer house clearances in Norfolk, Suffolk and across the UK. Here are our top preparation tips to ensure everything goes smoothly.
Mark Everything Clearly
The whole clearance process is a lot simpler and quicker if everything is packed and marked up in advance. Post-It notes or sticky labels are a good way of ensuring everything ends up where it should.
You can adopt a simple three-way approach with your labelling, marking everything either ‘Keep’, ‘Bin’ or ‘Recycle’ – that way we will know what to take and what to leave behind.
Go Room by Room
It’s much simpler to do things on a room-by-room basis – only move to the next one when you are sure everything has been categorised (see above). It is usually best to start from the top and work downwards to ensure you haven’t forgotten anything. That way, once you get to the floor or carpet you know you are done. Also, if there any drops or spillages, you know you can leave the floor cleaning to the end.
In terms of rooms to start with, the kitchen may be best, in case there are any perishable foodstuffs which need to be disposed of immediately.
Don’t Forget the Larger Items….
It can be easy to overlook some of the larger items rather than smaller ones like books and CDs, but larger items of furniture can also form part of a clearance. It may help if professional clearance companies know about their history (in the case of home furnishings), as this may affect what we can do with them.
Specifically, in 2023, it became illegal for upholstered furniture (such as sofas, armchairs and sofa beds) that contains Persistent Organic Pollutants in their fire retardants to be taken to landfill or put in with general waste – they are generally incinerated. At Hamiltons Removals, we have a Waste Carriers’ Licence, so we are qualified to handle and dispose of them correctly.
…or Outside the Home
House clearances can also apply to the outside of the house as well as the inside. Here we are talking more about items in your garden shed – will they form part of the clearance as well? If there are a load of tools and garden equipment, follow the same methodical approach as you would inside the house in respect of packing and labelling.
House Clearances in Norfolk from Hamiltons Removals
At Hamiltons’ Removals, we recycle and salvage as much as possible from our house clearances, and we make donations to various charities. If you wish for certain items at the property to be donated to family members or friends, we can arrange for this to be included within our quotation.
We can carry out video surveys or visit in person to provide you with a clear written quotation. Whether you are looking for a house clearance or just decluttering services, we can help if you live in Suffolk, Norfolk or anywhere in the UK.
For more information, follow this link and fill in the form. You can also contact us at: declutter@hamiltonsremovals.co.uk or 01379 855203.
Remember, we also offer a lot of complementary services – so if you haven’t decided what to do with certain items, you can keep them at our Safe n Stored facilities at Harleston and Aldeby. In addition, we stock plenty of high-quality packing materials at our shop, which is at our Harleston site, but which you can also access online.
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