A quick Berkeley House clearance guide

You need to clear a home and are preparing to hire a property clearance service? At Berkeley House Clearance we offer a range of expert advice to help you prepare for your house clearance along with a few tips to help you get the most out of your service provider. Plus, we’ll identify some of those more common pitfalls to avoid!

The role of the house clearance professional is simple. They are there to help you manage all aspects of your house clearance and help you find the easiest and most cost effective way to clear a home.

When you hire a house clearance professional they bring their expertise. A reputable service provider will quickly identify what needs to be done, and know the best way to do it. Plus they will give you lots of useful and friendly advice to help you save time and money and avoid making mistakes.

By being informed you will be able to make better decisions about a range of house clearance matters.

The best way to start a property clearance is with a professional assessment. You can get basic advice over the phone, for a more thorough assessment you need to book a home visit.

When you book a home visit a house clearance professional will visit the property, assess the situation and make their support plan. After this you will receive a no obligation quote.

Most house clearance professionals will offer a valuation and appraisal service free when they carry out a home visit. They can offer years of professional experience and an expert eye! It’s particularly beneficial to use the home visit service if the home you need to empty contains antiques and collectibles and you need an appraisal, or to get advice about recycling and the resale value of more general household items.

What should you keep and what should go? When a property needs to be emptied many decisions have to be made. If you are clearing a home following a bereavement there may be a lot of items that hold sentimental value, so the decisions become more complex and harder to manage. It’s important to give yourself time to sort though things, letting go can be difficult.

A house clearance provider can help you find sustainable ways to manage many of the things that need to go. Very often there will be items that need to remain in the home. This may include value items, things that have been earmarked for family members or anything that has been agreed as part of a house sale. Box or label anything that needs to stay in the property. Then let your service provider know that these items are not to be removed.

When you entrust a company to clear a home you want to be sure they will manage everything respectfully and legally. You also want to be sure that they remove everything that needs to be removed and can be trusted to complete the job!

Find out more about a company on their website and look at their reviews on Facebook and Google. The best way however to determine if a service provider is reputable and can offer the support you need is to call up and chat.

Having less in the home doesn’t necessarily guarantee you will get a lower quote to have a property cleared. Regulations about commercial waste disposal are complex and change all the time. The cost to remove and dispose of household items very much depends on what the item is! You may think it cost effective to recycle things yourself or even give things away. However, when you do this you may be using your time and effort to discard items that would incur a low disposal cost and leaving items that may incur a high disposal cost.

Establishing an understanding of the costs involved in disposing of household waste is a step you can take if you keen to secure a better price from your service provider.

To get tips on how to manage household items and get the best house clearance price please call and chat to Terry.

Selling those high value items can help you save money on your house clearance service, or maybe not? Whilst it’s beneficial to sell ‘value items’ it’s more important not to leave yourself with a hefty bill to remove and dispose of everything else that’s left in the home. Remember one of the highest cost a house clearance company has to pay out is their tipping charges!

A company whose only motivation is to purchase items, offers their help to remove just a few things, and yet fails to give you a clear understanding of all the costs involved in clearing the property may not have your best interest at heart.

A reputable house clearance service provider will help you find the best way to manage everything that needs to be done, not just ‘cherry pick‘ their way through those high value items!

Get a quote that covers the remove and dispose of everything you want cleared from the home. When you know exactly how much it will cost to fully complete your property clearance you are then in a better position to negotiate the sale of any higher value items.

The Environmental Agency licence gives a company their legal right to collect and manage waste. You can search the Environment Agency public register and find businesses that are registered as waste carriers here.

If a company is not registered is best to avoid! They have no legal right to manage your waste and likely to be a rogue waste operator. To find out more out more about managing household please follow the link here.

Remember the saying one man’s junk is another man’s treasure? At Berkeley House Clearance recommend customers get advice from a property clearance professional before discarding or giving away household items.

Terry: Berkeley House Clearance
Terry at El' Dorado in the Jewellery Quarter Birmingham.

Need help to prepare for a house clearance?

We can help you prepare for your house clearance and give advice about a full range of property clearance matters. We can also help you avoid some of those more common pitfalls. Please get in touch with Terry for full support.

Call 07973 620154

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