House clearance in Wick
A clearance in Wick is rarely just a house. It is a house, a garden that has got away from someone, and whatever is in the building at the bottom of it.
BS30, South Gloucestershire. Same van-load prices as everywhere we cover.
Quick area guide
Location
- Postcode
- BS30
- County
- South Gloucestershire
A typical job
- Team size
- 2 people
- Duration
- Half a day upwards
- Price from
- £50
Good to know in Wick
Wick sits out on the A420 east of Bristol, and the properties reflect it: larger plots, stone and rendered cottages, outbuildings, workshops and the kind of garden that needs machinery to keep up with. Lanes are narrow in places and some drives are long, so where the van can actually stand is worth establishing before the day rather than on it.
The outbuildings are the job
Village properties come with places to put things, and a few generations of doing exactly that. A workshop with a bench and forty years of tools. A stone store with paint, fuel and a rusted mower. A lean-to that has been holding timber since the roof was done.
None of it is difficult work, but almost none of it is household waste either. Fuel, oils, chemicals and gas canisters all have to be separated out, and the timber and metal are worth more sorted than mixed. That is why a property like this gets looked at before it gets a number.
Access, weight and the two things to tell us
First, the approach: the lane, the gate, the drive surface and where a van can stand without blocking anyone. Out here that can be a hundred metres from the back door, and every load is walked.
Second, the mix. House contents, green waste and rubble are three different loads. The van fills by volume on the first two and by weight on the third, and knowing which you have is the difference between a quote that holds and one that gets revised.
What people in Wick ask us
We have outbuildings as well as the house. Is that the same job?
Same visit, bigger load. A workshop, a stable, a lean-to or an old garage typically holds tools, timber, fuel, paint and machinery, which is a different kind of weight from household furniture and needs declaring separately. It is normally quoted after a look, because describing a barn over the phone rarely matches what is in it.
Can a van get down the lane and onto the drive?
Usually, but tell us what we are dealing with — a narrow lane with passing places, a gravel drive that softens in the wet, a gate with a stone post either side. We would rather bring the right vehicle than find out at the entrance.
Can you take garden waste and house contents together?
Yes, and out here the two usually come together. Bear in mind that green waste is bulky and soil or rubble is heavy: a van reaches its weight limit on hardcore long before it looks full. Say roughly what the mix is and the price will make sense from the start.
Do you charge more for coming out to a village?
No. The price is the van load, the same list as everywhere else we cover. What does change the figure is the carrying — a long drive walked repeatedly is real time — so describe the distance from the van to the door and it goes in the quote.
Clearing a property in Wick?
Tell us the postcode and roughly what is there. A guide price takes about a minute, with no obligation.
