House Clearance in St Helens

Before anything is lifted, we walk the property with you or the key holder and agree three piles: what the family is keeping, what can be reused and what is waste. Paperwork, photographs, keys and anything that looks valuable are set aside rather than loaded, so nothing important leaves by mistake.

St Helens Council lists TANGO, Willowbrook Hospice, the British Heart Foundation and ReStore at the Hope Centre as local options for reusable furniture. Charity shops usually need upholstered furniture to carry its fire safety label, so we tell you on the walk-round what is likely to be accepted.

Most upholstered household seating now has its own disposal rules. Under the government guidance on seating containing POPs, waste sofas, sofa beds, armchairs, dining chairs, footstools, bean bags and seat cushions must be incinerated, cannot go to landfill and should be kept separate from other waste. Mattresses, beds and curtains are not covered.

In practice that means sofas and armchairs travel apart from the general load and go to a site that can incinerate them. It is one reason a clearance with a lot of upholstered furniture costs more than the same volume of boxes and bags.

Clearing a parent's or relative's home is the hardest kind of clearance, and it does not need to be rushed. The executor decides when the house is cleared. Government guidance on probate advises executors not to put the property on the market until probate is granted, and it is sensible to agree with the family which items each person is taking before the clearance day.

We can work from a key holder if the family lives away, and we follow the executor's list of what stays. If the house is being sold after a downsize rather than a death, we can run the clearance and the house removal on the same booking.

Published 2026 price guides put a UK house clearance at roughly £250 to £450 for a one-bed flat, £350 to £700 for a two-bed home and £600 to £1,200 for a three-bed home, including VAT (Fantastic Services). The volume, the access, the number of items with separate disposal rules such as fridges and sofas, and how much can be donated all move the figure, the same factors that set our man and van prices.

Whoever you book, check they are registered to carry waste. The Environment Agency public register lists every registered waste carrier, and checking it is part of a householder's duty of care if the waste is later fly-tipped.