Clearing homes in Harold’s Cross
Harold’s Cross is wedged between the Grand Canal and Terenure, with Harold’s Cross Park in the middle and the long wall of Mount Jerome cemetery along one side. The housing is older and smaller than in Rathmines next door: single-storey cottages and two-up two-down terraces on roads like Clareville Road, Leinster Road West and the streets off Harold’s Cross Road, with a scattering of larger redbricks towards Kenilworth and some newer apartments near Mount Argus and the canal.
A lot of these houses have been in the same family since they were built, and a lot of the rest have been let as flats and bedsits for decades. Both kinds get cleared in the same way: by hand, through a narrow hall, into a van parked on the road.
That is the job we are built for. Two people, a box van and no expectation that you have sorted anything in advance. You keep what you want to keep and we take the rest.
What we clear in Harold’s Cross
- Whole cottages and terraces when a long-time owner dies or moves into care and the family needs the house emptied for sale.
- Flats and bedsits in the converted houses, for landlords and letting agents turning a property around between tenancies.
- Bereavement clearances of long-held family homes, with no pressure on the family to decide quickly. Our bereavement clearance page explains what we set aside and how we work with executors.
- Single bulky items that will not fit down a Harold’s Cross stairs in one piece: a wardrobe, a double bed, an old sofa, a washing machine.
- Renovation clear-outs for buyers who are taking a cottage back to the brick: old kitchens, bathroom suites, carpets, fitted presses.
- Small sheds and yards behind the terraces, which often hold the previous owner’s tools and a decade of garden bits.
If you are a landlord handing a flat back between tenants, this end-of-tenancy clearance guide for landlords covers the legal and practical side.
Access, parking and the practical bits
The practical reality of Harold’s Cross is the hallway. Most of the terraces have a hall that is barely wider than the front door, a stairs that turns at the top and a return at the back that was added later. Large furniture comes apart upstairs, mattresses are bagged and carried on their side, and anything delivered through a window may have to leave the same way.
Parking is residents’ permit on most side roads and there is a bus lane and clearway on Harold’s Cross Road itself. We park outside the house with hazards on for a short job, use the nearest side street for a longer one, and time anything on the main road around the restricted hours. Cottages with a lane or a yard at the back are quicker, because we can load from there.
The one other thing to flag is Mount Jerome. Funerals mean traffic along Harold’s Cross Road at certain times of the morning, and we plan our arrival around it.
Why people in Harold’s Cross call us
There is no room for a skip on a Harold’s Cross terrace without a permit and the loss of a neighbour’s parking space, and most of what comes out of a small house is furniture rather than skip waste anyway. A two-person crew that carries everything out, separates what can be reused or recycled from what goes to a licensed transfer station, and sweeps the rooms before leaving suits these houses far better. Our comparison of house clearance versus skip hire goes through the trade-offs.
The other reason is scale. Bigger waste companies do not want a one-bed flat or a two-room cottage; we do, and we price it as the small job it is.
We work the whole stretch from the canal out to Kimmage and Terenure, and across to Rathmines and Crumlin either side. A tenant moving from a flat in Harold’s Cross to one in Terenure can have both ends dealt with in a single visit.
