Clearing homes in Balbriggan
Old Balbriggan is a harbour town. The pier and the small lighthouse, the Front Strand and Bremore Castle sit at the sea end; Main Street, Bridge Street, Drogheda Street and Dublin Street run back from it; and the railway viaduct carries the Belfast line past the harbour beside the station. The hosiery mills that made the town’s name are long closed, but the Victorian terraces around the station, Hampton Street and Clonard Street are still there, with narrow frontages, long back yards and no driveways.
Then there is the Balbriggan of the last twenty-five years. Castlelands, Hampton, Stephenstown, Flemington, Moylaragh and the schemes along the Skerries Road and the Naul Road were built through the 2000s and since, mostly three- and four-bed semis and detached houses with driveways, plus duplexes and apartment blocks nearer the centre and the station. It is a young town with a lot of people who bought their first home here, and those homes change hands more often than the old terraces.
For us that means two kinds of job: a modern estate house or apartment being emptied for a sale, a move or a new tenant, and now and again an older house in the town being cleared after a long life.
What we clear in Balbriggan
- Estate homes in Castlelands, Hampton, Flemington and Stephenstown being cleared for a sale or a move, often including the garage and the attic. Our house clearance page explains how a job runs.
- Apartments and duplexes near the station and the town centre between tenants. See our apartment clearance page.
- Garages and attics full of buggies, bikes, flat-pack boxes and the overflow of a growing family. See garage clearance.
- Older terraces near the harbour and the station, cleared in full after a death or a move into care.
- Bulky single items: sofas, beds, wardrobes, a fridge freezer, a broken washing machine.
Items in usable condition are kept back for reuse or donation where we can arrange it, recyclables are separated, and the rest is taken under our Waste Collection Permit to a licensed waste transfer station. Rubble, soil and bulk garden waste are not part of a standard load, so ask us first.
Driveways, the old town and the M1
Access in the new estates is simple: driveway, side gate, van reversed to the door. The cul-de-sacs are tight for turning but fine for a box van, and the estate roads are wide. Apartment blocks near the station usually have a set-down area; the underground car parks tend to have height barriers that rule the van out, so tell us the block and we will plan around it.
The old town is different. The terraces around the station, Hampton Street and Clonard Street have no off-street parking and the streets are narrow, so we work from the kerb with the hazards on, or from a rear lane where there is one, and we start early to beat the traffic through Dublin Street and Bridge Street.
From our Dublin base the run is straight up the M1, about as direct a drive as the county offers, and the time is included in the price. Where we can, we group Balbriggan with jobs in Skerries, Rush or Lusk, which keeps the quote keen.
Why people in Balbriggan call us
Most Balbriggan jobs are tied to a move or a letting. Someone has sold a house in Castlelands and the buyers want the garage empty by Friday; a landlord in Flemington has had tenants leave with half the furniture still in the house; a family that has traded up within the town needs the old place cleared after the removal van has gone. We fit those around the dates that matter.
For the older houses the story is the one we hear all over Dublin: a parent has died, the family lives elsewhere, and somebody has to get the house emptied. We do that gently and in the order the family wants. Our guide to what a house clearance service removes is a good starting point if you are unsure what to expect.
If you let property in the town, this landlord guide to end-of-tenancy clearance sets out what to do between one tenant and the next.
We are fully insured, we hold a current Waste Collection Permit, and we cover the whole of north Fingal from here, including Skerries along the coast, Rush and Lusk to the south, and Swords on the way back down the M1.
