Clearing homes in the regenerated Ballymun
The Ballymun of the towers and the long flat blocks is gone. Through the 2000s and into the 2010s the regeneration programme knocked them down one by one and rebuilt the town at a human scale, with streets of two- and three-storey houses, duplexes over ground-floor units and mid-rise apartment blocks, most of them along Main Street and the Ballymun Road. A new civic centre and the Axis arts centre went up at the heart of it.
Some of the original 1960s two-storey houses from the first Ballymun scheme survive in Poppintree, Balcurris and Sillogue, and they sit beside the newer stock. IKEA and the M50 junction mark the northern end, Santry Cross and the Santry Demesne the east, and DCU and Glasnevin lie across Collins Avenue to the south.
Ownership is mixed in a way few Dublin suburbs are. Dublin City Council tenancies, tenant-purchased homes, private landlords and owner-occupiers sit on the same street, so one week we are emptying a council house for handback and the next a privately let duplex.
What we clear in Ballymun
- Apartments and duplexes at the end of a tenancy, with beds, sofas, flat-pack that will not come apart, white goods and the bags left in the hall. Our apartment clearance page covers lifts and management companies.
- Council houses being handed back, cleared to the housing officer’s list.
- Family homes in the older Poppintree and Balcurris houses, being emptied after a death or a move to care. A bereavement clearance there is done at the family’s pace, not ours.
- Single items that will not fit in a car for the recycling centre, from a mattress to a washing machine. See junk removal.
- Yards, balconies and storage lockers in the apartment blocks, which fill up quietly.
Anything usable is set aside for reuse or donation where we can place it, recyclables are separated, and what remains goes to a licensed waste transfer station.
Management companies, bays and the Ballymun Road
The regenerated streets are the easiest part of Dublin 11 to work in. They were laid out with parking bays, the roads are wide and many houses have a driveway or a space in front, so the box van sits at the door and the carry is short.
Apartment blocks need a phone call first. Most are run by a management company that wants notice, a lift booking and a loading point, often at the back by the car park.
We ask you to make that call because they know you, and we send our insurance certificate if they ask for it. A lift that is out of order does not stop a clearance; it means more trips on the stairs and a slightly longer day.
The Ballymun Road is a bus corridor with bus lanes, so for a block fronting Main Street we load from the rear or outside peak hours. From our Dublin base we reach Ballymun by the M50 and leave at the Ballymun junction, so we are in the estates a few minutes after the motorway.
Why Ballymun residents and landlords call us
Council tenants call because a handback date is fixed and a skip is not an option on an estate road. Landlords call because an empty duplex earns nothing and a quote from photos saves a journey. Families call because a parent’s house in the older part of Ballymun holds fifty years of belongings and they want it done respectfully in one visit.
We take all three on the same terms, with a two-person crew, a box van, a fixed quote from photos and a swept floor when we leave. Our guide to what a house clearance service removes sets out what goes in the van and what we ask about first.
Our Waste Collection Permit and insurance are current and we will show you both. Ballymun joins Santry at Santry Cross, Finglas to the west and Glasnevin across Collins Avenue, and we work all of them.
