Clearing homes in Blanchardstown
Blanchardstown grew in waves, and you can read the decade off the house. Corduff, Mulhuddart and Blakestown went up in the 1970s and 80s, mostly terraced and semi-detached with a long back garden and a shed. Castaheany, Ongar, Tyrrelstown and Hartstown came later, with integrated garages, tighter cul-de-sacs and, around Ongar village and Tyrrelstown, a large stock of apartments.
Clonsilla and Coolmine sit in between, with their stations on the Maynooth line and a mix of older bungalows and 1980s estates. Add Connolly Hospital and the TU Dublin campus and you have a lot of rented homes changing hands every year, which is where many of our calls come from.
The N3 and M50 meet here, so getting a van in and out is quick at most hours. The exception is the roads around Blanchardstown Centre at the weekend, which we plan around.
What we clear in Blanchardstown
- Full family homes in the older estates, often lived in by the same family since the houses were new, with forty years of belongings spread across the attic, the box room and the shed.
- Apartments in Ongar, Tyrrelstown and the blocks near the Centre: sofas, beds, white goods and whatever an outgoing tenant left. Our apartment clearance page explains how we handle lifts, car parks and management companies.
- Garages used as storage rather than for a car, which describes nearly every integrated garage in Castaheany and Ongar.
- Bereavement clearances, done at the pace the family sets. We put photographs, paperwork and anything that looks personal to one side before the van is loaded.
- Single items: a fridge freezer, a wardrobe, a broken trampoline, a mattress that will not fit in the car.
If you are a landlord turning around a rental between tenants, this landlord guide to end-of-tenancy clearance covers what you can and cannot dispose of.
We also clear small offices and retail units around Blanchardstown Centre and the business parks off the N3, usually outside trading hours so neighbouring units are not disturbed. Our office clearance page covers desks, filing cabinets and IT equipment.
Access, parking and the practical bits
Most houses in Blanchardstown have a driveway or kerbside parking directly outside, so the van is usually at the front door and the job moves quickly. Corduff and Mulhuddart have a lot of corner houses and open-plan front gardens, so there is usually room to pull right up; on the terraced rows the van sits on the road with hazards on and we carry across the green. The newer cul-de-sacs in Ongar and Castaheany can be tight for a long van, so tell us if your road is one of those and we will park at the entrance and carry the extra few metres.
Apartments need a bit more planning. We ask about the lift, whether there is a visitor space or loading bay, and whether the management company wants notice. Once those three questions are answered, the Tyrrelstown and Ongar blocks are straightforward.
Attics in these houses are almost always a pull-down ladder on the landing, which is quick to work from. Sheds and side passages are fine too; we bring everything out through the side gate rather than the house where we can.
Why people in Blanchardstown call us
The usual reasons are a sale, a move, a parent’s house to clear, or a tenant who has left more than they took. In each case the question is the same: how do I get all of this out of here without hiring a skip and loading it myself? A two-person crew and a van does the loading, and because we are a permitted waste collector, you know where it ends up.
Usable furniture is set aside for reuse or donation, metals and cardboard are separated, and the rest goes to a licensed transfer station. Our post on what happens to items after a house clearance goes through this in more detail. With the N3 and M50 on the doorstep, a loaded van is quickly at a transfer station and back, which keeps a two-load house on schedule.
We cover the rest of Dublin 15 as well, including Castleknock and across the river in Lucan, and Phibsborough on the way back into town.
