Clearing homes in Drimnagh
Drimnagh is one of the big Dublin Corporation schemes of the 1930s and 40s, built between the Grand Canal and Crumlin on roads that take their names from Irish mountains: Mourne, Galtymore, Slievenamon, Benbulbin, Errigal and Comeragh. The houses are two- and three-bed terraces with a small front garden, a hall that opens straight onto the stairs, and a back garden long enough for a shed, a vegetable patch and often a second shed behind the first.
Many of these houses have had one or two owners in their whole life. When they finally come to be cleared, it is because a parent has died or gone into care, or because a young family has bought in and wants to strip the place back before renovating. Either way it is the full contents of a long life, and the box room and the shed are always fuller than anyone expects.
That is the sort of job we are set up for: two people, a box van, and a quote based on the photos you send on WhatsApp. You do not need to sort or bag anything first. Just put aside what you want to keep and we deal with the rest.
What we clear in Drimnagh
- Whole-house clearances of long-occupied terraces: beds, wardrobes, the three-piece suite, the contents of the hot press and the box room, carpets and underlay.
- Bereavement clearances, worked at whatever pace the family can manage. Our bereavement clearance page explains how we set personal items aside before anything is loaded.
- Sheds and back gardens, including the second shed behind the first. See our shed clearance service for what usually comes out of them.
- Pre-renovation strip-outs for new buyers: old kitchen units, bathroom suites, built-in wardrobes, lino and whatever the previous owner left behind.
- Single bulky items along the Long Mile Road and around Drimnagh Castle: a sofa, a fridge freezer, a broken bed base, a wardrobe that will not come down the stairs in one piece.
If you are an executor and unsure whether the house can be cleared yet, this guide on clearing a house before probate sets out the usual position plainly.
Access, parking and the practical bits
Parking in Drimnagh is on the street, and most roads have cars on both sides by evening, so we work mornings where we can and park with the hazards on directly outside. End-of-terrace houses have a side passage and that is the route we use for the shed and garden; in a mid-terrace everything comes through the front hall, so we lay down covers and keep the path clear.
The stairs in a Corporation house are narrow with a tight turn at the top. Beds and wardrobes come apart on the landing before they come down, and the attic hatch over the landing is small, so attic contents are passed down in bags and boxes rather than carried whole.
Davitt Road and the roads around the Drimnagh and Goldenbridge Luas stops are busy at rush hour, and the Long Mile Road is slow for most of the day. None of it stops us; it just decides what time we arrive.
Why people in Drimnagh call us
The usual alternative is a skip, and in Drimnagh a skip is awkward: it needs a council permit to sit on the road, it takes a neighbour’s parking space, and you still have to carry eighty years of belongings out to it yourself. Two people and a van do the lifting, and the road is clear again as soon as the last load is on.
What we take is sorted rather than tipped. Furniture and household goods in usable condition are kept aside for reuse or donation, metal, cardboard and electrical goods are separated for recycling, and the remainder goes to a licensed waste transfer station under our waste collection permit. We sweep the rooms before we go. Our post on what happens to items after a house clearance goes into the detail.
Many Drimnagh clearances are arranged by a son or daughter who lives on the other side of the city or abroad, and we are happy to work from photos, a phone call and a neighbour with a key, sending pictures as the rooms empty if that helps.
Drimnagh runs into Crumlin on one side and Walkinstown on the other, with Inchicore across the canal. We cover all of Dublin 12 as one Dublin-based crew, so a clearance that involves two houses in the same family is one booking, not two.
