Clearing houses and flats in Drumcondra
Drumcondra was built out in the late 1800s and early 1900s as the city pushed north across the Tolka. The result is street after street of redbrick. There are tall three-storey houses on Drumcondra Road and Botanic Avenue, the handsome Edwardian terraces of Iona Road and Iona Park, and smaller two-storey terraces on Hollybank Road, Clonliffe Road and around Richmond Road. Griffith Avenue to the north brings in 1920s and 30s semis with proper gardens.
A great many of these houses were divided into flats long ago. With DCU’s campuses on Drumcondra Road and Grace Park Road, and the main campus a short bus ride away in Glasnevin, the area carries a heavy student and rental population, and the railway station on Drumcondra Road Lower and the bus corridor into town keep it that way.
That mix is what we clear. It might be a single flat, a whole converted house, or a family home on Iona Road that has had one owner since the 1950s.
What we take away in Drumcondra
- End-of-tenancy and end-of-year clear outs for landlords and letting agents, meaning beds, mattresses, desks, broken furniture and whatever the last occupants left. See apartment clearance for how we handle flats and bedsits.
- Full house clearances when a redbrick comes out of long family ownership and goes on the market.
- Bereavement clearances, done quietly and in the order the family wants.
- Bulky single items such as a sofa, a wardrobe or a washing machine that will not fit in a car for the recycling centre. See furniture removal.
- Attics and returns, which in the Iona houses hold a century of boxes.
Landlords turning over several units at once may find this landlord guide to end-of-tenancy clearance useful before they book.
Parking, match days and the practical bits
Parking is the thing everyone asks about. Drumcondra Road is a bus corridor with clearway hours, and the side roads are almost all residents’ permit or pay-and-display. The van parks outside the house with the hazards on, we load as quickly as we can, and if there is a rear lane we use it. Holding a space outside with your own car and moving it when we arrive is the single most helpful thing you can do.
Croke Park changes everything on a match or concert day. Clonliffe Road, Jones’s Road and the streets around the stadium close to traffic, and the parking restrictions start early. We check the fixtures with you before fixing a date for any address near the ground.
Inside, the converted houses are tall with narrow return stairs. We carry everything down by hand, keep shared hallways clear and let other tenants pass. If the electricity has been cut off in an empty flat, tell us so we can plan the timing for daylight.
Student lets empty in a rush at the end of the college year and again before the new one starts, and landlords with several houses often want them all turned around in the same fortnight. Tell us early and we will fit the dates around the changeover.
Why landlords and families in Drumcondra call us
Landlords call because a flat between tenants is dead money, and a two-person crew can have it empty in a single visit without a skip sitting on a permit-parking street. Families call because clearing a three-storey redbrick is more than a weekend with a borrowed van, and because they want to know that what can be reused or recycled will be, with the rest going to a licensed transfer station. Our guide to what happens to items after a house clearance explains the sorting.
We carry full insurance and a current Waste Collection Permit, and we will show you both if you ask. We also work the roads either side of Drumcondra, so a job that spans here and Phibsborough, Marino or the city centre is no bother. The North Dublin page covers everything else north of the Liffey.
