Clearing flats, houses and offices in the city centre
Dublin 1, 2, 7 and 8 cover almost every kind of property there is. On the north side there are the Georgian houses of Mountjoy Square, North Great George’s Street and the Gardiner Street area, most long since divided into flats and bedsits, and the artisan terraces of Stoneybatter around Oxmantown Road and Manor Street. South of the river there are the Georgian squares around Fitzwilliam and Merrion, which are more likely to be offices, and the cottages and artisan dwellings of the Liberties off Thomas Street, Meath Street and Cork Street.
Then there are the apartments. Smithfield, the Docklands on both sides of the Liffey and the blocks along the quays and the canal have been built or converted over the past thirty years, and they turn over quickly between tenants and owners.
Every one of those property types has a different access problem, and the access problem is usually the whole job. We know which ones, because loading a van on a city-centre street is a regular part of our work.
What we clear in Dublin city centre
- Flats and bedsits in converted Georgian houses, for landlords between tenancies and for families clearing a relative’s home.
- Apartments in Smithfield, the Docklands and along the quays, with the lift booking and concierge arrangements handled. Our apartment clearance page covers the routine.
- Cottages and terraces in the Liberties and Stoneybatter, often cleared for the first time in generations before a sale or renovation.
- Offices on Georgian floors and in smaller commercial buildings: desks, chairs, filing cabinets, meeting tables, IT equipment. See office clearance in Dublin.
- Bereavement clearances, worked at the family’s pace and with personal items set aside.
- Single bulky items that a tenant cannot get down four flights of stairs: a sofa, a wardrobe, a fridge, a mattress.
For landlords working to a strict handover date, this end-of-tenancy clearance guide for landlords covers the legal side alongside the practical.
Access, parking and the practical bits
This is the section that matters in town. Most city-centre streets are some combination of bus lane, clearway, loading bay with time limits, pay-and-display and residents’ permit parking, and some are pedestrianised for part or all of the day. We check the street before quoting, use the loading bay within its hours, and where the nearest legal stop is a distance from the door we allow for the carry in the price.
Converted Georgian houses have no lift and a staircase that gets narrower on each floor, so a top-floor flat is carried down by hand, with large pieces taken apart first. We keep the shared hall and stairs clear for other residents and finish with a sweep.
Apartment blocks need a lift booking, a registered van and usually a concierge or management company sign-off, and we arrange all of that with your permission. Liberties cottages and Stoneybatter terraces are small and on narrow streets, so the van stops outside with hazards on for a short, well-organised load.
Why people in the city centre call us
There is no skip option in the city centre worth having. A skip on a public road needs a council permit and a space that does not exist, and most of what comes out of a flat is furniture rather than skip waste. A two-person crew that climbs the stairs, loads in the permitted window, separates what can be reused or recycled from what goes to a licensed transfer station and leaves the place swept is the only practical route, and it is how we work in town.
Landlords and letting agents in Dublin 1 and Dublin 8 are a large part of our city work, and they come back because we turn up in the booked slot, deal with the concierge ourselves, and send photos when the flat is done. Our guide to what a house clearance service removes sets out what goes in the van and what we need to be asked about first.
We reach the city from our Dublin base, and we cover the inner suburbs either side: Phibsborough and Drumcondra to the north, Rathmines and Portobello to the south, and Ballsbridge out along the canal.
