Clearing homes, flats and storage units in Dún Laoghaire
Dún Laoghaire built up fast in the nineteenth century once the harbour and the railway arrived, and the Victorian squares and terraces from that boom are still the heart of the town: Clarinda Park, Crosthwaite Park, Royal Terrace and the roads around the People’s Park. These are tall houses, three or four storeys with basements, and a good number were divided into flats long ago.
Along George’s Street, around the Pavilion and down by the harbour there are modern apartment blocks, many of them bought as a first home or an investment and now changing hands. On the edges of the town, towards Monkstown, Glasthule and Sallynoggin, the housing is more mixed, with mid-century semi-ds and council-built estates.
County Hall on Marine Road and the old ferry terminal mark the civic end of town, and the roads behind them, Tivoli Road and the streets climbing towards Glenageary, mix Victorian villas with mid-century family houses.
The town is also where a lot of south Dublin keeps its overflow. Self-storage facilities in the surrounding parts of south Dublin hold a lot of Dún Laoghaire households’ overflow, and a unit that has quietly cost money for years is a job we are glad to take on.
What we clear in Dún Laoghaire
- Apartments on George’s Street, at the Pavilion and in the blocks near the harbour, cleared between tenants or after a sale. See apartment clearance.
- Victorian houses and the flats inside them on the squares and terraces, where everything comes down several flights of stairs by hand.
- Storage units at the self-storage facilities around the town, often full of a parent’s furniture that was put away after a bereavement and never collected. Our storage unit clearance page explains how we work with the facility.
- Bereavement clearances in long-held family homes, done at the family’s pace.
- Offices and shop units on George’s Street and around the Bloomfield and Dún Laoghaire shopping centres when a business moves or closes.
- Single items: a sofa, a bed, a wardrobe or a washing machine that needs to go before a new one arrives.
Access, parking and the practical bits
Pay parking covers almost all of Dún Laoghaire, from the seafront to the back streets, and the narrow streets behind George’s Street take some knowing. We plan a loading spot before we arrive, pay for the van where we have to and build the time into the quote rather than adding it on afterwards.
The Victorian squares have front steps up to the hall door and a separate basement entrance down a flight of steps, so a top-floor flat is a lot of stairs and a basement flat is a tight turn with a sofa. The modern apartment blocks are easier once the lift is booked and the management company has told us which hours they allow.
For storage units, the facility usually needs the account holder to authorise us or meet us there. Bring the key or code, and we do the rest.
The seafront and the piers are busy on any fine day, and the Sunday market in the People’s Park fills the surrounding streets, so we keep weekend jobs here to Saturday mornings and avoid the seafront roads where we can.
Why people in Dún Laoghaire call us
A lot of Dún Laoghaire enquiries are about a flat or house that has been rented for years and is finally being sold, or about a storage unit that has become a monthly bill nobody wants to think about. The other main group is families clearing a parent’s home in one of the older houses, which is slower and more personal work.
We are a fully insured Dublin crew and an authorised waste carrier under permit NWCPO-25-13287-01. Anything usable is set aside for reuse or donation, recyclables are separated and the rest goes to a licensed transfer station. There is a clear explanation of what a waste collection permit means and why it matters when you hire a van.
From Dún Laoghaire we work along the coast to Dalkey and Killiney on one side and Blackrock on the other, so Monkstown, Glasthule and Sandycove are all covered too.
