Clearing homes and flats around Fairview
Fairview grew along the old shore road in the 1800s, and Fairview Park itself was made in the 1920s by filling in the mudflats where the Tolka met the bay. North of the Strand, Philipsburgh Avenue climbs towards Griffith Avenue, and the roads off it, Fairview Avenue, Windsor Avenue, Melrose Avenue and their neighbours, are lined with two-storey Victorian and Edwardian redbricks, many with a return at the back and some with an attic room added since. Along Fairview Strand and Marino Mart there are flats above the shops, and a few apartment blocks sit near the DART station at the Clontarf end of the park.
Marino, with its 1920s garden suburb, lies directly to the north. Clontarf begins at the end of Marino Mart, Ballybough and Croke Park are a few minutes west along Richmond Road, and East Wall is across Annesley Bridge.
The result is a small area with a wide spread of homes and owners: long-term families on the avenues, landlords with flats on the Strand, and buyers doing up a redbrick they have just bought.
What we clear in Fairview
- Redbrick family homes on Philipsburgh Avenue and the roads off it being sold after a long ownership, cleared from attic room to coal shed. Our house clearance page runs through a typical job.
- Flats above the shops on Fairview Strand and Marino Mart between tenants. See apartment clearance.
- Bereavement clearances, at the family’s pace and with personal items checked with you first.
- Heavy single items that will not go in a car, from a Victorian wardrobe to a chest freezer. Our furniture removal page covers those.
- Attics and returns, which in these houses have been collecting boxes for a century.
Anything that can be reused goes for reuse or donation where there is a taker, recyclables are separated, and the remainder goes to a licensed waste transfer station.
Clearways, bus lanes and the Fairview junction
Fairview’s roads are its difficulty. The Strand, the Malahide Road and the Clontarf Road are all bus corridors with clearway and bus lane hours, and the junction by the park is one of the busiest on the north side.
We never plan to load on those roads in the peak. Instead we use the side streets, a lane at the back where one exists, or the quiet middle of the day.
Philipsburgh Avenue and the roads off it are residents’ permit parking, and the van sits outside with the hazards on while we load, as every delivery does. Holding a space with your own car until we arrive is the most useful thing you can do.
Inside, the redbricks are tall and the stairs are long, with a return and sometimes an attic stairs on top. We bring two people, carry by hand and work from the top down. If a flat shares a street door with the shop below, we keep it clear and fit around the shop’s hours.
Why Fairview households and landlords call us
There is nowhere in Fairview to put a skip without a permit and a fight for the space, and the furniture still has to be carried out to it. A two-person crew and a box van does the carrying, sorts reusable from recyclable from waste as it loads, and is gone when the job is done. Our house clearance versus skip hire article goes through the comparison.
Landlords with a flat to turn around call because an empty flat earns nothing and a quote from photos saves a visit. Families call because a redbrick lived in since the 1960s holds far more than one weekend and a borrowed van can shift.
We are fully insured and we hold a current Waste Collection Permit, which we will show you on request. Fairview runs into Marino up Philipsburgh Avenue, Clontarf along the Clontarf Road and Drumcondra along Richmond Road, and we cover all three.
