Clearing homes across Finglas
Finglas was a village on the road to Ashbourne until the city reached it after the war, and the ruins of the old St Canice’s church still stand at the top of the village. Around that core Dublin Corporation built some of its largest estates: Finglas West along Cardiffsbridge Road and Seamus Ennis Road, Finglas South towards Tolka Valley, and Finglas East on the Glasnevin side around Ballygall. Mellowes Road, McKee Avenue and Jamestown Road are the spines, and Cappagh Road runs out past the orthopaedic hospital towards the M50.
The newest Finglas is at Charlestown on St Margaret’s Road, where apartments and houses went up beside the shopping centre in the 2000s. Most of the stock, though, is the two-storey terraces and semis of the 1950s to 70s, with a front garden that may or may not have become a driveway, a back garden and a shed.
A great many of these were council houses later bought out by the tenants, and plenty still are council tenancies. Either way, they have been lived in hard and for a long time, and clearing one is a day’s proper work.
What we take away in Finglas
- Whole houses being handed back to the council, sold after a death or cleared for a new tenancy. Our main house clearance page runs through a typical job.
- Houses that have been let go, with rubbish built up around the furniture. Our hoarder clearance page covers how we tackle the heavier ones.
- Sheds, side passages and back gardens full of bikes, timber, old garden furniture and tools.
- Single heavy items that will not fit in a car, such as a sofa, a wardrobe, a fridge-freezer or a cooker.
- Carpets, curtains and loose fittings where a landlord or the council wants the house stripped back.
Reusable items go for reuse or donation where there is a taker, recyclables are separated, and the remainder goes to a licensed waste transfer station. If the job is mostly rubble or garden waste rather than household contents, a skip or a dedicated garden waste clearance service is the better fit, and we will say so rather than quote for the wrong thing.
Street parking, narrow roads and the M50
The older estates were built before every house had a car, so parking is on the street and the roads can be tight with cars on both sides. The box van copes, in the same way the bin lorry does, and we keep the loading moving so nobody is blocked in for long. Where a front garden has been paved for parking we use it.
Charlestown and the newer developments are the opposite, with apartment blocks, management companies, lifts to book and loading bays at the back. Tell us which kind of property it is and we plan accordingly.
Getting to Finglas is quick for a Dublin-based crew. We come round the M50 and leave at the Finglas junction, which puts us on the N2 and into the estates within minutes, so a morning start is no trouble.
Why Finglas households call us
People ring us from Finglas because a skip is awkward on a road with no driveway, because the recycling centre means a dozen trips in a borrowed car, and because a council handback or a sale has a date on it. A two-person crew and a van clears the house in a visit, sorts as it goes and leaves nothing on the road.
Our guide to what happens to items after a house clearance explains the sorting honestly, and our note on how to prepare for a house clearance covers the few things to do beforehand, chiefly setting aside anything you want to keep.
We hold a current Waste Collection Permit from the National Waste Collection Permit Office and carry full insurance. Finglas borders Glasnevin along Ballygall, Ballymun to the east and Cabra down the Ratoath Road, and we cover all of them.
