Clearing homes in Firhouse
Firhouse grew up around the old weir on the Dodder, built in the Middle Ages to send water to the city, and the river still shapes the place. Dodder Valley Park runs along the north edge, and the ground rises steadily south towards Ballycullen and Oldcourt. The first wave of estates arrived in the 1970s along Firhouse Road and across towards Old Bawn, with semi-detached houses, garages and gardens. The second came from the late 1990s onwards up the Ballycullen Road, Woodstown among them, with tighter plots, duplexes and three-storey townhouses.
Those two layers give us two kinds of job. In the older estates it is families clearing a parent’s home before a sale, with a garage that has not held a car in decades. In Ballycullen it is more often a sale, a move or a tenancy ending, with less in the garage and more on the stairs.
Both are done the same way: two people, a box van, a price agreed from your photos before we arrive, and nothing for you to bag or sort in advance.
What we clear in Firhouse
- Full house clearances in the Firhouse Road and Old Bawn estates, including the garage, shed and attic.
- Three-storey townhouses and duplexes in Ballycullen, where furniture has to come down two flights and the quote reflects it.
- Garages and sheds: tools, timber, bikes, garden furniture and the boxes from the last move. Our garage clearance guide covers what usually turns up.
- Attics with a pull-down ladder and thirty years of Christmas decorations stacked around the tank.
- Bereavement clearances, worked slowly if that is what the family needs, with personal items kept back for you.
- Smaller jobs across Dublin 24: a mattress, a broken washing machine, the garden furniture that did not survive the winter. Our junk removal page is for those.
For a garden that has gone wild, old decking or a pile of rubble from an extension, a skip or a garden waste clearance service is the right call rather than us.
Access, parking and the practical bits
In the older parts of Firhouse the van goes on the driveway and we load through the garage or the side gate. The roads are wide and nobody minds a van outside for a morning.
Ballycullen is tighter. The newer estates have shared surfaces, visitor spaces and narrow turning heads, and a townhouse may have its parking a short walk from the door. We park as close as we can and carry the rest, and if the development has a management company that wants notice, we sort that out when we book.
The Firhouse Road and Ballycullen Road are busy at school times and the M50 junction backs up in the evening, so we favour mid-morning starts. From our Dublin base it is a quick run along the motorway either way.
Why people in Firhouse call us
A skip on a Firhouse driveway sits there for a week and you fill it yourself, usually in the rain. Two people and a van turn up at an agreed time, take everything you point at, and leave the house swept. For a three-storey townhouse there is no sensible place to put a skip at all, so the choice makes itself. Our article on house clearance versus skip hire weighs it up honestly.
We hold a waste collection permit and separate what we take as we load: usable furniture and household goods for reuse or donation, recyclables kept apart, and the rest to a licensed waste transfer station. Mention the garage and the attic when you send photos and the quote we give is the one we work to.
Families selling in the older estates often have a date from the estate agent for photographs or a first viewing, and we fit the clearance to that date rather than the other way round.
Firhouse borders Tallaght at Old Bawn, Knocklyon across the Ballycullen Road and Templeogue over the river, and we treat them as one patch. A job split between a Firhouse house and a flat in Tallaght village is a single booking.
