Clearing homes from the canal to Glasnevin North
Glasnevin is older than most of the north side. The village grew up around the Tolka where it passes the Botanic Gardens, and the Victorian terraces on Botanic Road, Botanic Avenue and the roads towards Iona Road date from the decades when the cemetery and the gardens were already drawing visitors out from the city. Mobhi Road, Glasnevin Hill and the roads around them have 1930s houses, Griffith Avenue runs its long, tree-lined way along the top, and beyond it Glasnevin North and Ballygall were filled with semis from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Then there is DCU. The main campus sits on Collins Avenue on the Glasnevin side, and the roads around it, from the Ballymun Road to Hampstead and Glasnevin Avenue, hold a large number of student lets that empty every summer. Add the apartments built over the last twenty years along the Finglas Road and near the canal and you have a suburb where no two clearances look alike.
That variety suits a two-person crew and a box van, because the same team can do a single bedsit, a four-bed student house or a family home holding sixty years of belongings.
What we clear in Glasnevin
- Student houses and flats at the end of the academic year, meaning beds, desks, broken chairs, mattresses and the bags nobody took. Our apartment clearance page covers how we handle lets.
- Family homes on Griffith Avenue, Mobhi Road and the Glasnevin North estates being sold after a long ownership.
- Bereavement clearances, taken slowly, with paperwork and photographs checked with you before anything goes in the van.
- Attics, garages and sheds, which in the 1930s semis around here tend to be full to the hatch.
- Single heavy items that will not fit in a car for the recycling centre, from a sofa bed to a chest freezer.
Landlords with several student houses to turn around in the same fortnight sometimes find this landlord guide to end-of-tenancy clearance handy for planning the order of work.
Parking, the Botanic Road and getting in
Glasnevin splits in two for parking. The Victorian roads near the gardens, the cemetery and Iona Road are mostly residents’ permit, and Botanic Road itself carries buses as well as visitors’ cars, so the van parks outside with the hazards on and we load without delay. Further out, around Griffith Avenue, Mobhi Road and Glasnevin North, most houses have a driveway and the job is as simple as reversing up to the door.
The student houses are a mix. Some have a front garden turned into parking, others sit on the busy stretch of the Ballymun Road where we work around the bus lane hours. Tell us the address and we will plan the van around it rather than finding out on the morning.
Inside, the Victorian houses have steep stairs and a return, while the 1930s semis have a hatch to the attic and often a side passage to the back garden. Both are everyday work for us. If a house has been standing empty, let us know whether the power is still on.
Why Glasnevin households call us
Three groups ring us from Glasnevin. Landlords want a let emptied between tenancies without a skip sitting on a permit-parking road for a week.
Families selling a parent’s house want one visit that takes the lot, attic and garage included, and want to know that usable furniture goes for reuse or donation where it can rather than straight to landfill. People downsizing from a big house on Griffith Avenue to an apartment want the bulky pieces gone before the removal firm arrives.
In each case the sorting is the same. Reusable items are set aside, recyclables are separated, and the remainder is taken to a licensed waste transfer station under our Waste Collection Permit. Our note on what a house clearance service removes lists what goes in the van and what we ask you about first.
Glasnevin borders Drumcondra and Phibsborough on the city side and Finglas and Whitehall further out, and a job split across two of them is no trouble.
