Clearing homes in Kimmage
Kimmage lies between the Grand Canal and the foothills, with the Poddle, a small river that still shows itself in places, running through it, and it was built up in the decades either side of the Second World War. Dublin Corporation laid out the terraces around Sundrive Road, Stannaway Road and Larkfield in the 1930s and 1940s, and private builders added terraces and semi-ds along Kimmage Road Lower, Kimmage Road West and the roads towards Terenure and the KCR crossroads.
The result is a remarkably consistent housing stock: two and three-bedroom houses with a bay window, a short front garden, a kitchen extended at some point, and a long back garden ending in a shed, a coal bunker or a lean-to. Kimmage Manor on the Whitehall Road side and Mount Argus church on the Harold’s Cross side are the landmarks everyone gives directions by.
Because the houses were built for families and bought by families, a great many have passed down a generation or are only now being sold for the first time. That is what we clear in Kimmage: a full life’s worth of belongings in a compact house.
What we clear in Kimmage
- Full house clearances when a terrace or semi-d is sold or let for the first time in sixty or seventy years. Our house clearance page explains what a complete job involves.
- Bereavement clearances, done quietly, room by room, at the family’s pace. Our guide on how to clear a house after a bereavement covers the order to do things in.
- Sheds and back gardens: the lawnmower, the bikes, the timber, the garden chairs and whatever was put out there the last time the house was decorated. See shed clearance.
- Attics and box rooms, which in these houses are small but packed.
- Furniture and appliances: wardrobes, beds, the three-piece suite, the cooker and the fridge, all taken in one load.
Cleaning is a separate trade, so book a cleaner for after the clearance if the house needs one.
Access, parking and the practical bits
Kimmage is on-street parking from end to end. The terraced roads are narrow, lined with cars on both sides and fill up by early evening, so we prefer weekday mornings for a job here. The van pulls in as close to the door as it can, and we carry everything out through the hall.
Side access is the deciding factor for the shed and the garden. End-of-terrace and semi-detached houses usually have a passage down the side, which means garden items come straight out without touching the house. Mid-terrace houses do not, so shed contents and garden furniture travel through the kitchen and hall, and we protect the floors as we go. A few terraces have rear lanes, and where they do we load from the back.
The houses are two storeys with a straight stair and a small landing, so there is rarely a problem getting furniture down; attic hatches are small, which just makes the attic slower. Set aside what you want to keep, and leave everything else where it is.
Why people in Kimmage call us
The calls we get from Kimmage are mostly from the children or grandchildren of the original owners, sorting out a house after a death or a move into care, and from buyers who have bought a house to modernise and want it cleared to the walls before the builders start. Both want a fixed quote from photographs, a definite date and a crew that does not need supervising.
We operate under Waste Collection Permit NWCPO-25-13287-01, we are fully insured, and we are a Dublin crew for whom Kimmage is a short run across the south of the city. Anything that can be reused or donated is set aside, recyclables are separated and the remainder goes to a licensed waste transfer station. Our post on what a house clearance service removes lists what goes on the van and what we need to ask about first.
Kimmage joins Harold’s Cross at Mount Argus, Crumlin along Sundrive Road and Clogher Road, and Terenure at the KCR, with Templeogue and Walkinstown beyond, and we treat the whole stretch as one patch.
