Clearing homes in Portmarnock
Portmarnock’s village is small, a cluster of shops and pubs just back from the beach, with the Velvet Strand stretching away to the south and the golf links on the peninsula beyond it. The houses along the seafront are large and detached, many of them rebuilt or extended over the years, with views across the bay to Howth Head.
Behind the coast the estates were built in waves. Carrickhill and Wendell Avenue date from the 1970s and 80s, three- and four-bed semis and detached houses with gardens and garages, while the Drumnigh estates and the schemes towards the station and Kinsealy were added through the 1990s and 2000s. The DART station sits inland on Station Road, a good walk from the beach, with its own cluster of newer houses and apartments around it.
Portmarnock is settled and family-oriented, and a lot of the 1970s houses are only now changing hands as the people who bought them new move on. Those houses, with four decades of a family’s life in them, are the bulk of our clearance work here.
What we clear in Portmarnock
- Full family homes in Carrickhill, Wendell and along Strand Road, cleared for a sale or a move to somewhere smaller. Our house clearance page explains how a job is planned and priced.
- Bereavement clearances, often for a family spread between Dublin and abroad, handled gently and in stages if that suits. The way we approach these is set out on our bereavement clearance page.
- Attached garages turned store rooms, with the bikes, golf clubs, tools and garden gear of forty years. Our garage clearance guide covers what we take.
- Attics, floored or not, full of suitcases, boxes and the children’s things nobody wanted to throw out.
- Furniture removal for downsizing, when the dining table and the spare bedroom suite will not fit in the new place.
Pieces that can be reused are set aside for donation or resale where we can manage it, recyclable material is separated, and genuine waste goes to a licensed transfer station. Builders’ rubble and garden waste in quantity are a different service; ask and we will point you right.
Driveways, the seafront and summer
Portmarnock is easy for access most of the year. Almost every house has a driveway, so the van reverses up to the front door and the garage is right there beside it. The estate roads are wide, the cul-de-sacs turn a box van without fuss, and neighbours are used to vans.
The seafront is the exception on fine days. Strand Road and the Coast Road to Malahide fill with beach parking from late morning in summer, and the village car parks overflow, so we book seafront jobs for weekday mornings and aim to be loaded before the crowds. The Coast Road is narrow in parts with the sea wall on one side, and we take care not to block it.
The run from our Dublin base is out the Malahide Road or through Baldoyle, which is a normal trip for us and often pairs with a job in Malahide or Swords.
Why Portmarnock families call us
Most Portmarnock calls are about a parent’s house: it has to be emptied before the estate agent’s photographs, the family has already taken what it wants, and what remains is still enough to fill a van or two. A skip on the driveway is possible here, but a four-bed detached house with a full garage is rarely a one-skip job and you still do the carrying. Two people and a box van do it faster and sort as they go.
For families dealing with an estate, this bereavement clearance checklist lays out the practical order of things, from paperwork to the final sweep.
We are fully insured, and our Waste Collection Permit is current and available to see on request. Portmarnock sits between Malahide and Baldoyle on the coast, with Swords and Kinsealy inland, and one trip covers the lot.
