Clearing homes in Raheny
Raheny is one of the oldest settlements on the north side, but the suburb people live in today was mostly built between the 1950s and the 1970s. The village still centres on the junction of the Howth Road, Main Street and Station Road, with the DART station behind it, All Saints Church beside the gates of St Anne’s Park, and Bull Island reached by the causeway at the bottom of Watermill Road.
Around that core are the estates. Foxfield, Avondale, Grange Park, Bettyglen, Maywood and the roads off the Howth Road are almost all three-bed semi-detached houses with a front driveway, a back garden and a shed. There are bigger detached houses and bungalows along the Howth Road and Station Road, older cottages in the village, and a few apartment blocks built in the last twenty years near the DART.
The people who bought those semis in the 60s and 70s raised families in them and, in many cases, are only now moving on. That is the clearance we do most in Raheny, a whole house with the attic and the garage, for a family selling up.
What a Raheny clearance usually includes
- The house itself, every room, when it is being sold or let after decades in one family. Our house clearance page explains how a typical job runs.
- Bereavement clearances, handled respectfully and in the order the family prefers.
- Floored attics, which in Raheny semis are big and usually full. See our attic clearance service.
- Garages and sheds, often holding as much again as the house. Our garage clearance page covers what we take.
- Old suites, beds, wardrobes and white goods that charity shops will not collect.
Usable items are set aside for reuse or donation where possible, recyclables are separated out, and the rest goes to a licensed waste transfer station.
Driveways, the village and parking
Raheny is one of the easier parts of Dublin to work in. Most houses have a driveway, so the van backs up to the door and the carrying is short. Where there is no driveway the roads in the estates are wide enough to park outside, and neighbours are used to vans. Edenmore and Harmonstown, on the Artane side, have more terraced houses and fewer driveways, so there we park on the road as we would anywhere else and carry a little further.
The village itself is the exception. The Howth Road and Station Road are busy, and the shops and the DART bring traffic, so for a house or apartment right in the village we plan the loading around the quieter hours and use the side roads.
If the house has been empty for a while, tell us whether the electricity is still on and whether the water has been turned off, so we can plan the day properly. If the garden has gone wild as well, that is garden waste rather than household clearance, and we can tell you who handles it.
Why Raheny families call us
The alternative to a clearance crew is a skip on the driveway and a lot of lifting. For a three-bed semi with a full attic and a full garage that is more than one skip and several weekends, and you still have to carry everything out yourself. Two people and a box van do the carrying, sort as they go and drive away with everything. We set the two options side by side in our house clearance versus skip hire guide.
For families clearing a parent’s home, this practical bereavement clearance checklist covers the paperwork and the order to do things in.
We are fully insured, with a current Waste Collection Permit we can show you on request. Raheny borders Kilbarrack and Killester, with Artane a few minutes inland, Clontarf along the coast and Sutton further out towards Howth, and we cover all of them. Our North Dublin page lists the rest of the north side.
