Clearing homes in and around Rush
Rush is a long town. Main Street runs down towards the harbour and the north beach, with Channel Road and the Skerries Road branching off it, and the south beach and the Rogerstown estuary lie on the other side. Kenure, with the portico that is all that remains of the big house, is on the north side, and the whole area is ringed by the market gardens and glasshouses that have supplied Dublin for generations.
That history shapes the housing. There are old single-storey cottages and two-storey farmhouses on Main Street and the roads out of town, many with yards, sheds, stores and a glasshouse or two at the back, and a handful of thatched cottages still standing. Then there are the estates built from the 1990s onwards as Rush became a commuter town, three- and four-bed semis and detached houses with driveways, concentrated along the Skerries Road, Channel Road and towards the station at Rush and Lusk.
The two kinds of home give us two kinds of job. The old houses are a full clearance after a long life, with outbuildings that have become stores. The estate houses are a move or a sale, often with just the garage and attic to add to the furniture.
What we clear in Rush
- Farmhouses and cottages in full, including the sheds, stores and outbuildings, after a death or a move into care. Our house clearance page explains how we plan a job with several buildings.
- Sheds and outbuildings on their own, when the house stays but the yard has to be cleared before a sale or a rebuild. See shed clearance and garage clearance.
- Bereavement clearances, taken at the family’s pace with papers, photographs and keepsakes set aside first.
- Estate homes being emptied for a move, including the garage and the attic.
- General junk removal: the dozen bulky items that will not fit in the car for the recycling centre.
Reusable items are kept back for donation or resale where we can place them, metals, timber and cardboard are separated for recycling, and the rest goes to a licensed waste transfer station under our Waste Collection Permit. Soil, rubble, green waste and anything from the farm side, such as chemicals or fuel, are outside a standard load, so tell us first. If the garden and yard need clearing as well as the buildings, that is a job for a garden waste clearance service.
Lanes, yards and the run from Dublin
The estates are easy: driveway, side gate, van at the door. The older properties need a look first. Lanes around Kenure and out towards the estuary are narrow with high hedges, gateways were built for a tractor rather than a van, and yards may be gravel or grass. We ask for a photo of the lane and the gate along with the rooms and the sheds, and we decide in advance whether to drive in or carry from the road.
Rush is a longer run for us than the city suburbs, up the M1 and across from Lusk, and we are straightforward about that: it is built into the fixed quote and it is why we prefer a full day’s work in Rush to a single item. Where we can, we schedule two north Fingal jobs together.
Main Street can be slow at school times and on summer weekends when the beaches draw a crowd, so we aim for an early start on in-town jobs.
Why people in Rush call us
The call we get most from Rush is a family dealing with a parent’s or an uncle’s house on the edge of town: a cottage or farmhouse full after sixty years, a yard of sheds fuller still, and a sale or a probate valuation waiting on it being emptied. A skip barely dents a job like that and still leaves the carrying to you. Two people and a box van, with a second trip if needed, take the whole lot and sort it as it comes out.
For the estate houses it is simpler, a move or a letting with a date on it, and we work to the date. Our article on what drives the cost of a house clearance explains how volume, access and distance feed into the quote.
We are fully insured, and the Waste Collection Permit we work under is issued by the National Waste Collection Permit Office and current. From Rush we also cover Lusk next door, Skerries up the coast and Donabate across the estuary, usually on the one run.
