Clearing homes in Sandycove and Glasthule
Sandycove is a point of rock between two small beaches, with the Martello tower where Ulysses opens on top of it and the Forty Foot bathing place below. The houses were built for Victorian Dublin’s seaside, and they are still mostly that: terraces and villas on Sandycove Avenue East and West, Otranto Place, Breffni Road, Elton Park and the roads climbing towards Dalkey, three storeys with a basement or a return, bay windows and small front gardens.
Glasthule is the village end of it, a street of shops, cafés and pubs along Glasthule Road with flats above them, the DART station at Sandycove and Glasthule, and the Victorian and Edwardian houses on Adelaide Road, Eden Road and Hudson Road running inland towards Glenageary. Dún Laoghaire’s harbour is a few minutes’ walk one way and Dalkey village the other.
The combination of old houses, flats over shops and a holiday crowd makes Sandycove a distinctive place to work. In July and August, when the Forty Foot and the beaches draw people from all over the city, finding a spot for a van near Sandycove Avenue takes planning, and we do that planning before the day rather than on it.
What we clear in Sandycove and Glasthule
- Victorian terraces and villas cleared whole after a long occupancy, usually several loads across more than a day. See our house clearance service.
- Flats above the shops in Glasthule and flats within the larger houses, cleared for landlords, executors and people moving on. Our apartment clearance page covers shared stairs and access.
- Basement and garden-level flats where everything comes up a set of external steps.
- Bereavement clearances in homes that have been in the one family for decades.
- Furniture removal: a sofa, a piano, a wardrobe that came in before the stairs were altered and needs taking apart to leave.
Access, parking and the practical bits
Parking is the whole story here. The streets around Sandycove Avenue and the Forty Foot are narrow, many have parking on one side only, and in summer they fill with swimmers’ cars from early morning. We plan a spot before we arrive, work from the nearest legal place, pay where there is pay-and-display and build the time into the quote. From October to May it is a good deal easier.
The houses are tall and the stairs are narrow with a turn at the return, so furniture is carried down by hand and dismantled where it has to be. Basement flats have their own steps down from the street, which is handy for loading but tight for a sofa. Flats above the shops in Glasthule usually have a side door onto the street or a lane at the back, and we use whichever keeps the footpath clear for the shop’s customers.
If the house has a rear lane, tell us, because it may be the easier way in and out.
Why people in Sandycove call us
The calls come from families clearing a parent’s house, often one that has been in the family since the houses were new, and from landlords with a flat to turn around between tenants. The first kind is slow and careful, with photographs, letters and the contents of a very old house to go through, and we set aside anything that looks like it should be seen before it goes. Our bereavement clearance page explains how we handle them.
As with all our work, the job is fully insured and done under Waste Collection Permit NWCPO-25-13287-01. Good furniture, china, books and anything with life in it is kept out of the waste stream for reuse or donation, recyclables are separated and the remainder goes to a licensed waste transfer station. If you are wondering how to get ready, our guide on preparing for a house clearance covers it in a few minutes’ reading.
Along this stretch of coast we also cover Dún Laoghaire, Dalkey and Glenageary, so a clearance that involves a house in Sandycove and a storage unit in Dún Laoghaire can be one booking.
