Clearing homes in Sandymount
Sandymount grew up around the Green, a small triangular park surrounded by shops, pubs and cafés, with the Strand and Strand Road a few minutes’ walk east. The Victorian builders left terraces and villas on Sandymount Avenue, Tritonville Road, Newbridge Avenue and Gilford Road; the 1930s added rows of semi-ds and terraces on Park Avenue, Seafort Avenue and the roads running back from the sea; and the last few decades have filled in apartment blocks around Lansdowne Road and along the DART line.
It is a settled place. Many houses here have been in the same hands for a generation or two, and the Martello tower on Strand Road, the sea wall and the view across to Poolbeg have not changed much in that time. That settledness is why so many of our Sandymount jobs are bereavement clearances, and why we approach the area the way we do.
One customer put it better than we could: “Junk Removal could not have been more helpful during what was a challenging period, simplifying the task of clearing my late father’s flat to the fullest extent.” — Anne, Sandymount
What we clear in Sandymount
- Bereavement clearances in the terraces, villas and flats, done at the pace the family sets. Our bereavement clearance page explains how we work with families and executors.
- Full house clearances when a family home on Park Avenue, Gilford Road or Sandymount Avenue is sold.
- Apartments near Lansdowne Road, along Serpentine Avenue and towards Irishtown, cleared after a sale or between tenants.
- Attics and box rooms in the older houses, which tend to hold the family archive: photographs, school books, Christmas decorations and suitcases.
- Single items and part loads: a piano, a three-piece suite, a bed that will not fit down the stairs.
If you are the executor and are unsure what you are allowed to remove before the estate is settled, this straightforward bereavement clearance checklist is worth reading before anything leaves the house.
Access, parking and the practical bits
Parking near the Green is the awkward part of Sandymount. The streets are narrow, mostly permit or pay-and-display, and the village is busy with shoppers and school traffic. We pull in as close as we are allowed, load efficiently and move on. Further out, on Park Avenue, Gilford Road and Strand Road, the houses have driveways or wide roads and the van can sit outside the door.
The Aviva Stadium on Lansdowne Road changes everything on event days, with road closures and no parking for hours, so we schedule around fixtures rather than fight them. The DART means a family member can come out from town to meet us without worrying about a car.
The Victorian houses have steep stairs and small landings; the 1930s houses have attics with hatches and gardens with sheds. We take furniture apart where it has to come apart and carry the rest by hand. Set aside anything you want kept, and leave the rest to us.
Why people in Sandymount call us
We are called to Sandymount mostly by families, often with one sibling in Dublin and the rest abroad, who need a crew that will treat a parent’s home carefully and keep them informed with photographs. The rest is the ordinary work of a busy suburb: tenants moving on, apartments sold, a house renovated.
We hold Waste Collection Permit NWCPO-25-13287-01, carry full insurance, and work from our Dublin base, so the coast road is familiar ground. Good furniture and household items go to reuse or donation wherever possible, recyclables are separated and only true waste goes to a licensed transfer station. If you want to know how we decide, our post on what happens to items after a house clearance spells it out.
Sandymount sits between Ballsbridge and Ringsend, with Irishtown in between and the coast road running down to Booterstown, and we cover all of them from the same van.
