Clearing homes and apartments along the Swords Road
Santry was a village on the road to Swords long before the city reached it, and the old village still sits on the Swords Road beside Santry Demesne, the former Domville estate that is now a public park with Morton Stadium inside its walls. Around it, the Lorcan, Shanliss and Shanowen roads were laid out in the 1950s and 60s with semi-detached and terraced houses, and Shantalla and Coolock Lane mark the edges towards Beaumont and Coolock.
The other Santry is newer. Omni Park shopping centre sits on the Swords Road, apartment blocks went up at Santry Cross where the Ballymun Road meets Santry, and the Northwood development beside the Demesne added blocks of apartments along with offices and hotels. The M50 and the start of the M1 run across the top, with Dublin Airport a few minutes beyond, so a good share of the apartments are let to people working there.
For us that means two different kinds of day. One is a family semi with a garage and fifty years of belongings; the other is a fourth-floor apartment with a goods lift to book and a management company to keep happy.
What we clear in Santry
- Family homes on the older roads being sold or let for the first time, cleared from attic to garage in one visit. Our main house clearance page explains how a job runs.
- Apartments at Northwood, Santry Cross and along the Swords Road at the end of a tenancy, including the mattress, the flat-pack that will not come apart and whatever is on the balcony. See apartment clearance.
- Garages and sheds, which in Santry are often a concrete block garage at the side holding decades of tools.
- Offices and small units in the business parks off the Swords Road and Coolock Lane, with desks, chairs, filing cabinets and partitions.
- Single bulky items such as an American fridge, a corner sofa or a treadmill that needs two people and a van.
Usable furniture is set aside for reuse or donation where there is a taker, recyclables are separated out, and the rest goes to a licensed waste transfer station.
Lifts, loading bays and the Swords Road
The older estate roads are easy. Most semis have a driveway, the roads are wide and the van sits at the door. The Swords Road itself is a different matter, because it is the main bus corridor to the airport with bus lanes at peak times, so for a house fronting it we work outside those hours and use the side road or the driveway.
Apartments take a little planning. The management company usually wants notice, a lift booking and sometimes a copy of our insurance, and the loading bay may be at the back of the block rather than the front door.
We ask you to sort that with them before the day, tell us the floor and the lift situation, and we take it from there. A lift out of order does not stop the job; it just means more trips on the stairs.
Why Santry residents call us
Santry households tend to call for one of two reasons. Either a house that has been in the family since the roads were built is being sold and nobody has a week to spend carrying things to the recycling centre, or an apartment has to be handed back on a fixed date with a deposit riding on it being empty. A two-person crew and a box van suits both better than a skip, which in an apartment complex is usually not allowed at all.
If you are not sure what we will and will not take, our note on what a house clearance service removes lists it, and the apartment clearance guide covers lifts, management companies and deposits in more detail.
We hold a current Waste Collection Permit and full insurance, and we will show you both on request. Santry joins Whitehall down the Swords Road, Beaumont across Shantalla and Ballymun at Santry Cross, and we cover all of them on the same run.
