Clearing homes in Skerries
Skerries is built around its harbour and its two beaches. Strand Street runs from the harbour at the north end through the shops and pubs towards the South Strand, with Church Street and Thomas Hand Street behind it. Along the South Strand and Harbour Road the houses are tall Victorian and Edwardian terraces and semis facing the sea, many with basements and three storeys, some divided into flats.
Inland it is a different town. Holmpatrick, Hacketstown and the estates off the Rush Road, the Dublin Road and the Balbriggan Road were built from the 1970s through the 2000s, with Barnageeragh at the north end among the newest, and they are mostly three- and four-bed semis and detached houses with driveways. Kelly’s Bay, on the harbour side, added apartments and townhouses in the 2000s. Skerries Mills, with its two windmills and watermill, sits on the edge of the town centre, and the railway station is at the western edge on the Belfast line.
Skerries is a place families stay, and a good share of the calls we get are about a seafront house or a 1970s semi being cleared after a parent has died or moved into care. The rest are moves and lettings, with the odd holiday home being emptied.
What we clear in Skerries
- Seafront houses on the South Strand, Harbour Road and the streets behind, often three storeys with a basement, cleared in full for a sale. Our house clearance page explains how we approach a house that size.
- Bereavement clearances, done gently with the family and in the order they prefer. See bereavement clearance and our guide to clearing a house after a bereavement.
- Attics in the estate houses, and the attic rooms of the Victorian terraces, which hold decades of boxes and suitcases.
- Apartments at Kelly’s Bay and near the harbour between tenancies.
- Downsizing and furniture-only jobs, when a couple is moving to a smaller place and the extra beds, the dining suite and the garage contents have no home to go to.
Anything reusable is set aside for donation or resale where we can place it, recyclable material is separated, and genuine waste goes to a licensed waste transfer station. We hold a current Waste Collection Permit, which you can ask to see.
Seafront parking, period stairs and estate driveways
The seafront is the tricky part. The South Strand and Harbour Road are busy with visitors from late spring to early autumn, parking is tight at the best of times, and on a sunny weekend the whole town fills up. We book seafront jobs for weekday mornings, park as close to the door as the road allows with the hazards on, and keep the loading brisk. Some of the terraces have a lane at the back, which is often the better route.
Inside the period houses, the stairs are the work: three flights, a return, a basement with its own steps down from the street. We dismantle wardrobes and beds on the landing, protect the banisters and carry everything by hand, and we price for the time it takes.
In Holmpatrick, Hacketstown and Barnageeragh it is driveways and side gates, which is as straightforward as a clearance gets. The run up from Dublin is the M1 and then across through Lusk, and that time is in your quote.
Why Skerries households call us
A skip can work for a Skerries estate house with a driveway, if you have the time and the backs to fill it. It does not work on the South Strand, where there is nowhere to put one, and it does not work for a family that lives in Dublin or abroad and has one weekend to get a parent’s house emptied. A crew of two with a box van turns up, carries everything out, sorts what can be reused or recycled and leaves the rooms swept, and we come back for a second load if the house needs it.
We are fully insured, work Monday to Saturday, and are open about the fact that we drive up from Dublin: it is in the price, and we often do two north Fingal jobs in a day. From Skerries we cover Balbriggan to the north, Rush and Lusk to the south, and Donabate and Swords on the way home. Our guide to how to prepare for a house clearance tells you what to do before we arrive.
