Clearing homes in Stepaside
Stepaside sits where the suburbs stop and the mountains begin. The old village is a short stretch of the Enniskerry Road with pubs, a church and a few shops, and Three Rock and the Dublin Mountains rise straight behind it. Until the 1990s that was more or less all there was, with farms and a scatter of older houses up Kilgobbin Road and towards Kilternan.
The 2000s changed it completely. Belarmine, Kilgobbin Wood, Aiken’s Village and the estates between the village and the Luas at Glencairn and Ballyogan Wood brought thousands of new homes, most of them three-storey townhouses, duplexes and apartments in managed developments. Fernhill Park and Gardens opened as a public park on the hill above, and the area now mixes first-time buyers, renters and families who moved in twenty years ago and are starting to move on.
For a clearance crew, the housing stock here means stairs. A three-storey townhouse puts the bedrooms on the top floor and the living room in the middle, so everything comes down two flights to the van, and the landings were not designed with a double wardrobe in mind.
What we clear in Stepaside
- Three-storey houses and duplexes in Belarmine, Kilgobbin and Aiken’s Village, cleared before a sale or a new tenancy. Our house clearance page covers the basics.
- Apartments in the managed blocks, where the lift, the car park barrier and the management company all need to be factored in. See apartment clearance.
- End-of-tenancy clear outs for landlords, which make up a good share of the work here because so many of the houses and flats are rented.
- Older houses on the Enniskerry Road and Kilgobbin Road, some with sheds and outbuildings from when the land was farmed.
- Furniture and bulky items that will not fit in a car for the recycling centre: beds, sofas, wardrobes, flat-pack furniture past repair.
Access, parking and the practical bits
The newer estates in Stepaside were designed around the car, but not around a van. Driveways are short, visitor parking is limited and some of the apartment car parks have a height barrier that a box van will not clear. We find the closest legal spot, usually right outside, and carry from there.
Three-storey houses have narrow stairs with a turn on each landing, so large items are dismantled upstairs rather than forced round the corner. The managed developments usually want the management company told a van is coming, and we do that once you give us the contact.
The Enniskerry Road through the village is narrow and slow at school times, and on race days at Leopardstown the roads towards the M50 clog up, so we plan the timing around both. Mountain weather is the other local factor, and a wet morning on an exposed estate is a reason to have the van as close to the door as the layout allows.
Why people in Stepaside call us
Because Stepaside has so many rented homes, a lot of our calls come from landlords and letting agents with a changeover to manage, and from tenants who are leaving and have more furniture than the lease allows them to abandon. The other group is owners who bought in the 2000s, have outgrown a townhouse and need it cleared and tidy before it goes on the market.
Like every job we do, a Stepaside clearance is covered by our insurance and by Waste Collection Permit NWCPO-25-13287-01. Furniture that is still sound goes for reuse or donation, flat-pack that has reached the end is broken down and recycled where the material allows, and the rest goes to a licensed transfer station. Our guide to what a house clearance service removes lists what we take and what needs another route.
Any cleaning the property needs afterwards is a job for a specialist cleaning company, and we will happily work to their timing.
We also cover Sandyford, Leopardstown and the road out to Enniskerry, so a clearance that takes in two addresses on the one day is straightforward.
