Clearing homes in Terenure
Terenure grew up around the crossroads where Terenure Road East meets Rathfarnham Road and Templeogue Road, and the village still works that way. Around it are some of the largest houses on the south side: Victorian and Edwardian redbricks on Brighton Road, Rathdown Park, Greenlea Road, Fortfield Road and the Terenure Roads themselves, with gardens behind, attics above and sometimes a cellar below.
These were built as family homes and most are still family homes. A sale after forty or fifty years of one household means a lot to clear, and the big Terenure job is the one where every room, the attic, the garage and the garden are full and the family has a closing date to meet. Smaller houses on the roads towards Kimmage and Harold’s Cross, and apartments near the village, make up the rest of our work here.
The photo at the top of this page is our van on a Terenure street, which is a fair picture of an ordinary working day for us.
What we clear in Terenure
- Whole-house clearances of large period homes before sale, including the attic floor, the garage and anything in the garden.
- Bereavement clearances for families who need time. We work at their pace and set personal items aside; our bereavement clearance page explains how.
- Downsizing clearances, taking everything the movers are not, once the good furniture has gone to the new home.
- Attics and attic rooms, which in Edwardian houses are often a full floor of storage. Our attic clearance page covers the practicalities.
- Garages, coach houses and sheds at the end of long gardens, which fill with garden furniture, bikes, tools and timber.
- Single heavy pieces: a piano, a Victorian wardrobe, a dining table that will not fit through the hall door assembled.
If someone has died and you are unsure whether the house can be cleared before probate is through, this guide on clearing a house before probate sets out the position plainly.
Access, parking and the practical bits
Period houses in Terenure are easier than their size suggests. Doorways are wide, hallways are generous and the main stairs is straight, so most furniture comes down in one piece. The exceptions are the attic stairs and any basement steps, which are narrow and often turn, and large items from those floors come apart first.
Many of the bigger roads have driveways or a gateway the van backs into. Where there is only a short front garden we park on the road with the hazards on for a short job. Residents’ permit parking applies on a lot of side roads, and the main roads through the village have bus lanes with restricted hours, so we schedule around them rather than fight them.
Bushy Park and the Dodder sit on the Rathfarnham side, and the roads around them are quiet; the crossroads itself is busy from early morning, so for a house near the village we start a little later or come in from the Templeogue side.
Why people in Terenure call us
The size of the houses is the reason. A skip takes a fraction of what comes out of a five-bed redbrick, the skip company will refuse the mattresses, fridges and paint, and you would spend two days carrying furniture down the garden path to fill it.
A two-person crew does the carrying, separates what can be reused or recycled from what goes to a licensed transfer station, and leaves the rooms swept and the house ready for the estate agent. Our article on how much house clearance costs in Dublin explains what makes a large house more or less expensive to clear.
Many of these clearances are also bereavements, and families want a crew that will pause when it finds the photographs rather than loading them with the newspapers.
Terenure borders Harold’s Cross and Rathmines on the city side, Rathgar to the east, Rathfarnham and Templeogue to the south, and Kimmage and Crumlin to the west, and we work all of them from the same Dublin base.
