House clearance rogues – the Seven Warning Signs
In my last post – ‘Warning: Don’t hire a house clearance firm until you’ve read this’ – I warned you why it is essential to check carefully before you hire a house-clearance company. The risks include: inefficiency, unreliability, a general lack of professionalism, intimidation in order to get paid more than was agreed, general theft [...]
House clearance: Your shortcut to finding a reputable company
Some years ago, someone had a dreadful experience with a rogue house-clearance company. In trying to put things right, he suffered great stress over many months and, in the end, there was a long-drawn-out legal battle which cost a huge amount of time and thousands of pounds. It surprised him that he could not find [...]
Warning: Don’t hire a house clearance firm until you’ve read this
Never hire a house-clearance company until you have done your research and verified that it is a professional and reputable firm. If you don’t do this, you may end up using a rogue company – and the consequences could be serious. What is a rogue company? It’s not just inefficient, unprofessional and unreliable. It’s much [...]
Office waste: don’t waste your money
Bad waste practices are estimated to cost UK industry at least £15 billion each year, according to the government-funded group Envirowise, which advises business on sustainability. Envirowise also estimates that, with waste-disposal costs rising, the cost of waste in UK companies is typically 4pc to 5pc of turnover and in many companies can rise to [...]
What estate agents who organise house clearance need to know
In Yorkshire recently, an estate agent appointed a company to carry out a house clearance. The company was reportedly well established, so there seemed to be no problem. However, it was not registered with the local authority and then irregularities were discovered in the way rubbish from the house clearance was disposed of. The result? [...]
How house-clearance discovery revealed fascinating Hitler secrets
Just imagine: You’re carrying out a house clearance and you come across a document marked “Must be destroyed within 48 hours of reading”. Well, if you’re doing a clearance of property that you own yourself, maybe you’re entitled to go ahead and have a look. As a house-clearance company, however, we would have to resist [...]
Sandwell clear-up scheme shows government good sense
The people who govern us sometimes do crazy things. But they can also get some things dead right. Here’s an example: Offenders in Sandwell, West Bromich in the West Midlands, I see in the Halesowen News, have paid back to the community by working more than 53,000 hours in the past year. That’s better than [...]
Mansion house clearance Alnwick, Northumberland customer comments
I chose Abacus because on their website they stated they cleared mansions and that no job was too big or too small. Believe me clearing Houghton Hall was going to be a monumental task given the number of rooms filled with old junk. I invited them to come and have a look around hoping they [...]
House clearance Blackburn, Lancashire customer comments
I am writing to congratulate you and your staff on the professional manner in which you responded to my request to clear my mother’s house. The van arrived early in the morning, it was clean, the men smartly and properly dressed in company logo work clothes, extremely polite, co-operative and competent. The clearance and associated [...]
House clearance Ambleside, Cumbria customer comments
Dear Chris, Irvin and team (Abacus staff), I am writing to express my gratitude to you for your recent property clearance at Ambleside, Cumbria, which was a colossal job as it involved 3 separate large buildings with over 45 years worth of associated furniture and serious amounts of clutter/junk in every single room. Your team [...]
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