House clearance in Feltham, TW13 and TW14, is most of what this branch does, and it is easier to show you a real one — a Tuesday in March 2023 — than to describe the service in the abstract.
Nine o'clock on a Tuesday morning in September, a quiet close down at the Hanworth end of Feltham, TW13, old Middlesex. Two days were held in the diary for that one. Tuesday the 16th and Wednesday the 17th. Because the family arranging it had been straight with us about how much was still in the house, and it is better to hold a second day you might not need than to lose the light halfway through a landing full of boxes.
Nobody local was handling it. The relative organising the clearance was down in Hampshire, sorting the whole thing by email and phone, and the arrangements had to work without him standing in the hallway. So a second contact was nominated to open up on the morning, his mobile passed over in advance, and the key went back into the key safe on the wall when the last load left. Photographs of every emptied room went over by email the same day, before the invoice did. That order matters when the person paying has never seen the finished job with their own eyes.
Afterwards, the note back said we "were the only one to respond in good time", which we will take, coming from someone who had been ringing round for a fortnight.
Parking, and why we ask about it first
Before anything was booked we asked about the road. Permit bays, suspended sections, anything that would stop a caged tipper or a Luton getting near the front door. The answer came back as no restrictions at all bar a disabled bay already marked out, which the crew left well alone.
That question is not a formality in this part of the borough. Feltham streets run to closes, cul-de-sacs and the odd narrow terrace where cars sit both sides all day. The difference between parking on the drive and parking sixty yards up the road is an hour of walking, over and over, on a job that already runs the whole day. On a two-day job that hour compounds. We would rather know on the phone than find out at half nine with the tailgate down.
The other Feltham quirk is the airport. A good number of the properties around Bedfont, North Feltham and the Hatton side are let to people working shifts at Heathrow, and end of tenancy clearances there tend to be booked at short notice with a flight already paid for. We work to that when we can.
What actually came out
A domestic clearance in a house of that size is rarely one van. Bedroom furniture, wardrobes that have to come apart on the landing because they were built in the room, mattresses, the contents of an airing cupboard nobody has opened since the boiler was changed, a loft, kitchen cupboards emptied down to the shelf paper. Garden and shed if there is one. Curtains if you want them gone, left up if you do not — people care about that more than you would think, and it is worth saying on the booking form either way.
Nobody has to bag or box anything before we arrive. Drawers can stay full. The crew works cupboard by cupboard, and if something turns up that clearly should not go — documents, photographs, jewellery in a sock at the back of a drawer — it is put aside on the kitchen worktop rather than carried out to the van. We would rather stop and ask.
Where it goes afterwards
Usable furniture, decent clothing, books, working small appliances: these get offered on to reuse outfits and charity depots before anything else happens to them. It costs us time and gains us nothing on the invoice. What genuinely cannot be reused goes to a permitted waste facility, is weighed in, and produces a waste transfer note. And if you want copies of those notes for the estate paperwork or for a landlord's file, ask and we will forward them once the site sends them through, usually within a week or two. Our waste carrier registration with the Environment Agency is CBDU419679, and the company carries public liability cover. Both are worth checking on any firm you let through the door in TW13, because a load fly-tipped on the way to Hounslow still traces back to the householder.
A few things travel differently. Fridges and freezers hold gas and are handled as a separate line. Sofas, armchairs and other upholstered seating fall under the persistent-organic-pollutant rules, so soft furnishings are kept apart from general waste and sent for destruction rather than mixed in — that is legislation, not preference. Paint tins, gas cylinders, solvents, sharps and anything similar cannot ride in a general load; tell us in advance and they can usually be dealt with, but on a separate arrangement rather than tucked into the back of the van at the last minute.
What it costs
The honest answer is that it depends on what is still in the house, and the way to find out is a phone call on 0800 046 5555 or a few photographs through the form on this page. The estimate is free and it commits you to nothing. Nothing is asked for up front on domestic UK work — no deposit — and you settle by card or bank transfer once the house is empty and you are content with it.
Probate house clearance Feltham executors can arrange from another county
Where an estate is involved, the bill can go to the executor, to the solicitor handling probate, or be split between parties, and it can be paid out of the estate — that gets arranged before the day, not argued about afterwards. Executors working from another county are the norm for us rather than the exception, and the routine described further up — nominated keyholder, key safe, photographs of the empty rooms emailed the same day — exists precisely for them. A probate clearance also tends to want the paperwork trail: waste transfer notes, a written scope of what was included, room-by-room photographs. Ask at the booking stage and it comes as standard rather than as a favour. There is more on how we handle estates on our probate house clearance page.
The overfilled ones
Some houses have forty years in them and barely a path through. Those take longer, sometimes two or three days, and the estimate is honest about that from the start. There is no lecture and no commentary from the crew. They have done a great many of these and they get on with it. If that is what you are facing, the hoarder house clearance page sets out how those days are run — masks, sharps, floor-up working, and a slower start than a straightforward clearance.
Collections as well as clearances
Not everything needs a full house, and a fair share of what we do in TW13 and TW14 is smaller than that.
Flat clearance in TW13 and TW14
A flat clearance is its own animal. Stairs without a lift, a shared entrance that cannot be propped open all morning, a bin store that is not ours to use, and a neighbour on the floor below who did not ask for any of it. We work quietly, carry rather than drag, and keep the communal parts clear as we go. Purpose-built blocks around the town centre and the maisonettes towards Bedfont are the usual settings, and a one or two-bedroom flat is generally a single day.
Garage and loft clearance in Feltham
Plenty of calls are garage and loft only — the house itself staying as it is. Lofts here are often boarded and low, so it is ladder work, hand to hand, and it takes longer than the volume suggests. Garages come with the awkward stuff: tins, tiles, a mower, bicycle frames, the remains of a shed. Tell us on the phone if the loft or the garage is included, because it changes how many hands we send.
Single items, furniture removal and rubbish removal
One wardrobe, a piano on the ground floor, a three-piece suite, a garage of broken plastic pots — a single-item collection is a legitimate booking, not a nuisance. Loose bagged waste and post-builders debris fall under house rubbish removal rather than a full clearance.
Vehicles matter. A Luton box van does not tip, so every bag of loose waste comes off by hand at the other end; a caged tipper is the right lorry for that and we send it when we can.
How far we run from here
Feltham sits in the London Borough of Hounslow, Greater London, and the round takes in TW13 and TW14 — Hanworth, Bedfont, Hatton — then out through Hounslow, Whitton, Teddington and Twickenham, across to Isleworth and Brentford on the Thames side, and down towards Ashford and Sunbury. Barnes and East Sheen, SW13 and SW14, sit on the same rota, so a Feltham house and a flat over that way can fall in the same week without either being an awkward detour.
If the property is over the river side of the borough, house clearance in Twickenham is the page you want, and for the smaller places either side, house clearance in Teddington, house clearance in Isleworth and house clearance in Brentford cover that end.
Feltham station on the Waterloo line is a useful marker for anyone travelling in to meet the team. Most of what we clear in this postcode is within ten minutes of it by car, and if you are coming from central London it is a straightforward run out.
Booking it
Ring 0800 046 5555 or use the form on this page with the rough size of the property, whether the loft, shed and garage are included, and what the parking looks like outside. From that we can give you a proper estimate over the phone rather than sending someone out to talk you round on the doorstep. If you want to send photographs, better still — they sharpen the estimate considerably.
And if you are wondering whether we will take some particular awkward thing — a stairlift, a piano on the ground floor, a shed's worth of broken plastic pots — just ask. Most of the time it is a yes, and where it is not, we will tell you who does handle it.
Common questions about house clearance in Feltham
Can you invoice the solicitor or the executor rather than me?
Yes. On probate work we invoice the executor, the appointed solicitor or the estate directly, and the bill can be settled from the estate. It can also be split between beneficiaries if that is how the family has agreed it. Say so when you book, and it is set up before the day rather than sorted out afterwards.
Do I have to be there on the day?
No. A nominated keyholder, a key safe or an agent letting us in all work, and we email photographs of every emptied room the same day so that whoever is organising it can see the finished job. Half the house clearance Feltham work we do is arranged by someone who never sets foot in the property.
Do I need to empty the drawers or bag anything up first?
Not at all. Drawers can stay full and cupboards can stay as they are. If the crew finds documents, photographs or anything that looks like it should not leave the house, it goes on the kitchen worktop for you rather than into the van.
Will you take a fridge freezer, a mattress and a sofa?
Yes, though they travel differently. Fridges and freezers hold gas and are handled separately, and upholstered seating falls under the persistent-organic-pollutant rules, so sofas and armchairs are kept apart from general waste and sent for destruction. Paint, gas cylinders and solvents need arranging in advance and cannot go in a mixed load.
Can you clear the loft, the garage and the shed as well as the house?
Yes, and it is worth saying at the booking stage. Loft and garage work is slower per vanful than the ground floor, so it changes how many crew we send and how long the day runs.
How much notice do you need in TW13 and TW14?
Usually a few days, sometimes less. End of tenancy clearances near the airport tend to come in at short notice, and we do our best to fit them in around what is already in the diary. Longer notice gets you a choice of dates rather than one.
