Hertfordshire is commuter country almost end to end, and that shapes the work more than anything about the buildings. Houses here change hands to a timetable. A completion is booked, the family have already moved, and the clearance has a slot rather than a day.
56 clearances have landed in Hertfordshire postcodes, spread thinly across a lot of towns rather than piled into one.
What that means on the day
More than half of what we do in this county is instructed by somebody who will not be there. Keys come from an estate agent, a neighbour or a key safe. Photographs of every room go over when the property is empty, because that is all anyone has to go on — and we send them whether the news is good or not.
The stock is mostly interwar and postwar semis with garages, plus the new towns — Hemel, Stevenage, Welwyn — where the layouts are consistent and the loft hatches are all in the same place. Easier to plan, and easier to quote from photographs.
What we cover
Pages below run across AL, SG, WD, HP, EN and the CM districts on this side of the county line.