Ten clearances have landed in Barnet's own postcodes — EN5 at Barnet itself, HA8 in Edgware and NW4 at Hendon.
Suburbia with a hill in it
Barnet is mostly interwar and postwar suburb: semis with side entries, garages at the end of the garden, and lofts reached by a hatch. Where there is a driveway the day is straightforward and the volume comes out of the garage and the loft rather than the rooms.
Chipping Barnet and Totteridge are older and larger, with long plots and outbuildings. Edgware and Burnt Oak are denser, with more flats and more parking restrictions. Childs Hill at the southern tip behaves like Camden rather than like Barnet — Victorian terraces, converted into flats, shared front doors.
The borough is hilly in places and the streets around High Barnet are steeper than the map suggests, which matters when a wardrobe has to go up rather than down.
What the work is
Predominantly probate: long-occupancy households and families arranging a clearance from elsewhere. We can work entirely from a key held by an agent or a neighbour, and photographs of every room go over when the property is empty.