Corby is an easy town to work in and a hard one to guess at from a distance, so most people ringing about house clearance in Corby start by describing the house and end up describing the parking. Both matter. We have been doing this work since 2007, the vans come up the A43 and the A6003, and a Corby house clearance is usually a one-day job that starts at nine.
The one we think of first was in NN18, in the December of 2020. It was booked not by a family but by a public service team with an office in the town. The paperwork went to a desk rather than a household. Everything was agreed by message and photograph before anyone drove up. Photographs came through on WhatsApp across that day — rooms in the morning, the same rooms again in the early afternoon once they were bare. What came out of the property fitted a single van load, and the house was a small one, three bedrooms at the most. Then the crew cleaned through it rather than leaving it swept and calling it done, which is a different job to clearing and takes the light with it in December.
We do not print what any of that came to, here or anywhere on the site. Ring the office on 0800 046 5555, or send photographs through the form on this page, and you will get a figure for your own property. There is no obligation either way.
Where we go around the town
Corby sits in the north of Northamptonshire and takes NN17 and NN18 for its own postcode districts — the jobs described on this page are both inside those two. Around them we cover NN16 over in Kettering, NN8 at Wellingborough, NN10 at Rushden, NN11 at Daventry and NN1 to NN5 across Northampton. The villages either side of the town are all inside a normal morning's run: Weldon, Gretton, Cottingham, Stanion, Great Oakley and Rockingham, as are Rothwell, Desborough and Oundle, and Uppingham and Market Harborough just over the county line.
If you are searching for the bigger towns rather than the villages, we have separate pages for house clearance in Kettering and house clearance in Northampton, and smaller ones for house clearance in Wellingborough and house clearance in Rushden. Four towns, one working day each — we do not claim a corridor across the county and we would not want one.
Corby railway station reopened in 2009 and runs down through Kettering and Wellingborough to St Pancras. That matters more than you'd think. A fair share of the people who ring us about a Corby house clearance are executors who live in London and come up by train for the day. They can be at the property by nine and home again by evening. If they can't make it at all, we take keys from a neighbour, an agent or a solicitor's reception and send photographs of every room when the property is empty.
Doors, stairs and where the van stands
Housing in Corby is unusually easy to read, because so much of it went up at once. The estates built for the steelworks — Kingswood, Studfall, Lincoln Estate — are mostly two-storey semis and short terraces. A path to the front door and a back gate is about the friendliest thing a crew can be given. The Old Village end is tighter, and the van sometimes sits further off than we'd like while the team walks the loads. Newer developments at Oakley Vale and Priors Hall are wide enough but often have parking bays rather than a drive, so we ask you to keep a space free from about half eight.
Danesholme, Beanfield, Hazel Leys and Lodge Park are much the same story: short runs from door to kerb, stairs that turn once, and lofts with a hatch rather than a fixed ladder. Two-storey and predictable is the fastest kind of house clearance Corby has to offer, and it is most of the town.
A Corby house clearance booked from a long way off
The second one on this page was October 2021, in NN17, and the person who instructed us was living up in Cheshire — a long drive to make for a set of keys, which is why they never made it. Everything went by email. What left the property was a single van load plus two mattresses. The mattresses are worth a sentence of their own. They cannot go in with general bulky waste, and travel as their own stream to a site that takes them apart. We count them separately on the day, so nobody has to guess afterwards what went where.
That is a very ordinary shape for a Corby house clearance and it is the shape we quietly hope for when someone describes a two- or three-bedroom house on the phone. One load, one day, a pair of mattresses, keys back to whoever holds them. Owners at a distance get the same photographs the public body got in the first job — the empty rooms, from the doorway, one per room.
What kind of house clearance in Corby people ask us for
Probate house clearance in Corby
Most of the estate work here is a probate house clearance: a house standing empty, a sale going through, and someone holding the file who lives somewhere else entirely. We are used to working to a completion date rather than to a convenient one, and to properties where the family has already taken out what they wanted and the rest has been shut up for a year. Our page on probate house clearance covers how the whole thing runs; the Corby end of it is simply that we can be at the property for nine and finished the same day in most of the town's housing.
Flat clearance in NN17 and NN18
A flat clearance is its own animal even when the flat is small. Corby has maisonettes over shops, low blocks on the older estates, a sheltered scheme or two, and converted upper floors in the Old Village where the staircase is the whole problem. For any flat clearance we want to know three things before the day: which floor, whether there is a lift, and where the van can legally stand. Tell us those and the rest is straightforward.
Garage and loft clearance in Corby
Garage and loft clearance is where the surprises live. A garage that has not been opened since 2011 will hold more than the house did. A Corby loft with a hatch and no boards means the crew works from the ladder, passing down. That is slower than it sounds. Ask for the garage and loft to be included when you first ring, rather than on the morning — it changes how many hands we send, not just how long we stay.
Hoarded houses and end of tenancy clearance
Where a house has been shut up for a long time and filled beyond what anyone outside the family knows about, we'd rather you told us and we'd rather you didn't apologise for it. Those properties are ordinary to us; see hoarder house clearance for how we set them up. They take longer, they take more loads, and the crew arrives expecting it. Nobody comments. End of tenancy work is the opposite problem — a fixed date, a landlord or agent wanting the keys back clean, and often only a partial load, which is really rubbish removal with a deadline attached.
Probate, executors and waiting for the sale
This is the part people are most nervous about asking, so here it is plainly. We can invoice a solicitor, an executor, an attorney or the estate directly — the invoice does not have to go to you personally just because you made the phone call. Payment can come out of the estate, and it can wait for completion where a property is being sold. There is no deposit from UK customers, and nothing is asked for before the work is done.
A probate house clearance also tends to need evidence rather than reassurance. Executors have to account for what happened to the contents, so we send photographs of the emptied rooms and we can provide waste transfer paperwork for the loads. That satisfies most private client departments, and it is easier to hand over than a description.
Recycling, charity and the paperwork
Furniture and household goods still fit for use are offered on to reuse projects and charitable outlets in the county before anything else happens to them. Metals, wood, cardboard and electricals are separated at the yard. Whatever is genuinely finished goes to a permitted transfer station and comes back as a weighbridge ticket, so there's a paper trail behind every load. We are registered with the Environment Agency as an upper-tier waste carrier, licence CBDU419679, and fully insured. North Northamptonshire Council runs the household recycling centres locally; those are fine for a car boot's worth, less so for a four-bedroom house.
Sofas, armchairs, bed bases, garden furniture cushions and padded seats are POP items — shorthand for furniture containing persistent organic pollutants. Since the Environment Agency's guidance came in, the foam in them cannot be shredded with general bulky waste and has to go down its own controlled route. Mattresses, fridges and freezers, televisions and tins of paint each have their own route as well, and we record them separately.
A few things won't go on the van at all. Gas bottles, asbestos sheeting, solvents and clinical waste need specialist collection and we'll tell you who to speak to rather than pretend otherwise. Plumbed-in appliances are another one — we once had to leave a washing machine because the isolating taps behind it were seized and pulling it out would have flooded the kitchen.
Getting hold of us
Ring 0800 046 5555 or use the form on this page with the address, the rough size of the property, and a few photographs from your phone. That's enough to give you a figure and a date. Whether it's a flat clearance in Danesholme or a three-bedroom semi off Studfall with the garage and loft still to do, we'll tell you honestly what it involves before anyone books a van.
Questions we get asked about house clearance in Corby
Can you invoice a solicitor or executor for a probate house clearance in Corby? Yes. We invoice the solicitor, the executor, the attorney or the estate directly, and payment can come from the estate — including waiting until a sale completes. There is no deposit, and nothing is due before the work is finished.
Do we have to be there on the day? No. We collect keys from a neighbour, an estate agent or a solicitor's reception, work through the day, and email photographs of every room once the property is empty. Both of the Corby jobs described above were run that way, one of them entirely by message.
Will you take up carpets and clear the garage and loft? Yes to all three, but say so when you first ring. Carpets and underlay come up and go as their own stream; garage and loft clearance changes how many people we send, so it needs to be in the plan rather than sprung on the crew at half nine.
How much does a house clearance in Corby come to? We don't publish figures, because no two houses are the same and an old number read as a promise helps nobody. Ring the office or send photographs through the form on this page and you'll get a figure for your property.
Do you cover the villages outside the town? Yes — Weldon, Gretton, Cottingham, Stanion, Great Oakley and Rockingham are all a normal morning's run, and so are Rothwell, Desborough and Oundle. Kettering, Wellingborough, Rushden and Northampton have their own pages.
What can't go on the van? Gas bottles, asbestos, solvents and clinical waste. Plumbed-in appliances only come out if the isolating valves actually turn. Everything else — furniture, white goods, mattresses, POP items, electricals — we handle, each down its own route.
