Bedroom two held four boxes of books, a small folding exercise bike and a bath chair of the electric sort. That was the whole room. The rest of the house had been written out for us the same way, room by room, before we had even quoted the house clearance — a three-bed semi on the NG18 side of Mansfield, loft and garage in with the rest.
Kitchen: table and chairs, washing machine, fridge freezer. Lounge: settee, two armchairs, a sideboard. Bedroom one: bed, double wardrobe, dressing table. Bedroom three: another dressing table and a small table. Garage: bicycle, lawnmower, wheelbarrow, and along the back wall the shelving that stands in most of the garages we open round here. Carpets were staying put. The tall upright fridge freezer was going, and a mattress with it.
Wednesday 16 March 2022, team at the door for nine. Paid by debit card once it was done. Nothing about the day was dramatic, and that is rather the point — a house cleared and swept through between breakfast and mid-afternoon, one van, no fuss on the street.
The one thing we had asked about beforehand was the kerb. We always do. The answer came back plainly enough. "There are no parking restrictions outside the house." On a good chunk of the NG18 and NG19 estates that is true, and it makes a real difference to the hours, because the shorter the walk from door to tailgate, the fewer of them we need. Where it is not true — the terraced rows nearer the town centre, the older streets running down towards the Maun — we work it out on the phone first rather than discovering it at nine in the morning.
Rainworth, and a cheque in the post
Out at Rainworth, NG21, we did a full first load plus a small fridge freezer back in the August of 2019. Rainworth sits between Mansfield and Blidworth, close enough to Sherwood Forest that half the roads are named for it, and it is one of those villages where the drive is long, the garage is full, and nobody has thrown anything away since the pit closed. The invoice went out, and the reply came back the next morning: "Very pleased with the service. they were brilliant." Payment by cheque, which even in 2019 was becoming a rarity.
Between those two jobs you have most of what we get called out to round here. A semi with a loft and a garage. A village house with more in the outbuildings than the rooms. Neither of them a crisis, both of them a day's proper graft.
Mansfield housing is mostly two sorts, and each behaves differently on a clearance day. The interwar and postwar semis on the estates have a hatch loft with a drop-down ladder, a strip of side path, and a detached or half-detached garage that has not held a car since about 1988. The older red-brick terraces closer to the Market Place and the viaduct have no side access at all, so everything — including the wardrobe from the back bedroom — comes down the stairs and out through the front room.
Which is why garage and loft clearance in Mansfield is rarely the small extra people expect it to be when they ring. The garage holds paint tins, a bench, a decade of offcuts and the mower; the loft holds boxes that went up when somebody moved in and were never opened again. We would rather know about both before the day than find out at half eleven. Say it on the phone and it is priced into the day. Say nothing and the day runs late for everybody.
The other regular caller is the landlord or the agent, and that is a different animal again. An end of tenancy clearance is usually one van, sometimes half of one — a flat over a shop on the Nottingham Road side of NG18, a two-bed on an estate, whatever the last tenant left behind plus the carpets if the letting needs them up. Those we can turn round quickly, because the property is empty of anything anyone is sentimental about, and the only thing that matters is that it is broom-clean and the keys go back the same day.
Where we go and what we come out with
We cover Mansfield itself, Mansfield Woodhouse, Forest Town, Ladybrook and Pleasley, and then out through Rainworth, Clipstone, Blidworth, Edwinstowe and Ollerton on one side, Market Warsop and Shirebrook to the north, and Sutton-in-Ashfield and Kirkby-in-Ashfield to the south-west.
Five postcode districts carry the work between them. NG18 is the town centre and the ground south and west of it — Berry Hill, Ladybrook, Bull Farm, Ravensdale, Oak Tree, Pleasley Hill. NG19 runs north and east: Mansfield Woodhouse, Forest Town, Pleasley village and the newer estates on that side. NG20 takes us out to Market Warsop and Church Warsop, Meden Vale, Shirebrook and Langwith. NG21 is the forest side — Rainworth, Blidworth, Clipstone, Bilsthorpe and Edwinstowe. And then NG70, which turns up on a piece of post now and again and puzzles people: it is a non-geographic district, a large-user code rather than a set of streets, so there is no house behind it for anyone to clear. Worth saying once, because we do get asked.
We are not the only page we have on this corner of the county, and people search the big name even when they want the small place. If the property is south-west of us in the old coalfield towns, that is house clearance in Ashfield; further down the Robin Hood Line it becomes house clearance in Hucknall; and the city end of the same line is house clearance in Nottingham. Same team, same vans. Tell us the postcode district and we will say straight away which page the property belongs to.
Mansfield District Council handles the bins and the fly-tipping enforcement; the household waste sites are a Nottinghamshire County Council job, and they are not set up for a whole house.
If you are coming up to meet us and haven't got a car, Mansfield station is on the Robin Hood Line, half an hour or so up from Nottingham and down from Worksop, with Mansfield Woodhouse the next stop north and Sutton Parkway to the south. Executors on a probate house clearance travel in for these days more often than you would think. The town went the best part of thirty years without a passenger railway at all, and it still surprises people that there is one now.
What leaves the property gets split before it gets loaded. Furniture that somebody would genuinely still want. A decent sideboard, a wardrobe with no water damage, books, tools, garden kit — we try to route to a reuse project or a charity shop that can take bulky items, and quite a lot of what comes out of a Mansfield semi qualifies. Metal goes for scrap. Wood, card, textiles and rubble get separated. Whatever is left goes to a permitted transfer station and comes back to us as a waste transfer note, which we will send you if you want to see it, and executors on a probate house clearance often do. Our waste carrier licence is CBDU419679, registered with the Environment Agency, and you are entitled to check it before anybody carries a stick of furniture out of your mother's house.
Fridges, sofas and the awkward items
Two things nearly always come up on a Nottinghamshire clearance, so it is worth saying plainly.
Fridges and freezers — upright, chest, under-counter — are handled separately from the rest of the load. The gases in the cooling circuit have to be drawn off at a site licensed to do it, so they travel as their own item rather than being counted in with ordinary bulk. There was a tall upright one on that first Mansfield job and a small one at Rainworth.
Sofas, armchairs and other upholstered seating fall under the POP rules. Since 2023 those cannot be mixed in with general waste. They travel as a listed item and are burned at a facility approved for the purpose, which is why a two-seater settee takes more organising than a bookcase twice its size. Gas bottles are the same story: we will take them, they just go on the docket on their own line and travel to a different place from the rest.
Flat clearance in Mansfield
Flat clearance is the other regular booking. The flats over the shops on the Nottingham Road side of NG18, and the low-rise blocks on the estates, mostly share a front door and a stair with somebody else. That decides the day rather than the contents: we carry down instead of dropping anything off a balcony, keep the landing clear, and tell the neighbours what is happening before the first wardrobe moves.
The overfilled ones
We get sent to houses nobody wants to open the door to, and we do not make a performance of it. Some of them are simply too much house for one day, and the honest thing is to say so at the start rather than at four in the afternoon.
One of those was in Mansfield Woodhouse, NG19. What survives in our file for that one is the shape of the days rather than a room list, so that is all I will claim. It took two full days and a load off the property on each of them, and one of those days was a weekend, which we do when the house has to be finished by a fixed date and a weekday will not stretch to it. After the second load was away the team cleaned the place through — a proper clean, not a sweep — and the house went back empty and ready to be handed over. The person settling it lived barely two miles off, in the same NG19 postcode district, which is the usual pattern in this town: the family has moved out to the next estate, not to the next county.
That is the difference between a clearance that fits a day and one that does not, and it is not always about mess. Sometimes it is a big house with a big loft. Sometimes it is thirty years of a workshop in the garage. Where it genuinely is a hoarded property, we have a page for hoarder house clearance that says how we go about it. Nobody on the team says a word about the state of a house then, and nobody would now.
Probate house clearance in Mansfield: what it costs and who pays
The straight answer to "how much" is that we need to see it. A photograph of each room, or a written room list like the one at the top of this page, is normally enough for us to give you a figure over the phone or by email, and the estimate is free and puts you under no obligation. If something turns up that nobody could see in the photographs — a loft nobody had been into, a shed with a collapsed roof — we ring you before we do anything about it.
There is no payment up front for UK customers. The invoice goes out after the work is finished and can be settled by card, transfer or cheque. Where the house clearance is part of an estate, we can bill the solicitor, the executor or the attorney direct and the work can be paid for out of the estate. We do it constantly, and it saves a family member putting it on their own account months before the house sells. That side of it is set out on our probate house clearance page.
Booking a day
The team arrives at nine and aims to have the property emptied and swept the same day. There is no need to bag anything up first — cupboards, wardrobes and drawers get cleared out by us, and carpets and underlay come up if you want them gone. The team leader photographs the property on arrival and again at the end, so there is a record of the state it was left in.
Tell us the address, the postcode district, roughly how many rooms, whether there is a loft, garage or shed in it, and whether the van can get within a reasonable carry of the door. If there is anything unpleasant in there, say so — it changes the kit we bring, not our willingness to come. Ring 0800 046 5555 or send the details through the form on this page and we will give you a straight figure and a date.
Common questions about house clearance in Mansfield
Do you clear the loft and garage as well as the rooms? Yes, and we would rather do the lot in one visit. Garage and loft clearance in Mansfield is the part people forget to mention, and on the estate semis it is often a third of the day. Tell us it is there when you ring.
Can you do an end of tenancy clearance for a landlord or agent? We do them regularly across NG18 and NG19. An end of tenancy job is usually smaller and faster than a full house — whatever the tenant left, plus carpets if you want them up — and the property goes back broom-clean with photographs of how it was left.
How long does a house clearance in Mansfield take? Most three-bed houses are a single day, nine until mid-afternoon. Where there is a full loft, a full garage and outbuildings as well, it can run to two days and more than one load, and we will tell you that before we start rather than halfway through.
We are executors and we live nowhere near Mansfield. Can you still do it? Yes. We can hold keys, meet an agent or a neighbour, photograph the property before and after, and send you the waste transfer note. Executors come up on the Robin Hood Line for these days, but plenty never see the house at all.
Can you invoice the solicitor handling the estate? We can, and often do. The invoice can go to the solicitor, the executor or an attorney direct, and the work can be paid for from the estate rather than by a family member personally.
Are you licensed to take the waste away? Our waste carrier licence is CBDU419679, registered with the Environment Agency and free for anyone to check. We have been doing this since 2007 and every load goes to a permitted site with paperwork to prove it.
