Most of the house clearance work we take on in Bath sits in BA1 and BA2 — Avon to anyone who remembers the county, and most of it is somebody emptying a parent's house rather than their own. We have been doing this since 2007 and we are licensed carriers. A Bath house clearance gets booked the same way for a terrace up the hill and for a flat two floors up a listed Georgian stair. You tell us the rooms honestly, we tell you the day.
A recent one, May 2025, over on the Whiteway side of BA2. The whole conversation about it ran to about two lines. We asked what size the property was and got back: "Hi its a 3 bedroomed house." When we read the estimate back over, the answer was "Yes thats it love.x". Booked on that. It went as two loads on the day, a first and a same-day second, because a three-bed that is still furnished rarely goes in one. A small fridge freezer, a mattress, a POP item and a tin of paint each came out on its own route. Whiteway sits up above Twerton with the long views back over the city, and the streets there are terraced and steep, so a full house comes down in armfuls rather than in one clean carry from a tailgate. Settled by the end of that same month, no fuss, no chasing.
What has to be kept apart, and why
Some of what leaves a house cannot travel with the rest, and that is the law rather than our preference. Upholstered furniture — sofas, armchairs, padded headboards, garden cushions — has to be kept out of ordinary mixed waste because of the flame retardants in the foam, so each piece is counted and routed separately. That is what a POP item means on a job sheet. Fridges and freezers need their gas taken out under a permit before anything is broken down. Mattresses go to a shredder that pulls the springs out of the fibre. Paint travels as a liquid, in its own container, to a site that will take liquids. If you ever wonder why a Bath house clearance is itemised the way it is rather than written up as one lump, that is why — the tickets at the far end have to match what came out of your rooms.
Everything else gets sorted before it is written off. Furniture that is still sound, working white goods, decent crockery, books, tools — we try the reuse outfits and charity shops around the city first, because Bath has plenty of them and they will take good stock. What genuinely has nowhere left to go is weighed in at a permitted transfer station and recorded against our carrier registration, CBDU419679. We are insured for the work and for the vehicles, and the paperwork is there if a solicitor or an executor wants sight of it.
Getting a van to a Bath terrace
Access in this city is its own trade. Bath is a World Heritage terrace built on the side of a hill. That means basement kitchens down a flight of worn stone steps, and top-floor rooms up three narrow turns with a handrail never meant for a wardrobe. It means residents' bays that fill by half eight in the morning. And lanes off Lansdown or Widcombe where a Luton box van has to be reversed in rather than driven in. We arrive at nine. We would far rather know the parking problem the week before than find it on the day. If the street has a permit scheme, tell us; if the only realistic spot is forty yards down the hill, tell us that too, because it changes how long the day runs, not whether we can do it.
A flat in one of the tall Georgian terraces on the north side of BA1 was a different order of job altogether. It came to us as a verminous clearance — the category we use when a property cannot be handled as ordinary house contents, because of infestation or because the conditions inside call for protective kit and a separate disposal route. It ran at the verminous rate rather than as a standard load, with a full clean afterwards once the rooms were empty, and the mattress out on its own.
The owner's family were up in Yorkshire and never saw the inside of it; everything they knew about the place came from us by email. A flat clearance like that is slow work, because flats of that age sit two and three floors up a communal stair in a listed building with no lift, so every bag and every drawer comes out by hand past other people's front doors. The stairwell is covered before a single thing moves. We photograph a property like that for our own quality record only, and we do not discuss it with the neighbours.
What kinds of house clearance we take on in Bath
Probate house clearance in Bath
Probate work is the bulk of it. A house that has been in one family for forty years, an executor two counties away, a sale that cannot proceed until the rooms are empty. That is a normal week for us here, and it is why our probate house clearance page exists as well as this one. On a probate clearance we can invoice the solicitor, the trustee or the executor directly rather than the family member who happened to ring, and the invoice can be settled from the estate. No deposit is taken; the bill follows the work. Where the will leaves particular items to particular people, list them for us before the day and they will be set aside in one room rather than loaded. Executors handling a probate house clearance in Bath from Yorkshire, Kent or abroad are the rule rather than the exception, and none of them needs to be standing in the hall for it to happen.
Flat clearance in BA1 and BA2
A flat clearance in the city centre is a different day's work from a house. Communal stairs, no lift, a bin store that belongs to everybody, a management company with its own rules about the front door being propped. We work out the carry before we quote it, not after. Purpose-built blocks around Oldfield Park and Twerton are usually easy; a conversion in one of the Georgian terraces rarely is.
Garage and loft clearance in Bath
Not every job is a whole house. A garage and loft clearance on its own is a perfectly normal booking. The loft nobody has opened since the roof was done, the garage door that has not lifted in years. A shed at the bottom of a Combe Down garden with a workbench bolted to the wall. Tell us the shed and the garage when you describe the property, because they are the two things people forget and they are the two things that turn one load into two.
Part clearances, hoarded rooms and the clean afterwards
Where a family has already taken what it wants, we clear the remainder. Where a property has been left packed to the ceiling — bags in the hall, wardrobes still full, a loft nobody has been up to in twenty years — that is a volume problem and nothing more. We have done plenty of them and we do not comment on them, on the day or afterwards. Alongside a full clearance we also cover heavily soiled and verminous clearances, a standard clean once the rooms are empty, a garden cut back at the same visit, and wallpaper stripping.
How a quote for house clearance in Bath is arranged
Ring the office on 0800 046 5555 and describe the rooms, or send photographs through the form on this page — hallway, each room, the loft hatch, the garage, the garden. The quote is free and commits you to nothing. If the contents turn out to run over what was described, you are told on the day, before a second load is started, with the option to stop there. What we will not do is put a figure on a house we have not seen described properly, because a guess helps nobody and it is the fastest way to a bad day for both sides.
Where the vans go from here
Geographically that is BA1 and BA2 across Bath itself — Bathford, Batheaston, Bathampton, Larkhall, Weston, Twerton, Combe Down, Widcombe — then BA3 down at Radstock and Midsomer Norton, and Peasedown St John on the BA2 side. West and south of the city we take BS31 at Keynsham and Saltford, and BS14 at Whitchurch and Stockwood on the Bristol edge. BS39 covers Clutton, Temple Cloud and Paulton. BS40 runs through the Chew Valley at Chew Magna, Chew Stoke and Blagdon, and BS22 takes in Worle and the north side of Weston-super-Mare. The council for the city and the villages round it is Bath and North East Somerset; Worle and Weston sit in North Somerset, and their tips and rules differ, which is one more reason the loads are documented properly.
Some of the places just beyond those districts have pages of their own rather than a mention here: house clearance in Bristol to the west, and over on the Mendip side house clearance in Frome and house clearance in Shepton Mallet. If your property is in one of those, start there — it will be a shorter drive and a cleaner day.
Most crews come in on the A4 or the A46 off the M4, so start times hold. If you are travelling to meet us, Bath Spa is the obvious station. Oldfield Park is closer for the Whiteway and Twerton side of BA2. Keynsham has its own stop on the Bristol line, and Worle station is a few minutes from the BS22 estates. Plenty of our customers never come at all — we collect a key from a neighbour or an agent, and photographs of the empty rooms go over by email the same afternoon.
Common questions about house clearance in Bath
Do you do probate house clearance, and can you invoice the solicitor? Yes. Probate clearances are most of our work in this city, and we invoice the solicitor, trustee or executor directly if that is easier than billing a family member. The work can be paid for out of the estate.
Do I have to be at the property on the day? No. We take a key from a neighbour, an agent or a solicitor's office, ring the contact when the team is in, and email photographs of the empty rooms the same afternoon. Executors living at a distance are normal for us.
Can you clear just a garage and loft, or a single room? Yes. A garage and loft clearance, a part clearance after the family has taken what it wants, or a single awkward item are all normal bookings. Tell us the shed as well.
What will you not take? Asbestos in any form, gas bottles, fuel and oil drums, ammunition and clinical waste. Those need a specialist and we will say so on the phone rather than turn up and leave them in the hall.
Which parts of Bath do you cover? All of BA1 and BA2 — Larkhall, Walcot, Bathwick, Widcombe, Combe Down, Oldfield Park, Twerton, Weston, Bathford, Batheaston and Bathampton among them — plus BA3, and the BS districts west of the city listed above.
How do I get a quote? Call 0800 046 5555 and describe the rooms, or send photographs through the form on this page. It is free and there is no obligation to book.
If you are an executor working through a Somerset estate from another part of the country, that is an ordinary week for us. Ring the office, describe the rooms honestly — including the loft, the shed and the garage door that will not open — and you will have a proper answer to work with before anyone turns up.
