We have been doing house clearance in Tamworth since long before half the estates off the A5 were built. The firm has been working since 2007. Between B77, B78 and B79 there is not much of the town a van of ours hasn't stood in. Most of that work is ordinary, and the ordinary jobs teach you the most.
A fridge freezer, two mattresses and a single load. That was the whole of a house clearance Tamworth job we did at the end of March 2021 in Dordon, which still posts as Tamworth, B78, though the county there is Warwickshire. Not a big clearance by any measure. Three of us, one van, in and out inside the day, with the fridge freezer taken off separately for degassing and the two mattresses booked into the regulated stream they have to go through. The person settling it lived in the same village, which is how a lot of Dordon and Polesworth work goes: the property belongs to one generation and the paperwork sits with the next, a couple of streets away. Afterwards they wrote, and it was short and to the point: "Thanks for your services, I have just paid the invoice".
We keep those. Half the useful things we know about a place come off the back of jobs like that one, not off a map.
The patch we actually cover round here
Tamworth is odd postally and it trips people up. The town sits in Staffordshire, under Tamworth Borough Council, but the postcodes belong to the Birmingham B area. B77 for Wilnecote, Two Gates, Glascote and the Belgrave side, B78 for Fazeley, Dordon, Hopwas, Kingsbury and Mile Oak, B77 for Dosthill and Wilnecote, B79 for the town centre, Bolehall and Amington. So people ring up half-expecting us to say we only do the West Midlands conurbation. We cover the lot, and we cover it the same way whether the house is a terrace behind Kettlebrook or a bungalow out toward Elford.
Getting to you is straightforward, which matters more than it sounds. Tamworth station is that unusual two-level one, the West Coast Main Line running high over the Birmingham-to-Derby line underneath. The A5 and the M42 cross just south of the town, so the van comes in off the motorway rather than crawling through anything. Wilnecote station is the other one, handy if you're travelling in to meet us and haven't got the car. Executors coming up from London for the day have met us at the high-level platforms before now and been back on a train by four.
Beyond the town itself we take work in Polesworth, Atherstone, Kingsbury, Coleshill, Lichfield and across into Sutton Coldfield. Several of those have a page of their own. house clearance in Sutton Coldfield for anything the far side of the A38, house clearance in Birmingham for the city proper once you are past the M6, and house clearance in West Bromwich if the property is over in the Black Country rather than here. We will not make claims about a corridor. Those are simply the places a team can get to from a Tamworth job and still put in a proper day.
How a house clearance in Tamworth runs on the day
The team leader walks the property with you before anything is lifted, room by room, loft hatch open, garage door open, shed included. You tell him what stays. Carpets, curtains, the fitted units, a chair somebody wants — write it on a list or stick a bit of masking tape on it, either works, and it saves an argument later.
Then it is bedrooms down to the hall, kitchen last because the kettle is in it. On the newer estates round Wilnecote and Glascote the van can usually get on the drive and it is a short carry. In the older terraces nearer the town centre it can't, and the load gets barrowed out to wherever we are legally allowed to stand — that is worth telling us on the phone, because it changes how many pairs of hands we bring.
Most three-bedroom houses in B77 and B79 are a day. A house that has not been emptied since the seventies is two, sometimes with a second team on the second morning. If we think it is going to run over, you hear it at the walk round, not at four in the afternoon.
The kinds of house clearance Tamworth people ring us about
Probate house clearance Tamworth
A good share of the house clearance Tamworth work we take on is probate. It has its own pace: the grant has to come through, a sale is usually crawling along behind it, and there are often three or four people who all have to be told the same thing on the same day. We are used to waiting, and we would sooner wait than push somebody into a date they are not ready for.
On a probate clearance we photograph the property before and after and send the lot over, because the person instructing us frequently never sets foot in the house. Anything that clearly matters — deeds, letters, albums, medals, an envelope of photographs at the back of a wardrobe — is set aside and flagged before it goes near the van. If it needs posting on to an executor in another county, we will do that.
Hoarder house clearance Tamworth
Where a house has got badly on top of somebody — rooms you cannot walk through, a hallway with a path worn between the piles — we will do it without comment and without an audience. Nobody gets a lecture. A hoarder house clearance is slower because everything has to be sifted rather than shifted: there is cash in tins, jewellery in shoe boxes and paperwork in carrier bags in almost every one of them. Tell the team leader at the walk round what might be in there and the team works accordingly, setting anything found aside for you.
Flat clearance in B79 and B77
Flat clearance is its own job and we treat it as one. The town centre has flats over shops with a single stair and no lift, and there are maisonettes and sheltered schemes scattered through B77 and B79 where the corridors are long and the lift, if there is one, is small. Say which floor you are on and whether there is a lift when you first ring — that single sentence decides whether we send two or three, and whether we need to ask the scheme manager about parking at the door.
Garage and loft clearance Tamworth
Nobody can see into a loft from a photograph. That is the honest limit of a garage and loft clearance worked out from pictures. We go on what is visible, and the team leader gets his head through the hatch before anything moves. If the loft or a garage that has not been opened since 2011 changes the picture, you are told there and then. Detached garages round here are full of the same things — tins, tyres, a mower, a chest freezer, forty years of offcuts — and none of it is a problem so long as we know it is there.
End of tenancy and part clearances
Landlords and agents in Tamworth use us between tenancies, and plenty of jobs are not a full house at all: one room, a garage, a single wardrobe nobody can get down the stairs. We will do a single item if we are already in the area.
What leaves the house, and where to
Anything still serviceable — furniture that isn't marked, working white goods, tools, books, unopened kit — we'd rather see going out to a charity shop or a reuse project than into a load. Some weeks that works better than others; the depots have their own space problems and won't take everything offered. What can't be passed on goes to a licensed transfer station and gets weighed, ticketed and recorded, and we can hand those records over if a solicitor or an agent wants them for the file. We carry waste under licence CBDU419679, and we're fully insured for the work and for the property while we're in it.
There are things we can't put in an ordinary load, and it's worth knowing before the day. Tins of paint, gas cylinders, solvents, asbestos sheeting off a garage roof — those need their own arrangements, and we'll point you at the right route. Upholstered chairs and sofas go down a separate regulated line by law, which is why they are loaded and recorded on their own. Fridges and freezers are the same, degassed rather than crushed. Mattresses too. Fluorescent tubes can't just be snapped into a skip because of the mercury in them. None of that is us being awkward; it's what the rules are.
Household bins are Tamworth Borough Council's job and the household recycling centres are run by Staffordshire County Council, and neither is set up for the contents of a full house. That's the gap we fill.
What a house clearance in Tamworth costs, and who we invoice
On cost the page says one thing, and it is deliberate. Ring the office on 0800 046 5555 with the postcode, the number of bedrooms, whether there's a loft, a garage or a shed, and where the van can stand — or send photographs of each room through the form on this page. You get a figure back. The quote is free and it commits you to nothing.
There is no deposit. Where a house is being cleared under probate we invoice the solicitor, the executor or the estate directly, and it can be settled out of the estate, which is the arrangement on a good share of what we do. Payment runs through the office — card, transfer or cheque — and never into somebody's hand at the door. That last rule came out of a mess years ago where cash was handed to a crew on the day, the office knew nothing about it and kept chasing, and it took a fortnight to unpick. Nobody enjoyed that.
Executors working from somewhere else entirely
More than half of our probate house clearance instructions come from people who are not in Staffordshire and are not going to be. Keys with an agent or a neighbour, a set of photographs afterwards, waste transfer documentation for the estate file — that is a normal arrangement and we do not need anybody standing in the hall to make it work.
Where there is more than one executor it is worth telling us who wants updating, because we will otherwise send everything to whoever booked it. Three people to keep informed rather than one is most of what makes an estate clearance different from an ordinary house clearance. Given how much invoice fraud is aimed at estates now, it is also worth ringing the office on the published number to confirm our bank details rather than trusting an email — we would far rather take that call than have anyone caught out.
Occupied houses, and the ones people apologise for
Not everything we do is an empty property. Plenty of Tamworth jobs are done around a family who are still living there — new carpets down and protector sheets over them, furniture pushed into the middle of each room, beds shifted from room to room as we work through the house. It is slower, it is perfectly doable, and it is better said at the start than discovered at nine in the morning.
And nobody needs to apologise to us for the state of a house. We have seen worse than yours, whatever it is, and we were not there to judge that one either.
Common questions about house clearance in Tamworth
Do you cover the whole of Tamworth, or only the town centre?
All of it — B79 in the centre, Bolehall and Amington, B77 for Wilnecote, Two Gates, Glascote, Belgrave and Dosthill, and B78 out through Fazeley, Mile Oak, Hopwas, Kingsbury, Dordon and Polesworth. The county boundary running through the middle of that lot makes no difference to us.
How do I get a price for a house clearance in Tamworth?
Ring 0800 046 5555 or send photographs of each room through the form on this page, along with the postcode and whether there is a loft, garage or shed. We come back with a figure and a date. The quote is free and nothing is committed until you say yes.
Can you invoice the solicitor or the executor for a probate clearance?
Yes, and it is routine. We invoice the solicitor, the executor or the estate directly, it can be paid out of the estate, and there is no deposit to find beforehand. Invoicing after the work is done is the norm, not a favour.
Do I have to be there on the day?
No. Keys from an agent, a neighbour or a key safe are all normal in Tamworth, and you get photographs of every room afterwards. If you would rather meet the team at the start and leave them to it, the station is a short walk from the town centre.
What can't you take away in the van?
Paint, solvents, gas bottles, asbestos and clinical waste all need their own route, and we will tell you which one. Fridges, freezers, mattresses and upholstered furniture we do take, but they are handled under the regulated stream the law puts them in rather than going in with the general load.
How long does a clearance take?
A flat or a small bungalow is usually part of a day. A three-bedroom house with a loft and a garage is a full day. Houses that have not been emptied in decades run to two days and occasionally a second team, and we tell you that at the walk round rather than at the end of it.
Got a house in Tamworth, Wilnecote, Glascote, Fazeley, Amington or Dordon that needs emptying? Ring 0800 046 5555, or send a few photographs through the form on this page and we will come back to you with a figure and a date.
