House clearance in East Molesey is riverside cottages off Bridge Road, thirties semis over on the Hurst Park side. The odd wide Edwardian house sat behind a hedge up towards the palace. We have been clearing them since 2007. Whole houses, single rooms, garages, lofts — and now and again a job that turns out rather bigger than the phone call suggested.
The bikes were the surprise. A three-bed semi in KT8, cleared on a Wednesday in June 2022. The customer had answered our booking questions in writing beforehand, line by line, and described the property as "3 bed semi with possibly some garage items/cycles". The garage held four of them, a workbench, and about fifteen years of the sort of things that get put down in a garage and never picked up again. He had also written "I will be on site on the day", and he was, all day, which makes everything quicker — nobody has to ring round for a decision about a wardrobe.
His one firm instruction was "Carpets & curtains to stay". So they stayed. Wardrobes emptied, drawers emptied, the cupboard under the stairs emptied, the cupboard over the boiler that nobody had opened in years emptied. The floor coverings left exactly as we found them. The paperwork went to an address down in West Sussex. Is ordinary round here: a good share of the houses we clear in East Molesey belong to people who left Surrey a long time ago.
That job is a fair picture of the house clearance work we do around Molesey. One day where the property allows it. Nothing needs boxing or bagging up beforehand — our lads do the emptying, that is what you are booking. If carpets and underlay are coming up, they come up. The place gets swept through before we shut the door behind us.
The kinds of house clearance we do in East Molesey
Garage and loft clearance East Molesey
Garage and loft clearance is booked on its own here more often than you would think. The house itself is fine, it is the two spaces nobody has properly looked at since the children left. A garage and loft clearance in East Molesey usually means a hatch with no ladder fixed to it. Ours bring their own and work up and down it for a fair part of the morning: suitcases, boxed Christmas decorations, cot frames, offcuts of carpet from a job done decades ago, water tanks that were replaced and never carried down. Garages give you the heavier end — mowers, workbenches, tins and drums along the back wall, bicycles with flat tyres. Garden furniture that in a Surrey house with long-standing owners tends to be teak and heavy. That goes out through the side gate a piece at a time rather than through the hall. Fair enough. That is the job.
Before the day we also ask, plainly, whether there is anything in the property that would make it a verminous clearance. Decaying food left in a fridge that has been off for months, animal mess, needles, that class of thing. It is not nosiness. It changes what protective kit the team brings and how the waste has to be handled and documented. We would rather sort it out on the phone than have four men standing in a hallway working out what to do.
End of tenancy and flat clearance East Molesey
The flats above the parades on Bridge Road and Walton Road. The purpose-built blocks tucked behind them, are their own kind of day. Second-floor flat, no lift, a communal stair that other people need to use. A loading spot forty yards away. End of tenancy work usually has a deadline attached to it. Keys back to the agent, a check-out booked — so we would rather be told the deadline than discover it. Landlords and managing agents booking a flat clearance in East Molesey can leave us to it with a key, and plenty do.
Hoarder house clearance East Molesey
Houses that have filled up over many years we handle the same as any other, without comment and without a lecture. Hoarder house clearance takes longer, needs more men and more protective kit, and the sorting matters more. Paperwork, photographs and money turn up in the middle of it and get put aside for the family rather than loaded. If that is the house you are ringing about, say so and we will plan for it — there is more on our hoarder house clearance page.
Where a load goes after it leaves
Anything still usable, we would rather see used — Elmbridge has plenty of charity shops and reuse projects along Bridge Road, Walton Road and up into Esher High Street. Furniture and bric-a-brac that is clean and whole gets offered there before it gets loaded for disposal. What cannot be rehomed goes to a permitted transfer station and gets weighed in and recorded. There is a paper trail behind every van that leaves your drive. We hold waste carrier licence CBDU419679 with the Environment Agency, and we are insured. Fly-tipping in this borough is somebody else's business and not one we have ever wanted a part of.
Sofas, armchairs and other upholstered seating are a separate matter. The fire-retardant chemicals in old upholstery foam are controlled and, under the rules that came in for us in 2023, cannot be tipped in with general household waste. They travel apart from the rest of the load and go to a site licensed to destroy them. A single armchair counts. So does one loose seat cushion, which surprises people.
Things we cannot lift at all: tins of paint and thinners, gas bottles, car batteries, asbestos sheeting from an old garage roof. Paint and car batteries go to a Surrey recycling centre; gas bottles go back to the supplier, and asbestos needs a licensed disposal site. We will say which — rather than us turning up and leaving you with a pile in the hall.
Small collections and the garage-under-the-flats problem
Not everybody needs a whole house done. In June 2023 we did a collection from a ground-floor garage under a block of flats in KT8. One of those lock-ups in a court where the garage is fifty yards from anywhere a Luton can legally stand, so it was a caged tipper and a barrow. The customer was living over near Guildford by then and dealt with the whole thing by email.
For collections like it we work from photographs. Send four or five pictures on your phone showing the whole pile and we will come back to you. If the driver sees on the day that it has grown since the photographs he will tell you before he starts loading, not after. Ground floor only for these — a caged tipper crew will not carry sofas down two flights. It is better you know that on the phone than on the morning.
That same customer had come to us earlier in the year and gone elsewhere: "Thanks for getting back to me, unfortunately I got a more favourable quote so I won't be needing you this time." Then he came back the following season and booked. That is how this trade works, and we do not mind saying it.
Getting a van to your door in KT8
East Molesey is awkward in the specific way riverside villages are awkward. Bridge Road narrows near the Hampton Court end, the roads off Walton Road and Palace Road are lined with parked cars from early morning. The Hampton Court Way approach backs up badly whenever the palace has an event on. We work around it by starting at nine and, where a road is tight, dropping the team and the barrows first while the van finds a legal spot. If your street needs a suspended bay, Elmbridge Borough Council takes the application and wants a few working days' notice. Mention it when you book and we will factor it in.
Hampton Court station sits on the East Molesey side of the bridge. Thames Ditton station is a few minutes east; both are handy if you are travelling in from London to let us in and going straight back the same afternoon. Executors do that constantly.
The districts we work
From Molesey we work the whole of the KT8 district. East Molesey, West Molesey and the Hurst Park side — plus KT7 for Thames Ditton and Long Ditton, KT10 for Esher, Claygate and Hinchley Wood, KT11 for Cobham and Stoke d'Abernon, KT22 for Oxshott, KT12 across Walton-on-Thames and Hersham, KT13 for Weybridge and Oatlands, KT14 for Byfleet and West Byfleet, and KT6 and KT9 for Surbiton and Chessington. All Surrey, most of it Elmbridge, and near enough all of it within twenty minutes of the bridge.
Several of those places have pages of their own: house clearance in Esher and house clearance in Walton-on-Thames for the two bigger neighbours, and house clearance in Thames Ditton just over the road from us, plus house clearance in Hampton across the bridge. Same team, same vans, same licence.
Probate house clearance in East Molesey, and who we invoice
A lot of the house clearance we do in East Molesey is probate work. The person organising it is rarely local. Probate clearances get booked from Yorkshire, from Sussex, from abroad, by an executor who has been to the house twice and has a solicitor holding the file. That is fine. We can take a key from an agent or a neighbour, photograph anything we are unsure about before it goes on the van. Set aside documents, photographs and anything that looks like it belongs to the estate rather than to the skip.
On payment we are straightforward: where a clearance is part of an estate, we invoice the solicitor, the executor or the administrator directly. The bill can be settled out of the estate once probate has been granted. There is no deposit — the invoice follows the work, not the other way round. If you want it in writing before you commit, ask and you will have it in writing. More detail sits on our probate house clearance page, and rubbish-only jobs are on house rubbish removal.
And if you want a figure, there is one way to get it and it takes five minutes: ring the office on 0800 046 5555, or send photographs through the form on this page. Photographs of every room, the garage, the loft hatch and the garden. You will have a proper figure back — no obligation attached to it.
Common questions about house clearance in East Molesey
Do you clear the whole house in one day? Usually, yes. We arrive at nine and aim to have the property cleared that day wherever the contents and the access allow it. Bigger or heavily cluttered houses can run to a second day. We will tell you that before the day rather than at four in the afternoon.
Can you invoice a solicitor or an executor? Yes. For probate house clearance we invoice the solicitor, the executor or the administrator of the estate directly. Payment can come from the estate. There is no deposit to pay before we start.
How do I get a figure for a house clearance in East Molesey? Ring 0800 046 5555 or send photographs through the form on this page. The whole of each room, plus the garage, the loft and anything outside. That is the only sensible way to do it; nobody can size a clearance from a description alone.
Does anything need packing or sorting before we come? No. Nothing needs boxing or bagging up. Tell us what is staying — carpets, curtains, white goods, a particular chest of drawers — and put a note on it or on the room door, and it stays.
What will you not take away? Paint, thinners, gas bottles, car batteries and asbestos. We will tell you where each of those has to go. Everything else, including upholstered furniture and fridges, we handle under the rules that apply to them.
Do you cover West Molesey and the rest of KT8, or only East Molesey? The whole district, and the neighbouring ones listed above. A house clearance in East Molesey, West Molesey or over the bridge in KT7 is the same day's work to us.
