House clearance in Haslemere means the town and everything else in GU27, and we've been doing this kind of work since 2007. What decides how a day goes is almost never the size of the house.
Two small household fire extinguishers, photographed and emailed over a few days before the van was due. That was the awkward bit on a top-floor flat clearance we ran in March 2025 — not the wardrobes, not the beds, the extinguishers. They can't go in a mixed load and they can't go to a household recycling centre in a carrier bag either, so they were logged separately and routed through a proper stream. The flat was on the third floor of a purpose-built court.
Small lift, wide stairs, and the family had already worked out that the removal vans should come in by the side road and pull into the courtyard to load rather than block the main entrance. A washing machine and a microwave got added to the list the week before, left waiting in the hall. The fitted unit built round the bed was dismantled and stacked ready by the time we arrived. Kitchen, bathroom and en suite were all to be left untouched — everything in those rooms stayed.
Whoever wrote that booking form had thought about it properly, and the day ran short because of it.
That's the kind of detail that decides how a house clearance in Haslemere actually goes. Not the size of the house. The stairs, the parking, and whether anyone has told us what's staying.
Where the vans go
Haslemere sits in the far south-west corner of Surrey, in Waverley borough, in the GU27 postcode district — GU27 1, GU27 2 and GU27 3 between them cover the town, Shottermill, Grayswood, Camelsdale and the lanes running down towards Fernhurst. We're across the whole GU area regularly, so a booking here slots in alongside house clearance in Godalming, house clearance in Farnham, Cranleigh and Hindhead. Over the Sussex border we do house clearance in Midhurst and Petworth often enough that the A286 run is routine rather than a special trip. Witley, Chiddingfold, Grayshott and Liphook are the same story. Waverley Borough Council handles collections; the household recycling centres are run by Surrey County Council, and their opening rules change with the season, which matters more than people expect when a clearance overruns into late afternoon.
Haslemere station is on the Portsmouth Direct line, which is genuinely useful for executors who live in London and need to come down for a morning to point at things. Fifty-odd minutes from Waterloo, and the station is a walk from most of the town. More than once we've had someone travel down on the train, walk the team through the house for half an hour, mark two or three pieces to keep, and go home again while we carried on. If nobody can come at all, a key safe or a neighbour is fine — we photograph every room before we start and again when it's empty, and the pictures go over by email the same evening.
A full one: house, sheds, garage, garden
In May 2025 we took on a clearance instructed by a managing agent working from another county, and it's a fair example of what "everything" means. The quote covered the house itself, the conservatory extension, and all the non-fixed bits outside — garden furniture, ornaments, a wheelbarrow, plant pots, the run of clutter down the side of the house that nobody counts until the van is there. Two sheds. One garage. An under-counter fridge, an upright fridge freezer and a washing machine. No loft, which is rare and worth confirming, because a loft can add a load on its own. The oven and hob were integrated so they stayed put. Family members were expecting to take one or two things before the day, and the instruction was to sell what could be sold and recycle the rest. The occupier didn't want to be present. It took the vans two runs.
Garage and loft clearance in Haslemere
Garage and loft clearance is the part people underestimate, and around here it's usually the whole reason for the call. Older houses on the Shottermill and Grayswood sides tend to have a proper loft with a fixed ladder and forty years of boxes over the joists. The garage is often a separate building down a shared drive with a door that hasn't opened since the last owner. We'll do a garage and loft on their own without touching the rest of the house — no obligation to book a full house clearance in Haslemere to get the loft emptied. Tell us before the day whether there's boarding, lighting and a ladder up there, because the answer changes how many people we bring.
Anything still usable comes off the van and goes to a charity shop or a reuse project before it ever reaches a skip — furniture in decent order, tools, crockery, books, unopened bedding. What's genuinely finished goes to a permitted transfer station and comes back to us as a paper trail: every load weighed, every ticket kept, and copies sent to you if you want them for the estate file. Our waste carrier registration is CBDU419679, and we're happy to put it in writing along with our public liability cover — a letting agent asked us for exactly that before releasing payment on a two-load flat clearance in 2022, and quite right too.
What costs extra, and why
Some things can't simply go on the van behind the sofas, and that's the law rather than us being difficult. Fridges and freezers hold refrigerant gas and have to go through their own stream. Mattresses are handled separately. Paint tins, gas canisters and anything chemical can't ride in an ordinary mixed load at all; on that top-floor flat there was a paint tin, it was listed before the day, and it went where it should. Upholstered furniture — sofas, armchairs, padded dining and office chairs — counts as POPs waste under the rules that came in from 2023 and cannot be mixed with general household waste at all. So when we ask what's in the garage before we quote, it isn't idle curiosity.
There's a physical limit too, and it isn't negotiable. Two items once had to stay in a garage overnight — not from lack of will, but because putting them on would have taken the vans over the weight we're legally allowed to carry on the road. If a house turns out to hold a good deal more than the photographs suggested, you hear it from us on the day, before the second load starts.
Part-done houses, and houses nobody has touched
Plenty of families get halfway themselves and then run out of weekends, and the tail end is the bit that drags. One clearance we picked up in December 2022 was exactly that: the family had done the rooms, and what was left was a full load of the last of it, the awkward remainder nobody photographs. We put a return date in for the 28th and then the year turned over on us. The team went out with a wrong number on the sheet, got to fifteen minutes away and couldn't raise anybody; we asked for the right number, heard nothing back, and so the address didn't make it into that day's run at all. That's on us, and we said so.
The message came in on the fourth: "Just checking if someone was still coming today (4th Jan) to remove the final items for clearance". No, was the honest answer, not today — but we could send a crew the following morning. Thursday, between twelve and two, with an extra pair of hands on the job and a call an hour before arrival so nobody sat in waiting all day. Full load off, and every bit of it through regulated recycling and disposal rather than the nearest tip.
Two boxes were still sitting there when it was done. We said what we'd say to anyone: with two boxes you're probably better off waiting until there's a bit more to make a van worth sending. People expect us to say yes to everything. Sometimes the useful answer is not yet.
End of tenancy clearance in Haslemere
End of tenancy work is its own rhythm and we do a fair amount of it in GU27. Landlords and agents with a check-out date that can't move, a flat over a shop in the High Street, or a let cottage down towards Camelsdale where the previous tenant left the white goods and half the furniture. For an end of tenancy clearance we work to the date rather than to a convenient Tuesday, sweep through afterwards, and send photographs of every empty room the same evening so there's something to put alongside the inventory. Carpets, curtains and light fittings often stay; tell us and they stay.
Hoarder house clearance in Haslemere
The opposite end we're equally used to. Rooms filled to shoulder height, doors that only open a foot, decades of paperwork in carrier bags. We don't comment and we don't hurry you out of the room while we work. If there's cash, jewellery or documents likely to be buried in it, tell us and we'll set anything of that sort aside on a table rather than bag it. That's the normal way a hoarder house clearance runs, slowly and with somebody sorting rather than shovelling. Not everything we clear is a house, either: in March 2023 we emptied a forty-foot storage container on an industrial estate, contents unknown to the family who'd inherited it, fridge freezer included, with three of them standing there as it was opened.
Probate, executors and getting a figure
Where a clearance follows a death, we can invoice the estate, a solicitor or an appointed executor directly rather than asking a family member to pay and claim it back. That's the ordinary arrangement on a probate house clearance and it doesn't need arguing over. No deposit is taken from UK customers — you settle after the work is done, by card or transfer. We can also produce a written inventory of contents before anything is moved, which some solicitors want on file.
A probate house clearance in Haslemere often runs to a slower timetable than the family would like, because grant of probate takes as long as it takes and the house sits there in the meantime. That's fine by us. We'll hold a date, we'll work from a key safe, and we'll wait while a valuer looks at two or three pieces first. Where the executor is at the other end of the country, everything can be done on photographs and email, with the room-by-room pictures going over the same evening.
For a quote, a phone call and a few photographs are usually enough. Somebody who's actually loaded a van will talk it through with you: how many loads it looks like, what has to be handled separately, whether the lane outside is wide enough for a Luton. It's free and it commits you to nothing. Ring 0800 046 5555 or send the photographs through the form on this page.
Common questions about house clearance in Haslemere
Do you cover all of GU27, or just the town? All of it — GU27 1, GU27 2 and GU27 3, so the town centre, Shottermill, Grayswood, Camelsdale and the lanes out towards Fernhurst. Hindhead, Witley, Chiddingfold, Grayshott and Liphook are the same working day for us.
Can you invoice a solicitor for a probate house clearance in Haslemere? Yes. On probate work we invoice the estate, the solicitor or the named executor directly, so no relative has to pay out of their own pocket and claim it back afterwards. We can send the waste transfer paperwork and a written inventory with it for the estate file.
Do I have to be there on the day? No. A key safe or a neighbour with a key is enough. We photograph every room before we start and again when it's empty, and email the lot over the same evening. Plenty of executors come down on the train for half an hour, mark what's staying, and go home.
What won't you take? Fridges, freezers, mattresses, paint, gas canisters, chemicals and upholstered furniture all have to be handled separately by law, so they're listed before the day rather than found on it. Asbestos we don't touch at all — that's a licensed job for somebody else.
Can you clear just a garage, a loft or a single room? Yes. Garage and loft clearance on its own is common here, and so is one room, one shed or a single heavy item. There's no rule that says a house clearance in Haslemere has to be the whole house.
How much notice do you need? Usually a few days, sometimes less. End of tenancy dates and completion dates we'll work around where we can — tell us the deadline when you first ring, not afterwards.
Call or email us about a house clearance in Haslemere, Shottermill, Grayswood or anywhere else in GU27 and we'll tell you honestly what it involves — including the days we can't do.
