FREE DOWNSIZING PLANNER
FREE House Clearance & Downsizing Planner Nottingham
Free PDF, no sign-up needed
Room-by-room checklist
We buy saleable items back
If you're staring at a house full of decades of belongings and don't know where to start, our FREE House Clearance & Downsizing Planner in Nottingham is built to take the guesswork out of the first few weeks. It's a straightforward PDF you can download or print at home, and you work through it room by room at your own pace, marking each item as Keep, Sell, Donate or Recycle before anyone from our team sets foot in the house. Grab your copy here and start filling it in tonight if you want to.
The planner sits alongside our house clearance services in Nottingham, and it earns its keep in a fairly simple way: the more you've sorted before we arrive, the closer we can get to a firm price over the phone. Once you've been through the planner, ring us with your list, tell us what's in the Sell pile, and we'll talk you through timing and rough cost before anyone books a van or sets foot on your drive.
At a Glance
- Free PDF planner, no sign-up or sales call required
- We'll buy saleable items off you and knock it off your clearance bill
- Local team covering Nottingham, Derby and Sheffield who know the recycling routes
What the Planner Walks You Through (and What Still Needs a Site Visit)
- Room-by-room checklist covering bedrooms, living rooms, kitchen, garage, shed and loft
- Four sorting categories - Keep, Sell, Donate, Recycle - with space to note which family member is taking what
- A rough timeline template for spacing a downsize over several weeks if you're clearing around someone still living in the property
- Prompts to flag furniture, collectables or electricals that might be worth a valuation before they go in a van
- A notes column for items needing special handling - fridges, freezers, gas appliances, paint tins
- Contact details so you can ring through your completed list for a phone estimate
Not Included / Costed Separately
- A binding price - the planner narrows things down, it doesn't replace a look at the property
- Removal of hazardous waste such as asbestos sheeting, gas bottles or chemicals, which needs separate arrangement
- Formal probate valuations or written inventories for solicitors - that's a job for a probate valuer, not a clearance form
- Storage of items you're keeping but don't have room for yet - ask us about this separately if it applies
- Skip permits or licensing paperwork if you decide to hire a skip instead of booking a clearance
How the Planner Feeds Into an Actual Clearance Day
- Work through the planner at home: Sit down with the PDF over a cup of tea and go room by room, marking Keep, Sell, Donate or Recycle against each item. Elderly parents or siblings can each work from their own copy and compare notes before anyone commits to anything.
- Call with your list: Ring the number on the planner and talk us through what you've marked. Because you've already got a category and rough room count against everything, we can usually give a ballpark figure over the phone rather than making you wait for a visit.
- Book a site visit for the firm quote: For anything beyond a single room or a few odd items, someone comes out to see the property, check access - stairs, parking, narrow doorways - and confirm what falls into the Sell pile so it can be offset against the final price.
- Agree a date, and a phased plan if you need one: If you're clearing gradually around someone still living there, we work to the timeline you've set in the planner rather than insisting on one visit that empties the whole house in a day.
- Clearance day: Our team arrives, works through the rooms in the order you've agreed, separates saleable items, and takes everything else for recycling or disposal through the proper waste routes.
- Sign-off and a swept finish: We leave the cleared rooms swept and tidy, and if items you flagged as Sell were taken on, that value comes off your invoice there and then.
Ballpark Numbers for a Sorted-Before-We-Arrive Job
UK clearance costs for 2026 generally run from around £300 for a single room up to £1,500 for a full house, according to trade cost guides such as MyJobQuote and Checkatrade. Pricing follows weight and volume more than square footage - those guides put a load of up to 250kg from about £175, up to 500kg from roughly £325, and up to 1,000kg from around £595. Downsizing jobs from a typical two or three-bedroom home, where a fair chunk is being kept, sold or gifted before we arrive, often land in the £550-£900 band once you've genuinely thinned things out using the planner first. The better you've sorted before we turn up - fewer items to shift, a Sell pile already set aside - the more the final figure tends to sit toward the lower end. None of this replaces a proper look at the property though; a full, fixed quote needs a site visit so we can see the actual volume, access, and anything that needs special handling.
Planner-Led Clearance Against Doing It Cold
| Approach | What you sort yourself | What we handle | Typical timeline | Cost predictability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planner, then book a clearance | Keep/Sell/Donate/Recycle decisions made room by room beforehand | Everything left over, plus taking on saleable items against the bill | Phone estimate first, site visit and clearance often within the same week | High - the quote tracks closely with what's on your finished planner |
| Clearance booked with no planning | Nothing decided in advance - choices made on the day, often under pressure | Sorting and clearing in one visit, working it out as we go | Can still be same-day, but decisions on-site sometimes add time | Lower - volume and value of contents only become clear once we're there |
| Skip hire and DIY clearance | All the lifting, sorting, and tip runs | Nothing - you arrange the skip, permit and any repeat trips yourself | Weeks, once skip hire, permit and multiple loads are accounted for | Unpredictable - permit costs, extra skips and fuel add up as you go |
Why Local Families Use Our Planner Before They Call
We built this planner because most of the downsizing jobs we're called out to in Nottingham involve more than one decision-maker - an adult child trying to help a parent, or two siblings who don't quite agree on what a sideboard is worth to the family versus what it'll fetch on a Saturday. Having something on paper before we arrive gives everyone a starting point to work from, rather than making it up in the hallway on the day itself.
On the clearance side, we'll buy back items that have genuine resale value and knock that straight off your bill rather than sending them to a separate dealer and leaving you to chase a cheque. That only works well if you've flagged what's worth a second look in the planner, which is exactly what the Sell column is there for.
We cover Nottingham day to day, plus the wider patch across Nottinghamshire, Derby, Derbyshire and out to Sheffield, so the crews doing your clearance know the local recycling centres, the routes that avoid rush-hour traffic on the Ring Road, and which local charities take furniture donations versus which ones only want small goods.
Nottingham First, Then Out Across the East Midlands
Nottingham is home ground - most of the calls that start with someone downloading the planner come from Wollaton, West Bridgford, Beeston, Arnold and the streets around the city centre. From there we cover the rest of Nottinghamshire, plus Derby and Derbyshire, and we take on clearances out toward Sheffield too. Wherever you are in that patch, the planner works the same way - fill it in, ring through your list, and we'll tell you honestly whether it's a job for one van or a two-day clearance before anyone commits to a date.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the downsizing planner really free to use?
Yes - there's no sign-up form, no email chain, and nothing to pay. It's a PDF you can open, download or print straight from this page, and using it doesn't commit you to booking a clearance with us or anyone else.
How do I use the house clearance planner tool?
Work through it room by room rather than trying to do the whole house in one sitting. Each room has space to mark items Keep, Sell, Donate or Recycle, plus a notes column for anything that needs special handling - old paint tins, a chest freezer, gas bottles from the shed. Most people find an hour a room is enough to get through the obvious calls, leaving only the genuinely tricky items for later.
Will the planner give me an accurate price for my clearance?
It gets you close. Because pricing follows volume and category more than room count, a filled-in planner lets us give a ballpark figure over the phone that's usually within touching distance of the final number. A firm, fixed quote still needs someone to see the property in person, check access and confirm what's actually in the Sell pile.
Can the planner help me decide what to keep, sell, donate or dispose of?
That's what the four columns are built for. It won't tell you what a dinner service is worth, but it gives you a structured way to work through that question with other family members rather than deciding everything under time pressure on clearance day.
Do I need to fill in the planner before you visit, or can we sort things out on the day?
There's no obligation either way. Turning up with a completed planner tends to make the visit quicker and the quote tighter, but if you'd rather talk things through with someone stood in the room, that works too - just call first and we'll take it from there.
Can my brother or sister fill in their own copy of the planner if we're clearing our parents' house together?
Yes, and it's often the better way to do it. Print or download a copy each, work through the rooms separately, then compare notes before you speak to us. Having two independent lists tends to surface disagreements about specific items - the good clock, the tools in the garage - while there's still time to talk it through calmly, rather than in the middle of a clearance.
Does the planner cover garages, sheds and lofts as well as the main rooms?
Yes - those are often where the awkward items sit, so they get their own section. Loft insulation debris, old paint, garden chemicals and anything in a shed that looks flammable are worth flagging separately, since some of that needs a different disposal route to general household items.
Can the planner help with a phased downsize where I'm clearing one room at a time while still living in the house?
It's built with that in mind. There's a rough timeline section for spacing the work out over several weeks rather than one big day, which suits anyone downsizing gradually - clearing a spare room and garage first, say, while the rest of the house stays lived-in until closer to moving day.
What if there's a disagreement about what stays or goes, especially with an older relative moving alone?
It comes up more than you'd think. If you're helping a parent or older relative downsize and you're worried about decisions being made in a hurry or under pressure from someone else, it's worth involving another family member or, where appropriate, adult social care before a clearance date gets fixed. We're happy to talk to more than one family member about a job and won't take instruction from just one person if it's clear the wider family hasn't agreed on it.
Get Your Copy Before You Book Anything
Every week you wait is another week of deciding things under more pressure than you need to. Download the planner, spend a weekend working through it room by room, and call us with your list - whether that's next week or once the whole house is sorted, we'll give you an honest read on timing and cost before anything's booked in.
Phone: 0115-647-2821