If you want a feel for what a house clearance in Nottingham actually looks like before you pick up the phone, this page is where to look. Below you’ll find photos and video from real jobs, dated write-ups of properties we’ve cleared across Nottingham, Derby and Derbyshire, and genuine Google Business reviews from people who’ve used our house clearance service. None of it is stock photography or a generic “gallery” template – the postcodes, the dates and the van loads are all from jobs we’ve actually done.

You’ll see everything from a straightforward garden and house clearance in Tollerton to a two-bedroom hoarder clearance in Arnold that took two full days and turned up documents the family badly needed for probate. There are before-and-after videos of a hoarded property near Cavendish Road, a housing association tenancy clearance in Alfreton that needed a deep clean afterwards, and a garage clearance in Awsworth that filled over a dozen Luton vans. Reading through these, and the reviews from customers in Long Eaton, Beeston and Hucknall, should give you a much better idea of what to expect than any brochure copy could.

At a Glance

• Photos, video and dated write-ups from real Nottingham, Derby and Derbyshire jobs - not stock images
• Genuine Google Business reviews from named customers across Nottinghamshire
• Registered waste carrier, so items are sorted for charity, recycling or resale before anything goes to landfill

What’s Actually On This Page

• Before-and-after photos of specific properties, including postcodes and the date the job was carried out
• A before-and-after video of a hoarded property clearance near Cavendish Road, Arnold, NG4, completed in February 2023
• A written case study of a hoarded two-bedroom semi in Arnold, including how important documents and around £2,500 of saleable items were recovered during the clearance
• Dated job write-ups with postcodes: Medina Drive, Tollerton NG12; The Strand, Derby DE1; First Avenue, Alfreton DE55; and 87a The Lane, Awsworth NG16
• Screenshots of our Google Business search listing and individual customer reviews
• Direct written testimonials from named customers in Long Eaton NG10, Beeston NG9 and Hucknall NG15
• A note on our purchase-offset scheme, where items of value are bought from you and set against the clearance cost

Not Included / Costed Separately

• Every job we’ve ever completed - this page is a sample, not a full job log; most clearances aren’t photographed at all
• Current or upcoming customers’ addresses, for obvious privacy reasons - we only feature jobs once they’re finished and the customer is happy to be named or shown
• Jobs where the customer would rather not have photos taken - plenty of clearances go ahead with no camera in sight, and that’s fine
• A price list - the case studies give you a feel for scale (a single van versus twelve Luton van loads) but a firm figure still needs a look at the property
• A running tonnage or weight figure for waste diverted from landfill - we don’t publish a formal statistic, though charity and recycling are always tried before landfill

How a Job Ends Up Featured Here

1. You get in touch: Most people call and ask for Michael directly, describe the property and roughly what’s involved - a full house, a garage, a hoarded property, a probate job - so the right size of team and vehicles can be worked out before anyone arrives.
2. Free on-site quote: We come out to look at the property in person for anything beyond a small job, because photos over the phone rarely tell you about access, stairs, or how much is actually behind a closed door.
3. The clearance itself: On the day, we work room by room rather than just clearing the obvious stuff first - that’s how important paperwork and valuables get spotted in hoarded properties rather than binned by accident, as happened with the documents recovered in the Arnold job.
4. Sorting on site: Everything gets split into what can be donated to one of the charities we work with locally, what can be recycled, what we can buy from you outright, and what genuinely has to go to landfill.
5. Clean and finish: If you’ve asked for it, our cleaning team goes through afterwards - useful for landlords needing a property ready for the next tenant, or families preparing a house for sale or auction.
6. Photos and a review, if you’re happy: Once the job’s done, we sometimes ask if we can take a couple of photos for the portfolio, or if you’d be willing to leave a Google review - never before, and never if you’d rather not.

Judging Cost From the Job Sizes Above, Not a Price List

This page exists to show finished jobs rather than to price yours, but the spread above still tells you something worth knowing. A single-room or small tenancy clearance is a different job to the 87a The Lane garage clearance in Awsworth, which needed over twelve Luton van loads to shift. A straightforward house clearance where most of the contents can be donated or recycled tends to cost less than a hoarded property that needs two days of careful room-by-room sorting to locate documents and valuables safely, like the Arnold job. Where a property needs a deep clean afterwards, as with the Alfreton housing association job, that’s added cost on top of the clearance itself. Our purchase-offset scheme plays into this too - where furniture, antiques or collections have resale value, we buy them from you and knock that amount off the bill, which is why some of the jobs above cost noticeably less than the volume of stuff removed might suggest. Scale is the best clue these case studies can give you; the only way to get an actual figure for your own property is a free on-site visit, so treat anything above as a general steer rather than a quote.

How This Page Stacks Up Against Just Checking Google Reviews

How the Buy-Back Offer Works Against Your Bill

Several of the case studies above cost less than the volume of stuff removed might suggest, and that’s down to how the purchase-offset scheme works rather than a favour. Where furniture, antiques or a full collection turn out to have resale value, we buy them from you there and then, and that figure comes straight off the clearance bill rather than being paid out separately. The Arnold hoarder clearance is the clearest example on this page - a house that looked like a straightforward tip-run job at first glance turned up close to £2,500 of saleable items once the rooms were properly sorted, and offsetting that against the job made a real difference to the family’s final cost. It isn’t guaranteed on every clearance - some houses simply don’t have much with resale value - but it’s checked for on every job rather than only when something obviously valuable is sitting in plain view, which is part of why the room-by-room sorting in the process above matters as much as it does.

Nottingham First, Then Notts, Derby and Derbyshire

Nottingham is where most of our work happens, and it shows in the portfolio - Arnold, Hucknall, Beeston, Basford, Long Eaton and Tollerton all feature above. We also cover the rest of Nottinghamshire, and take on regular jobs further out into Derby and Derbyshire, which is why you’ll see The Strand in Derby city centre and First Avenue in Alfreton listed here alongside the Nottingham jobs. Beyond that, we also take on clearances in Sheffield when it fits the schedule. Wherever the job is, we’re a registered waste carrier, which matters when items are heading to landfill rather than a charity shop - there’s a proper paper trail for what leaves a property and where it ends up. It’s also why the reviews on this page are attached to named customers in specific towns - Long Eaton, Beeston, Hucknall - rather than anonymous star ratings, and why, if you call, you’ll likely speak to Michael directly rather than a call centre. If your postcode isn’t one you recognise from the case studies above, that’s only because we’ve featured a sample rather than every job - give us a call and we’ll tell you straightforwardly whether it’s somewhere we cover.