Garage clearance in London & the South East
Garages are where a house keeps the things that are hardest to throw away: paint, oil, batteries, gas bottles, tyres. Each has its own legal disposal route, which is why a garage is quoted differently from the same volume of furniture.
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Garages hide the awkward things: oil, paint, gas bottles, tyres and asbestos sheeting. A licensed firm separates those properly rather than putting them through a skip.
Every firm is checked against the Environment Agency register, insured to at least £2m, and asked for references we actually call. Your job goes to a maximum of three of them.
What a garage clearance includes
- All labour and the vehicle
- Licensed disposal, with a waste transfer note for your records
- Dismantling furniture where it will not fit through the door
- Sweeping through afterwards, left broom-clean
- Resale value on good furniture offset against your price
- Donation to charity of anything usable, receipts on request
Garage clearance prices
| Property | Typical range | Time on site |
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| 1-bed flat | £140 – £200 | Half a day |
| 2-bed house or flat | £220 – £305 | Half to a full day |
| 3-bed house | £320 – £440 | About a day |
| 4-bed house | £425 – £585 | One to two days |
| 5-bed or larger | £550 – £760 | Two to three days |
London ranges. Prices outside London typically run 8–14% lower.
Ranges are what firms typically charge. Your actual price comes from their written quotes, not from this table.
Estimate this jobHow a garage clearance runs
Usually half a day. The chemicals shelf decides the price.
- 1List the awkward stuff first
Paint tins, oil, car batteries, gas bottles, tyres, chemicals. These are the items that carry separate disposal fees, so naming them up front is what makes the quote hold.
- 2Pull out anything worth keeping or selling
Tools hold value better than almost anything else in a house. A garage with a decent bench of hand tools, a mower that runs, or bikes worth servicing should see that reflected as a resale offset in the quote.
- 3Clear and sort by route
General waste one way, metals to scrap, hazardous items to the facilities licensed to take them. Sorted properly, a surprising amount of a garage is recycled rather than tipped.
- 4Sweep out and hand back
Empty, swept, and yours again. If the doors barely close now, this is the half day that fixes it.
What a good firm does with the difficult items
Anyone can carry boxes. This is the part that needs doing properly.
Paint, oil and chemicals cost real money to dispose of legally. A quote that ignores twenty tins of paint is a quote that changes on the day, or worse, waste that ends up somewhere it should not.
Bottles usually belong to the supplier and go back to an agent or exchange point, not into a waste load. A firm that knows this saves you a fee.
Old tools, shelving, the bike skeletons, the lawnmower: metal has value, and it should soften the price rather than vanish into the van.
Decent hand tools, garden machinery that runs, car parts still in boxes. The offset belongs in writing on the quote.
Many older garages have corrugated cement roofs containing asbestos. That is specialist licensed work, not part of a general clearance, and an honest firm says so on sight rather than loading it and hoping.
A clearance empties the garage. Degreasing the floor is a different job, and a firm should say that rather than let you expect it.
Why the paint shelf costs more than the furniture
Liquid paint cannot go to landfill, oil contaminates anything it touches, and car batteries and chemicals each have their own licensed route. Disposing of them properly costs the firm real money per item, which is why a garage with a well-stocked chemicals shelf can cost more to clear than the living room did.
The honest version of that cost appears as a line in the quote. The dishonest version appears later, as waste dumped where it should not be, traced back to whoever handed it over. It is exactly the situation the waste carrier check exists for: two minutes on the Environment Agency register before you book anyone.
One genuine caution: if the garage has an old corrugated cement roof, or sheets of it stacked behind the workbench, it may contain asbestos. That needs a specialist licensed route, not a general load. A good firm will spot it, say so, and clear everything else around it.
Three steps, no chasing
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Tell us about the property
Postcode, rough size, how full it is and anything awkward about the access. Ninety seconds, and photos help but are not required.
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Up to three firms quote
Only firms that cover London & the South East and hold a current licence see it. Fixed prices in writing, usually inside a day.
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Pick one and book
Message them through us, agree a date, and pay the firm directly at the price they quoted. ClearSorted costs you nothing.
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