The temptation in house clearance is to treat everything as waste. The Forge approach is to sort everything first. Items that have value to the family — papers, photographs, jewellery, the small things easily missed in a fast skip-and-go — are set aside and returned. Items in good condition are routed to charities that will use them. Items that need responsible disposal are taken to the right places and certificated. Only what is genuinely waste goes to landfill.
The kinds of clearance we handle
- Probate clearances — handled with the dignity the family deserves, and with the patience that probate timing usually requires.
- Downsizer clearances — paired with a move, so what is being kept gets the considered handling and what is being let go is cleared at the same time.
- End-of-tenancy clearances — sorted, sequenced, and the property left in a condition that won't trigger a deposit dispute.
- Hoarder-property clearances — patient sorting, with the family involved in what is found if they want to be.
- Estate clearances — full-property sorting where antiques and items of value need identifying before disposal decisions are made.
What a Forge clearance includes
- A walk-through with the family or executor at the property before any work begins.
- A written brief that lists the rooms, the rough scope, and any items the family wants set aside.
- Sorting on site — kept / charity / sold-on / waste — with the family consulted on borderline calls.
- Charity routing through routes that genuinely use the donations rather than dump them.
- Responsible disposal of electronics, paints, chemicals and other items that don't belong in general waste.
- The property left swept and properly closed up at the end.
What we won't do
We will not skip the sort. We will not treat the family's items as a job lot. We will not promise to "deep clean" a property unless the brief is to deep-clean it. And we will not bill for items routed to charity as though they were waste — charity routing is part of the considered version of the trade.