Job details
✅ Real completed job. This case study documents a genuine completed clearance job using a verified job record provided for publication on houseclearance.co.
Project overview
A three-bedroom semi-detached house in Chiswick, W4 needed its contents cleared ahead of a planned property sale. The owners posted the job through houseclearance.co, 8 carriers were notified, 3 submitted bids, and the winning price was £980.
The job was posted on 27 August 2026 and marked complete on 4 September 2026, an 8-day turnaround from first listing to finished clearance. Of the four semi-detached, pre-sale clearance jobs documented on this site, this one carried the largest material volume – an estimated 16–20 cubic yards, well above the 4–6 cubic yard range typical of comparable three-bedroom semis elsewhere in London. That extra volume, plus a longer carry route and parking restrictions around the property, shaped both the quoting and the work itself.
Items removed and quantity
The inventory for this job covered:
- Two sofas
- Three bedframes
- Storage units
- Rugs
- Kitchen contents
- Boxed belongings
Across the property this amounted to an estimated 16–20 cubic yards of material – roughly three times the volume of a typical three-bedroom semi clearance, largely down to the combination of multiple storage units, a full run of kitchen contents and a substantial amount of boxed belongings on top of the furniture itself. Fitted fixtures, hazardous waste, paint and rubble were excluded from the job without a separate assessment – these stay with the property or require a different kind of collection entirely.
Access and logistics
The defining access challenge on this job was a long route through the front garden to the van, repeated many times over given the volume involved. Unlike a straightforward kerbside load, every piece had to be carried the full length of the garden path before it reached the vehicle, which stretched out the loading time considerably on a job already carrying close to 20 cubic yards of material.
Parking permit considerations added a further layer: Chiswick's residential parking zones meant the carrier had to factor in where the van could legally stand for the duration of the load, rather than simply pulling up outside. Between the distance from house to van and the parking constraints, this job's access profile was distinctly more demanding than a typical kerbside-parking clearance of the same property type.
How the clearance was completed
With three bedframes and two sofas among the larger pieces, bulky furniture was disassembled where it was safe and practical to do so, both to ease the long front-garden carry and to make better use of space in the van given the overall volume. Storage units were emptied and broken down in a similar way. Items outside the agreed scope – fitted fixtures, hazardous waste, paint and rubble – were left in place throughout, as none of these had been included in the original assessment.
Kitchen contents and boxed belongings were worked through systematically given the quantity involved, with any items suitable for reuse set aside separately from material destined for authorised waste and recycling channels. The scale of this clearance meant the loading phase took noticeably longer than a smaller semi-detached job of the same type.
Final cost and pricing factors
The 3 bids on this job ranged from £980 up to £1,185, with the lowest figure winning the work. Several factors pushed pricing on this job higher than a standard three-bedroom semi clearance would normally attract: the 16–20 cubic yard volume meant more loading time and likely more than one van run, the long front-garden route to the vehicle added further time per load, and the parking permit considerations around Chiswick's residential zones meant the carrier had to plan the van's standing time carefully rather than treat parking as a given.
houseclearance.co doesn't apply a flat rate across every house clearance in Chiswick it handles – each of the 3 carriers who bid priced the job independently, in front of the actual access conditions and volume. The £980 price paid belongs to this specific job and property, not a standard going rate for the area. See how prices are calculated for more detail on what goes into a quote.
Quote activity
This is how the request for Chiswick moved through the houseclearance.co marketplace:
Of the 8 carriers notified about this job, 3 submitted bids: £1,185, £1,105 and the winning £980. The spread between highest and lowest bid – over £200 on a job this size – reflects how differently individual carriers weighed the combination of volume, the front-garden carry and the parking constraints when pricing the same job.
Result and handover
The three-bedroom semi-detached house in Chiswick was cleared of the full inventory – two sofas, three bedframes, storage units, rugs, kitchen contents and boxed belongings – ready for the planned property sale. At 16–20 cubic yards, this was the largest-volume job among the semi-detached, pre-sale clearances documented on houseclearance.co, completed within 8 days of being posted and for a price paid of £980.
About this case study
Is this a real completed job?
Yes. This is a real completed clearance job. The property type, item list and £980 price shown on this page are real details from the completed job.
What would affect the cost of house clearance in Chiswick?
On this job, the main cost drivers were the sheer item count and weight – two sofas, three bedframes, storage units, rugs, a full kitchen and multiple boxes of belongings, totalling an estimated 16–20 cubic yards – combined with the long front-garden route to the van and parking permit considerations in Chiswick's residential zones, both of which added to loading time. £980 is the real price paid for this completed job, the lowest of 3 bids received after 8 carriers were notified.
How should bulky furniture be prepared for loading?
Before a clearance like this, it helps to measure doorways and stair turns against the larger pieces – bedframes and sofas in particular – so it's clear in advance which items can pass through as-is and which may need to be safely dismantled first. It's also worth going room by room to draw a clear line between items to keep and items to remove, so nothing wanted is loaded by mistake and nothing meant to go gets left behind.
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