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 two-bedroom maisonette in Kensington, W8 needed its freestanding contents removed after the owners moved out. The job went out to 10 carriers – a wider pool than most jobs in this size bracket see – and 5 of them came back with a bid. The price paid for the completed job was £835.
The listing was posted on 15 August 2026 and the clearance was signed off as complete on 26 August 2026, an 11-day turnaround from first posting to handover. Before loading started, the person authorising the job confirmed which items were to be removed, so the inventory below reflects exactly what the carrier was instructed to take.
What stands out about this particular job is how competitive the quoting stage was. Ten carriers is a larger pool than most jobs of this scale attract, and five separate bids gave the customer a genuine range to compare rather than a single take-it-or-leave-it figure. That competition is reflected directly in the price paid: the winning bid of £835 sat clearly below the other four, which is covered in more detail under final cost and pricing factors below.
Items removed and quantity
The inventory for this job covered:
- A sofa
- Two mattresses
- Chests of drawers
- Shelving
- Bagged clutter
Taken together, this amounted to an estimated 4–6 cubic yards of material – a smaller load than a full house clearance, consistent with a two-bedroom maisonette being cleared of freestanding furniture rather than every fixture in the property. Fitted fixtures, hazardous waste, paint and rubble were excluded without a separate assessment; a job like this is scoped around what can be carried out as loose, freestanding contents rather than anything built in or requiring specialist disposal.
Access and logistics
Handling this job needs to account for internal stairs and limited kerbside loading, together with an agreed vehicle stopping point. In a Kensington maisonette, that typically means carrying furniture down an internal staircase before it ever reaches the pavement, then working within whatever stopping point has been agreed for the vehicle rather than assuming kerbside space will be free on the day. A sofa and two mattresses in particular need a clear run between the stairwell and the stopping point, since repositioning a vehicle mid-job eats into loading time more than almost anything else on a job this size.
Chests of drawers and shelving add a different kind of access problem to a staircase job: they're less likely than a sofa to need two people on every carry, but stair turns and landing widths still determine whether a unit travels down in one piece or needs its drawers and shelves removed first. Bagged clutter is the easiest element to move but still adds to the total trip count down the stairs, which is part of why access conditions like these get weighed alongside item count rather than treated as a fixed add-on.
How the clearance was completed
Bulky furniture in the inventory – the sofa and chests of drawers in particular – may need to be safely disassembled where necessary to work within the stairs and kerbside access described above; items outside the agreed scope, including fitted fixtures, hazardous waste, paint and rubble, were left in place without a separate assessment.
Any reusable items are set aside for an appropriate reuse route where feasible, with the remaining waste going through authorised disposal channels.
With 11 days between posting and completion, there was time to confirm the agreed vehicle stopping point and the keep/remove list before the carrier arrived, rather than working that out on the day. For a job moving through internal stairs with limited kerbside loading, that kind of lead time tends to make the loading itself more predictable, even though it has no bearing on the number of items actually being carried out.
Final cost and pricing factors
£835 was the lowest of the 5 bids this job attracted, and notably below the cluster of other bids: £1,070, £1,055, £1,055 and £1,035 were all within a narrow band roughly £200–£235 above the winning price. That's one of the wider bid spreads seen on a job this size, and it points to real differences in how carriers priced the same scope rather than a single going rate every bidder converged on.
Behind that spread sit the same underlying factors every bidder was pricing against: the item count and weight of the sofa, mattresses, chests of drawers and shelving, the internal stairs and limited kerbside loading, parking at the agreed stopping point, and the loading time all of that adds up to. £835 is the real price paid for this completed job, not an estimate or a rate card figure.
There's no fixed houseclearance.co rate for house clearance in Kensington; each job gets quoted on its own merits by the carriers bidding for it. £835 reflects this maisonette and this job only – not a going rate for the area. For the broader picture, see how prices are calculated.
Quote activity
This is how the request for Kensington moved through the houseclearance.co marketplace:
All 5 bids: £1,070, £1,055, £1,055, £1,035 and the winning bid of £835. Ten carriers being notified for a single two-bedroom maisonette job is a wider pool than most jobs of this scope attract, and the resulting competition shows in the numbers: the winning bid came in notably below the other four, which clustered close together. That's the kind of spread houseclearance.co's reverse-auction marketplace is designed to surface – licensed carriers competing on price for the same job, with the customer able to see the full range before deciding.
Result and handover
The two-bedroom maisonette in Kensington was cleared of the inventory listed above – the sofa, two mattresses, chests of drawers, shelving and bagged clutter all removed via the internal stairs and agreed kerbside stopping point. The job achieved its stated goal: removing the listed freestanding contents after the owners had moved out, with the completed job signed off 11 days after it was first posted.
About this case study
Is this a real completed job?
Yes. This is a real completed clearance job. The property type, item list and £835 price shown on this page are real details from the completed job.
What would affect the cost of house clearance in Kensington?
On a job like this one, the main factors were the number and weight of items – a sofa, two mattresses, chests of drawers and shelving – the internal stairs and limited kerbside loading, parking at the agreed stopping point, and how long all of that took to load. £835 is the real price paid for this completed job, reflecting those specific conditions rather than a fixed rate for every Kensington clearance. See how prices are calculated for the general picture.
How should bulky furniture be prepared for loading?
Measuring doorways and stair turns in advance tells you whether a sofa or chest of drawers will come out whole or needs to be safely dismantled first, which is exactly the kind of detail that affects internal-stairs jobs like this one. It also helps to go through the property and clearly separate what's being kept from what's being removed before the carrier arrives, so the inventory agreed at booking – not a judgement call made item by item on the day – is what actually gets loaded.
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