Job details
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Project overview
This job was a four-bedroom detached house clearance in Wimbledon, SW19. The brief was to separate items the household wanted to keep from furniture authorised for removal, across a property that turned out to hold more material than is typical for this house type – an estimated 12–16 cubic yards, the largest volume of the recent batch of four-bedroom detached clearances. The job was completed for a price paid of £630.
The job was posted on 2 September 2026 and completed on 8 September 2026, a turnaround of six days from first listing to finished clearance.
For a job like this, the person authorising the work needs to walk the property and confirm a room-by-room keep/remove list before loading starts, particularly with a four-bedroom house this size, where the wardrobes alone could easily be mistaken for retained furniture if the brief isn't clear.
Items removed and quantity
The inventory for this Wimbledon job covered:
- Large wardrobes
- A corner sofa
- Dining furniture
- Loft boxes
- Outdoor chairs
Across the house, this came to roughly 12–16 cubic yards of material – large wardrobes and dining furniture on the ground and first floors, a corner sofa that needed careful handling through doorways, and a meaningful run of loft boxes on top of the outdoor chairs collected from the garden. Fitted fixtures, hazardous waste, paint and rubble were excluded without a separate assessment, as these fall outside a standard house clearance scope.
Access and logistics
This property presented multiple flights of stairs and a restricted driveway, with restricted kerbside parking on the street outside. In practice that meant the carrier had to plan a loading vehicle position in advance rather than pulling straight up to the house, and budget extra carry time for taking wardrobes and dining furniture down from upper floors before reaching the van.
Given the volume involved, bulky items such as the large wardrobes were candidates for safe disassembly where doorway or stair-turn widths made that the more practical option, rather than risk damage to walls or banisters on a multi-storey carry.
How the clearance was completed
With the keep/remove list agreed in advance, the crew worked through the house systematically: large wardrobes and dining furniture taken apart where needed to clear the stairs, the corner sofa manoeuvred out as a single unit, and loft boxes and outdoor chairs brought down and out last. Items outside the agreed scope – fitted fixtures, hazardous waste, paint and rubble – were left in place throughout, since none of these were part of the job as posted.
Given the higher-than-average volume of material for this property type, loading took longer than a typical four-bedroom clearance, which is reflected in the final price. Reusable items were set aside for an appropriate reuse route where feasible, with the remaining waste going through authorised disposal channels.
Final cost and pricing factors
The price paid for this job was £630. Several factors fed into that figure: the estimated 12–16 cubic yards of material (the largest volume among recent four-bedroom detached clearances we've published), the access conditions – multiple flights of stairs, a restricted driveway and restricted kerbside parking – which added to loading time, and the likely need to dismantle at least some of the large wardrobes to get them down the stairs safely.
houseclearance.co doesn't set a fixed price for a house clearance in Merton or for Wimbledon specifically – licensed carriers quote on each job individually, so £630 is this job's real price paid, not a flat rate that applies to every Wimbledon clearance. See how prices are calculated for the fuller picture.
Quote activity
This is how the request for Wimbledon moved through the houseclearance.co marketplace:
Of the 6 carriers notified about this job, 4 submitted bids: £870, £800, £760 and the winning bid of £630. That's a spread of £240 between the highest and lowest bid, which reflects how differently carriers can price the same volume of work and access conditions. The £630 bid was the lowest of the four received in houseclearance.co's reverse-auction marketplace, where licensed carriers compete on price for each job individually.
Result and handover
The four-bedroom detached house in Wimbledon was cleared of the full inventory – large wardrobes, the corner sofa, dining furniture, loft boxes and outdoor chairs – within the six days from posting to completion. The job met its stated goal of separating retained items from furniture authorised for removal, with the fitted fixtures, hazardous waste, paint and rubble that fell outside the job scope left untouched for the household to deal with separately.
With 12–16 cubic yards cleared in a single visit, this was the largest material volume among the four-bedroom detached house clearances in this batch, which made the access planning around the restricted driveway and kerbside parking more significant than it would have been for a smaller job. The six-day turnaround from posting to completion, with four competing bids in the £630–£870 range, reflects a reasonably fast match between the job as posted and a carrier able to take on both the volume and the access conditions involved.
About this case study
Is this a real completed job?
Yes. This is a real completed clearance job. The property type, item list and £630 price shown on this page are real details from the completed job.
What would affect the cost of house clearance in Wimbledon?
For this job, the main cost drivers were the number and weight of items being removed (an estimated 12–16 cubic yards across large wardrobes, a corner sofa, dining furniture, loft boxes and outdoor chairs), the multiple flights of stairs and restricted driveway at the property, the restricted kerbside parking on the street, and the loading time those access conditions added. The £630 shown here is the real price paid for this completed job, not an estimate.
How should bulky furniture be prepared for loading?
Before loading day, it helps to measure doorways and stair turns against the larger pieces – wardrobes and dining furniture in particular – to identify which items may need to be safely dismantled to get them out. It also helps to walk the property room by room and agree a clear list of what's being kept and what's authorised for removal, so there's no ambiguity once the crew starts loading.
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