Hoarder House Clearance in Naas: Clearing a Very Full House for a Sale

When a very full house has to be sold

Some houses fill slowly over thirty or forty years until the rooms can no longer be used as rooms. While the owner lives there, how much is cleared and when is a matter for them. That changes when the house has to be sold, because the owner has moved into care or has died, and an estate agent cannot value, photograph or show a house that cannot be walked through.

This guide is for the family member or executor who has been handed that job in Naas. It is about clearing a very full house to the point where it can be sold: who gives the instruction, the order the work is done in, what is kept back, and what the people involved in the sale need from you. Where the person is still living in the house and wants to stay, our Kilcock guide to a cluttered family home is the one to read.

PropertyClearance.ie is based in Athy, Co. Kildare, so Naas is close to home; see our house clearance in Naas page, or call 083 090 4545. We are a clearance company and nothing here is legal or medical advice. Questions about the estate are for the executor and the solicitor.

Who gives the instruction

Before a single bag leaves, be clear who has the authority to empty the house. If the owner is alive and has moved into care, the decision is theirs or belongs to whoever is acting for them. If the owner has died, it belongs to the executor, and the solicitor handling the estate will say when contents can be dealt with. We ask who is instructing us and take our list from that one person.

• One named contact. Brothers and sisters can all have a view, but one person agrees the list and the date with us.
• A written list of what is being kept. Furniture for the family, anything left to someone in a will, and anything the solicitor has asked to be held.
• A place for the things we find. One room, or one corner of one room, where papers and photographs are put as they turn up.

The order we clear a very full house in

A full house is cleared in a set order, so there is always a way out and nothing is handled twice:

1. Photographs from every doorway. You or a neighbour send one photo from each door, the attic hatch, the garage and the garden. If a door will not open fully, the photo of it tells us what we need to know.
2. A fixed written price. For everything shown. If the house is very hard to judge from photos we arrange a short visit before pricing.
3. Hall, stairs and landing first. The route in and out is cleared before any room, so every later load has a clear path to the truck.
4. Room by room, by hand. Each room is emptied from the door inwards. Bags, boxes and drawers are opened and checked, not lifted blind.
5. Attic, garage and sheds. Cleared once the house is passable, because their contents usually come out through it or past it.
6. Sweep, photograph and hand back. Rooms are left empty and swept, each one is photographed, and the keys go to you or the estate agent.

What is set aside, and why it matters more in a house like this

In a very full house, important things are not where anyone would look for them. Post is kept in carrier bags, documents sit between newspapers, and a drawer of old envelopes can hold the one paper the solicitor is waiting for. That is why the work is done by hand.

These are put to one side as they turn up, in the place you have chosen:

• Deeds, wills, policies, pension and bank letters, and anything from Revenue or a solicitor
• Passports, birth and marriage certificates, and medical cards
• Photographs, letters, cards and family papers
• Keys of every kind, labelled with where they were found
• Anything on the family's own list

Tell us before we start if there is a particular document or keepsake you are hoping to find. Everything set aside is handed over with the keys.

What the sale needs from the house

Several people have to get into the house before it can be sold, and each of them needs something slightly different from the clearance:

The garage, the attic and the garden

A house that is full indoors is nearly always full outside too, and those spaces are part of the sale. Send photos of all of them with the rooms, so the price covers the whole property and not just the part that is easy to see.

The attic. Photograph it from the hatch in each direction and tell us whether the floor is boarded. Everything is handed down by our crew. Insulation stays, as it is part of the house.

The garage and sheds. Tools, timber, appliances and stored furniture all go. Paint, solvents, oils, fuel, chemicals, batteries and gas cylinders do not: we cannot take them, so we stand them together and tell you where they are. See garage clearance and attic clearance.

The garden. Garden furniture, pots, old fencing and whatever has been stored against the back wall. If the growth has to be cut back before the photographs, say so and we will include it.

What the house looks like once it is empty

Be ready for the empty house to look tired. Rooms that have been full for years often show marks on the walls where things were stacked, worn or stained flooring, and sometimes damp that nobody could see. None of that is caused by the clearance, and all of it is better found now than at a buyer's survey.

We leave the rooms empty and swept. We do not offer a deep clean, redecoration or repairs. Tell the estate agent what has come to light and ask whether cleaning or any work is worth doing before the house is shown; in many cases the honest answer is to sell it as it is.

What PropertyClearance.ie does on a job like this

A very full house is rarely one service. On a job like this in Naas, several usually run together under the one fixed price:

• Hoarder clearance: the careful, hand-sorted clearing of very full rooms, with everything personal set aside.
• House clearance: furniture, beds, appliances, carpets and household contents removed from every room.
• Attic clearance and garage clearance: the spaces a BER assessor and a surveyor will want to get into.
• Shed clearance and garden clearance: the outside of the property, so the front and back can be photographed.
• Bereavement clearance: where the owner has died, the same work at the family's pace and in step with the solicitor.

Our own crew carries everything out. Reusable furniture and household goods go to reuse where possible, metals and electrical items are recycled, and the rest goes to authorised facilities. PropertyClearance.ie is operated by Krystal Klean Express Limited, an authorised waste carrier under Waste Collection Permit No. NWCPO-25-13287-01, and is fully insured. We work Monday to Saturday, 8am to 5pm.

Naas, Sallins, Kill, Johnstown and Newbridge

We clear houses across Naas and the towns around it, including Sallins, Kill, Johnstown and Newbridge. If the house is being cleared after a death, our guide to house clearance after a death in Naas covers the estate side, and the Kildare page lists every town we cover in the county.