How to Do the Perfect Office Clearance

1) Plan ahead

Planning the time needed to perform the office clearance will ensure everything else goes smoothly. A good rule of thumb for two people undertaking a house clearance is to allow 1/2 day for each area. This might seem a lot but, like most things in life, giving yourself enough time to do a job goes a long way to taking away all the stress that comes with it.

2) Use the traffic light system

Once you’ve allocated some time in your diary for the office clearance, the next stage is to go through everything to decide which items you and your family wish to keep, sell or donate, or bin. You can use a traffic light sticker system to do this.

Try to be as merciless as possible – only use the red stickers for items you will definitely use and remember that most things these days can be bought new in Tesco for less than the price of a pizza!

There are four basic options when it comes to disposing of unwanted items from a London office clearance company:

a) Cram it all into the boot of your car or hire a van to take it to the local tip

b) Call your local council to arrange a bulky waste collection. This should be quite cheap but the downsides are that it will typically take at least a couple of weeks to arrange, will be limited to a maximum number of items (and not real rubbish), and all of the stuff needs to be put outside the property (as they don’t collect from inside).

c) Hire a skip. Skips are charged at a flat rate and require a skip permit if parked on the road. You need to the loading all yourself. In addition, you will need to pay for a skip permit (if the skip has to be parked on the road) and, depending on the street, a parking bay suspension. Google ‘skip hire [your region]’ is the easiest way to find a London office clearance company.

d) Use a professional clearance and junk removal company. Office clearance rates are similar to hire a skip without the cost of a permit. They charge according to the amount of junk cleared – so you don’t need to guess the exact volume perfectly- and their rates include all loading and sweep-up. They turn up in two hour arrival windows and reuse and recycle wherever possible, including passing on reusable items to Oxfam and the British Heart Foundation.

3) And finally, don’t forget

Identity theft is a growing problem. Consider using a shredder to destroy confidential documents but be careful not to throw out documents you might later need. If you are moving around a lot of items in a house that have been undisturbed for some time you are likely to dislodge a large amount of dust so open plenty of windows before you start and consider wearing a dust mask. Also, take extra care when lifting heavy items.

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