Moving house is stressful enough without discovering, the week before, just how much has quietly piled up in the loft and the back of every cupboard. The single best thing you can do to take the pressure off is start clearing early, so there is less to pack, less to move and far less to unpack at the other end. Our Ormskirk skip hire service handles the part of a move that nobody enjoys, and here is how to approach the whole clear-out sensibly.
Start early and work room by room
A clear-out is one of those jobs that balloons if you leave it to the last minute, so begin a few weeks ahead and gather the basics first, plenty of boxes, bin bags and a marker to label as you go. Tackling one room at a time keeps the task from feeling overwhelming and lets you see real progress. As you work through each room, sort everything into four rough groups, the things you are keeping, the things worth selling, the things to give to charity, and the genuine rubbish. Doing it this way means you only carry what you actually want into the new home, which saves both time and the cost of moving it.
Be honest about what you actually use
A move is the best chance you will get to shed the things that have been following you from house to house unused. As you sort, it helps to ask a few plain questions of each item, namely whether it matters to you, when you last used it, and whether you could happily live without it. Being firm with yourself here pays off twice over, since every box you do not pack is one less to lift, transport and find a home for at the other end.
Keep documents and sentimental items aside
Two categories deserve special handling so they do not get swept up in the rush. Put the important paperwork, passports, birth certificates, mortgage and tenancy documents, into a single clearly labelled folder so nothing goes missing or gets thrown out by mistake. Sentimental things like old photographs are the other trap, because they stop a clear-out dead. Set them aside in one box to go through properly later, and keep your momentum on the rest.
Get a hand, and a skip for what is left
Clearing a whole house is a big task, so rope in friends or family where you can, or local help if the budget stretches to it. Once the keeping, selling and donating are done, you are usually left with a fair pile of genuine rubbish, and a skip is the simplest way to clear it in one go rather than carting it to the tip load by load. Most house moves are well served by a 4 tonne midi skip, while a larger property or a long-overdue declutter may call for an 8 tonne builders skip. For a whole-property job our house clearance skip hire takes the guesswork out of it, with a clear price set out under our affordable skip hire with clear pricing. Whatever goes in is sorted and recovered where possible at our own recycling centre, as we explain on our environmental and recycling page.
Serving Ormskirk and the surrounding area
We cover Ormskirk along with Burscough skip hire just up the road, and the same team runs our Southport skip hire service over toward the coast, so wherever you are moving from or to in the area we can help with the clear-out.
If a move is on the horizon and you want the rubbish side handled cleanly, get in touch and we will sort a skip around your dates. Contact our Ormskirk team or call 01704 779345.
