What a house clearance costs in 2026
What actually drives the price, the charges that get passed on, and how to check a quote yourself.
9 min readClearing a property, and checking who is registered to take it away
Plain answers about house and estate clearance, and a free check of any firm against the Environment Agency's public register.
Check a company against the register
The word people stop at is "registered". It is not the word that matters. Upper tier lets a business carry waste that somebody else produced. Lower tier does not, and 275,027 of the 421,589 registrations in England are lower tier. Every page here shows the tier, not just the status.
Checked and Cleared publishes the Environment Agency's public register of waste carriers in England, read again every morning. We publish what the register says. No firm can pay to change a fact on its own page.
Find registered firms in your area
10,540 registered businesses across 517 places, listed in register order.
Start with an answer
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There is no rush on most of this. These pages set out an order of work that people find manageable, what has to wait for probate, and what happens to the things you cannot keep.
- Clearing a parent's home, step by stepA calm order of work, from photographs to the final load.
- Probate and possessions: what has to waitWhat can be cleared before probate is granted, and what cannot.
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- Hoarding: a practical order of workHow firms who do this often approach it, and what to agree before anyone starts.
Businesses published 10,540 Read from the register on 15 September 2026
Places covered 517 Every entry linked to its register record
Register refreshed Daily Almost always. Every page shows the date we last read it
Registrations we can check 421,589 The complete England register, not a selection
We publish a page for each of the 10,540 registrations whose waste categories cover the work people hire out: clearance, rubbish removal, man and van, skip hire and trade waste. The rest of the register has no page here, and any of the 421,589 can still be checked above. Where our data comes from.
What the register tells you, and what it does not
It does tell you
- That the business is registered to transport waste
- Which tier the registration sits in
- When the registration expires
- Which waste categories it covers
- The date we last read the register
It does not tell you
- That the work will be done well
- That the price is fair
- That we have met, checked or approved the firm
- That anyone has inspected their vehicles or staff
- Anything about complaints, insurance or disputes
Browse the register
Every published listing links back to its own register record, and carries the date we read it.
If we publish a page about your firm
Your registration, tier and expiry date are here because they are on the public register, and people find them by searching your name. You can claim that page and correct anything wrong on it at no charge. What your page can do.
If you hire waste carriers
The duty to check the carrier sits with you, and enforcement follows the waste back. Check a whole supplier list against this morning's register. How the monitoring works.
Read the state of the register: what the whole of it looks like, measured, with the population behind every figure.
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