What you leave behind
Nobody orders a skip because they want one. They order it because it's Thursday, completion is Friday, and there's a pile in the hall that nobody has looked at until now.
Avoiding a skip is not really about effort or good intentions. It's about the calendar. Reuse takes time — a charity collection has to be booked, a resale listing has to find a buyer, a reuse organisation has to confirm it'll take the item. None of that happens overnight.
So the work that keeps furniture out of landfill isn't physical work. It's deciding early, while the move still feels comfortably far away. That's why we sort what isn't coming during the survey rather than treating it as your problem to solve on the last day.
The register
Sorted at survey, when there's still time for a collection to be booked. Left to the last day it becomes one pile, and one pile becomes a skip.
Furniture that works, in condition someone else would accept. Passed on through reuse organisations, community projects or resale, depending on the item and what is operating in your area.
Charity collection arranged alongside the move. We will tell you honestly which of your items a charity is likely to accept — fire labels, condition and upholstery rules decide it, and those rules change.
Some things are genuinely finished, and pretending otherwise just moves the problem. This goes through licensed waste carriers with a waste transfer note you keep a copy of.
What we will not do is promise that a charity will take a specific item. Reuse organisations set their own rules and those rules change — so you get a realistic answer at survey rather than a reassuring one that falls over after the van has gone.
Some things genuinely have to be disposed of, and pretending otherwise just moves the decision later. Knowing which is which up front is more useful than optimism.
Anything taken away as waste should go through a licensed carrier and produce a waste transfer note. We produce one and give you a copy as a matter of course.
This isn't box-ticking. Duty of care on household waste sits with you as well as with whoever carries it — waste fly-tipped after leaving your address can come back to you. A copy of the transfer note is the answer to that, and it costs nothing to hold on to.
This is where the volume hides, and they're the last spaces anyone opens. They're also where the awkward items live. Open them before the survey — not for our benefit, but because finding a can of two-stroke and three part-used tins of masonry paint on the morning of the move is a problem with no good answer on the day.
We quote clear-outs of those spaces as their own job rather than assuming them into the move, so you can see what that part costs and decide.
Tell us roughly what's in the loft, the shed and the garage. We'll sort it into routes at survey, while there's still time for the reuse ones to be worth anything.