Clearing a home in Bournville often comes at a big moment, whether a parent is moving into care from an old village cottage or retirement bungalow, a house is being sold or a relative has passed away. SRW Services takes on the work and the worry. For house clearance Bournville families can rely on, we treat every home, and everything in it, with respect.
We look over the job before quoting, noting the stairs, the loft and the garden, so the crew arrives prepared and can work through the house in a sensible order.
We speak kindly, answer questions plainly and never hurry a family into decisions about a loved one's belongings. The crew is just as polite with neighbours on Bournville's semi detached streets.
We are licensed waste carriers, our staff are fully qualified, the business is fully insured and all our work is guaranteed.
The home visit and the quote are both free, and we can clear as little as a single item or a few rooms, with no skip or permit to arrange.
SRW Services is a family run house clearance business, established in 1999. We work with homeowners, families, executors, solicitors, landlords and estate agents, and take on jobs of any size, whether that is an overflowing garage, a flat or a whole house.
Bournville lies about four miles south of central Birmingham, with Cotteridge and Stirchley as close neighbours and Kings Norton just to the south. Our base on Bloxwich Road North in Willenhall is about 13 miles from Bournville. The A4040 Outer Circle passes through the area, and the A38 Bristol Road and the A441 Pershore Road link it with the city centre, so reaching your door is straightforward.
Bournville began in 1895 as George Cadbury’s model village beside the Cadbury factory. The old village is made up largely of Arts and Crafts semi detached cottages with dormers, roughcast walls, half timbering and cottage style doors and windows. Original doors and frames like these need careful handling when wardrobes and sideboards come out, so carrying routes are planned before anything is lifted. The earliest part of the village sits within the Bournville Village Conservation Area, and the Bournville Tenants area off Northfield Road is a conservation area too.
The early estate rules limited how much of each plot a house could cover, so many original homes have large gardens, and a clearance here may well take in the garden as well as the house.
Not every home is a period cottage. The council also built homes around Bournville before and after the Second World War, and there is a group of mostly detached 1970s houses in the west of Bournville. The Quadrangle on Mary Vale Road, a Grade II listed group of almshouse bungalows for older people, shows that a downsizing or probate clearance can mean a single storey home as easily as a family house.
On the day, a team of two or three people usually arrives, with more for larger properties. We start with a quick walk round with you, or whoever is meeting us there, to confirm what stays and what goes. Everything is then sorted into what you are keeping, what can go to charity, what can be recycled and what is left for disposal, so as little as possible ends up in landfill. Bulky items, appliances and bags of household rubbish are carried out by the crew, and the remaining waste is taken to licensed or registered waste transfer stations. Before we leave, we sweep through each room, so the property is left clear and ready for whatever comes next.
Often, yes. Someone you trust, such as a relative, a neighbour or the executor, can let the crew in, as long as you have agreed with us beforehand which pieces are staying. A short list of those pieces, or a label on each one, makes the day straightforward for whoever is there.
A clearance takes out the contents of a home rather than altering the building. If your home is in the Bournville Village Conservation Area or the Bournville Tenants area and has original features you want to protect, point them out at the visit and the crew will work around them.
Leave the furniture and everyday contents where they are. In a Bournville family home that has been lived in for decades, it is worth taking out personal papers, jewellery, photographs and anything else you want to keep, or telling us exactly where they are. If you are still looking for a will or other documents, it is best to finish that search before the clearance day.
We will do our best to. Tell us the date the bungalow needs to be empty by and which furniture is going to the new home. We can clear what is left once the move has happened, or work around anything still waiting to go. A single storey home is usually simpler to clear, which helps when time is short.
Tell us about them when you first get in touch, along with anything stored in the loft. Outbuildings are easy to forget when your attention is on the house, and knowing about them from the start means the quote covers everything and the right size crew turns up.
Arranging a clearance in Bournville comes down to three simple steps, and you decide what happens at each one.
Get in touch with the address, a rough idea of what needs to go and any date you are working towards, and we will come back to you with a clear quote.
When you are happy with the quote, agree a day with us that suits you, fitting around work, family or a completion date where the diary allows. Let us know who will have the keys on the day and anything that must stay behind.
The crew arrives on the agreed day and clears the rooms, loft, garage or garden you have chosen, loading everything carefully as it goes. You do not need to lift a thing, even with heavy furniture and appliances.
Our house clearance service handles whole homes and single rooms alike, and we also offer flat clearance, garage clearance and garden clearance. For general clutter there is rubbish clearance, and businesses can arrange office clearance. When a home needs emptying after a death, our bereavement property clearance is handled gently and at the family’s pace. Any of these can be combined, so a house, its garage and the garden can be cleared together as one job.
We also clear homes in nearby Selly Oak, Kings Norton and Northfield, and offer house clearance in Birmingham more widely. To ask about your property, contact SRW Services.
House clearance, rubbish removal, garden clearance, and garage clearance, we can help with clearance jobs of all sizes. Send us an online message below and we’ll get back to you quickly with a great value price!
SRW Services offer a wide array of services from House Clearance to Garden Clearance. We are a multi skilled company with a great reputation in our local area.
68 Bloxwich Road, Willenhall, WV12 5PS
