Keepsake Clearances
How it works

How a house clearance works, page by page

Like an album: turn the pages at your own pace.

This is the whole of it, honestly told. Read it in a few minutes, send it to your brother in Brisbane, come back to it when you are ready. Nothing here asks you for anything.

  1. i.The walk-through
  2. ii.The price
  3. iii.The keepsakes
  4. iv.The sorting
  5. v.The carry
  6. vi.The handover
  7. vii.Your page
Page one

First, we walk the house. Together if you can, for you if you can't.

Someone from the crew comes to the house and walks it with you, room by room. You point out what matters, what you are unsure about, and what can simply go. If you are interstate or overseas, we do the same walk on a video call, slowly, with the phone held where you ask.

Nothing is decided that day. Nothing is moved. It is a look, not a start.

A crew member walking a hallway of framed family photos with an older woman and her adult daughter
Room by room, at your pace.
Page two

The price is agreed before anything is lifted

After the walk-through you get a single price for the whole job, in writing. It covers the crew, the carrying, the vehicle, the tip fees, everything. It is the same number at the end as at the beginning, whatever we find under the house.

There is no hourly rate running while we work, so nobody hurries you and nobody slows down. If the price is not right for you, that is completely fine, and we will say goodbye kindly.

A crew member and a family member clasping hands warmly across a kitchen table with a closed notebook between them
One price, settled before the work.
Page three

The keepsakes are set aside first. Always.

On clearing day, before a single load goes out, we do the set-aside: the photographs, the letters, the medals in the sideboard drawer, the papers an executor needs. They go into their own boxes, labelled and kept where you tell us.

And this is the promise the name is built on: if we are unsure whether something matters, we stop and call you before it is decided. Nothing precious leaves a house because someone was in a hurry.

Careful hands setting a framed black-and-white family photograph into an archive box beside letters tied with tape
The first act of every clearance.
Page four

Everything else is sorted, not just carried

A life's contents deserve better than one big skip. Furniture, books, blankets and kitchenware in good condition are offered to donation first. Metals, cardboard and green waste go to their own streams. E-waste and the other regulated items go to licensed facilities, the way they are supposed to.

What truly has no next life goes to landfill last, not first. We would rather make two more stops than waste what someone cared for.

A crew member packing books into a box in a sandstone garage beside folded blankets and a chair set apart for donation
Donation first, landfill last.
Page five

The carry is ours to worry about

Balmoral houses sit above and below their streets. There is often no room for a skip, no driveway for a truck, and sixty sandstone steps between the front door and the kerb. We plan the route, the parking and the crew for it before the day, and it is already inside the fixed price.

You will never hear about the stairs from us. They are simply part of the suburb, and we knew about them when we quoted.

Two crew carrying a timber sideboard down a long sandstone garden stair with harbour water below
Planned before the day, priced before the lift.
Page six

Swept rooms, and the keys handed back

The last hour is the quiet one. Every room is swept, the paths and the porch too, and we walk the empty house the way we walked the full one. If you are away, you get photographs of every room the same day.

The keys finish wherever you choose: with you, the agent or the solicitor. And the set-aside boxes are waiting exactly where you asked, which is the entire point of us.

A crew member handing house keys to a woman at the front door, the swept empty hallway behind them
The relief of a hard thing handled.
Your page

Whenever you are ready, we are easy to reach

There is no countdown here and nobody standing over you. When it is time, tell us a little about the house or the pickup and we will take it from there.

The form is our one channel while the phone line is set up. Leave your number there and we will call you back.

The Balmoral rotunda and promenade under the fig trees at first light, still harbour water
Balmoral at first light. Worth clearing a morning for.