House clearance in Lincoln starts at £150 per van load, and most quotes are settled after someone has actually looked at the property. That second part is the bit worth understanding, because the number of loads is what decides your final bill, not the number of rooms.
This guide explains how per load pricing works, what makes one three bedroom house cost twice what another does, and the two extra charges that catch people out. It is written for Lincoln and the surrounding Lincolnshire villages.
£150
From, per van load
LWR Group clearance pricing
£125
Per load, Landlord Group members
LWR Group clearance pricing
1 to 2 days
Typical full house clearance
Key takeaway
The short answer
Clearance is priced per van load, not per room. A light flat clear out can be a single load. A full house with a loft, a garage and a garden can run to several. The only way to know is to have someone look, which is free.
How Much Does House Clearance Cost in Lincoln?
What a quote is really measuring
Our clearance rate starts at £150 per van load. Landlords on our Landlord Group membership pay from £125 per load. The table below shows how that arithmetic works as a job grows.
LWR Group clearance pricing, based on our published rate of £150 per van load. Member rate shown at £125 per load.
| Van loads | Standard price | Landlord Group member price |
|---|---|---|
| 1 load | From £150 | From £125 |
| 2 loads | From £300 | From £250 |
| 3 loads | From £450 | From £375 |
| 4 loads | From £600 | From £500 |
We do not publish a fixed price per property size, and you should be a little wary of anyone who does. Two identical terraces on the same Lincoln street can take wildly different amounts of work depending on what is in them.
Clearance, Quoted After a Look See House Clearance or Get a Clearance Quote.
What Actually Changes the Price
Four things move a clearance quote. Volume is the obvious one. The other three are the ones people do not expect.
Pricing factors
The four things that decide your quote
Volume
How much there is, measured in van loads. Lofts, garages, sheds and gardens are the usual reason a quote comes in higher than expected, because people picture the rooms and forget the rest.
Access
A ground floor flat with a driveway is quicker than a third floor flat with no lift and permit parking. Carry distance and parking restrictions add time, and time is loads per day.
Specialist items
Mattresses, fridges, freezers and electricals carry separate disposal costs at the tip, because they cannot go in with general waste. A single old fridge can change a quote.
Sorting
Clearing everything into a van is fast. Separating items for charity, auction or family to review is slower, and should be priced in from the start rather than discovered halfway through.
Worked example: two Lincoln clearances, same size house
Sarah has a two bedroom terrace in Lincoln to clear after a tenant left. Furniture in the rooms only, driveway parking, nothing specialist. It goes in two loads. Mark has the same size terrace two streets over, but with a full loft, a packed shed and an old chest freezer in the garage. Same floor plan, same number of bedrooms, but it takes four loads plus a separate disposal charge for the freezer. The rooms were never the thing that mattered.
Why We Price Per Load Instead of Per Room
Two ways to quote
Per van load against a fixed room price
What some firms advertise
Fixed price per room
- Looks simple in an advert
- Assumes every room holds the same amount
- Usually carries exclusions in the small print
- Tends to get revised upward on the day
- Lofts, sheds and gardens often sit outside it
How we quote
Per van load
- Matches what the job actually costs to run
- A near empty room costs you nothing extra
- Loft, shed and garden counted the same as rooms
- Quoted after a look, so the number holds
- You can reduce it by clearing some yourself first
A way to bring the cost down
If you have time, taking the small dense items out yourself, books, clothing, kitchen cupboards, often removes a load. Bulky furniture is what fills a van by volume, but dense boxes are what make a van heavy and slow to pack.
Probate and Estate Clearances
Clearing a home after someone has died is a different job to clearing a void. It is rarely urgent in the way a tenancy turnaround is, and the priority is usually care rather than speed.
We carry out probate clearances for executors, families and solicitors across Lincoln and Lincolnshire. Items can be separated for charity, auction or the family to go through, and we document what was removed so an executor has a record for the estate.
If you are dealing with an estate and want the clearance handled quietly and documented properly:
Why a Licensed Waste Carrier Matters
Anyone who carries waste for payment in England must be registered with the Environment Agency. LW Renovation Group Ltd is registered as an Upper Tier Carrier Dealer, registration CBDU633448. You can check that yourself on the public register, and it is worth checking whoever you use.
The duty of care sits with you, not just the carrier
Under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the person whose waste it is has a duty of care for where it ends up. If an unregistered operator takes your clearance for cash and fly tips it, the waste is traced back to you. Ask for the carrier registration number and keep the waste transfer note.
We provide a waste transfer note on request for any clearance. Landlords and managing agents tend to want one as a matter of course, because it is the paperwork that demonstrates the duty of care was met.
A Lincoln Clearance, Before and After
Real LWR job
Void garden clearance, Neile Close, Lincoln
Neile Close, rear garden
Neile Close, second view
Common Questions About Clearance Costs
We are a clearance and property maintenance firm, not a house clearance buyer, so we do not offset the cost against items. If there is genuine value in the contents, an auction house is usually the better route and we are happy to say so.
Some charities will collect good quality furniture at no charge, and that is worth doing before you book anyone. It is rarely a full clearance though. Charities take what they can resell and leave the rest, which still needs removing.
Yes, and they count towards the load total the same as the rooms do. Tell us about them when you ask for a quote, because they are the single most common reason a figure goes up on the day.
Most clearances are completed within one to two days of booking, and we are usually on site inside 48 hours for an urgent void turnaround.
Yes. Clearing and then deep cleaning in sequence is our standard void turnaround, and it is how most landlords and letting agents use us. It saves booking two firms around each other.
We cover Lincoln and the wider Lincolnshire area, including Gainsborough, Sleaford, Newark, Grantham, Market Rasen and the surrounding villages.
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