May 30, 2025
Pickup of Old Furniture – How the Clearing of a Home or Estate
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Pickup of Old Furniture – How the Clearing of a Home or Estate
Pickup of Old Furniture – How the Clearing of a Home or Estate Progresses
Clearing an estate is often a heavy and challenging process for relatives as they go through belongings and other items with sentimental value. Clearing a home can take a long time, as there are items to keep, recycle, and throw away. Only a relative can decide which items hold sentimental value and which are ready to move on.
Clearing a home is also needed, for example, when an elderly relative moves from their home to a care facility. The home may have suffered significant water damage or another accident, requiring damaged furniture to be removed.
In this article, we explain how to properly carry out a home clearance and when to hire a clearance service.
How to Start Clearing a Home?
It’s important to clear a home carefully to sort belongings and furniture correctly and avoid unnecessary environmental impact. For example, all items suitable for recycling or donation should be separated from items suitable for sale. Proper sorting of broken or waste items is also important because taking items to a waste station involves sorting fees.
Save Items with Sentimental or Resale Value
Often, items in an estate have more sentimental than monetary value. It’s important to collect all valuable and sentimental furniture and belongings before clearing. Also gather important documents, papers, photographs, as well as jewelry and other valuables. Many companies are also willing to buy estate belongings.
When deciding if furniture or items can be sold, consider:
Is the item a branded product, like designer furniture or tableware?
Finnish design brands like Artek, Alvar Aalto, Iittala, and others have good resale value and deserve careful evaluation.
Is the appliance or electronics new, working, and under warranty?
New or lightly used electronics like TVs can be sold. Appliances under warranty can also find buyers.
Do large pieces of furniture, like sofas or beds, show signs of use?
Good condition furniture sells easily on online marketplaces. Worn but still usable furniture can be donated.
Is there art or collectibles in the home?
Paintings, artworks, or collectibles such as clocks can be valuable and sought-after.
Are there branded clothes or shoes?
If no clothes suit your own use, good condition clothes can be donated. You can also check resale platforms for pricing on branded clothes, bags, or shoes.
Sell furniture on online marketplaces
Good condition, new, or valuable furniture and items that you expect to sell well should be listed on online marketplaces like Tori or Facebook Marketplace. At Kotihandi, we also offer transport services for used furniture if you don’t have transportation.
Sort Items for Donation
Good condition items should be separated next: All clean and usable clothes, textiles, and toys can be donated, for example, to the Finnish Red Cross. Check local rules and donation acceptability in advance.
Usable furniture, dishes, or decorative items showing some signs of use can also find new homes through donation. Many flea markets accept good condition furniture, bikes, or books for free.
Sort Mixed Waste and Combustible Waste
Depending on the condition of the home, there may be many items that are broken, moldy, or unusable. Clearances are opportunities to dispose of completely broken or waste items. Homes often contain trash that belongs in plastic, glass, or metal recycling.
Sorting speeds up the clearance and helps the service provider work faster.
Clearance goes faster when you sort waste properly:
- Sort plastic, metal, glass, and cardboard separately
- Check if electrical devices work and recycle broken ones
- Sort hazardous waste like batteries, paint, medicines, and chemicals separately to special recycling points
- Sort all textiles and unusable clothes separately
Do not put anything in mixed waste that can be disposed of by the above methods. Combustible waste can include all cleaning waste, dirty plastics and cardboard, and unusable dishes and items.
Order Pickup of Old Furniture
Once waste is sorted and valuables and items for sale are collected, it’s time to order pickup of waste and old furniture. Clearing a home or estate is a service that makes removing belongings easier. The clearance service also helps with removing broken or damaged cupboards, furniture, or appliances.
For example, removing an old bed always requires a lot of space, and if there’s a lot to transport, it’s best to order transport and recycling from an experienced provider.
Kotihandi Clears Estates, Storage Units, and Homes
Estate clearing is made as easy as possible when you order the service directly from Kotihandi. You get help with this heavy task, and we take away sorted belongings and furniture to appropriate recycling points. To order, select the time you need for the clearance. The minimum time is two hours. We can also assess whether items can be recycled or must go directly to the waste station. If so, reserve an extra hour for this assessment.
We perform removal of sorted belongings and furniture from homes or estates. If you haven’t sorted items beforehand, you can also send us photos of the home and rooms to be cleared, which helps us estimate the time needed.
We serve the Helsinki metropolitan area, Tampere, and Jyväskylä. Read more about furniture recycling service.
Contact our professionals by ordering the service via the Kotihandi app.
Order Final Cleaning of the Home
When the home is cleared, it’s also advisable to order final cleaning. At Kotihandi, we make sure the home is left clean and ready for the next occupant after clearance. You can order final cleaning or moving cleaning. We perform thorough final cleaning of the entire home according to your wishes.
Contact our experienced cleaners and order the service directly via the Kotihandi app.
