Hoarder Clearance in Dublin

Hoarding is not untidiness and it isn’t a character flaw. It’s a recognised condition, and the homes it produces are a safety problem before they are anything else — blocked exits, fire load, floors you can’t see, rooms that can’t be used, sometimes no working kitchen or bathroom. The person living there usually knows all this and is ashamed of it, which is why the first rule of a hoarder clearance is that nobody on our crew says a word about the state of the place.

We work with the occupant where that’s possible, with families and carers, with housing officers and social workers, and with landlords and councils where the clearance has become a requirement. The clearance is planned so that the person keeps what matters to them and the home ends up safe and usable. ManageWaste.ie is operated by Krystal Klean Express Limited, permit NWCPO-25-13287-01, with the insurance that housing bodies ask for. We’re based in Athy and run into Dublin daily — city-centre jobs are about 75 minutes from our yard, which is why we schedule Dublin work in rounds rather than one-offs, and why our quotes for Dublin don’t carry a long-distance premium.

On this page: Full clearance · Partial clearance · Every area in Dublin · What the council offers · How it works · Quick quote · Pricing · FAQs

What we take — and what we don’t

• Accumulated belongings, bagged and boxed, with valuables and documents set aside
• Furniture, mattresses and bedding, including soiled items
• Food waste, packaging and perishables
• Newspapers, magazines, paper and cardboard in bulk
• Clothing and textiles, sorted for reuse where possible
• Animal-related waste, with the right handling
• Appliances, electricals and general household waste
• Sweeping and deep cleaning at the end, if wanted

Not included: Sharps and clinical waste beyond household quantities (we’ll arrange specialists); Structural repairs after the clearance; Counselling or support services — we work alongside them, we don’t replace them.

Hoarder Clearance across Dublin: every area we cover

We provide a hoarder clearance in all 161 areas below, and at the rural addresses between them. Dublin is four local authorities, not one, and that matters more than most people realise when they’re getting rid of things. Dublin City Council runs a bookable bulky-waste collection; Fingal, South Dublin and Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown don’t collect bulky waste at all. Where you live decides what the council will and won’t do for you — so on this page we’ve split the county by council area, named every area we cover, and set out exactly what each council offers so you can compare it with simply calling us.

Housing stock varies enormously: Victorian and Edwardian terraces on the canals with narrow halls and no off-street parking, 1930s–60s semis in Crumlin, Cabra, Drimnagh and Finglas, the big apartment developments along the Luas lines and in the Docklands, and newer estates on the edges in Fingal and South Dublin. Access is the thing that changes a Dublin job: parking suspensions on the quays, management-company rules in apartment blocks, and the three-storey Georgian house with everything in the attic.

Dublin City Council area

The city centre, the inner suburbs north and south of the Liffey, and everywhere from Ballymun down to Terenure and from Ballyfermot across to Ringsend.

• Artane
• Ashtown
• Ballsbridge
• Ballybough
• Ballyfermot
• Ballygall
• Ballymun
• Beaumont
• Bluebell
• Broadstone
• Cabra
• Chapelizod
• Cherry Orchard
• Clontarf
• Clonturk
• Coolock
• Crumlin
• Darndale
• Dartry
• Dollymount
• Dolphin's Barn
• Donaghmede
• Donnybrook
• Donnycarney
• Drimnagh
• Drumcondra
• East Wall
• Fairview
• Finglas
• Glasnevin
• Grangegorman
• Harold's Cross
• Inchicore
• Irishtown
• Islandbridge
• Kilbarrack
• Killester
• Kilmainham
• Kimmage
• Marino
• Merrion
• Milltown (Co. Dublin)
• North Strand
• North Wall
• Phibsborough
• Poppintree
• Portobello
• Raheny
• Ranelagh
• Rathgar
• Rathmines
• Rialto
• Ringsend
• Sandymount
• Santry
• Smithfield
• Stoneybatter
• Terenure
• The Coombe
• The Liberties
• Walkinstown
• Whitehall

Fingal (north Dublin)

Swords, Blanchardstown, Malahide, Balbriggan and the coastal towns up to the Meath border, plus the rural villages inland.

• Balbriggan
• Baldoyle
• Balgriffin
• Ballyboughal
• Balrothery
• Bayside
• Blanchardstown
• Castleknock
• Clongriffin
• Clonsilla
• Coolmine
• Corduff
• Damastown
• Donabate
• Garristown
• Hollystown
• Howth
• Kinsealy
• Loughshinny
• Lusk
• Malahide
• Mulhuddart
• Naul
• Oldtown
• Ongar
• Portmarnock
• Portrane
• Rolestown
• Rush
• Skerries
• Sutton
• Swords
• Tyrrelstown

South Dublin County

Tallaght, Clondalkin, Lucan, Rathfarnham, Templeogue and the villages out to Saggart, Rathcoole and Brittas.

• Adamstown (Co. Dublin)
• Athgoe
• Ballyboden
• Ballymount
• Ballyroan (Co. Dublin)
• Bohernabreena
• Brittas
• Citywest
• Clondalkin
• Edmondstown
• Firhouse
• Jobstown
• Johnstown (Co. Dublin)
• Kilnamanagh
• Knocklyon
• Lucan
• Newcastle (Co. Dublin)
• Oldbawn
• Palmerstown
• Perrystown
• Rathcoole
• Rathfarnham
• Rockbrook
• Saggart
• Tallaght
• Templeogue
• Whitechurch (Co. Dublin)

Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown

Dún Laoghaire, Blackrock, Dundrum, Stillorgan, Sandyford and the coast down to Shankill, plus the foothills around Stepaside and Glencullen.

• Ballinteer
• Ballybrack
• Barnacullia
• Belfield
• Blackrock (Co. Dublin)
• Booterstown
• Cabinteely
• Carrickmines
• Cherrywood
• Churchtown
• Clonskeagh
• Cornelscourt
• Dalkey
• Deansgrange
• Dún Laoghaire
• Dundrum
• Foxrock
• Glasthule
• Glenageary
• Glencullen
• Goatstown
• Kill O' The Grange
• Killiney
• Kilmacud
• Kilternan
• Leopardstown
• Loughlinstown
• Monkstown
• Mount Merrion
• Rathmichael
• Roebuck
• Sallynoggin
• Sandycove
• Sandyford
• Shankill
• Stepaside
• Stillorgan
• Ticknock
• Windy Arbour

Doing it yourself in Dublin: what the councils offer

Before you ring anyone, here is the honest picture of what Dublin’s four councils will and won’t do for a hoarder clearance. Furniture and bulky items are accepted at Ringsend Recycling Centre, North Strand Recycling Centre, Ballymun Recycling Centre, Coolmine Recycling Centre, Estuary Recycling Centre, Ballymount Civic Amenity and Ballyogan Recycling Park, with mattresses charged separately (Mattresses €35 each on top of the gate fee). Grangegorman Bring Centre, Oscar Traynor Road Bring Centre (Coolock), Gullistan Terrace Bring Centre (Rathmines), Windmill Road Bring Centre (Crumlin), Herzog Park Bring Centre (Rathgar), Kylemore Park North Bring Centre (Ballyfermot), Eamonn Ceannt Park Bring Centre (Crumlin), Eden Park Recycling Centre and Shanganagh Recycling Centre do not accept furniture or mattresses at all. Watch the vehicle rules: Vans and vehicles with a double-axle trailer pay €95; car with single-axle trailer €55. Full large or commercial vans are not accepted. Household use only.

Dublin City Council — runs a bookable bulky household waste collection: Bulky Household Waste Collection Service for all households in the DCC area (domestic only, not commercial premises). Book online via Citizen Hub (citizenhub.dublincity.ie) or phone (01) 222 2222; pay in advance by debit/credit card. €50 per collection for up to 5 items (a three-piece suite counts as 3 items); each additional 5 items +€50. Normally contacted within 5 working days; collection may take up to 10 days after payment, Mon–Fri 8am–3pm, and you cannot choose the date. Items go on the public footpath on the morning of collection (not collected from gardens, sheds or inside). Full refund if cancelled at least 24 hours before the collection date. Accepts household furniture, bedding and mattresses, carpets, kitchen units/worktops/sinks, doors, bathroom and toilet suites, bicycles, ladders, garden furniture and barbecues, fully drained oil tanks/boilers/radiators, children's swings/slides, prams/buggies/large toys. Not accepted: bagged household or bin waste, garden waste, rubble/soil/plasterboard/asbestos, large amounts of renovation waste, glass, gas cylinders, paints and other hazardous waste, batteries, fluorescent tubes, electrical goods.

Fingal County Council — no bulky-waste collection. Fingal County Council does not offer a bulky waste collection service. Use an authorised collector with a National Waste Collection Permit Office (NWCPO) permit – the council publishes a list – or bring items to Coolmine or Estuary recycling centres for the per-vehicle fee.

South Dublin County Council — no bulky-waste collection. No council bulky collection – SDCC exited the waste collection service in 2011 and has no plans to reintroduce it. Residents use permitted private collectors or bring items to Ballymount Civic Amenity. The council runs periodic free community initiatives with social enterprise RecycleIT, e.g. a mattress amnesty (in 2025 mattresses could also be dropped free at RecycleIT, Crag Industrial Estate, D22) and door-to-door WEEE collection days before Halloween.

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council — no bulky-waste collection. DLR transferred its household waste collection service to private companies in 2010 and offers no bulky-waste kerbside collection. Residents use permitted private collectors or bring items to Ballyogan Recycling Park. Occasional free Mattress Amnesty Days are held at Ballyogan (most recent: Saturday 5 September 2026, 9:30am–5:30pm).

Council details are taken from the councils’ own published information and checked periodically; hours and charges change, so confirm with the site before travelling. Where a council hasn’t published a charge we say so rather than guess.

Or we come to you

Set that against a collection from us: no van to borrow, no gate fee, no weighbridge surprise, no two-mattress limit, no carrying it down the stairs yourself, and no question about whether the site will turn your load away. We quote a fixed price from photos, we load it, and it leaves under our waste collection permit (NWCPO-25-13287-01). For a single item the council site can be cheaper if you already have the van and the time; for anything more than a car-boot load, we usually are.

How a hoarder clearance works with us

1. 
   A private conversation. With whoever is coordinating — family member, carer, housing officer or the person themselves. No judgement, no pressure.
2. 
   A plan. Full or staged, who’s present, what’s kept, what order. Written down and agreed.
3. 
   The clearance. Discreet crew, unmarked where asked, protective equipment where needed, valuables and documents set aside.
4. 
   Afterwards. Swept or deep-cleaned, photographed, and a report for housing bodies if required.

What affects the price in Dublin

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  Volume — hoarded homes are many loads, not one
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  Condition — biohazard handling and protective equipment add cost
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  Staging — several visits cost more in total than one, but are often the right thing
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  Cleaning — deep cleaning is quoted separately
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  Access and parking — as with any clearance

We’re based in Athy and run into Dublin daily — city-centre jobs are about 75 minutes from our yard, which is why we schedule Dublin work in rounds rather than one-offs, and why our quotes for Dublin don’t carry a long-distance premium. Send photos through the quote form or on WhatsApp and you’ll have a fixed price the same day.

Recent clearances

Photos are from our own clearances across Dublin and Leinster, not necessarily in Dublin.

Hoarder Clearance in Dublin: frequently asked questions

Hoarder Clearance in other counties

Outside Dublin, a hoarder clearance is carried out as part of our house clearance service, with the same crew and the same permit: House Clearance Kildare · House Clearance Wicklow · House Clearance Kilkenny · House Clearance Laois · House Clearance Carlow · House Clearance Meath · House Clearance Louth · House Clearance Longford · House Clearance Offaly · House Clearance Westmeath · House Clearance Wexford