A new European Commission directive on the Landfill of Waste looks likely to be adopted. “So what?” I hear you say, yet another piece of bureaucracy to deal with; yet another piece of euro-legislation which is supposed to boost recycling in the waste and house clearance industry in theory, but is unworkable in practice.
Lauren, a 21-year old from Essex, spent up to ten hours a day in the shower and two hours walking up stairs, as she was terrified that every inch of her body was crawling with bacteria.
One serious symptom of OCD is compulsive hoarding; described as the excessive collecting of items, even if they are hazardous, unsanitary or worthless. For many, the disorder requires a complete home contents clearance to be undertaken, in order to remove the offending items.
So we feel it is important to show the UK Government what recycling can be achieved in this country through voluntary, industry-led initiatives. We are interested in schemes which are either up and running or will start within the next two years. The information we receive on individual schemes will be kept strictly confidential: only the overall results will be made public.
The typical cost is around £700 per week, depending on where in the country you live. Your council could force you to sell your home to pay for the costs of this care.
That’s according to expert June Fletcher, writing for the Wall Street Journal, who said that the duties assigned to an executor – such as arranging for a valuation report, property clearance and the will – can be “overwhelming”, particularly as the person in question will most likely be grieving at the same time.
Speculation is rife within the House Clearance industry following the head of the Environment Recyclers Association speech at the Bureau of International Recycling Convention in Brussels last week. John Rose addressed the audience a significant proportion of which was composed of British House Clearance companies.
A client that we had worked with before gave us a call one morning to ask if we could clear quite a large house for him. He was a builder who frequently bought rundown properties to develop and then sell on. He had a good eye for a bargain and for identifying up-and-coming areas so his business had thrived over the years.
Our client in this case was a solicitor from a well-respected local firm in the Halifax area. He asked us to clear the residual contents from a four-bedroomed, detached house in the suburbs. The elderly lady who had been living there had recently died, and, acting as executor, the solicitor had obtained probate and had distributed the house contents and the lady’s personal effects in accordance with her will.
As is quite often the case, our client on this occasion was a solicitor from the Dinnington area acting on behalf of the executor of a will, a man whose elderly mother had recently died. She had been living in the family home of many years when she passed away, and her surviving family were now selling up, with the proceeds to be divided between the beneficiaries of her will.