Jamie Murray
Jamie Murray
2023-01-28
Quality fast and reliable service with a cracking bunch of lads definitely recommended
Bill Mitchell
Bill Mitchell
2021-09-14
Contracted this company to clear the flat of my deceased mother. Two young guys cleared EVERYTHING out of the rented property, including furniture, carpets, ornaments, white goods and food/household products, politely, efficiently, and respectfully. Excellent service.
Charles winter
Charles winter
2021-05-21
The guys from Northern House Clearance have just cleared a house for me in Scotland. The house was packed not only with a lifetimes worth of memories, but all the clutter that goes with it. Within 2 days it was emptied down to the floorboards. A great job from a good team of lads. Highly recommended.
Graeme hatton
Graeme hatton
2021-02-24
An excellent 5 star service. Firstly the compassion shown due to the circumstances which resulted in having to use their services, not just on the phone but by the team who arrived, on time, to perform the job. Above all a friendly attitude goes a long way in stressful times. Professional from the start to the end of the day and due to the amount of clutter a second day was needed. I could not believe how much was cleared in just one day, it was as if the clutter had it's own clutter to clear. Hope that I never need to use them again, but if I have to clear another property they will be the only people that I call. Highly recommend them. G.Hatton. Cheshire.
Lorna Hamilton
Lorna Hamilton
2021-02-05
Fantastic service. Highly recommend. The team was so helpful.
Richard Foster
Richard Foster
2020-11-26
The guys from Northern house clearing cleared my deceased brothers house which was in a state. They were very discrete and great guys very understanding at such a sad time. Great job guys thank you.
Xiu Yun Chen
Xiu Yun Chen
2020-11-25
This is a good company would highly recommend these guys. Very efficent and helpful.
Laura
Laura
2020-11-05
Highly recommended. From my initial enquiry I found them to be efficient and professional and was given an immediate quote. On the day the guys arrived promptly and were friendly, helpful and thorough. I would not hesitate to use this company again and I would recommend to others. I felt in good hands and I, m very happy with the service I received.
Ruth Lawrence
Ruth Lawrence
2020-08-22
The team arrived bang on time and began work immediately. They continued for five solid days and completed the entire clearance of my late uncles house, which was a case of extreme hoarding over many decades. They even removed carpets, curtains and swept up so the house was ready for sale. They were exeptionally hard working, polite and charged a reasonable price for this incredibly difficult job. Terrific service, absolutely recommended.

House Clearance Carlisle – Designer garden boost for glass recycling

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Designer garden boost for glass recycling

House Clearance Carlisle reported last year on a new use for recycled glass as a decorative mulch increasingly being used by garden designers to top plant containers, fill gaps between slabs and similar applications. House Clearance Carlisle reports that demand from the public for their Crystaleis Recycled Glass Gravel has mushroomed thanks to publicity in gardening magazines as well as its use in DIY/Design TV programme, Homefront in the Garden. Consumer magazine, Garden Answers also features the glass mulch as ‘Recommended Product’ of the month in its March issue, predicting that ‘coloured glass mulch is going to be the most sought-after product in gardens this year’.

The mulch is made from glass containers and a modern day recycling miracle is performed: green glass cullet with a negative value is turned into a product retailing at £6.99 for 20kg. Clear, amber and blue cullet (pictured above) are also used, with blends of the different colours producing a wide variety of shades for today’s designer gardens. With gardening the new Rock & Roll, there’s an enormous potential market to be exploited.

So how did this ‘wonder product’ come about? Development work by Windmill Aggregates looked into a way of turning cullet into an aggegate substitute. There has been a certain amount of research already into using recycled glass in asphalt and cement, with diappointing results released so far by various parties. Windmill decided to look at it a different way: using processed cullet as gravel. They examined ways of turning cullet into a safe, hygenic and above all aesthetically pleasing product. As has been proven time and time again, the public will not buy a product simply because it is recycled, it has to perform as well as a new product, in this case gravel quarried and processed as a virgin raw material. However, the recycled glass mulch actually enjoys a positive advantage over the equivalent virgin material: its colour and light reflective properties. For once recycled glass has the edge. It is also effective at retaining moisture in the soil and reasonably slug repellent. It also has the all important ‘crunch’ under foot.

The product was launched to the public at Chelsea Flower Show, and has been covered extensively in the gardening press. To ease marketing, Specialist Aggregates, headed by Steve Le Chevalier, has been set up as an agent for the product and demand is proving high at the moment, with the number of garden centre suppliers increasing daily. The company is currently in talks with gardening wholesalers and distributors. As for the future, the manufacturers hope that the mulch will become more of a mainstream product, rather than a designer feature, which will obviously vastly increase the tonnages involved. And the companies are not only producing glass mulch. Steve revealed to Recycling World that they are about to launch a new range of paving and fountain products made of a combination of recycled granite sand and Crystaleis. They are also supplying a terazzo tile manufacturer with recycled copper which is being used to add a metallic sparkle to floor tiles. Further research into scrap metal applications in designer gardening is underway.

The production process

Glass has been used for mulch purposes before (green glass gravel is widely used in cemeteries), but the glass involved is melted and dyed in a glass furnace at considerable expense and sells for up to £35/20kg. What Windmill wanted to do was find a process that would not involve any melting. After months of work they developed a system whereby processed cullet is bought in and graded, sterilised, tumbled and dried in a purpose built plant to produce Crystaleis. Safety is ensured by tumbling until any sharp edges are removed but the glass retains its sparkle. Particle size is carefully controlled to ensure that the mulch is safe to walk on. However the company does advise that their larger 6-10mm size is not used for areas where children play. The Crystaleis grains are strong enough to resist shattering and the tumbling process removes any cracked pieces.

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