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.

We Clear Houses | Managing Compulsive Hoarding Disorder

We Clean Clear & Declutter | Managing Compulsive A Hoarding Disorder

At what stage does collecting clutter turn into compulsive hoarding?

The two conditions start off as being one and the same thing. However, you know that the habit of collecting clutter has become one of compulsive hoarding when the accumulated clutter reaches levels whereby it takes over your home, preventing the use of a home’s facilities, such as bedrooms, bathrooms, and kitchens, for the purpose for which they were designed.

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To many people this may sound somewhat improbable, but the truth of the matter is that it is indeed, fact. Houses that have been cleared of clutter have been known to contain in excess of 20 tons of junk, including rather amazingly, in one hoarders house in New York, USA, more than enough spare parts to build a model T Ford several times over.

The thing about the clutter that compulsive hoarders amass is that it is in the main useless, worthless junk, although to the hoarder, it is invaluable. Hoarders often “fall in love” with their junk. The compulsion to hoard it is based on the belief that it will one day come in very useful for a particular situation, even if the goods themselves are broken or damaged.
Managing compulsive hoarding disorder

This level of compulsive hoarding is a variant of an OCD, or an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It is a recognised illness, and there are specially trained people one can turn to for treatment. However, getting a hoarder to accept that they need treatment is in itself quite a feat.

People suffering from compulsive hording disorder find it impossible to even consider relinquishing the hold on any of their hoard, even though it may be making their everyday living conditions almost intolerable. The very thought of discarding any of it will bring on severe feelings of exposure, inadequacy and a deep rooted fear that they may be discarding something that will one day be indispensible.

Hoarders are fully aware of both what it is that they are doing, and also the effect that it is having on their lives. They also understand that visitors to their home will be appalled and disgusted by the mess and chaos. For this very reason, hoarders shut themselves away from society, very often becoming quite recluse like, and they refuse to let colleagues, friends, and family into their homes.

It is however quite usual for a hoarder to go out to work, although they will often feel that their jobs are worthless, and that their skills are undervalued and under-used. Hoarders do however find it very difficult to make any sort of decisions, and are subject to severe procrastination. For this reason, they are not very efficient in their jobs, taking longer than any of their colleagues to complete their tasks, and often starting earlier in the day and finishing later than anyone else in order to try and match the pace of others.

There are specialists who are trained to rehabilitate hoarders, and their treatments are effective. They utilise CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) which teaches the hoarder to be able to recognise and isolate their compulsions, enabling them to deal with them in other ways, and allowing the gradual discarding of the hoard. It is important to start by taking small steps, leading in time to larger steps and at more frequent intervals. In this way, as the hoard is slowly disbanded, the hoarder’s homes are gradually returned back to some semblance of normality.

It is unlikely that the urge to hoard can ever be completely cured once it has been acquired, but however, the good news is that with the proper corrective treatment, the hoarding compulsion can be managed.

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