House clearance in Wolverhampton

The law makes you responsible for who takes your waste. Book through scrapmarket and the checks and the paperwork are done for you:

• We check the collector’s waste carrier licence on the Environment Agency register before they can quote, and again every night. If it lapses, they can’t quote.
• We check their insurance, and their photo ID against a selfie.
• When they collect, they record their van’s registration and the licensed site your waste is going to.
• Your waste transfer note is made for you when you confirm the collection, and kept in your account.
• We pay the collector only once we’ve reviewed proof that your waste got to that site.
• If your waste is ever fly-tipped anyway, we’ll report the collector to the Environment Agency and the council, and cover any fine. Here’s how that works.

City of Wolverhampton Council says plainly that it doesn’t offer a house clearance service. Its bulky item collection takes up to nine items a visit, plus up to ten black bags of dry household waste, and only what you listed when you booked. Up to three electrical items are collected separately, on a Friday. Both are charged.

It isn’t open to landlords clearing a rented property either: the council treats that as commercial waste. The crew won’t go inside, and won’t take kitchen units, bathroom suites, doors, building materials, soil, rubble or timber.

Checked 9 October 2026. Sources are at the end of the page.

The city’s two tips take household waste from Wolverhampton homes only, brought by the people who live there. Trade waste is refused, and the council counts landlords as trade.

A van, pick-up or trailer needs a Tip Visit booked first. When you book, you confirm the waste isn’t being disposed of for payment by someone else. Weekday slots are 30 minutes, with fewer at weekends. High-sided vans, 1.8 metres and over, can come only between 10.30am and 3.30pm, booked a day ahead. DIY waste is limited to less than 100 litres, four times in four weeks.

• Shaw Road, Wolverhampton, WV10 9LE

  Has a donation point for wooden and metal furniture, bed frames and kitchenware in good condition.

• Anchor Lane, Lanesfield, Bilston, WV14 9NE

  Its donation point takes bikes only.

Checked 9 October 2026. Sources are at the end of the page.

When a tenant moves out and leaves things behind, the council says that waste becomes trade waste, and it’s the landlord’s duty to have it removed properly: by a licensed waste carrier, with a waste transfer note showing what it was and where it went.

When you post, choose “From a home, but I don’t live there”. The checks and the transfer note are the same as on every job. Our Zero Fly-Tip Promise is narrower: it covers household waste from your own home, as our Terms explain.

Checked 9 October 2026. Sources are at the end of the page.

1. Take photos of each room, and the loft, garage or shed if they’re part of it.
2. Say what’s staying, so nobody quotes for it.
3. Add access notes: stairs, parking, keys, anything that needs taking apart.
4. Collectors quote. Ask them questions by message on scrapmarket, then choose one and agree the day.
5. When it’s done, confirm the collection in your account. That’s when you’re charged, and your waste transfer note is issued.

Furniture, mattresses, carpets, clothes, kitchen and bathroom units, non-cooling appliances such as washing machines, small electricals and general household rubbish can all go.

We can’t take fridges or freezers, TVs or monitors, asbestos, gas bottles, paint, chemicals or clinical waste. Your council’s recycling centre takes most of these. When you buy a new appliance, the shop must take your old one of the same type back free of charge, or offer a free way to drop it off.

Furniture in good condition, books, clothes and kitchenware can often go to charity shops or local reuse schemes. Take out anything of value and any personal papers before collectors arrive: they quote to take waste away, not to value it.

If you’re clearing a home you don’t live in, as an executor or a landlord, the paperwork matters more. Every job gets a waste transfer note, kept in your account. Landlords, businesses and anyone clearing a home they don’t live in must keep it for two years.

The note shows who took the waste and where it went. If anything is ever questioned, that’s your evidence.

You’d need to make the checks on your own: look up their licence on the Environment Agency register (our free checker does it in seconds), note their van registration, ask where your waste is going, and keep a waste transfer note. Through scrapmarket, that’s all done for you.