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Date: August 2007

Job location: Alnwick, Northumberland

Job type: House clearance, verminous waste removal, barn clearance & garage clearance

Property type: 30 plus room mansion country estate house

Time to complete: 10 days

Job description: We were appointed on behalf of a North East family to clear a well known 30 plus room mansion one of the family member’s had been renting for over 40 years from Lord Howick of Alnwick, Northumberland, before moving into a nursing home due to ill health in June of 2007.

The mansion was full from floor to ceiling in almost every room with furniture, books, pictures, personal items, bric-a-brac and sheer rubbish that had accumulated and been hoarded for over 40 years.

Most of the furniture, personal items and bric-a-brac had been left in quite a state over the years due to an infestation of wood worm and rats which had gnawed their way through almost everything or infected it with their faeces and urine.

Any items that were salvageable (some books, clothing, pictures, brass-ware and pieces of furniture) were either kept by the family themselves or used as part payment to Abacus to keep clearance and disposal costs down.

However 90% of everything in the property and adjacent barns, outhouses and garages were disposed of by way of 14 skips that we hired ourselves (12 double large and 2 small) and 2 full van loads using our own Abacus vans. We also contracted a scrap metals dealer to take away cookers, washers, fridges, freezers and other metal parts.

The job was completed in 10 days, or two weeks working 5 days per week from 8.00am to 6.00am with a team of up to 6 staff members on duty at all times. In order to complete the job in a timely fashion we actually stayed on the premises by bringing our caravan (pictured) with us, only going home at the weekends.

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