Clearing a hoarder’s house yourself can put your health at risk. You need to take this fact seriously from the start. Many neglected homes contain hidden dangers that can harm you. You could face dust, mould, pests, and contaminated waste. You may also find sharp … [Read more...]
Clearing Hoarded Houses With Respect
Clearing hoarded houses with respect, means we should empower the resident to make their own decisions wherever possible. Furthermore, we believe we should only intrude into hoarders’ homes to the extent necessary, to ensure their health, safety, and general … [Read more...]
Clearing a Tenant Hoarder House
Choosing a tenant can be fraught with uncertainties, because unsatisfactory lessees may conceal the truth. We hope they will pay regularly, care for the property, and return it in good condition when the lease ends. Clearing a tenant hoarder house can be a frustrating … [Read more...]
Helping a Relative Hoarding at Home
If you have a relative who has piles of stuff accumulating in their house, then its quite possible you have a compulsive hoarder on your hands. We wrote this post to share things you may not know about this condition, and how to go about helping a relative hoarding to … [Read more...]
How To Discuss Hoarding With Hoarders
Conversations with new clients often provoke an exasperated comment, ‘I don't know how to discuss hoarding with them’. This is often because the two parties are not on the same page. Our decades of experience has taught us that hoarders take a firm stance, and don’t … [Read more...]
Hoarding House Clearance Costs and Extras
A hoarding house is a work in progress, as opposed to the hoarded homes some senior citizens leave behind. Both types accumulate a surprising amount of clutter as the years pass by. It may we unwise to summarily do a hoarding house clearance, though. That’s because … [Read more...]
Self-Neglect, Hoarding and Adult Care
It’s never easy to try to help an adult hoarder restore some order to their home. We have cleared enough of these homes down these years to wonder whether an earlier intervention might have helped. We came across guidelines from Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea … [Read more...]
What Is Hoarding: How Can I Understand It
The definition of hoarding as a separate disorder is relatively new. In fact, the International Classification of Diseases only identified it separately in 2018. Until then, some social workers had little idea what hoarding syndrome was about, beyond an unspeakably … [Read more...]
How to Value a House and Contents for Probate
A deceased estate must be valued for inheritance tax purposes before there can be any question of dividing up the assets. This article explains how to value a house, and contents because these often make up a significant part of any estate. It is worth mentioning … [Read more...]
Fly Tipping in London: Why Here of All Places?
London has certainly had its ups and downs over the years, what with three major attempts at invasion in history, two of which succeeded. And then of course there was also a great plague that took an even greater fire to quench. But why do we still have fly tipping in … [Read more...]
