A house clearance goes smoothly when you plan ahead, protect your valuables and paperwork, and hand your waste only to a registered carrier. It goes wrong when people rush, lift beyond their limits, mix hazardous items in with general rubbish or pay an unregistered collector...
An organised workspace helps people concentrate, keeps the office safer and makes better use of space you are already paying for. Clutter builds up quietly in every business: broken chairs in a corner, boxes of old files under desks, monitors nobody uses and a store...
For a light autumn tidy, the brown bin or a trip to the recycling centre is often all you need. The trouble starts when the pile outgrows those options: a hedge cut back after years of neglect, a lawn dug up for a new patio...
The simplest way to dispose of old fence panels depends on how many you have. A couple of panels in good condition can be passed on for reuse. A few broken ones can go to the wood section at your local recycling centre, if you...
Timber decking has a hard life in Scotland. Years of rain, frost and shade leave boards green, slippery and soft, and sooner or later the deck needs relaying or removing altogether. Getting rid of the old wood is often the awkward part: the boards are...
The most effective way to reduce household waste is to tackle it in order: buy less, pass on what you no longer need, put the right things in the right recycling bin, and use the council or a registered clearance company for anything too big...
The best ways to prevent fly-tipping are to make your land harder to reach and easier to watch, to keep it tidy so it does not look neglected, to make sure your own waste only goes to a registered carrier, and to clear any dumped...
Computer monitors, televisions and other screens are electrical waste, so they cannot go in your general waste bin or a skip. The good news is that there are plenty of proper routes for them. Householders in Glasgow can use retailer take-back, a council recycling centre...
Old tyres cannot go in your household bin, into a skip or to landfill. Most tyres are banned from landfill, so they have to be reused or recycled instead. For most drivers the easiest answer is to leave old tyres with the fitter when new...
If your business produces cardboard waste in Glasgow, the law says it must be kept separate from general waste and collected for recycling. The simplest way to keep collection costs down is to flatten it, keep it dry and keep it free of plastic and...
We have all seen them: old mattresses propped against railings or slumped in a back lane somewhere in Glasgow, getting soaked in the rain. Dumping a mattress is fly-tipping, and it is completely avoidable. In Glasgow you can take a mattress to a household waste...
When new carpet goes in, a surprising amount comes out: the old carpet, the underlay beneath it, gripper rods full of nails, staples, door bars, plus offcuts and packaging from the new flooring. In Glasgow you can ask your retailer or fitter to take it...
Old air conditioning equipment cannot be treated like ordinary rubbish. Most units contain refrigerant gas, and fixed systems need that gas recovered by a technician qualified to work with F-gas before the equipment is taken out and scrapped. Once a fixed system has been safely...
Jettison Express is proud to be a Build Lanarkshire 2023 award winner. The business, reported at the time as Jettison Waste Management, was named the winner of hub South West Scotland's Build Lanarkshire Programme, a free development programme for local companies in the construction sector...
Yes. During a house or junk clearance, a clearance company will take all the clothing and fabrics left in a property: everyday clothes, coats, shoes, bags, bedding, curtains and towels. At Jettison Express, textiles go back to our depot with the rest of the load...
Clutter builds up slowly, one drawer, cupboard and spare room at a time, until the house feels smaller than it is. The good news is that a cleaner home does not need a weekend of panic. Work room by room, sort everything into a few...
Hiring a junk removal service saves you time, keeps you away from heavy and awkward lifting, and makes sure your waste ends up somewhere legal rather than at the side of a road. A good company also sorts what it collects so more of it...
A professional garden clearance is simpler than most people expect. You tell the clearance company what needs to go, you get a quote, and on the day a team arrives, lifts and loads everything, sweeps up and takes the waste away to be sorted and...
A skip looks simple: one hire fee, a container on the drive and you fill it at your own pace. In practice, the hire fee is rarely the whole cost, and the work and worry all sit with you. A home clearance company takes the...
Our Edinburgh house clearance service is straightforward. You tell us about the property, we agree an up-front rate, and on the day our uniformed team removes everything you want gone, dismantling furniture and lifting carpets where needed. We take it all to our depot to...
Before you hire a house clearance company, ask whether they are a registered waste carrier, where your waste will go, what the price includes, whether they are insured and what paperwork you will receive. The answers tell you whether you are dealing with a professional...