Man and Van Harefield — Removals & Rubbish Removal in UB9

Harefield is unlike anywhere else in the Borough of Hillingdon. It's a proper semi-rural village on a hill — green-belt fields on three sides, a village green, and country lanes rather than gridded suburban streets. That character is exactly why people love living here, and exactly why moving here takes a bit of local know-how. Lanes like Hill End Road and the roads down towards the Grand Union Canal at Coppermill Lock are narrow, with tight bends and passing places rather than pavement-to-pavement width. A big removal lorry struggles; a well-driven Luton or long-wheelbase van doesn't. We plan the approach before we arrive, so nobody spends moving day reversing half a mile back up a lane.

Housing in Harefield ranges from cottages around the village green and High Street to large detached homes on generous plots along Rickmansworth Road and towards Mount Pleasant. Bigger plots mean longer carries — gravel drives, side gates, garden outbuildings — and we price honestly for that rather than springing surprises. We also work regularly around Harefield Hospital, the world-renowned heart and lung hospital on Hill End Road, helping staff and families moving into or out of the area. And because Harefield sits on the doorstep of Denham, Ickenham, Northwood and Rickmansworth, a lot of our jobs here are short cross-border hops — a single trip in the van rather than an expensive full removals booking.

Before booking a waste collection: ask us to identify the registered carrier handling the job and provide the registration details. Verify those details on the Environment Agency public register before handing over any waste.

Harefield sits on the northern edge of the borough, green belt on three sides, and the housing runs from village cottages and hospital-adjacent terraces to large plots on the lanes out towards Denham and Rickmansworth. A lot of it is long-tenured, which is why full-house and probate clearances are the recurring job here rather than single items.

Everything below is priced by the space the load fills and the labour involved, not by the hour, and the price is fixed after a photo or video walk-through before anyone sets off. Every figure includes two people, all the loading and lifting, and the disposal and recycling fees. No skip, no permit, and no VAT to add — the price shown is the price paid.

Rubbish and waste removal in UB9, by the load

The unusual thing about Harefield is that the borough tip is here, on New Years Green Lane. So for anything you can lift into a car this is the one part of Hillingdon where doing it yourself is genuinely easy, and we will say so. What it does not solve is a house, a barn, a felled tree, or anything that needs carrying out.

House and flat clearance in Harefield

Man and van hire in Harefield

Moves and collections that are not clearances are charged hourly, with a two-hour minimum. Longer bookings and full moves are quoted as a fixed all-in price instead.

Garden and green waste in UB9

Heavy builders’ and DIY waste is priced by weight instead, from £95 for up to 100kg, because rubble and furniture do not weigh the same per cubic yard.

Items that carry an eco fee

A handful of items carry a legally required specialist disposal cost. These are added to the load prices above, or charged on their own from the £95 minimum call-out:

The London Borough of Hillingdon runs a paid bulky waste collection across UB9, and for a small qualifying job it is good value. It is charged per collection slot, not per item:

One slot covers a single fridge or freezer on its own, or up to six other items such as a sofa, bed, mattress or wardrobe. The price is per slot rather than per item — so one mattress on its own still costs the full £53.

The four limits that catch people out

1. The crew will not come inside. Everything must be at the boundary of your property, at ground-floor level and accessible, by 6am on the day. Miss that window and the crew moves on. If you cannot get the wardrobe down the stairs yourself, the service does not help you.

2. Six items per slot, and a fridge counts as the whole slot. A garage, loft or end-of-tenancy clear-out runs past that immediately, and each further slot is another £53.

3. It takes no building or DIY waste. No rubble, no soil, no garden waste, no tyres, no hazardous items. After a refit, the council route is not available to you at all.

4. It is booked, not same-day. Collections run Monday to Friday and you take the next free date. At busy periods that can be several days out — worth knowing if you are clearing before a completion or a tenancy handover.

Full detail, including the current item list and the exclusions, is in our Hillingdon bulky waste guide.

Your nearest household recycling centre is Harefield Civic Amenity Site at New Years Green Lane, Harefield, UB9 6LX. If you are doing the job yourself it is worth knowing how it works before you load the car — we have written the full Harefield Civic Amenity Site guide, but the essentials are these.

It is open seven days a week, 8am to 4pm, last entry 3.45pm.

It is free for Hillingdon residents, but cars need a HillingdonFirst card and vans need two forms of ID and are capped at 12 visits a year. It is household waste only — no trade waste.

Since 15 July, Hillingdon residents can also use Space Waye in Feltham, which is open seven days and much closer for the south of the borough.

The council specifically asks residents not to turn right into New Years Green Lane from Harvil Road — the junction backs up badly at weekends.

The catch that is unique to this borough is geography: the tip is up at Harefield, so “free” costs more the further south of the borough you live. From the bottom of Hillingdon a round trip plus a van permit is often dearer in fuel and a Saturday morning than a collection is.

Disposal and recycling are handled as part of the fixed price when we do it instead, with waste transfer paperwork on request so your duty of care is covered. Before booking any collection — with us or anyone — ask for the registered carrier’s details and verify them on the Environment Agency public register.

Probate is a large part of what we do in Harefield, and it is different work from a house move. The property is usually large, the contents span decades, and the people arranging it are executors, solicitors or family dealing with a bereavement at the same time. It cannot be rushed and it should not feel transactional.

How we handle it: we walk the property with you first and agree what is being retained, donated, valued or cleared. Anything that might carry value — furniture, jewellery, art, books, militaria, tools — is set aside rather than loaded, and we will flag things we think are worth a valuer’s eye rather than quietly removing them. Then we clear room by room, through to garages, outbuildings, lofts and the garden.

We work to the executor’s timescale, not ours. If the house is being sold and the clearance needs to fit around a completion date, or if the family needs several weeks to go through things first, that is normal and we plan around it.

Because the whole job is quoted by volume with a fixed price agreed up front, executors get a single figure they can account for — which matters when the estate is being administered and every cost has to be justified. Full-house clearances start from £850; read our probate house clearance guide for how the process runs end to end.

We cover Harefield and the surrounding towns and villages: Uxbridge, Denham, Ickenham, Northwood, Rickmansworth.