Bulky household item collection

• Wooden furniture - wardrobes, tables, chairs, sideboards, flat-packs, desks, bookcases, TV cabinets, wall units
• Soft furnishings - beds, settees, futons, easy chairs, headboards, cots
• Domestic applicances - washers, fridges, TVs, microwaves, DVD players, toasters, kettles, vacuum cleaners, lamps...
• Kitchen items - pots, pans, cutlery
• IT/home entertainment - TVs, DVDs, video recorders, computers, hi-fi units, speakers, phones, musical instruments, indoor toys and games...
• Bicycles - adult and child
• Miscellaneous items - gardening tools, outdoor play equipment, mobility aids, wheelchairs, bric-a-brac

This is just a sample list - please call us for further details.

• Household fixtures and fittings - baths, sinks, toilets, fitted kitchens, worktops, doors, carpets, underlay, lino
• Outdoor items - rubble, bricks, fence panels, garden rubbish, black bags
• Miscellaneous - pianos, fish tanks, rabbit hutches, commercial refrigeration units

At the time of booking, by credit or debit card. Call us on 01524 582491 to make your booking.

Alternatively you can pay by card, cheque or postal order in person at Lancaster or Morecambe town halls, when you make your booking.

If you book a collection and then want to cancel, we can only refund your payment if you give us notice of at least one clear working day.

For example, if your collection is booked for a Thursday, you must contact us by Tuesday at the latest to cancel and qualify for a refund.

We can give you one of the three slots below.

• Morning slots are between 9am - 1pm
• Afternoon slots 1pm - 5pm and
• Evening slots 5pm - 9pm

Yes - but you must give us notice of one clear working day. For example, if your collection is booked for Thursday, you must contact us by Tuesday at the latest to change your collection date and/or time.

Yes, the Bulky Matters driver and crew member will arrive at the agreed time slot and, with your permission, enter your house and carefully remove the item/s. We will also ask you to sign a form to show that you agree to the items in question being removed. All staff are specially trained to handle your items carefully, and be respectful and courteous whilst in your home. All staff have undergone full enhanced clearances with the Criminal Records Bureau, to give householders that extra reassurance.

Yes, the Bulky Matters team are committed to ensuring that we always turn up on the agreed date and within the hours specified. In the event of circumstances beyond our control (traffic problems, breakdowns etc) we will contact you and let you know when the collection will be.

The payment is to help cover the costs of a brand new service. Previously all items were collected and then landfilled. No appointments were given and collection could take up to 4 weeks or more. In any case the cost of landfilling is increasing dramatically and because of new legislation the Council would have no longer been able to collect items like T.V.s and monitors in the way it had done in the past.

No, that is not possible.

Carpets and other floor coverings cannot generally be reused or recycled. If you are having a new carpet fitted you should ask your carpet supplier to dispose of the old one for you. Alternatively carpets can be taken to the Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) at Salt Ayre, or Keer Bridge in Carnforth, or you can arrange for Environmental Services to give you a quotation for collecting and disposing of items for you.

The items will be taken firstly to the new Bulky Matters warehousing and distribution ‘Sort It’ centre; where they will be sorted into what is reusable, what needs repair, what can be stripped down for parts and what can be recycled / reprocessed. The left-over or “residual waste” will be collected and taken to the landfill site.

Reusable items will do to disadvantaged people who live in the district. Furniture Matters currently works with over 100 local statutory and voluntary sector organisations that are ‘signed up’ as accredited referral agencies (e.g. Health Visitors, the Probation Service, Social Services, Women’s Aid, Age Concern, CABs etc). They refer their clients to us if they are in need of basic household items such as a bed to sleep in, a washer, a cooker etc.

No. Whilst we welcome reusable items, this is a bulky household waste collection service. An item does not have to be reusable or recyclable for us to collect it. As long as it is on the list, and you have named it and paid for it, at the time of making the booking with the council’s customer service centre, then we will collect it whatever its condition and dispose of it for you.