Stepping into an old craftsman's workshop or big DIY garage in Wavre immediately shows you are not in the same league as a simple flat. Anvils, engines, massive vices, decades of stocked rebar: here no light furniture or box of fragile trinkets — every corner weighs heavy, very heavy.
The real challenge: extreme loads and safety
Moving a metal lathe, cast-iron workbenches or machine-tool carcasses demands adapted lifting gear and rigorous carrying to avoid any bodily accident. Add waste-oil drums, solvents and chemical residues — strictly banned from traditional streams — and a scrap volume to sort and compact to maximise rotations to Walloon Brabant's approved centres.
⚠️ Heavy loads + chemicals: double danger
A badly strapped cast-iron bench injures; a solvent drum in a skip pollutes. Both demand an industrial site protocol, not a standard clearance.
Our approach on site
- Metal and inert sorting: immediate separation of precious metals — copper, brass, aluminium — and heavy scrap towards specialist streams.
- Lifting equipment: reinforced trolleys, pallet trucks and pulling straps to extract heavy machines from the workshop's depths without damaging raw concrete floors.
- Secured chemical disposal: sealed packing of paint residues and workshop products to licensed parks.
💡 Volume + machines: compare before hiring
Van, hoist, skip and PPE quickly top €1,000 for a big volume — see hiring equipment in Belgium. With metal recovery, the professional often costs less.
The result
The workshop was fully stripped, cleaned and rid of its tonnes of metals and bulky items, leaving a healthy space ready for new reconversion projects. A technical job recalling that house clearance also covers the raw reality of old workspaces.
🔧 A workshop to clear in Walloon Brabant?
Adapted lifting, metal sorting and licensed streams. Free quote within 48h.