In the Province of Liège, the terrain matters as much as the volume: many of the homes we clear cling to hillsides or line narrow valleys.
In Liège, the provincial capital with close to 200,000 residents and 16 sections, the work ranges from tall townhouses in Outremeuse and at the Guillemins to houses clinging to the city's hills and many lift-less flats and student rooms, where everything comes down by the stairs. Along the Meuse, Seraing and Herstal have rows of terraced workers' houses from their steel and industrial past, while the Boncelles plateau or Vottem have newer homes. In Verviers, mansions built by former wool industrialists stand alongside workers' houses stacked on the slopes of the Vesdre valley, a valley badly hit by the floods of July 2021. Huy packs its old houses below the fort, and Ans keeps the houses of its mining past next to the housing estates of Alleur and Loncin. To the east, Eupen is the capital of the German-speaking Community, which covers nine municipalities in the province. For waste, residents use the recyparcs run by Intradel, the intercommunale for the province of Liège; in Eupen, it is the town's Wertstoffhöfe. These sites are reserved for households: Sparkling Services does not take waste from its jobs there, but donates reusable items to social-economy organisations and hands the rest to licensed processing channels. We work in French, Dutch and English, including with families in Eupen and the East Cantons. We apply for the road-occupation permit, plan for carrying by hand or a furniture lift depending on access, and hand the property back empty and clean.
- Intradel runs the province's recyparcs; Eupen has its own Wertstoffhöfe.
- In Liège, many flats and student rooms have no lift: carrying down the stairs is the norm.
- The German-speaking Community has nine municipalities, all in the Province of Liège, with Eupen as its capital.
- In the Vesdre valley, some homes had to be cleared completely after the floods of July 2021.