London appliance clearance · Central London
Appliance clearance across Islington, from EC1, EC1V and N1 outwards. Georgian squares and canal basins around Angel, giving way to dense estates and Arsenal crowds further north, and that is what shapes every quote we write here.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single small appliance (microwave, vacuum, TV) | £40 | 15–30 min | Small WEEE is priced per unit because the gate fee is per item, not per kilo. |
| Washing machine, dryer or dishwasher | £60 | 30 min | Two crew and a sack barrow: a drum-loaded machine is 70–80kg and rarely on the ground floor in London. |
| Fridge or freezer | £70 | 30 min | Fridges carry refrigerant gases and must go to a degassing facility, which is a separate licensed stream. |
| American fridge-freezer or range cooker | £95 | 45–60 min | Oversize units need three crew, door removal or a strap lift down a shared stairwell. |
| Kitchen strip-out (four or more appliances) | £180 | 1–2 hrs | Refit and landlord jobs where the whole run comes out in one visit, uplifted together. |
Single small appliance (microwave, vacuum, TV)
£40 · 15–30 min
Small WEEE is priced per unit because the gate fee is per item, not per kilo.
Washing machine, dryer or dishwasher
£60 · 30 min
Two crew and a sack barrow: a drum-loaded machine is 70–80kg and rarely on the ground floor in London.
Fridge or freezer
£70 · 30 min
Fridges carry refrigerant gases and must go to a degassing facility, which is a separate licensed stream.
American fridge-freezer or range cooker
£95 · 45–60 min
Oversize units need three crew, door removal or a strap lift down a shared stairwell.
Kitchen strip-out (four or more appliances)
£180 · 1–2 hrs
Refit and landlord jobs where the whole run comes out in one visit, uplifted together.
Domestic prices are the total you pay; landlord, agent and office invoices are plus VAT. Disconnection of a free-standing plug-in appliance and the carry are included.
Working in Islington
Islington is built from four-storey georgian terraces with basements, victorian conversions and large council estates around finsbury park, and the mix changes street by street — Angel (N1), Archway (N19) and Barnsbury (N1) each behave differently on the day.
London Borough of Islington sets the constraint: wall-to-wall cpzs, red routes on holloway road and city road, and terraces with no off-street parking at all. Locally that means seven-day cpz, no off-street parking on the georgian streets and steep basement access and gyratory red routes, steep hill streets and estate blocks with booked lifts. Part of Islington sits inside the Congestion Charge zone, so the charge is quoted as its own line rather than hidden in the labour rate.
London Borough of Islington runs bulky-waste collections and reuse and recycling centres, and they are a genuine option in Islington for one or two items. Where they stop being useful is size limits, same-week deadlines and anything lifted out of a communal area — those are the loads we take, under our waste carrier licence and with a transfer note issued on the day.
Islington took its present shape because a spa and pleasure-garden suburb that filled with georgian and early victorian terraces, then gentrified hard from the 1970s.
Scope
Method
Step 1
Type, floor and whether it is free-standing or integrated. That is all we need for a fixed price.
Step 2
Timed to your delivery or installation window so the old machine is gone before the new one arrives.
Step 3
Plug-in appliances unplugged and drained, hall and lift lobby sheeted before anything moves.
Step 4
Barrowed out by two crew — three on an American fridge-freezer or a range cooker.
Step 5
Fridges degassed at a licensed site, other WEEE recycled, transfer note handed over.
Coverage
Also in this borough
Whole-flat clears, probate and end-of-tenancy strip-outs, sorted room by room.
Green waste, decking, sheds and hard landscaping taken away and split for composting.
Desks, chairs, racking and IT stripped out of a let unit with WEEE evidence.
Single items, builders' waste and part-loads across the borough.
Drum, seal and filter cleaned to clear odours and standing water.
Ovens, hobs and racks dip-cleaned back to a lettable standard.
Single small appliance (microwave, vacuum, TV) starts at £40 in Islington, and the ladder runs up to £180 for the largest job on the table above. Appliance type, the floor it is on and whether it is free-standing or built in — refrigerant units cost more because of the degassing gate fee. Part of the borough is inside the Congestion Charge zone, so a £15 daily charge is added as its own line when the job falls inside the charging hours.
We cover the whole borough: EC1, EC1V, N1, N19, N4, N5 and N7. On the ground that includes Angel, Archway, Barnsbury, Canonbury, Finsbury Park and Highbury.
Same-week across every borough, with next-day slots common on single machines. Central London is covered by crews already working in the borough, so travel time is not billed on top.
Wall-to-wall CPZs, red routes on Holloway Road and City Road, and terraces with no off-street parking at all. Where a permit or a bay suspension is needed we arrange it with London Borough of Islington and show the cost in the quote before you agree it. Nothing is added afterwards.
Yes. Four-storey Georgian terraces with basements, Victorian conversions and large council estates around Finsbury Park is exactly the stock we work in daily. Where there is no lift, the crew size is set by the floor level at quote stage, so a third-floor walk-up is priced as a third-floor walk-up rather than re-quoted on the doorstep.
Registered waste carrier operating to the WEEE Regulations. Fridges and freezers go to a licensed degassing facility, all other appliances to an approved WEEE treatment site, with a transfer note in your name. Certificates go out with the booking confirmation, which is what London Borough of Islington tenancies and most local managing agents ask for.
Two crew and a Luton with a sack barrow; three for American fridge-freezers, range cookers and basement carries. Vehicles are ULEZ-compliant, which matters in every Islington postcode, and the crew carries everything needed to complete the job in one visit.
Disconnecting hard-wired cookers or gas appliances — that needs a Gas Safe or qualified electrician, Removing built-in units from carcassing where joinery has to be cut and Commercial refrigeration with pressurised systems. If something on that list turns up in Islington, we tell you at survey and point you at the right trade rather than taking the booking anyway.
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No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
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