Greenwich · SE10 · Building waste clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Greenwich fitters · Fixed written pricesGreenwich SE10 is a regular stop on our Greenwich round. World Heritage centre of the market, the Cutty Sark and the Observatory on the hill, so building waste clearance here is quoted on the street the job is on — from £70, in writing, with insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
This page prices building waste clearance for Greenwich SE10 specifically: Georgian and early Victorian stock, 31% privately rented and 17,397 households in total. Work starts at £70, fixed in writing, with parking and Royal Borough of Greenwich permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
How it works
Step 1
Rubble, plasterboard, timber or mixed, roughly how many yards, and the floor it sits on. That is enough for a fixed price.
Step 2
We book around the trade schedule — a strip-out on Monday and the make-good on Wednesday get two separate collections.
Step 3
Hall, stairs and lift lobby sheeted before loading starts, because rubble dust in a communal area is charged back to the leaseholder.
Step 4
Loaded by hand from where the waste actually is, with gypsum kept out of the mixed stream so the tip does not reject the load.
Step 5
Weighed in at a licensed transfer station and the transfer note issued the same day for your file or the building control record.
Why choose us
Two crew and a Luton on most strip-outs; three crew and a tipper where the load is rubble, hardcore or soil and weight rather than volume decides the run. Cobbled one-way lanes, market-day closures and listed frontages with no rear access.
Next-day across every borough as standard, with same-day collection common where a trade programme has slipped and the site has to be clear. Cutty Sark (DLR) is the nearest station, so a SE10 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here in SE10, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — and with 32% one-person households in Greenwich, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
Registered waste carrier working to duty-of-care rules for construction and demolition waste. Inert rubble goes to an aggregate recycling facility, plasterboard to a dedicated gypsum route and timber to a wood recycling site, with a transfer note issued for every load.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bagged rubble, per cubic yard | £70 | By volume | Rubble is capped by weight rather than space, so it is priced per yard against the tip's inert-waste rate. |
| Quarter-load mixed construction waste | £150 | 45–75 min | Timber, plasterboard and packaging have to be split at the transfer station, which costs more than a single stream. |
| Half-load builders' waste | £240 | 1–2 hrs | A typical bathroom or small kitchen strip-out, loaded from inside the property rather than the kerb. |
| Full Luton load | £420 | 2–4 hrs | Full van, two crew and the gate fee, with mixed construction waste sorted for recycling on arrival. |
| Plasterboard, per half load | £190 | 1–2 hrs | Gypsum is banned from mixed landfill cells and must go to a dedicated facility, which charges separately. |
| Soil, hardcore and inert spoil, per yard | £80 | By volume | Heavy inert loads are weighed in, and a yard of wet soil can be twice the weight of a yard of timber. |
Bagged rubble, per cubic yard
£70 · By volume
Rubble is capped by weight rather than space, so it is priced per yard against the tip's inert-waste rate.
Quarter-load mixed construction waste
£150 · 45–75 min
Timber, plasterboard and packaging have to be split at the transfer station, which costs more than a single stream.
Half-load builders' waste
£240 · 1–2 hrs
A typical bathroom or small kitchen strip-out, loaded from inside the property rather than the kerb.
Full Luton load
£420 · 2–4 hrs
Full van, two crew and the gate fee, with mixed construction waste sorted for recycling on arrival.
Plasterboard, per half load
£190 · 1–2 hrs
Gypsum is banned from mixed landfill cells and must go to a dedicated facility, which charges separately.
Soil, hardcore and inert spoil, per yard
£80 · By volume
Heavy inert loads are weighed in, and a yard of wet soil can be twice the weight of a yard of timber.
Domestic prices are the total you pay; builder, contractor and landlord invoices are plus VAT at 20%. Loading from inside the property, dismantling and the waste transfer note are included. Where a bay suspension, skip-alternative permit, ULEZ or the Congestion Charge applies it is itemised in the written quote.
Scope
The guys arrived prompt at 9 am . Sorry I’m rubbish at names but I remember the one guys initials were AB . He really worked hard . Both guys were very polite and were happy to pop back up the stairs to finish dusting the bedrooms surfaces that were missed . Not one moan… Read in full →
Hannah and her friend were friendly and thoughtful. They were very professional and hard working. They also turned a junk room into a nice bedroom. I cannot thank them or praise them enough.
Very good experience. House was filthy after lots of building works and previous owners not really looking after it (the bathroom was disgusting). After 4 hours of cleaning my house looks like a brand new home and smells clean again, no more dust/rubble and the bathroom looks so clean I could eat off the floor… Read in full →
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Coverage
Also in this area
Whole-property clears, probate and end-of-tenancy strip-outs, sorted room by room.
Mixed household and bulky waste taken by the load with a transfer note the same day.
Sofas, beds, wardrobes and mattresses collected per item, dismantling included.
Single items, part-loads, garden waste and office strip-outs across the borough.
Block paving, resin-bound and imprinted concrete driveways cleaned, resanded and sealed.
Engineered, solid and laminate flooring laid with underlay, beading and doorbars.
Working in Greenwich
The SE10 stock around The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark is Georgian and early Victorian. ONS records 73% flats, 27% houses and 17,397 households in Greenwich.
Private renting sits at 31% and owner-occupation at 40%; the first group books building waste clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Walls are dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here, so the fixing that matters in Greenwich is chosen on site — the usual failure here is short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — and with 32% one-person households in Greenwich, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
Anyone who knows Greenwich knows the pattern near The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark: world Heritage centre of the market, the Cutty Sark and the Observatory on the hill. We plan the SE10 visit around it. Greenwich is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: cobbled one-way lanes, market-day closures and listed frontages with no rear access. Cutty Sark (DLR) is the nearest station, and two crew and a Luton on most strip-outs; three crew and a tipper where the load is rubble, hardcore or soil and weight rather than volume decides the run.
Area at a glance
Who lives in Greenwich and what they live in decides how building waste clearance is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Greenwich & Deptford Creekside and Greenwich East and Greenwich Peninsula and Greenwich Town & Park neighbourhood itself — not Greenwich-wide averages, and not estimates.
39,629
Residents
Greenwich & Deptford Creekside and Greenwich East and Greenwich Peninsula and Greenwich Town & Park neighbourhood, Census 2021
17,397
Households
Median age 32.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
31.6%
Privately rented
30.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Greenwich & Deptford Creekside, Greenwich East, Greenwich Peninsula, Greenwich Town & Park (E02006928, E02006930, E02006931, E02006992) — the published geography that covers Greenwich, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE10 district: 51.4849, 0.0007 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Bagged rubble, per cubic yard starts at £70 in Greenwich on this side of Greenwich, with 27% of Greenwich homes being houses, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Weight and the number of waste streams, not just how much space the pile takes across SE10. A yard of plasterboard and a yard of wet rubble are two different gate fees at the transfer station around Cutty Sark (DLR), with 31% of SE10 homes being privately rented.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the Greenwich rounds, with The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark a few streets away. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Greenwich most weeks on SE10 jobs, with 31% of SE10 homes being privately rented.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level across SE10, with The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark a few streets away.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the streets near The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark. With 73% of Greenwich homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm across SE10, with this being a short walk from Cutty Sark (DLR) — and 32% one-person households here, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
All three. With 31% of Greenwich privately rented and 40% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE10 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door across SE10 — and 73% of homes here being flats, with 27% of Greenwich homes being houses.
The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark is the marker we route to across SE10 — and 17,397 households on this patch, with 32% one-person households here, and cobbled one-way lanes, market-day closures and listed frontages with no rear access. A SE10 slot added to an existing Greenwich round usually lands the same week rather than the next on this side of Greenwich, with Greenwich parking rules in play.
Next-day across every borough as standard, with this being Royal Borough of Greenwich territory, with same-day collection common where a trade programme has slipped and the site has to be clear on this side of Greenwich. Greenwich sits close to Cutty Sark (DLR), with 73% of homes here being flats, so we can usually add a SE10 job to an existing Greenwich round at short notice in Greenwich.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Greenwich SE10 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of greenwich.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
