Greenwich · SE18 · Building waste clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Plumstead fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for building waste clearance in Plumstead SE18? We work in Plumstead most weeks — terraced streets climbing steeply from the high street to the common — and price building waste clearance against that reality rather than a London average. Fixed written quote from £70, insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
This page prices building waste clearance for Plumstead SE18 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 32% privately rented and 9,964 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
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.
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. Very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station.
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. Plumstead (Elizabeth line) is the nearest station, so a SE18 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick, measured on the walk in from Plumstead (Elizabeth line) rather than assumed from a map in SE18, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Plumstead gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
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 Plumstead
9,964 households sit inside the SE18 neighbourhood covering Plumstead. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile mixed-tenure, and 33% of those homes are flats.
With 32% private renting against 41% owner-occupied, most SE18 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Expect some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick, measured on the walk in from Plumstead (Elizabeth line) rather than assumed from a map behind the plaster in SE18. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Plumstead gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here is the fault we are called back to undo.
Terraced streets climbing steeply from the high street to the common. That character decides the practical detail of building waste clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. Plumstead is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station. Nearest station is Plumstead (Elizabeth line), 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 Plumstead 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 Plumstead Common & Riverside and Plumstead High Street and Plumstead South neighbourhood itself — not Greenwich-wide averages, and not estimates.
28,010
Residents
Plumstead Common & Riverside and Plumstead High Street and Plumstead South neighbourhood, Census 2021
9,964
Households
Median age 35.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
27.2%
Privately rented
32%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Plumstead Common & Riverside, Plumstead High Street, Plumstead South (E02000318, E02000319, E02000329) — the published geography that covers Plumstead, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE18 district: 51.4845, 0.0723 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Bagged rubble, per cubic yard starts at £70 in Plumstead in this 33% flats neighbourhood, with Greenwich parking rules in play, 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 around Plumstead (Elizabeth line). A yard of plasterboard and a yard of wet rubble are two different gate fees at the transfer station in Plumstead, with this being Royal Borough of Greenwich territory.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the streets near Plumstead Common, with Greenwich parking rules in play. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Plumstead most weeks for Plumstead (SE18) addresses, with 27% one-person households here.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on the streets near Plumstead Common, with Plumstead Common a few streets away.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in this 33% flats neighbourhood. With 33% of Plumstead homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on this side of Greenwich, with this being a short walk from Plumstead (Elizabeth line) — and Greenwich parking rules in play, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Asbestos in any form — insulation board, textured coating or cement sheet — which needs a licensed contractor; Paint, solvents, adhesives and gas bottles, with 67% of Plumstead homes being houses, which are hazardous waste and need a specialist carrier; Breaking out concrete, slabs or structural elements in Plumstead, which is demolition rather than clearance; Contaminated or Japanese-knotweed-affected soil — and Plumstead Common a few streets away, which needs a permitted disposal route. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Plumstead SE18 price you agree is the price you pay for Plumstead (SE18) addresses, with Plumstead Common a few streets away.
All three. With 32% of Plumstead privately rented and 41% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE18 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door for Plumstead (SE18) addresses — and 32% of SE18 homes being privately rented, with 9,964 households on this patch.
Plumstead Common is the marker we route to around Plumstead (Elizabeth line), with 32% of SE18 homes being privately rented, and very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station. A SE18 slot added to an existing Greenwich round usually lands the same week rather than the next in Plumstead, with this being a short walk from Plumstead (Elizabeth line).
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Plumstead SE18 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.
