Kensington and Chelsea · SW5 · Building waste clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Earl's Court fitters · Fixed written pricesBooking building waste clearance near The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment? Dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift, and that is planned into the slot rather than discovered on the day. Prices start at £70 and are fixed before we travel. Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
Booked mostly by renter-heavy households around Earl's Court, building waste clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £70. With 97% of Earl's Court's 3,241 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in SW5 shape the slot length we hold.
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. Dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift.
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. Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly) is the nearest station, so a SW5 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit, and with 49% one-person households in Earl's Court, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site in SW5, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Earl's Court gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, where 25% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
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 Earl's Court
In Earl's Court (SW5) the split is 97% flats to 3% houses over 3,241 households, and the stock is period conversion.
Because 44% of Earl's Court is privately rented and 31% socially rented, a lot of SW5 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Earl's Court substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit, and with 49% one-person households in Earl's Court, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Earl's Court gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, where 25% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a SW5 customer twice.
Tall stucco terraces of flats and short lets around the former exhibition site. That character decides the practical detail of building waste clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. Earl's Court sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift — one reason 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. Fitters travelling in use Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Earl's Court 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 Earl's Court neighbourhood itself — not Kensington and Chelsea-wide averages, and not estimates.
6,212
Residents
Earl's Court neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,241
Households
Median age 35.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
49%
Privately rented
43.7%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Earl's Court (E02000591) — the published geography that covers Earl's Court, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SW5 district: 51.4916, -0.1919 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Bagged rubble, per cubic yard starts at £70 in Earl's Court on the Earl's Court rounds, with 49% one-person households here — and this being Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea territory, 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 for Earl's Court (SW5) addresses. A yard of plasterboard and a yard of wet rubble are two different gate fees at the transfer station on the streets near The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment, with 97% of homes here being flats.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the streets near The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment, with 31% social-rented stock nearby. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Earl's Court most weeks on SW5 jobs, with 25% owner-occupation locally.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on Kensington and Chelsea bookings, with 49% one-person households here. On Earl's Court jobs we confirm it when the slot is booked, not on the day.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on this side of Kensington and Chelsea. With 97% of Earl's Court homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm in Earl's Court, with 3,241 households on this patch — and 44% of SW5 homes being privately rented, 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 a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood, which are hazardous waste and need a specialist carrier; Breaking out concrete, slabs or structural elements, which is demolition rather than clearance; Contaminated or Japanese-knotweed-affected soil for Earl's Court (SW5) addresses — and The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment a few streets away, which needs a permitted disposal route. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Earl's Court SW5 price you agree is the price you pay in this 97% flats neighbourhood, with 3,241 households on this patch.
All three. With 44% of Earl's Court privately rented and 25% owner-occupied, roughly half the SW5 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on SW5 jobs — and this being Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea territory, with 31% social-rented stock nearby.
The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment is the marker we route to for Earl's Court (SW5) addresses, with this being a short walk from Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly) — and 25% owner-occupation locally, and dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift. A SW5 slot added to an existing Kensington and Chelsea round usually lands the same week rather than the next on the streets near The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment, with 25% owner-occupation locally.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Earl's Court SW5 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of kensington and chelsea.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
