Lewisham · SE13 · Building waste clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Lewisham fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for building waste clearance in Lewisham SE13? We work in Lewisham most weeks — the market, the shopping centre and a cluster of new residential towers — 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
Booked mostly by social-housing-led households around Lewisham, building waste clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £70. With 75% of Lewisham's 3,987 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in SE13 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
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. Lewisham (DLR, Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE13 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit, the pattern behind 3,987 households inside the SE13 neighbourhood in SE13, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Lewisham stock goes, which is what a 75% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Lewisham actually produces.
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. Roundabout red routes, market-day loading limits and booked lifts in the towers.
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 Lewisham
Lewisham SE13 is mainly Victorian and social-housing-led: 75% of homes here are flats and 25% are houses, across 3,987 households (ONS Census 2021).
With 33% private renting against 32% owner-occupied, most SE13 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Lewisham substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit, the pattern behind 3,987 households inside the SE13 neighbourhood. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Lewisham stock goes, which is what a 75% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Lewisham actually produces is the mistake that costs a SE13 customer twice.
Lewisham is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — the market, the shopping centre and a cluster of new residential towers — which is why a SE13 quote is not a Lewisham average.
On access, roundabout red routes, market-day loading limits and booked lifts in the towers — 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 Lewisham (DLR, Southeastern).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Lewisham 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 Lewisham Central & Park neighbourhood itself — not Lewisham-wide averages, and not estimates.
9,142
Residents
Lewisham Central & Park neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,987
Households
Median age 35.3
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
36.4%
Privately rented
32.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Lewisham Central & Park (E02007009) — the published geography that covers Lewisham, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE13 district: 51.4596, -0.0097 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Bagged rubble, per cubic yard starts at £70 in Lewisham on Lewisham bookings, with a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood, 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 on the Lewisham rounds. A yard of plasterboard and a yard of wet rubble are two different gate fees at the transfer station for Lewisham (SE13) addresses, with 75% of homes here being flats.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions for Lewisham (SE13) addresses, with 32% owner-occupation locally. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Lewisham most weeks, with this being a short walk from Lewisham (DLR, Southeastern).
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on Lewisham bookings, with Lewisham Market on the High Street a few streets away.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the streets near Lewisham Market on the High Street. With 75% of Lewisham homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm for Lewisham (SE13) addresses — and 25% of Lewisham homes being houses, with Lewisham 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, which are hazardous waste and need a specialist carrier; Breaking out concrete, slabs or structural elements on the streets near Lewisham Market on the High Street — and this being a short walk from Lewisham (DLR, Southeastern), which is demolition rather than clearance; Contaminated or Japanese-knotweed-affected soil, with 25% of Lewisham homes being houses, which needs a permitted disposal route. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Lewisham SE13 price you agree is the price you pay across SE13, with Lewisham Market on the High Street a few streets away.
All three. With 33% of Lewisham privately rented and 32% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE13 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door in Lewisham — and 75% of homes here being flats, with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory.
Lewisham Market on the High Street is the marker we route to in this 75% flats neighbourhood, with 36% one-person households here, and roundabout red routes, market-day loading limits and booked lifts in the towers. A SE13 slot added to an existing Lewisham round usually lands the same week rather than the next on Lewisham bookings, with Lewisham parking rules in play.
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Free quote · 1-hour reply
Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Lewisham SE13 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of lewisham.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
