Southwark · SE22 · Building waste clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local East Dulwich fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide building waste clearance in East Dulwich SE22 for houses and flats around Dulwich Park. From £70, quoted in writing before the visit, with 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 Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
This page prices building waste clearance for East Dulwich SE22 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 25% privately rented and 3,337 households in total. Work starts at £70, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Southwark 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
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. East Dulwich (Thameslink) is the nearest station, so a SE22 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, which is why London Borough of Southwark kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded in SE22, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the East Dulwich stock goes, where 58% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
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. Narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton.
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 East Dulwich
In East Dulwich (SE22) the split is 43% flats to 57% houses over 3,337 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (58% owned, 25% privately rented) means a SE22 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, which is why London Borough of Southwark kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded, so the fixing that matters in East Dulwich is chosen on site — the usual failure here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the East Dulwich stock goes, where 58% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
East Dulwich sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — lordship Lane's shops and rows of bay-fronted Victorian family houses — which is why a SE22 quote is not a Southwark average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton. East Dulwich (Thameslink) 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 East Dulwich 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 East Dulwich neighbourhood itself — not Southwark-wide averages, and not estimates.
8,296
Residents
East Dulwich neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,337
Households
Median age 36
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
25.6%
Privately rented
25.3%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood East Dulwich (E02000836) — the published geography that covers East Dulwich, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE22 district: 51.4544, -0.0724 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Bagged rubble, per cubic yard starts at £70 in East Dulwich in this 43% flats neighbourhood — and 58% owner-occupation locally, with 26% one-person households here, 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 East Dulwich (Thameslink). A yard of plasterboard and a yard of wet rubble are two different gate fees at the transfer station across SE22, with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in East Dulwich, with Southwark parking rules in play. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in East Dulwich most weeks around East Dulwich (Thameslink), with 26% one-person households here.
In East Dulwich, 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 Dulwich Park, with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood. Ask for it in writing before the SE22 visit and it is on the job sheet.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in this 43% flats neighbourhood. With 43% of East Dulwich homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on this side of Southwark — and 58% owner-occupation locally, with 43% of homes here being flats, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Dulwich Park is the marker we route to for East Dulwich (SE22) addresses, with 16% social-rented stock nearby, and narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton. A SE22 slot added to an existing Southwark round usually lands the same week rather than the next on the streets near Dulwich Park, with 57% of East Dulwich homes being houses.
Next-day across every borough as standard, with 43% of homes here being flats, with same-day collection common where a trade programme has slipped and the site has to be clear in East Dulwich. East Dulwich sits close to East Dulwich (Thameslink) on Southwark bookings, with Southwark parking rules in play, so we can usually add a SE22 job to an existing Southwark round at short notice.
Narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton for East Dulwich (SE22) addresses. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Southwark it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards on the streets near Dulwich Park — and 57% of East Dulwich homes being houses, with 3,337 households on this patch.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. East Dulwich SE22 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of southwark.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
