Croydon · CR5 · Construction site clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Coulsdon fitters · Fixed written pricesCoulsdon CR5 is a regular stop on our Croydon round. Downland village on the North Downs edge, with Farthing Downs above the town, so construction site clearance here is quoted on the street the job is on — from £180, in writing, with insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
This page prices construction site clearance for Coulsdon CR5 specifically: inter-war stock, 12% privately rented and 6,754 households in total. Work starts at £180, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Croydon permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
How it works
Step 1
We look at the working face, the route out and the frontage, because the distance from the waste to the vehicle is what actually sets the labour cost.
Step 2
Inert, timber, plasterboard and general are separated at source, which lowers the gate cost and keeps the site's recovery rate defensible.
Step 3
Suspension, permit or a booked loading window arranged in advance so the vehicle is not moved on mid-load.
Step 4
Loads scheduled around the trades rather than dumped at the end, so the walkways and welfare stay compliant throughout.
Step 5
Final sweep, photographs and the transfer notes for every load returned for the site file.
Why choose us
Two operatives with a 3.5t tipper as standard, scaling to four operatives and a 7.5t vehicle on strip-outs or where the waste has to be barrowed a long way to the frontage. Steep downland roads, easy driveway parking and a narrow high street.
Two to three working days for a scheduled clear, next day where a site inspection or handover date has moved. Out-of-hours starts are available in the noise-restricted central boroughs. Coulsdon South (Southern) is the nearest station, so a CR5 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick — and with 26% one-person households in Coulsdon, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site in CR5, 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 on these streets — a median age of 41 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
Environment Agency registered upper-tier waste carrier. Every load is segregated, weighed in at a permitted transfer station and receipted with a waste transfer note naming the site, so the principal contractor's duty of care record stays complete.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single load, mixed site waste | £180 | 1–2 hrs | A Luton load of mixed timber, packaging and offcuts, segregated on the van so the inert fraction is not charged at the mixed-waste gate rate. |
| Inert rubble only, per tonne | £145 | 1–2 hrs | Clean brick, block and concrete goes to a recycling site as aggregate feedstock and is charged by weight, not volume, because it is dense and heavy. |
| Plasterboard, segregated, per tonne | £210 | 1–2 hrs | Gypsum has to be kept out of general and inert waste by law and goes to a dedicated recovery site, which charges more per tonne than rubble. |
| Fit-out strip-out clearance, per day | £720 | 8 hrs | Two operatives, a tipper and repeat runs for a first-fix or second-fix strip-out where waste is generated faster than one load can take it. |
| Site tidy and welfare clear, per visit | £240 | 2–3 hrs | A scheduled tidy that keeps walkways, welfare and the loading zone compliant between trades rather than one clear at the end. |
| Final handover clear and sweep | £420 | 4–6 hrs | Everything out, floors swept and the site left inspection-ready for the client walk-round, which is the visit most likely to run past its estimate if it is left to the last trade on site. |
Single load, mixed site waste
£180 · 1–2 hrs
A Luton load of mixed timber, packaging and offcuts, segregated on the van so the inert fraction is not charged at the mixed-waste gate rate.
Inert rubble only, per tonne
£145 · 1–2 hrs
Clean brick, block and concrete goes to a recycling site as aggregate feedstock and is charged by weight, not volume, because it is dense and heavy.
Plasterboard, segregated, per tonne
£210 · 1–2 hrs
Gypsum has to be kept out of general and inert waste by law and goes to a dedicated recovery site, which charges more per tonne than rubble.
Fit-out strip-out clearance, per day
£720 · 8 hrs
Two operatives, a tipper and repeat runs for a first-fix or second-fix strip-out where waste is generated faster than one load can take it.
Site tidy and welfare clear, per visit
£240 · 2–3 hrs
A scheduled tidy that keeps walkways, welfare and the loading zone compliant between trades rather than one clear at the end.
Final handover clear and sweep
£420 · 4–6 hrs
Everything out, floors swept and the site left inspection-ready for the client walk-round, which is the visit most likely to run past its estimate if it is left to the last trade on site.
All commercial site prices are quoted plus VAT at 20%. Waste transfer notes, segregation and tip gate fees are included. ULEZ, the Congestion Charge where it applies, permits and bay suspensions are itemised on the quote before a vehicle is booked, never added afterwards.
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.
This was my second job for Hello services and I was delighted to have Adam and Sultan back again. I had furniture assembly and clearance work to be done, and again it was done very professionally to a very high standard, and with absolute politeness at all times. They did an excellent job yet again… Read in full →
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Coverage
Also in this area
The parent commercial silo — offices, units, shops and estate handovers.
Rubble, plasterboard and strip-out waste removed with transfer notes issued.
Desks, chairs, IT and storage cleared out of hours to a handover date.
Mixed loads collected by volume with a same-day waste transfer note.
Working in Coulsdon
The CR5 stock around Farthing Downs is inter-war. ONS records 22% flats, 78% houses and 6,754 households in Coulsdon.
Owner-occupation runs at 74% in Coulsdon, so alongside the 12% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Expect some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick — and with 26% one-person households in Coulsdon, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in CR5. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body on these streets — a median age of 41 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Coulsdon knows the pattern near Farthing Downs: downland village on the North Downs edge, with Farthing Downs above the town. We plan the CR5 visit around it. Coulsdon 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: steep downland roads, easy driveway parking and a narrow high street. Coulsdon South (Southern) is the nearest station, and two operatives with a 3.5t tipper as standard, scaling to four operatives and a 7.5t vehicle on strip-outs or where the waste has to be barrowed a long way to the frontage.
Area at a glance
Who lives in Coulsdon and what they live in decides how construction site clearance is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Coulsdon and Old Coulsdon neighbourhood itself — not Croydon-wide averages, and not estimates.
17,050
Residents
Coulsdon and Old Coulsdon neighbourhood, Census 2021
6,754
Households
Median age 40.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
25.5%
Privately rented
11.8%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Coulsdon, Old Coulsdon (E02000234, E02000237) — the published geography that covers Coulsdon, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the CR5 district: 51.3109, -0.1413 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Single load, mixed site waste starts at £180 in Coulsdon on this side of Croydon, with 22% of homes here being flats, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Waste type first, then carry distance. Clean rubble is cheap by weight and expensive by volume; plasterboard has to be kept separate by law; and waste that has to be barrowed from a third floor to a restricted frontage costs more in labour than it does at the tip gate around Coulsdon South (Southern) — and Farthing Downs a few streets away, with a median age of 41 in this neighbourhood.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on Croydon bookings, with 26% one-person households here. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Coulsdon most weeks, with Croydon parking rules in play.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level in this 22% flats neighbourhood, with this being a short walk from Coulsdon South (Southern).
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in this 22% flats neighbourhood. With 22% of Coulsdon homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm around Coulsdon South (Southern), with 6,754 households on this patch — and 26% one-person households here, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Two to three working days for a scheduled clear, next day where a site inspection or handover date has moved on this side of Croydon, with this being London Borough of Croydon territory. Out-of-hours starts are available in the noise-restricted central boroughs across CR5. Coulsdon sits close to Coulsdon South (Southern), with 74% owner-occupation locally, so we can usually add a CR5 job to an existing Croydon round at short notice around Coulsdon South (Southern).
Steep downland roads, easy driveway parking and a narrow high street on Croydon bookings. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Croydon it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards on the Coulsdon rounds — and 26% one-person households here, with 6,754 households on this patch.
Environment Agency registered upper-tier waste carrier. Every load is segregated, weighed in at a permitted transfer station and receipted with a waste transfer note naming the site for Coulsdon (CR5) addresses, with Farthing Downs a few streets away — and 26% one-person households here, so the principal contractor's duty of care record stays complete. That paperwork is what most Croydon letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat in Coulsdon, with 78% of Coulsdon homes being houses.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Coulsdon CR5 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of croydon.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
