Greenwich · SE18 · Construction site clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Plumstead fitters · Fixed written pricesBooking construction site clearance near Plumstead Common? Very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station, and that is planned into the slot rather than discovered on the day. Prices start at £180 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 mixed-tenure households around Plumstead, construction site clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £180. With 33% of Plumstead's 9,964 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in SE18 shape the slot length we hold.
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 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. Plumstead (Elizabeth line) is the nearest station, so a SE18 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect solid London stock brick in SE18, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, which is why Royal Borough of Greenwich kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded 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, and with 32% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does.
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.
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. Very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station.
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 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.
Plumstead substrates run to solid London stock brick in SE18, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, which is why Royal Borough of Greenwich kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Plumstead gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, and with 32% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the mistake that costs a SE18 customer twice.
Plumstead 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 — terraced streets climbing steeply from the high street to the common — which is why a SE18 quote is not a Greenwich average.
Very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station. Nearest station is Plumstead (Elizabeth line), 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 Plumstead 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 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).
Single load, mixed site waste starts at £180 in Plumstead around Plumstead (Elizabeth line), with 41% owner-occupation locally, 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 for Plumstead (SE18) addresses — and 32% of SE18 homes being privately rented, with 27% one-person households here.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the streets near Plumstead Common, with 9,964 households on this patch. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Plumstead most weeks for Plumstead (SE18) addresses, with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood.
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 27% one-person households here.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on this side of Greenwich. With 33% of Plumstead homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm in Plumstead, with Plumstead Common a few streets away — and this being Royal Borough of Greenwich territory, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station for Plumstead (SE18) addresses. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in Royal Borough of Greenwich it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards in this 33% flats neighbourhood — and 41% owner-occupation locally, with Greenwich parking rules in play.
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 Plumstead (SE18) addresses, with 9,964 households on this patch, so the principal contractor's duty of care record stays complete. That paperwork is what most Greenwich letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat in Plumstead, with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood.
Asbestos in any form, which requires a licensed removal contractor and a separate consignment route; Demolition, structural cutting or breaking out — we clear what has been broken out, we do not break it out; Contaminated soil or drums of liquid waste, which need a specialist hazardous waste carrier; Skip hire and the highway licence a skip needs for Plumstead (SE18) addresses — and 9,964 households on this patch, with 27% social-rented stock nearby, which is a different product priced by the skip company. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Plumstead SE18 price you agree is the price you pay on the streets near Plumstead Common, with 67% of Plumstead 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. Plumstead SE18 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of greenwich.
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