Southwark · SE22 · Construction site clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local East Dulwich fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for construction site clearance in East Dulwich SE22? We work in East Dulwich most weeks — lordship Lane's shops and rows of bay-fronted Victorian family houses — and price construction site clearance against that reality rather than a London average. Fixed written quote from £180, insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
This page prices construction site clearance for East Dulwich SE22 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 25% privately rented and 3,337 households in total. Work starts at £180, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Southwark 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
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. Narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton.
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. East Dulwich (Thameslink) is the nearest station, so a SE22 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect solid London stock brick in East Dulwich, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and with 26% one-person households in East Dulwich, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site 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.
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 East Dulwich
In East Dulwich (SE22) the split is 43% flats to 57% houses over 3,337 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
With 25% private renting against 58% owner-occupied, most SE22 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Expect solid London stock brick in East Dulwich, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and with 26% one-person households in East Dulwich, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in SE22. 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, as the East Dulwich stock goes, where 58% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the fault we are called back to undo.
Lordship Lane's shops and rows of bay-fronted Victorian family houses. That character decides the practical detail of construction site clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. 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.
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 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 East Dulwich 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 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).
Single load, mixed site waste starts at £180 in East Dulwich on this side of Southwark, with 3,337 households on this patch — and Dulwich Park a few streets away, 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 on the streets near Dulwich Park — and 25% of SE22 homes being privately rented, with this being London Borough of Southwark territory.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions across SE22, with 26% one-person households here. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in East Dulwich most weeks on the streets near Dulwich Park, with 3,337 households on this patch.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level in East Dulwich, with Southwark parking rules in play.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in for East Dulwich (SE22) addresses. With 43% of East Dulwich homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm in East Dulwich — and this being London Borough of Southwark territory, with 58% owner-occupation locally, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton in East Dulwich. 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 this side of Southwark — and 26% one-person households here, with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood.
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 on the streets near Dulwich Park, with 26% one-person households here, so the principal contractor's duty of care record stays complete. That paperwork is what most Southwark letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on SE22 jobs, with 25% of SE22 homes being privately rented.
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, with this being a short walk from East Dulwich (Thameslink), which need a specialist hazardous waste carrier; Skip hire and the highway licence a skip needs across SE22 — and 57% of East Dulwich homes being houses, which is a different product priced by the skip company. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the East Dulwich SE22 price you agree is the price you pay on this side of Southwark, with 58% 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. 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.
