Southwark · SE15 · Construction site clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Nunhead fitters · Fixed written pricesNunhead SE15 is a regular stop on our Southwark round. Cemetery, hill views and a quiet village green between Peckham and Brockley, 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
Construction site clearance in Nunhead SE15 is a fixed-price visit for social-housing-led homes in Southwark, most of them mainly Victorian. 7,127 households sit inside this SE15 patch, 58% of them flats, so we quote on access near Nunhead Cemetery rather than a London average.
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 hill streets, narrow railway bridges and permit bays near the station.
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. Nunhead (Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE15 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here in SE15, 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 on these streets — and with 30% one-person households in Nunhead, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
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 Nunhead
Walk Nunhead from Nunhead Cemetery outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 58% of the 7,127 households in SE15 live in flats, 42% in houses.
Owner-occupation runs at 41% in Nunhead, so alongside the 20% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here behind the plaster in SE15. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — and with 30% one-person households in Nunhead, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Nunhead knows the pattern near Nunhead Cemetery: cemetery, hill views and a quiet village green between Peckham and Brockley. We plan the SE15 visit around it. Nunhead sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Steep hill streets, narrow railway bridges and permit bays near the station. Nearest station is Nunhead (Southeastern), 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 Nunhead 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 Nunhead North and Nunhead South & Newlands neighbourhood itself — not Southwark-wide averages, and not estimates.
17,370
Residents
Nunhead North and Nunhead South & Newlands neighbourhood, Census 2021
7,127
Households
Median age 35.1
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
30.1%
Privately rented
19.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Nunhead North, Nunhead South & Newlands (E02000832, E02000835) — the published geography that covers Nunhead, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE15 district: 51.4728, -0.0656 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Single load, mixed site waste starts at £180 in Nunhead in this 58% flats neighbourhood, with Nunhead Cemetery 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 Nunhead rounds — and Southwark parking rules in play, with this being a short walk from Nunhead (Southeastern).
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions across SE15, with a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Nunhead most weeks on this side of Southwark, with 7,127 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 on the streets near Nunhead Cemetery, with Nunhead Cemetery a few streets away.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on Southwark bookings. With 58% of Nunhead homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on the Nunhead rounds, with 7,127 households on this patch — and 39% social-rented stock nearby, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
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 Nunhead (SE15) addresses — and this being a short walk from Nunhead (Southeastern), with Nunhead Cemetery a few streets away, 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 the Nunhead rounds, with 41% owner-occupation locally.
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 — and 20% of SE15 homes being privately rented, which need a specialist hazardous waste carrier; Skip hire and the highway licence a skip needs across SE15, with 30% one-person households here, which is a different product priced by the skip company. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Nunhead SE15 price you agree is the price you pay on the Nunhead rounds, with Southwark parking rules in play.
All three. With 20% of Nunhead privately rented and 41% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE15 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door around Nunhead (Southeastern) — and 39% social-rented stock nearby, with Southwark parking rules in play.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Nunhead SE15 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.
