Greenwich · SE10 · Factory and industrial clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Greenwich fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide factory and industrial clearance in Greenwich SE10 for houses and flats around The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark. From £680, quoted in writing before the visit, with three to six operatives depending on the plant, with skates, pallet trucks and a tail-lift 7.5t as standard and a HIAB where a machine cannot be moved to the bay by hand Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
Booked mostly by mixed-tenure households around Cutty Sark, factory and industrial clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £680. With 73% of Greenwich's 17,397 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in SE10 shape the slot length we hold.
How it works
Step 1
Every machine, rack and pallet is listed with a recover, resell or recycle decision against it, so nothing valuable leaves as waste by accident.
Step 2
We work only to plant that has been certified isolated, and we say so in writing rather than assuming the last shift switched it off.
Step 3
Consumables and benching first, then racking, then plant, so the floor stays clear enough to move the heavy items last.
Step 4
Ferrous, non-ferrous, WEEE and general are weighed separately, which is how the scrap credit on your invoice is calculated.
Step 5
Swarf and dust removed, floor swept, photographs and paperwork issued for the dilapidations claim.
Why choose us
Upper-tier waste carrier registration with consignment paperwork for WEEE, oils and hazardous streams, plus a waste transfer note per load. Scrap is weighed on a certificated weighbridge so the credit on your invoice is auditable.
Three to six operatives depending on the plant, with skates, pallet trucks and a tail-lift 7.5t as standard and a HIAB where a machine cannot be moved to the bay by hand. Cobbled one-way lanes, market-day closures and listed frontages with no rear access.
Five to ten working days for a full unit, since the survey, isolation certificates and estate access all have to be in place first. A part clear around a working line can usually start within a week. Cutty Sark (DLR) is the nearest station, so a SE10 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms, with 29% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first in SE10, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Greenwich gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, which is what a 73% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Greenwich actually produces.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Part clear, single production line | £680 | 6–8 hrs | One line stripped of tooling, benching and consumables while the rest of the unit keeps running, which is slower than clearing an empty floor. |
| Full unit clearance, up to 5,000 sq ft | £1,850 | 1–2 days | Priced by floor area and the density of what is left, since a light assembly unit and a machine shop of the same size are nothing alike to clear. |
| Machinery removal, per item | £320 | 2–4 hrs | Bolted-down plant has to be disconnected, jacked, skated to the door and loaded — that is rigging labour, not clearance labour. |
| Scrap metal recovery, per tonne | Credit | By load | Steel, copper and aluminium carry a resale value that we credit against the invoice rather than quietly keeping, which is what makes a metal-heavy unit cheaper to clear than an office of the same size. |
| WEEE and electrical plant, per pallet | £185 | 1–2 hrs | Motors, control panels and powered plant fall under WEEE and move on consignment paperwork to a permitted treatment facility. |
| Post-clear industrial sweep | £380 | 3–5 hrs | Swarf, oil residue and dust removed so the unit meets the dilapidations standard rather than merely being empty. |
Part clear, single production line
£680 · 6–8 hrs
One line stripped of tooling, benching and consumables while the rest of the unit keeps running, which is slower than clearing an empty floor.
Full unit clearance, up to 5,000 sq ft
£1,850 · 1–2 days
Priced by floor area and the density of what is left, since a light assembly unit and a machine shop of the same size are nothing alike to clear.
Machinery removal, per item
£320 · 2–4 hrs
Bolted-down plant has to be disconnected, jacked, skated to the door and loaded — that is rigging labour, not clearance labour.
Scrap metal recovery, per tonne
Credit · By load
Steel, copper and aluminium carry a resale value that we credit against the invoice rather than quietly keeping, which is what makes a metal-heavy unit cheaper to clear than an office of the same size.
WEEE and electrical plant, per pallet
£185 · 1–2 hrs
Motors, control panels and powered plant fall under WEEE and move on consignment paperwork to a permitted treatment facility.
Post-clear industrial sweep
£380 · 3–5 hrs
Swarf, oil residue and dust removed so the unit meets the dilapidations standard rather than merely being empty.
Industrial clearance is quoted plus VAT at 20% after a site survey, because floor area alone does not describe a unit. Scrap value is credited back on the invoice. Consignment notes for hazardous streams, transfer notes, ULEZ and any estate access charges are itemised separately.
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 Greenwich
17,397 households sit inside the SE10 neighbourhood covering Greenwich. The build is Georgian and early Victorian, the tenure profile mixed-tenure, and 73% of those homes are flats.
With 31% private renting against 40% owner-occupied, most SE10 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms, with 29% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first behind the plaster in SE10. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Greenwich gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, which is what a 73% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Greenwich actually produces is the fault we are called back to undo.
World Heritage centre of the market, the Cutty Sark and the Observatory on the hill. That character decides the practical detail of factory and industrial clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. Greenwich is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Cobbled one-way lanes, market-day closures and listed frontages with no rear access. Nearest station is Cutty Sark (DLR), and three to six operatives depending on the plant, with skates, pallet trucks and a tail-lift 7.5t as standard and a HIAB where a machine cannot be moved to the bay by hand.
Area at a glance
Who lives in Greenwich and what they live in decides how factory and industrial clearance is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Greenwich & Deptford Creekside and Greenwich East and Greenwich Peninsula and Greenwich Town & Park neighbourhood itself — not Greenwich-wide averages, and not estimates.
39,629
Residents
Greenwich & Deptford Creekside and Greenwich East and Greenwich Peninsula and Greenwich Town & Park neighbourhood, Census 2021
17,397
Households
Median age 32.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
31.6%
Privately rented
30.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Greenwich & Deptford Creekside, Greenwich East, Greenwich Peninsula, Greenwich Town & Park (E02006928, E02006930, E02006931, E02006992) — the published geography that covers Greenwich, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE10 district: 51.4849, 0.0007 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Part clear, single production line starts at £680 in Greenwich around Cutty Sark (DLR), with 40% owner-occupation locally, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. The density and type of what is being removed in Greenwich. Metal-heavy units carry a scrap credit that can cut the invoice substantially; units full of mixed production waste, plastics and contaminated packaging cost more at the gate and take longer to segregate for Greenwich (SE10) addresses — and 32% one-person households here, with 27% of Greenwich homes being houses.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on Greenwich bookings, with 73% of homes here being flats. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Greenwich most weeks on the streets near The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark, with Greenwich 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 for Greenwich (SE10) addresses, with 73% of homes here being flats.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on SE10 jobs. With 73% of Greenwich homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on this side of Greenwich — and 31% of SE10 homes being privately rented, with The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark a few streets away, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Cobbled one-way lanes, market-day closures and listed frontages with no rear access around Cutty Sark (DLR). 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 Greenwich, with 40% owner-occupation locally.
Upper-tier waste carrier registration with consignment paperwork for WEEE, oils and hazardous streams, plus a waste transfer note per load in Greenwich, with this being a short walk from Cutty Sark (DLR). Scrap is weighed on a certificated weighbridge so the credit on your invoice is auditable on Greenwich bookings. That paperwork is what most Greenwich letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat in this 73% flats neighbourhood, with The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark a few streets away.
Live electrical disconnection, which must be certified by a qualified electrician before we move the plant; Asbestos-containing insulation, lagging or cladding, which needs a licensed removal contractor; Bulk chemical stock or fuel in tanks around Cutty Sark (DLR), with The Royal Observatory and the Cutty Sark a few streets away, which is a specialist hazardous waste contract; Structural demolition of the building itself, including mezzanine steelwork that forms part of the structure. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Greenwich SE10 price you agree is the price you pay in Greenwich, with 31% of SE10 homes being privately rented.
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Free quote · 1-hour reply
Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Greenwich SE10 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of greenwich.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
