Lewisham · SE6 · Factory and industrial clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Catford fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for factory and industrial clearance in Catford SE6? We work in Catford most weeks — the fibreglass cat, the Broadway theatre and the Rushey Green shops — and price factory and industrial clearance against that reality rather than a London average. Fixed written quote from £680, insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
This page prices factory and industrial clearance for Catford SE6 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 33% privately rented and 6,981 households in total. Work starts at £680, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Lewisham permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
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. South Circular red route, shopping-centre service yards and permit bays behind.
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. Catford (Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE6 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in Catford, with metal stud partitions between rooms, measured on the walk in from Catford (Southeastern) rather than assumed from a map in SE6, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, as the Catford stock goes, the reality on the streets around The Catford Cat.
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 Catford
6,981 households sit inside the SE6 neighbourhood covering Catford. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile mixed-tenure, and 62% of those homes are flats.
With 33% private renting against 42% owner-occupied, most SE6 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Walls are dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in Catford, with metal stud partitions between rooms, measured on the walk in from Catford (Southeastern) rather than assumed from a map, so the fixing that matters in Catford is chosen on site — the usual failure here is short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, as the Catford stock goes, the reality on the streets around The Catford Cat.
The fibreglass cat, the Broadway theatre and the Rushey Green shops. That character decides the practical detail of factory and industrial clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. Catford is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
South Circular red route, shopping-centre service yards and permit bays behind. Nearest station is Catford (Southeastern), 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 Catford 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 Catford Bridge and Catford East & Mountsfield Park neighbourhood itself — not Lewisham-wide averages, and not estimates.
16,978
Residents
Catford Bridge and Catford East & Mountsfield Park neighbourhood, Census 2021
6,981
Households
Median age 35.2
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
33.1%
Privately rented
32.7%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Catford Bridge, Catford East & Mountsfield Park (E02000670, E02000672) — the published geography that covers Catford, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE6 district: 51.4385, -0.0165 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Part clear, single production line starts at £680 in Catford on SE6 jobs, with a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. The density and type of what is being removed around Catford (Southeastern). 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 across SE6 — and this being a short walk from Catford (Southeastern), with 62% of homes here being flats.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on SE6 jobs, with 38% of Catford homes being houses. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Catford most weeks on the Catford rounds, with 25% social-rented stock nearby.
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 Catford rounds, with this being a short walk from Catford (Southeastern).
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in around Catford (Southeastern). With 62% of Catford homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on SE6 jobs, with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory — and 42% owner-occupation locally, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Live electrical disconnection, which must be certified by a qualified electrician before we move the plant; Asbestos-containing insulation, lagging or cladding — and 6,981 households on this patch, with 33% of SE6 homes being privately rented, which needs a licensed removal contractor; Bulk chemical stock or fuel in tanks on this side of Lewisham, 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 Catford SE6 price you agree is the price you pay in this 62% flats neighbourhood, with this being a short walk from Catford (Southeastern).
All three. With 33% of Catford privately rented and 42% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE6 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door across SE6 — and The Catford Cat a few streets away, with 6,981 households on this patch.
The Catford Cat is the marker we route to on the streets near The Catford Cat, with Lewisham parking rules in play, and south Circular red route, shopping-centre service yards and permit bays behind. A SE6 slot added to an existing Lewisham round usually lands the same week rather than the next across SE6, with 62% of homes here being flats.
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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. Catford SE6 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of lewisham.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
