Camden · NW3 · Hotel clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Swiss Cottage fitters · Fixed written pricesBooking hotel clearance near Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence? Finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks, and that is planned into the slot rather than discovered on the day. Prices start at £85 and are fixed before we travel. Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
This page prices hotel clearance for Swiss Cottage NW3 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 46% privately rented and 3,083 households in total. Work starts at £85, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Camden permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
How it works
Step 1
We list what is leaving room by room or floor by floor, because lift capacity and corridor width set the daily pace far more than the item count does.
Step 2
Loading bay windows and guest-floor restrictions confirmed with management so a strip-out never runs into check-in or checkout hours.
Step 3
Soft furnishings, case goods and electricals split at the point of removal so each stream goes to the correct facility.
Step 4
Rooms or floors cleared in the agreed sequence, protecting corridors and lifts still in guest use.
Step 5
Photographs of the cleared areas and a waste transfer note for every load returned to the hotel's facilities manager.
Why choose us
Three to five working days for a phased refurbishment schedule, next day for a small room-block clear. Full closures are planned around the handover date agreed with the operator. Swiss Cottage (Jubilee) is the nearest station, so a NW3 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect lath and plaster over timber studs in Swiss Cottage, with solid brick on the party and external walls, which is why London Borough of Camden kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded in NW3, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in Swiss Cottage, which crumbles the key and drops the panel, where 33% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Registered waste carrier issuing a transfer note for every visit, with F-gas certified degassing arranged for catering refrigeration and WEEE routing for in-room electricals.
Two to four operatives depending on room count, scaling to a second team on a full-floor or full-closure clearance where the schedule is set by a redevelopment date. Finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guest room strip-out, per room | £85 | 30–45 min | Bed, mattress, wardrobe and soft furnishings removed room by room during a phased refurbishment, priced per room so a 12-room wing can be booked without clearing the whole hotel. |
| Mattress and divan disposal, per unit | £28 | 10–15 min | Mattresses are bulky, banned from most general waste streams and go to a dedicated recycler that strips foam, springs and fabric separately. |
| FF&E floor strip-out, per floor | £640 | 1 day | A full floor of case goods, soft furnishings and fixed fittings taken out in one visit, sequenced against housekeeping so occupied floors stay unaffected. |
| Banqueting and function suite clearance | £780 | 1 day | Stacking chairs, round tables, staging and AV cabling cleared from a suite being reconfigured, usually against a tight turnaround before the next event. |
| Kitchen and back-of-house strip-out | £920 | 1 day | Catering equipment, extraction and cold rooms removed with F-gas degassing arranged separately, which is slower and more specialist than a front-of-house clear. |
| Full closure clearance, per floor of rooms | £1,150 | 1–2 days | A hotel closing entirely for redevelopment needs every room stripped in sequence rather than piecemeal, priced by floor because lift access and corridor width set the pace, not room count alone. |
Guest room strip-out, per room
£85 · 30–45 min
Bed, mattress, wardrobe and soft furnishings removed room by room during a phased refurbishment, priced per room so a 12-room wing can be booked without clearing the whole hotel.
Mattress and divan disposal, per unit
£28 · 10–15 min
Mattresses are bulky, banned from most general waste streams and go to a dedicated recycler that strips foam, springs and fabric separately.
FF&E floor strip-out, per floor
£640 · 1 day
A full floor of case goods, soft furnishings and fixed fittings taken out in one visit, sequenced against housekeeping so occupied floors stay unaffected.
Banqueting and function suite clearance
£780 · 1 day
Stacking chairs, round tables, staging and AV cabling cleared from a suite being reconfigured, usually against a tight turnaround before the next event.
Kitchen and back-of-house strip-out
£920 · 1 day
Catering equipment, extraction and cold rooms removed with F-gas degassing arranged separately, which is slower and more specialist than a front-of-house clear.
Full closure clearance, per floor of rooms
£1,150 · 1–2 days
A hotel closing entirely for redevelopment needs every room stripped in sequence rather than piecemeal, priced by floor because lift access and corridor width set the pace, not room count alone.
Hotel clearance is quoted plus VAT at 20% after a walk-round of the affected rooms or floors. Mattress and WEEE disposal, transfer notes and gate fees are included. Loading bay suspensions, out-of-hours surcharges and F-gas degassing certificates are itemised on the quote.
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.
Desks, chairs, bedroom and FF&E furniture removed per item or per load.
Mixed loads collected by volume with a same-day waste transfer note.
Fridges, catering plant and powered equipment removed under WEEE rules.
Working in Swiss Cottage
3,083 households sit inside the NW3 neighbourhood covering Swiss Cottage. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile renter-heavy, and 89% of those homes are flats.
The renter-heavy mix here (33% owned, 46% privately rented) means a NW3 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Swiss Cottage substrates run to lath and plaster over timber studs in Swiss Cottage, with solid brick on the party and external walls, which is why London Borough of Camden kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in Swiss Cottage, which crumbles the key and drops the panel, where 33% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a NW3 customer twice.
Swiss Cottage sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — finchley Road's shops and library beside 1930s flats and post-war blocks — which is why a NW3 quote is not a Camden average.
On access, finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks — one reason two to four operatives depending on room count, scaling to a second team on a full-floor or full-closure clearance where the schedule is set by a redevelopment date. Fitters travelling in use Swiss Cottage (Jubilee).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Swiss Cottage and what they live in decides how hotel clearance is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Swiss Cottage neighbourhood itself — not Camden-wide averages, and not estimates.
7,117
Residents
Swiss Cottage neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,083
Households
Median age 35.2
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
35.7%
Privately rented
45.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Swiss Cottage (E02000182) — the published geography that covers Swiss Cottage, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the NW3 district: 51.5523, -0.1725 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Guest room strip-out, per room starts at £85 in Swiss Cottage on the Swiss Cottage rounds, with this being a short walk from Swiss Cottage (Jubilee) — and a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Room count and lift access first, with 33% owner-occupation locally, then the mix of soft furnishings against fixed catering plant on NW3 jobs. A guest-floor strip-out is quick per room; a back-of-house kitchen clear is slower because of degassing and specialist WEEE routing on the streets near Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence, with 21% social-rented stock nearby.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on this side of Camden, with 11% of Swiss Cottage homes being houses. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Swiss Cottage most weeks across NW3, with 21% 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 streets near Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence, with Camden parking rules in play.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on Camden bookings. With 89% of Swiss Cottage homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm in this 89% flats neighbourhood — and 36% one-person households here, with 11% of Swiss Cottage homes being houses, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks on the Swiss Cottage rounds, with 46% of NW3 homes being privately rented. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Camden it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards for Swiss Cottage (NW3) addresses — and 89% of homes here being flats, with this being a short walk from Swiss Cottage (Jubilee).
Registered waste carrier issuing a transfer note for every visit on NW3 jobs, with 46% of NW3 homes being privately rented, with F-gas certified degassing arranged for catering refrigeration and WEEE routing for in-room electricals. That paperwork is what most Camden letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on the Swiss Cottage rounds, with Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence a few streets away.
Structural strip-out or demolition of fixed partitions, with 33% owner-occupation locally, which is a specialist fit-out contractor's scope; Asbestos-containing materials in older hotel fabric — and 3,083 households on this patch, which need a licensed removal contractor; Live catering gas or electrical disconnection on NW3 jobs, which must be certified by a qualified engineer first; Storage of removed FF&E — we clear and dispose or recycle, we do not warehouse items for reuse. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Swiss Cottage NW3 price you agree is the price you pay on the streets near Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence, with 21% social-rented stock nearby.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Swiss Cottage NW3 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of camden.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
