Lewisham · SE14 · Hotel clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local New Cross fitters · Fixed written pricesNew Cross SE14 is a regular stop on our Lewisham round. Goldsmiths' campus, the Venue and student-heavy Victorian streets, so hotel clearance here is quoted on the street the job is on — from £85, in writing, with insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
This page prices hotel clearance for New Cross SE14 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 34% privately rented and 11,771 households in total. Work starts at £85, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Lewisham 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
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. September student turnover, New Cross Road red route and narrow permit-only streets.
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. New Cross (Overground, Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE14 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in New Cross, often with surface conduit — where 30% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year in SE14, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in SE14, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — and with 33% one-person households in New Cross, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
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.
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 New Cross
Census 2021 puts New Cross at 11,771 households with a median age of 31.9. The mainly Victorian stock is social-housing-led, which is why 27% houses and 73% flats need different handling in SE14.
34% of households rent privately and 30% own, which is why hotel clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in New Cross, often with surface conduit — where 30% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year, so the fixing that matters in New Cross is chosen on site — the usual failure here is in SE14, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — and with 33% one-person households in New Cross, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
Anyone who knows New Cross knows the pattern near Goldsmiths, University of London: goldsmiths' campus, the Venue and student-heavy Victorian streets. We plan the SE14 visit around it. New Cross is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
September student turnover, New Cross Road red route and narrow permit-only streets. Nearest station is New Cross (Overground, Southeastern), and 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.
Area at a glance
Who lives in New Cross 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 New Cross & Deptford South and New Cross Gate and New Cross South neighbourhood itself — not Lewisham-wide averages, and not estimates.
29,076
Residents
New Cross & Deptford South and New Cross Gate and New Cross South neighbourhood, Census 2021
11,771
Households
Median age 31.9
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
32.6%
Privately rented
34.3%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods New Cross & Deptford South, New Cross Gate, New Cross South (E02000655, E02000657, E02006798) — the published geography that covers New Cross, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE14 district: 51.4759, -0.0423 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Guest room strip-out, per room starts at £85 in New Cross, with this being a short walk from New Cross (Overground, Southeastern) — and Lewisham parking rules in play, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Room count and lift access first, with 34% of SE14 homes being privately rented, then the mix of soft furnishings against fixed catering plant around New Cross (Overground, Southeastern). 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 SE14 jobs, with Goldsmiths, University of London a few streets away.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions for New Cross (SE14) addresses, with 36% social-rented stock nearby. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in New Cross most weeks on the streets near Goldsmiths, University of London, with 27% of New Cross homes being houses.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level in New Cross, with 73% of homes here being flats.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on SE14 jobs. With 73% of New Cross homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on the streets near Goldsmiths, University of London — and 27% of New Cross homes being houses, with 33% one-person households here, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Registered waste carrier issuing a transfer note for every visit across SE14, with 34% of SE14 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 Lewisham letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat around New Cross (Overground, Southeastern), with Goldsmiths, University of London a few streets away.
Structural strip-out or demolition of fixed partitions, with 73% of homes here being flats, which is a specialist fit-out contractor's scope; Asbestos-containing materials in older hotel fabric, which need a licensed removal contractor; Live catering gas or electrical disconnection on the New Cross rounds, 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 New Cross SE14 price you agree is the price you pay on SE14 jobs, with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory.
All three. With 34% of New Cross privately rented and 30% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE14 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door in New Cross — and 73% of homes here being flats, with Lewisham 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. New Cross SE14 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.
