Newham · E16 · Hotel clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Custom House fitters · Fixed written pricesHotel clearance for Custom House (E16) households — 3,330 of them, 50% in flats. From £85 fixed, 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 Insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
Hotel clearance in Custom House E16 is a fixed-price visit for social-housing-led homes in Newham, most of them post-war. 3,330 households sit inside this E16 patch, 50% of them flats, so we quote on access near Custom House station and Victoria Dock rather than a London average.
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. Construction diversions, estate service roads and new blocks with booked lifts.
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. Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR) is the nearest station, so a E16 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — where 26% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year in E16, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in E16, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — the pattern behind 3,330 households inside the E16 neighbourhood.
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 Custom House
Walk Custom House from Custom House station and Victoria Dock outwards and the post-war pattern is obvious: 50% of the 3,330 households in E16 live in flats, 50% in houses.
24% of households rent privately and 26% own, which is why hotel clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — where 26% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year behind the plaster in E16. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in E16, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — the pattern behind 3,330 households inside the E16 neighbourhood is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Custom House knows the pattern near Custom House station and Victoria Dock: regeneration streets between the docks and Canning Town, transformed by the Elizabeth line. We plan the E16 visit around it. Custom House is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, construction diversions, estate service roads and new blocks with booked lifts — 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 Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Custom House 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 Custom House neighbourhood itself — not Newham-wide averages, and not estimates.
9,552
Residents
Custom House neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,330
Households
Median age 32.9
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
26%
Privately rented
24.4%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Custom House (E02000749) — the published geography that covers Custom House, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the E16 district: 51.5103, 0.0301 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Guest room strip-out, per room starts at £85 in Custom House across E16, with Newham 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 26% one-person households here, then the mix of soft furnishings against fixed catering plant on the streets near Custom House station and Victoria Dock. A guest-floor strip-out is quick per room; a back-of-house kitchen clear is slower because of degassing and specialist WEEE routing for Custom House (E16) addresses, with 3,330 households on this patch.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions around Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR), with Custom House station and Victoria Dock a few streets away. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Custom House most weeks, with 24% of E16 homes being privately rented.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level for Custom House (E16) addresses, with this being a short walk from Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR).
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in for Custom House (E16) addresses. With 50% of Custom House homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on the streets near Custom House station and Victoria Dock, with a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood — and Newham parking rules in play, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Three to five working days for a phased refurbishment schedule, next day for a small room-block clear on Newham bookings, with 26% owner-occupation locally. Full closures are planned around the handover date agreed with the operator in this 50% flats neighbourhood. Custom House sits close to Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR) on this side of Newham, with 24% of E16 homes being privately rented — and Newham parking rules in play, so we can usually add a E16 job to an existing Newham round at short notice.
Construction diversions, estate service roads and new blocks with booked lifts for Custom House (E16) addresses. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Newham it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards in this 50% flats neighbourhood — and Newham parking rules in play, with Custom House station and Victoria Dock a few streets away.
Registered waste carrier issuing a transfer note for every visit on E16 jobs, with Newham parking rules in play, with F-gas certified degassing arranged for catering refrigeration and WEEE routing for in-room electricals. That paperwork is what most Newham letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on this side of Newham, with 26% one-person households here.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Custom House E16 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of newham.
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