Bexley · DA1 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Crayford fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide restaurant and cafe clearance in Crayford DA1 for houses and flats around Crayford Greyhound Stadium. From £380, quoted in writing before the visit, with two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
This page prices restaurant and cafe clearance for Crayford DA1 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 16% privately rented and 9,135 households in total. Work starts at £380, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Bexley permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
How it works
Step 1
Every appliance, fridge and fixture is listed against a disconnect-and-remove plan before a date is booked.
Step 2
We wait for written confirmation that appliances are isolated by a qualified engineer before moving them.
Step 3
Fridges and cold rooms first for degassing, then cooking equipment, then extraction, so the crew is never waiting on a certificate mid-job.
Step 4
Trap emptied and removed by a licensed handler, with the disposal note kept for the site file.
Step 5
Tables, chairs and fittings cleared, unit swept and photographed for the landlord handover.
Why choose us
Three to five working days where degassing and Gas Safe sign-off need to be arranged first; a front-of-house-only clear can often be booked within 48 hours. Crayford (Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a DA1 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick, the pattern behind 9,135 households inside the DA1 neighbourhood in DA1, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Crayford gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, where 57% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Registered waste carrier with F-gas certified degassing for refrigeration and licensed disposal for grease trap waste, both receipted separately from the general transfer note.
Two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment. Wide roads, driveways and retail-park service access; the town centre is one-way.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front-of-house strip-out, small unit | £380 | 3–4 hrs | Tables, chairs, till point and soft furnishings cleared from a café-sized unit under around 800 sq ft. |
| Commercial kitchen equipment removal, per item | £65 | 20–30 min | Ovens, fryers and prep tables are heavy, often plumbed or hard-wired, and need disconnection before they can be moved safely. |
| Refrigeration and F-gas degassing, per unit | £95 | 30–45 min | Fridges and cold rooms holding refrigerant must be certified degassed before removal, which is a licensed job, not a lift-and-carry one. |
| Grease trap emptying and removal | £210 | 1–2 hrs | Trapped fat, oil and grease is controlled waste that has to go to a licensed treatment facility, and the trap itself is often built into the drainage and needs careful disconnection. |
| Extraction canopy and ductwork removal | £340 | half day | Canopy, ductwork and filters are usually the last things fitted and the hardest to remove, often needing access equipment for ceiling-height runs. |
| Full unit closure clearance | £680 | 1 day | Kitchen, front-of-house and cellar cleared and swept in one visit for a lease handover, priced against the full inventory rather than by room. |
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit
£380 · 3–4 hrs
Tables, chairs, till point and soft furnishings cleared from a café-sized unit under around 800 sq ft.
Commercial kitchen equipment removal, per item
£65 · 20–30 min
Ovens, fryers and prep tables are heavy, often plumbed or hard-wired, and need disconnection before they can be moved safely.
Refrigeration and F-gas degassing, per unit
£95 · 30–45 min
Fridges and cold rooms holding refrigerant must be certified degassed before removal, which is a licensed job, not a lift-and-carry one.
Grease trap emptying and removal
£210 · 1–2 hrs
Trapped fat, oil and grease is controlled waste that has to go to a licensed treatment facility, and the trap itself is often built into the drainage and needs careful disconnection.
Extraction canopy and ductwork removal
£340 · half day
Canopy, ductwork and filters are usually the last things fitted and the hardest to remove, often needing access equipment for ceiling-height runs.
Full unit closure clearance
£680 · 1 day
Kitchen, front-of-house and cellar cleared and swept in one visit for a lease handover, priced against the full inventory rather than by room.
Restaurant and café clearance is quoted plus VAT at 20% after a site visit, because kitchen equipment varies enormously in size and fixing. F-gas degassing certificates, grease trap disposal and transfer notes are included; loading bay suspensions are itemised.
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 Crayford
9,135 households sit inside the DA1 neighbourhood covering Crayford. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 28% of those homes are flats.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (57% owned, 16% privately rented) means a DA1 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick, the pattern behind 9,135 households inside the DA1 neighbourhood, so the fixing that matters in Crayford is chosen on site — the usual failure here is Crayford gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, where 57% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Crayford is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — the Cray river, the greyhound stadium and retail parks on the Dartford border — which is why a DA1 quote is not a Bexley average.
On access, wide roads, driveways and retail-park service access; the town centre is one-way — one reason two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment. Fitters travelling in use Crayford (Southeastern).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Crayford and what they live in decides how restaurant and cafe clearance is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Crayford and Slade Green & Crayford Marshes neighbourhood itself — not Bexley-wide averages, and not estimates.
24,194
Residents
Crayford and Slade Green & Crayford Marshes neighbourhood, Census 2021
9,135
Households
Median age 34.5
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
25.7%
Privately rented
16.4%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Crayford, Slade Green & Crayford Marshes (E02000072, E02000083) — the published geography that covers Crayford, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the DA1 district: 51.4481, 0.2095 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Crayford across DA1, with 57% owner-occupation locally, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. The number of plumbed and gas-connected appliances, not the floor area on this side of Bexley. A small unit with a full kitchen and a grease trap can cost more to clear than a larger unit that only ever served coffee and cake in this 28% flats neighbourhood — and 9,135 households on this patch, with 72% of Crayford homes being houses.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in Crayford, with 26% one-person households here. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Crayford most weeks on Bexley bookings, with 9,135 households on this patch.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level in this 28% flats neighbourhood, with 28% of homes here being flats. With 28% of homes in Crayford being flats, we plan the route up front.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the streets near Crayford Greyhound Stadium. With 28% of Crayford homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on DA1 jobs, with Crayford Greyhound Stadium a few streets away, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Wide roads, driveways and retail-park service access; the town centre is one-way on Bexley bookings. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Bexley it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards on the Crayford rounds — and 9,135 households on this patch, with 28% of homes here being flats.
Registered waste carrier with F-gas certified degassing for refrigeration and licensed disposal for grease trap waste, both receipted separately from the general transfer note in Crayford, with 72% of Crayford homes being houses. That paperwork is what most Bexley letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat around Crayford (Southeastern), with 26% social-rented stock nearby.
Gas safe disconnection itself, which must be carried out or signed off by a Gas Safe engineer before we remove the appliance; Structural kitchen extract ducting that runs through the building fabric beyond the unit's own ceiling void; Cellar cooling and beer line servicing contracts in Crayford — and 9,135 households on this patch, with 16% of DA1 homes being privately rented, which are usually held directly with the brewery or supplier; Licensed premises signage removal that requires scaffold or a road closure, which is quoted separately. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Crayford DA1 price you agree is the price you pay on this side of Bexley, with this being a short walk from Crayford (Southeastern).
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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. Crayford DA1 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of bexley.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
