Crew sized to the job
Two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment. Steep approaches from Crystal Palace, narrow terraced streets and permit bays.
Bromley · SE20 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Professional Restaurant and cafe clearance in Penge, SE20
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Penge fitters · Fixed written pricesRestaurant and cafe clearance in Penge SE20, Bromley, from £380. Victorian terraces and almshouses below Crystal Palace, with a reviving high street, which is why our SE20 quotes account for steep approaches from Crystal Palace, narrow terraced streets and permit bays. You get a fixed price in writing, an insured fitter and a tidy finish.
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SE20
- Restaurant and cafe clearance in Penge SE20 from £380, fixed in writing
- Most booked here: safety fixings
- 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.
- London Borough of Bromley permits, ULEZ itemised, never hidden
- Trustpilot 4.5· 3,100+ reviews
- Google 3.9· 1,429 reviews
- £5m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
- From, front-of-house strip-out, small unit
- £380From, front-of-house strip-out, small unit
- Penge homes are flats
- 60%Penge homes are flats
- Privately rented
- 24%Privately rented
- Households in Penge
- 8,101Households in Penge
Overview
Restaurant and cafe clearance in Penge SE20, explained
This page prices restaurant and cafe clearance for Penge SE20 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 24% privately rented and 8,101 households in total. Work starts at £380, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Bromley permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
How it works
How restaurant and cafe clearance works in Penge
Five steps, the same on every SE20 job, so you know what happens before you commit. Council and housing-association blocks built from precast concrete and dense block, as the Penge stock goes, where 43% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is what we plan for here.
Step 1
Site visit and equipment list
Every appliance, fridge and fixture is listed against a disconnect-and-remove plan before a date is booked.
Step 2
Gas and electrical sign-off confirmed
We wait for written confirmation that appliances are isolated by a qualified engineer before moving them.
Step 3
Kitchen stripped in sequence
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
Grease trap and drainage cleared
Trap emptied and removed by a licensed handler, with the disposal note kept for the site file.
Step 5
Front-of-house and final sweep
Tables, chairs and fittings cleared, unit swept and photographed for the landlord handover.
Why choose us
Why Penge customers book us
What follows is specific to Penge: its walls, its access and the paperwork Bromley agents ask for.
Booked around your day
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. Penge East (Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE20 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
Penge walls, not generic walls
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SE20, often with surface conduit — and with 24% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does in SE20, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — the pattern behind 8,101 households inside the SE20 neighbourhood.
Insured and documented
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.
Fixed prices
Restaurant and cafe clearance prices in Penge
Fixed prices for SE20 and the rest of Bromley. The number of plumbed and gas-connected appliances, not the floor area. 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.
| 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
What's included in Penge
The same scope across SE20, whether the job is a single item or a full room.
Included in the price
- On SE20 jobs: certified F-gas degassing before any refrigeration or cold room is removed, agreed on the doorstep in Penge before anything is unpacked
- In Penge: grease trap emptying and disposal to a licensed food-waste treatment facility, timed against the walk in from Penge East (Southeastern)
- Disconnection of gas and electrical appliances confirmed with a qualified engineer before removal, noted on the Penge job sheet so the next visit starts from it
- Standard on Bromley bookings: extraction canopy, ductwork and filter removal, including access equipment where ceiling height requires it, allowing for the 24% of SE20 homes that are privately rented and need the landlord's sign-off
- On SE20 jobs: segregation of stainless steel and scrap catering equipment for recycling credit where applicable, with 60% of homes here being flats, planned around the stair or the lift
- In Penge: waste transfer note and, where requested, a certificate of destruction for branded signage and menus, the way it is done on Penge jobs
Not included
- Gas safe disconnection itself, which must be carried out or signed off by a Gas Safe engineer before we remove the appliance, and we will say so before the SE20 visit rather than on the day
- Structural kitchen extract ducting that runs through the building fabric beyond the unit's own ceiling void, outside the fixed price on Penge bookings
- Cellar cooling and beer line servicing contracts, which are usually held directly with the brewery or supplier, quoted separately if you need it arranged in SE20
- Licensed premises signage removal that requires scaffold or a road closure, which is quoted separately, which we refer on to the right trade in Penge
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Coverage
Where we work around Penge SE20
Restaurant and cafe clearance across Bromley and the SE20 district, mapped below.
Restaurant and cafe clearance nearby
Also in this area
Other handyman work in Penge
Same fitters, same SE20 rounds, same fixed-price approach.
Business clearance in Penge
The parent commercial silo — offices, units, shops and estate handovers.
Furniture disposal in Penge
Desks, chairs, bedroom and FF&E furniture removed per item or per load.
Rubbish disposal in Penge
Mixed loads collected by volume with a same-day waste transfer note.
Appliance and WEEE clearance in Penge
Fridges, catering plant and powered equipment removed under WEEE rules.
Most booked alongside this in Penge SE20
Working in Penge
Penge SE20 at a glance
Published figures for the neighbourhood that covers Penge — the numbers that actually change a restaurant and cafe clearance quote.
Walk Penge from The Watermen's Almshouses outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 60% of the 8,101 households in SE20 live in flats, 40% in houses.
24% of households rent privately and 43% own, which is why restaurant and cafe clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Penge substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SE20, often with surface conduit — and with 24% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — the pattern behind 8,101 households inside the SE20 neighbourhood is the mistake that costs a SE20 customer twice.
Anyone who knows Penge knows the pattern near The Watermen's Almshouses: victorian terraces and almshouses below Crystal Palace, with a reviving high street. We plan the SE20 visit around it. Penge is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Steep approaches from Crystal Palace, narrow terraced streets and permit bays. Nearest station is Penge East (Southeastern), and two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment.
Area at a glance
Penge SE20 by the numbers
Who lives in Penge 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 Anerley North & Penge West and Penge East neighbourhood itself — not Bromley-wide averages, and not estimates.
18,297
Residents
Anerley North & Penge West and Penge East neighbourhood, Census 2021
8,101
Households
Median age 37.3
Flats vs houses
Flats 60.2%Houses 39.7%
Residents by sex
Male46.8%
Female53.2%
Single-person households
34.9%
Privately rented
23.8%
- Median age
- 37.3
- Owner-occupied
- 42.8%
- Social rented
- 33.4%
- Postcode districts
- SE20
- Nearest station
- Penge East
- Parking
- CPZ + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Anerley North & Penge West, Penge East (E02000130, E02000135) — the published geography that covers Penge, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE20 district: 51.4122, -0.0595 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Common questions
Restaurant and cafe clearance in Penge SE20 — your questions.
How much does restaurant and cafe clearance cost in Penge SE20?
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Penge on this side of Bromley, with The Watermen's Almshouses a few streets away, 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 across SE20. 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 around Penge East (Southeastern) — and 60% of homes here being flats, with this being a short walk from Penge East (Southeastern).
Do you assemble IKEA and other flat-pack furniture in Penge SE20?
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the streets near The Watermen's Almshouses, with a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Penge most weeks across SE20, with 8,101 households on this patch.
How long does flat-pack assembly take in Penge?
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on this side of Bromley, with a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood. Near The Watermen's Almshouses that usually means an earlier start so the van can be unloaded once.
Will a built wardrobe fit through a Penge doorway?
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in this 60% flats neighbourhood. With 60% of Penge homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm around Penge East (Southeastern) — and 40% of Penge homes being houses, with 43% owner-occupation locally, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Are your fitters insured for work in SE20?
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 Penge, with 43% owner-occupation locally. That paperwork is what most Bromley letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on Bromley bookings, with this being a short walk from Penge East (Southeastern).
What is not included in restaurant and cafe clearance in Penge?
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 around Penge East (Southeastern), with 43% owner-occupation locally, 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 Penge SE20 price you agree is the price you pay in Penge, with 33% social-rented stock nearby.
Who books restaurant and cafe clearance in Penge SE20 — tenants, landlords or owners?
All three. With 24% of Penge privately rented and 43% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE20 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on SE20 jobs — and 35% one-person households here, with 33% social-rented stock nearby.
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