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 gradients, resident permit bays and long communal stair runs in the conversions.
Camden · NW5 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Dartmouth Park fitters · Fixed written pricesRestaurant and cafe clearance for Dartmouth Park (NW5) households — 3,395 of them, 72% in flats. From £380 fixed, two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment Insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.


Overview
Restaurant and cafe clearance in Dartmouth Park NW5 is a fixed-price visit for social-housing-led homes in Camden, most of them mainly Victorian. 3,395 households sit inside this NW5 patch, 72% of them flats, so we quote on access near Highgate Cemetery and Parliament Hill Fields rather than a London average.
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
Two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment. Steep gradients, resident permit bays and long communal stair runs in the conversions.
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. Tufnell Park (Northern) is the nearest station, so a NW5 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Dartmouth Park, often with surface conduit — a median age of 42 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here in NW5, 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 — measured on the walk in from Tufnell Park (Northern) rather than assumed from a map.
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
| 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 Dartmouth Park
The NW5 stock around Highgate Cemetery and Parliament Hill Fields is mainly Victorian. ONS records 72% flats, 28% houses and 3,395 households in Dartmouth Park.
18% of households rent privately and 45% own, which is why restaurant and cafe clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Dartmouth Park substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Dartmouth Park, often with surface conduit — a median age of 42 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here. 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 — measured on the walk in from Tufnell Park (Northern) rather than assumed from a map is the mistake that costs a NW5 customer twice.
Anyone who knows Dartmouth Park knows the pattern near Highgate Cemetery and Parliament Hill Fields: steep Victorian streets between Highgate Cemetery and the eastern edge of Hampstead Heath. We plan the NW5 visit around it. Dartmouth Park sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: steep gradients, resident permit bays and long communal stair runs in the conversions. Tufnell Park (Northern) is the nearest station, 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
Who lives in Dartmouth Park 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 Highgate West neighbourhood itself — not Camden-wide averages, and not estimates.
7,745
Residents
Highgate West neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,395
Households
Median age 41.9
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
35.3%
Privately rented
18.4%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Highgate West (E02000166) — the published geography that covers Dartmouth Park, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the NW5 district: 51.5517, -0.1451 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Dartmouth Park on this side of Camden, with 3,395 households on this patch, 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 NW5. 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 on Camden bookings — and 3,395 households on this patch, with Camden parking rules in play.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the streets near Highgate Cemetery and Parliament Hill Fields, with 35% one-person households here. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Dartmouth Park most weeks on Camden bookings, with Camden parking rules in play.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level around Tufnell Park (Northern), with Camden parking rules in play.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on NW5 jobs. With 72% of Dartmouth Park homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm around Tufnell Park (Northern) — and 3,395 households on this patch, with 36% social-rented stock nearby, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
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 on this side of Camden, with 36% social-rented stock nearby. That paperwork is what most Camden letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat in Dartmouth Park, with 45% owner-occupation locally.
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 on Camden bookings — and 18% of NW5 homes being privately rented, with 45% 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 Dartmouth Park NW5 price you agree is the price you pay on the Dartmouth Park rounds, with 36% social-rented stock nearby.
All three. With 18% of Dartmouth Park privately rented and 45% owner-occupied, roughly half the NW5 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on NW5 jobs — and this being a short walk from Tufnell Park (Northern), with 18% of NW5 homes being privately rented.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Dartmouth Park NW5 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.