Camden · NW3 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Hampstead fitters · Fixed written pricesRestaurant and cafe clearance for Hampstead (NW3) households — 11,433 of them, 84% 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
This page prices restaurant and cafe clearance for Hampstead NW3 specifically: Georgian and early Victorian stock, 45% privately rented and 11,433 households in total. Work starts at £380, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Camden 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
We expect with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs — a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here in NW3, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is which crumbles the key and drops the panel, over a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — the pattern behind 11,433 households inside the NW3 neighbourhood.
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. Steep, narrow lanes where a 3.5t Luton is the practical maximum; several streets need a shuttle from Whitestone Pond.
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. Hampstead (Northern) is the nearest station, so a NW3 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
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 Hampstead
The NW3 stock around Hampstead Heath and Kenwood House is Georgian and early Victorian. ONS records 84% flats, 17% houses and 11,433 households in Hampstead.
45% of households rent privately and 39% own, which is why restaurant and cafe clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Walls are with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs — a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here, so the fixing that matters in Hampstead is chosen on site — the usual failure here is which crumbles the key and drops the panel, over a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — the pattern behind 11,433 households inside the NW3 neighbourhood.
Two streets can behave very differently in Hampstead: georgian hill village of narrow lanes, artists' houses and the Heath on its doorstep. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Hampstead sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, steep, narrow lanes where a 3.5t Luton is the practical maximum; several streets need a shuttle from Whitestone Pond — 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 Hampstead (Northern).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Hampstead 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 Hampstead Town and South Hampstead and West Hampstead neighbourhood itself — not Camden-wide averages, and not estimates.
24,357
Residents
Hampstead Town and South Hampstead and West Hampstead neighbourhood, Census 2021
11,433
Households
Median age 35.4
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
37.4%
Privately rented
44.6%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Hampstead Town, South Hampstead, West Hampstead (E02000167, E02000175, E02000181) — the published geography that covers Hampstead, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the NW3 district: 51.5523, -0.1725 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Hampstead for Hampstead (NW3) addresses, with 17% of Hampstead homes being houses, 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 in Hampstead. 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, with 39% owner-occupation locally — and Camden parking rules in play.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions around Hampstead (Northern), with 17% of Hampstead homes being houses. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Hampstead most weeks, with Hampstead Heath and Kenwood House a few streets away.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level across NW3, with this being London Borough of Camden territory.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in this 84% flats neighbourhood. With 84% of Hampstead homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm around Hampstead (Northern), with this being a short walk from Hampstead (Northern) — and 17% of Hampstead homes being houses, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
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 around Hampstead (Northern) — and 17% social-rented stock nearby, with 11,433 households on this patch. Hampstead sits close to Hampstead (Northern), with a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood, so we can usually add a NW3 job to an existing Camden round at short notice on NW3 jobs.
5t Luton is the practical maximum; several streets need a shuttle from Whitestone Pond on this side of Camden. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Camden it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards on NW3 jobs — and 17% social-rented stock nearby, with 45% of NW3 homes being privately rented.
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 39% owner-occupation locally. That paperwork is what most Camden letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat across NW3, with this being a short walk from Hampstead (Northern).
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Hampstead NW3 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.
