Camden · WC1 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Holborn fitters · Fixed written pricesHolborn WC1 is a regular stop on our Camden round. Legal London — the Inns of Court, Lincoln's Inn Fields and Sicilian Avenue, so restaurant and cafe clearance here is quoted on the street the job is on — from £380, in writing, with insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
Restaurant and cafe clearance in Holborn WC1 is a fixed-price visit for social-housing-led homes in Camden, most of them post-war. 3,090 households sit inside this WC1 patch, 95% of them flats, so we quote on access near Lincoln's Inn 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
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in WC1, often with surface conduit — a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here in WC1, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in WC1, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — the pattern behind 3,090 households inside the WC1 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. Inns of Court gate access, weekday loading windows and listed staircases.
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. Holborn (Central, Piccadilly) is the nearest station, so a WC1 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 Holborn
Walk Holborn from Lincoln's Inn Fields outwards and the post-war pattern is obvious: 95% of the 3,090 households in WC1 live in flats, 5% in houses.
Private renting sits at 30% and owner-occupation at 18%; the first group books restaurant and cafe clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Holborn substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in WC1, often with surface conduit — a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in WC1, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — the pattern behind 3,090 households inside the WC1 neighbourhood is the mistake that costs a WC1 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Holborn: legal London — the Inns of Court, Lincoln's Inn Fields and Sicilian Avenue. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Holborn sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Inns of Court gate access, weekday loading windows and listed staircases. Nearest station is Holborn (Central, Piccadilly), 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 Holborn 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 Hatton Garden & Theobalds Road neighbourhood itself — not Camden-wide averages, and not estimates.
6,659
Residents
Hatton Garden & Theobalds Road neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,090
Households
Median age 34.4
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
42.2%
Privately rented
30.4%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Hatton Garden & Theobalds Road (E02000192) — the published geography that covers Holborn, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the WC1 district: 51.5219, -0.1215 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Holborn on this side of Camden, with this being a short walk from Holborn (Central, Piccadilly), 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 WC1. 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 Holborn (Central, Piccadilly) — and 42% one-person households here, with Lincoln's Inn Fields a few streets away.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the Holborn rounds, with Lincoln's Inn Fields a few streets away. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Holborn most weeks on WC1 jobs, with 30% of WC1 homes being privately rented.
For WC1 bookings, 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 95% flats neighbourhood, with 18% owner-occupation locally. It works the same way on every Holborn (WC1) booking.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on WC1 jobs. With 95% of Holborn homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on the streets near Lincoln's Inn Fields, with 51% social-rented stock nearby — and 18% owner-occupation locally, 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 on this side of Camden, with a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood. Holborn sits close to Holborn (Central, Piccadilly), with this being London Borough of Camden territory, so we can usually add a WC1 job to an existing Camden round at short notice across WC1.
Inns of Court gate access, weekday loading windows and listed staircases in Holborn. 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 for Holborn (WC1) addresses — and 18% owner-occupation locally, with 3,090 households on this patch.
For WC1 bookings, 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 Camden bookings, with 3,090 households on this patch. That paperwork is what most Camden letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat in this 95% flats neighbourhood, with a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood. Around Holborn (Central, Piccadilly) we allow for the parking and the walk-in before the slot is confirmed.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Holborn WC1 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.
