Camden · NW3 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Swiss Cottage fitters · Fixed written pricesRestaurant and cafe clearance in Swiss Cottage NW3, Camden, from £380. Finchley Road's shops and library beside 1930s flats and post-war blocks, which is why our NW3 quotes account for finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks. You get a fixed price in writing, an insured fitter and a tidy finish.
Overview
Booked mostly by renter-heavy households around Swiss Cottage, restaurant and cafe clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £380. With 89% of Swiss Cottage's 3,083 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in NW3 shape the slot length we hold.
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. Finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks.
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. Swiss Cottage (Jubilee) is the nearest station, so a NW3 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect with solid brick on the party and external walls, over lath and plaster over timber studs — and with 46% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does in NW3, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster; locally that also means which crumbles the key and drops the panel — the pattern behind 3,083 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.
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 Swiss Cottage
Census 2021 puts Swiss Cottage at 3,083 households with a median age of 35.2. The mainly Victorian stock is renter-heavy, which is why 11% houses and 89% flats need different handling in NW3.
46% of households rent privately and 33% own, which is why restaurant and cafe clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Swiss Cottage substrates run to with solid brick on the party and external walls, over lath and plaster over timber studs — and with 46% 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 a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster; locally that also means which crumbles the key and drops the panel — the pattern behind 3,083 households inside the NW3 neighbourhood is the mistake that costs a NW3 customer twice.
Anyone who knows Swiss Cottage knows the pattern near Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence: finchley Road's shops and library beside 1930s flats and post-war blocks. We plan the NW3 visit around it. Swiss Cottage 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, finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks — 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 Swiss Cottage (Jubilee).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Swiss Cottage 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 Swiss Cottage neighbourhood itself — not Camden-wide averages, and not estimates.
7,117
Residents
Swiss Cottage neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,083
Households
Median age 35.2
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
35.7%
Privately rented
45.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Swiss Cottage (E02000182) — the published geography that covers Swiss Cottage, 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 Swiss Cottage around Swiss Cottage (Jubilee), with 3,083 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 on NW3 jobs. 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 this side of Camden — and 89% of homes here being flats, with Camden parking rules in play.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in Swiss Cottage, with a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Swiss Cottage most weeks for Swiss Cottage (NW3) addresses, with 3,083 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 around Swiss Cottage (Jubilee), with Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence a few streets away.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in this 89% flats neighbourhood. With 89% of Swiss Cottage homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on Camden bookings — and this being London Borough of Camden territory, with 36% one-person households here, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
All three. With 46% of Swiss Cottage privately rented and 33% owner-occupied, roughly half the NW3 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door in this 89% flats neighbourhood — and 33% owner-occupation locally, with 3,083 households on this patch.
Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence is the marker we route to around Swiss Cottage (Jubilee), with 11% of Swiss Cottage homes being houses — and 36% one-person households here, and finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks. A NW3 slot added to an existing Camden round usually lands the same week rather than the next in Swiss Cottage, with Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence a few streets away.
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 in Swiss Cottage — and Camden parking rules in play, with this being a short walk from Swiss Cottage (Jubilee). Swiss Cottage sits close to Swiss Cottage (Jubilee) on Camden bookings, with 46% of NW3 homes being privately rented, so we can usually add a NW3 job to an existing Camden round at short notice.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Swiss Cottage 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.
