City of London · EC1 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Clerkenwell fitters · Fixed written pricesClerkenwell EC1 is a regular stop on our City of London round. Design studios, Italian delis and Georgian squares on the City's north-west edge, 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
This page prices restaurant and cafe clearance for Clerkenwell EC1 specifically: Georgian and early Victorian stock, 36% privately rented and 5,170 households in total. Work starts at £380, fixed in writing, with parking and City of London Corporation 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 precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — the reality on the streets around The Charterhouse and Exmouth Market in EC1, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in EC1, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — the pattern behind 5,170 households inside the EC1 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. Narrow one-way streets, seven-day controlled bays and warehouse lofts up several flights of stairs.
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. Farringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink) is the nearest station, so a EC1 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 Clerkenwell
The EC1 stock around The Charterhouse and Exmouth Market is Georgian and early Victorian. ONS records 94% flats, 6% houses and 5,170 households in Clerkenwell.
Owner-occupation runs at 25% in Clerkenwell, so alongside the 36% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Clerkenwell substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — the reality on the streets around The Charterhouse and Exmouth Market. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in EC1, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — the pattern behind 5,170 households inside the EC1 neighbourhood is the mistake that costs a EC1 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Clerkenwell: design studios, Italian delis and Georgian squares on the City's north-west edge. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Clerkenwell sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Narrow one-way streets, seven-day controlled bays and warehouse lofts up several flights of stairs. Nearest station is Farringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink), 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 Clerkenwell 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 Clerkenwell neighbourhood itself — not City of London-wide averages, and not estimates.
11,313
Residents
Clerkenwell neighbourhood, Census 2021
5,170
Households
Median age 31.3
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
40.8%
Privately rented
35.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Clerkenwell (E02000575) — the published geography that covers Clerkenwell, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the EC1 district: 51.5230, -0.1037 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Clerkenwell, with 25% owner-occupation locally, 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 around Farringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink). 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 in this 94% flats neighbourhood — and a median age of 31 in this neighbourhood, with 36% of EC1 homes being privately rented.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions around Farringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink), with 25% owner-occupation locally. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Clerkenwell most weeks, with 39% social-rented stock nearby.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on the Clerkenwell rounds, with this being City of London Corporation territory.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on EC1 jobs. With 94% of Clerkenwell homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm around Farringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink) — and this being City of London Corporation territory, with The Charterhouse and Exmouth Market a few streets away, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
All three. With 36% of Clerkenwell privately rented and 25% owner-occupied, roughly half the EC1 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door around Farringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink) — and 94% of homes here being flats, with this being City of London Corporation territory.
The Charterhouse and Exmouth Market is the marker we route to on the Clerkenwell rounds — and 25% owner-occupation locally, with this being City of London Corporation territory, and narrow one-way streets, seven-day controlled bays and warehouse lofts up several flights of stairs. A EC1 slot added to an existing City of London round usually lands the same week rather than the next on EC1 jobs, with a median age of 31 in this neighbourhood.
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 for Clerkenwell (EC1) addresses — and City of London parking rules in play, with this being City of London Corporation territory. Clerkenwell sits close to Farringdon (Elizabeth line, Circle, Thameslink) on the Clerkenwell rounds — and a median age of 31 in this neighbourhood, with 94% of homes here being flats, so we can usually add a EC1 job to an existing City of London 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. Clerkenwell EC1 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of city of london.
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