Croydon · CR8 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Kenley fitters · Fixed written pricesRestaurant and cafe clearance in Kenley CR8, Croydon, from £380. Airfield common, wooded valleys and large houses on steep plots, which is why our CR8 quotes account for very steep private drives, narrow lanes and limited turning space. You get a fixed price in writing, an insured fitter and a tidy finish.
Overview
This page prices restaurant and cafe clearance for Kenley CR8 specifically: post-war stock, 12% privately rented and 5,051 households in total. Work starts at £380, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Croydon 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 some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick — which is what a 21% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Kenley actually produces in CR8, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in CR8, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — the pattern behind 5,051 households inside the CR8 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. Very steep private drives, narrow lanes and limited turning space.
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. Kenley (Southern) is the nearest station, so a CR8 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 Kenley
The CR8 stock around Kenley Aerodrome and Common is post-war. ONS records 21% flats, 79% houses and 5,051 households in Kenley.
Private renting sits at 12% and owner-occupation at 76%; the first group books restaurant and cafe clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Kenley substrates run to some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick — which is what a 21% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Kenley actually produces. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in CR8, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — the pattern behind 5,051 households inside the CR8 neighbourhood is the mistake that costs a CR8 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Kenley: airfield common, wooded valleys and large houses on steep plots. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Kenley is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: very steep private drives, narrow lanes and limited turning space. Kenley (Southern) 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 Kenley 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 Kenley North and Kenley South neighbourhood itself — not Croydon-wide averages, and not estimates.
13,255
Residents
Kenley North and Kenley South neighbourhood, Census 2021
5,051
Households
Median age 40.7
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
21.2%
Privately rented
11.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Kenley North, Kenley South (E02000233, E02000235) — the published geography that covers Kenley, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the CR8 district: 51.3319, -0.1144 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Kenley across CR8, with 79% of Kenley 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 on the streets near Kenley Aerodrome and Common. 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 CR8 jobs — and 79% of Kenley homes being houses, with 5,051 households on this patch.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions around Kenley (Southern), with 12% of CR8 homes being privately rented. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Kenley most weeks across CR8, with this being a short walk from Kenley (Southern).
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level in Kenley, with this being a short walk from Kenley (Southern).
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in Kenley. With 21% of Kenley homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on this side of Croydon, with 12% social-rented stock nearby — and 76% owner-occupation locally, 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 around Kenley (Southern), with 5,051 households on this patch. That paperwork is what most Croydon letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on CR8 jobs, with a median age of 41 in this neighbourhood.
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 around Kenley (Southern) — and Croydon parking rules in play, with this being a short walk from Kenley (Southern), 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 Kenley CR8 price you agree is the price you pay in Kenley, with 76% owner-occupation locally.
All three. With 12% of Kenley privately rented and 76% owner-occupied, roughly half the CR8 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on the Kenley rounds — and this being London Borough of Croydon territory, with 79% of Kenley homes being houses.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Kenley CR8 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of croydon.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
