Croydon · CR8 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Purley fitters · Fixed written pricesBooking restaurant and cafe clearance near Purley Rotary Field? Steep hill roads with sharp turns; driveways on most residential streets, and that is planned into the slot rather than discovered on the day. Prices start at £380 and are fixed before we travel. Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
This page prices restaurant and cafe clearance for Purley CR8 specifically: inter-war stock, 26% privately rented and 7,502 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
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. Purley (Southern) is the nearest station, so a CR8 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and with 29% one-person households in Purley, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site in CR8, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Purley gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, which is what a 44% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Purley actually produces.
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 hill roads with sharp turns; driveways on most residential streets.
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 Purley
In Purley (CR8) the split is 44% flats to 56% houses over 7,502 households, and the stock is inter-war.
Because 26% of Purley is privately rented and 10% socially rented, a lot of CR8 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Purley substrates run to solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, and with 29% one-person households in Purley, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Purley gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, which is what a 44% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Purley actually produces is the mistake that costs a CR8 customer twice.
Purley is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — a downland town at the foot of the Brighton Road hills, with big detached houses above — which is why a CR8 quote is not a Croydon average.
Steep hill roads with sharp turns; driveways on most residential streets. Nearest station is Purley (Southern), 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 Purley 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 Purley Central and Purley North neighbourhood itself — not Croydon-wide averages, and not estimates.
18,555
Residents
Purley Central and Purley North neighbourhood, Census 2021
7,502
Households
Median age 38.1
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
28.8%
Privately rented
26%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Purley Central, Purley North (E02000224, E02000230) — the published geography that covers Purley, 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 Purley around Purley (Southern), with 44% of homes here being flats, 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 Purley. 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 for Purley (CR8) addresses — and a median age of 38 in this neighbourhood, with this being a short walk from Purley (Southern).
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in Purley, with 26% of CR8 homes being privately rented. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Purley most weeks on Croydon bookings, with Purley Rotary Field 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 in Purley, with 56% of Purley homes being houses.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in around Purley (Southern). With 44% of Purley homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm in this 44% flats neighbourhood, with a median age of 38 in this neighbourhood, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
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 in this 44% flats neighbourhood, with a median age of 38 in this neighbourhood — and 29% one-person households here, 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 Purley CR8 price you agree is the price you pay on Croydon bookings, with 7,502 households on this patch.
All three. With 26% of Purley privately rented and 64% owner-occupied, roughly half the CR8 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door around Purley (Southern) — and 10% social-rented stock nearby, with 56% of Purley homes being houses.
Purley Rotary Field is the marker we route to in Purley, with this being London Borough of Croydon territory, and steep hill roads with sharp turns; driveways on most residential streets. A CR8 slot added to an existing Croydon round usually lands the same week rather than the next for Purley (CR8) addresses, with a median age of 38 in this neighbourhood.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Purley 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.
