Greenwich · SE9 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Eltham fitters · Fixed written pricesBooking restaurant and cafe clearance near Eltham Palace? Driveway parking on most streets; the high street has timed loading only, 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 Eltham SE9 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 15% privately rented and 13,732 households in total. Work starts at £380, fixed in writing, with parking and Royal Borough of Greenwich 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. Eltham (Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE9 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect solid London stock brick in Eltham, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, measured on the walk in from Eltham (Southeastern) rather than assumed from a map in SE9, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Eltham gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, and with 15% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does.
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. Driveway parking on most streets; the high street has timed loading only.
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 Eltham
13,732 households sit inside the SE9 neighbourhood covering Eltham. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 27% of those homes are flats.
With 15% private renting against 64% owner-occupied, most SE9 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Eltham substrates run to solid London stock brick in Eltham, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, measured on the walk in from Eltham (Southeastern) rather than assumed from a map. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Eltham gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, and with 15% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the mistake that costs a SE9 customer twice.
Eltham 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 — the medieval palace, Art Deco Eltham Palace and streets of 1930s semis — which is why a SE9 quote is not a Greenwich average.
On access, driveway parking on most streets; the high street has timed loading only — 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 Eltham (Southeastern).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Eltham 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 Eltham North and Eltham Park and Eltham South and Eltham West and New Eltham neighbourhood itself — not Greenwich-wide averages, and not estimates.
34,732
Residents
Eltham North and Eltham Park and Eltham South and Eltham West and New Eltham neighbourhood, Census 2021
13,732
Households
Median age 40
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
28%
Privately rented
14.6%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Eltham North, Eltham Park, Eltham South, Eltham West, New Eltham (E02000335, E02000337, E02000339, E02000340, E02000344) — the published geography that covers Eltham, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE9 district: 51.4451, 0.0549 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Eltham around Eltham (Southeastern), with 13,732 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 in Eltham. 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 Eltham (SE9) addresses, with Greenwich parking rules in play.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions for Eltham (SE9) addresses, with 64% owner-occupation locally. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Eltham most weeks, with this being a short walk from Eltham (Southeastern).
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 Eltham rounds, with Greenwich parking rules in play.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in across SE9. With 27% of Eltham homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on the streets near Eltham Palace, with a median age of 40 in this neighbourhood — and Eltham Palace a few streets away, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Eltham Palace is the marker we route to across SE9, with 15% of SE9 homes being privately rented, and driveway parking on most streets; the high street has timed loading only. A SE9 slot added to an existing Greenwich round usually lands the same week rather than the next on this side of Greenwich, with this being a short walk from Eltham (Southeastern).
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 Eltham (SE9) addresses — and 64% owner-occupation locally, with 21% social-rented stock nearby. Eltham sits close to Eltham (Southeastern), with 64% owner-occupation locally, so we can usually add a SE9 job to an existing Greenwich round at short notice on the Eltham rounds.
Driveway parking on most streets; the high street has timed loading only in Eltham. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in Royal Borough of Greenwich it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards for Eltham (SE9) addresses — and 28% one-person households here, with this being a short walk from Eltham (Southeastern).
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Eltham SE9 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of greenwich.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
