Greenwich · SE18 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Plumstead fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide restaurant and cafe clearance in Plumstead SE18 for houses and flats around Plumstead Common. From £380, quoted in writing before the visit, with two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
Restaurant and cafe clearance in Plumstead SE18 is a fixed-price visit for mixed-tenure homes in Greenwich, most of them mainly Victorian. 9,964 households sit inside this SE18 patch, 33% of them flats, so we quote on access near Plumstead Common rather than a London average.
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. Plumstead (Elizabeth line) is the nearest station, so a SE18 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect solid London stock brick in SE18, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, which is why Royal Borough of Greenwich kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded in SE18, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Plumstead gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, which is what a 33% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Plumstead 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. Very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station.
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 Plumstead
Plumstead SE18 is mainly Victorian and mixed-tenure: 33% of homes here are flats and 67% are houses, across 9,964 households (ONS Census 2021).
With 32% private renting against 41% owner-occupied, most SE18 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Plumstead substrates run to solid London stock brick in SE18, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, which is why Royal Borough of Greenwich kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Plumstead gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, which is what a 33% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Plumstead actually produces is the mistake that costs a SE18 customer twice.
Plumstead 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 — terraced streets climbing steeply from the high street to the common — which is why a SE18 quote is not a Greenwich average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station. Plumstead (Elizabeth line) 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 Plumstead 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 Plumstead Common & Riverside and Plumstead High Street and Plumstead South neighbourhood itself — not Greenwich-wide averages, and not estimates.
28,010
Residents
Plumstead Common & Riverside and Plumstead High Street and Plumstead South neighbourhood, Census 2021
9,964
Households
Median age 35.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
27.2%
Privately rented
32%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Plumstead Common & Riverside, Plumstead High Street, Plumstead South (E02000318, E02000319, E02000329) — the published geography that covers Plumstead, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE18 district: 51.4845, 0.0723 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Plumstead across SE18, with 27% one-person households here, 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 Plumstead rounds. 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 SE18 jobs, with Plumstead Common a few streets away.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in Plumstead, with Plumstead Common a few streets away. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Plumstead most weeks around Plumstead (Elizabeth line), with 67% of Plumstead homes being houses.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on SE18 jobs, with this being a short walk from Plumstead (Elizabeth line).
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the streets near Plumstead Common. With 33% of Plumstead homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm for Plumstead (SE18) addresses, with 32% of SE18 homes being privately rented — and a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Plumstead Common is the marker we route to on the Plumstead rounds, with 67% of Plumstead homes being houses, and very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station. A SE18 slot added to an existing Greenwich round usually lands the same week rather than the next on SE18 jobs, with Greenwich parking rules in play.
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 on this side of Greenwich — and Plumstead Common a few streets away, with 27% one-person households here. Plumstead sits close to Plumstead (Elizabeth line), with 9,964 households on this patch, so we can usually add a SE18 job to an existing Greenwich round at short notice in Plumstead.
Very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station across SE18. 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 on this side of Greenwich — and a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood, with 9,964 households on this patch.
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Free quote · 1-hour reply
Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Plumstead SE18 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.
