Islington · N1 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Angel fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide restaurant and cafe clearance in Angel N1 for houses and flats around The Business Design Centre and Camden Passage. 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
Booked mostly by renter-heavy households around Angel, restaurant and cafe clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £380. With 75% of Angel's 4,920 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in N1 shape the slot length we hold.
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. Angel (Northern) is the nearest station, so a N1 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect lath and plaster over timber studs; locally that also means with solid brick on the party and external walls, the pattern behind 4,920 households inside the N1 neighbourhood in N1, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is which crumbles the key and drops the panel, over a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster, where 34% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
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. Seven-day CPZ, no off-street parking on the Georgian streets and steep basement access.
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 Angel
In Angel (N1) the split is 75% flats to 25% houses over 4,920 households, and the stock is Georgian and early Victorian.
The renter-heavy mix here (34% owned, 37% privately rented) means a N1 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Angel substrates run to lath and plaster over timber studs; locally that also means with solid brick on the party and external walls, the pattern behind 4,920 households inside the N1 neighbourhood. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because which crumbles the key and drops the panel, over a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster, where 34% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a N1 customer twice.
Angel sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — upper Street's bars and theatres, canal basin flats and Georgian squares — which is why a N1 quote is not a Islington average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: seven-day CPZ, no off-street parking on the Georgian streets and steep basement access. Angel (Northern) 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 Angel 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 Angel neighbourhood itself — not Islington-wide averages, and not estimates.
10,314
Residents
Angel neighbourhood, Census 2021
4,920
Households
Median age 32.7
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
37.8%
Privately rented
36.6%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Angel (E02000573) — the published geography that covers Angel, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the N1 district: 51.5378, -0.0970 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Angel on the Angel rounds, with Islington parking rules in play, 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 for Angel (N1) addresses. 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 the streets near The Business Design Centre and Camden Passage — and 29% social-rented stock nearby, with this being London Borough of Islington territory.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on this side of Islington, with a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Angel most weeks across N1, with this being a short walk from Angel (Northern).
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level around Angel (Northern), with Islington parking rules in play.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on Islington bookings. With 75% of Angel homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm in this 75% flats neighbourhood — and 75% of homes here being flats, with a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
The Business Design Centre and Camden Passage is the marker we route to in Angel, with 38% one-person households here — and Islington parking rules in play, and seven-day CPZ, no off-street parking on the Georgian streets and steep basement access. A N1 slot added to an existing Islington round usually lands the same week rather than the next for Angel (N1) addresses, with Islington 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 N1 jobs — and this being a short walk from Angel (Northern), with 25% of Angel homes being houses. Angel sits close to Angel (Northern), with 29% social-rented stock nearby, so we can usually add a N1 job to an existing Islington round at short notice on the Angel rounds.
Seven-day CPZ, no off-street parking on the Georgian streets and steep basement access for Angel (N1) addresses. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Islington it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards on the streets near The Business Design Centre and Camden Passage — and a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood, with this being London Borough of Islington territory.
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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. Angel N1 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of islington.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
