Islington · N1 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Islington fitters · Fixed written pricesBooking restaurant and cafe clearance near Islington Green and the Almeida Theatre? Narrow squares with resident bays, listed frontages and basement flats down external steps, 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 Islington N1 specifically: Georgian and early Victorian stock, 27% privately rented and 8,725 households in total. Work starts at £380, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Islington 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. Highbury & Islington (Victoria, Overground) is the nearest station, so a N1 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, with 47% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first in N1, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Islington gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
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. Narrow squares with resident bays, listed frontages and basement flats down external steps.
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 Islington
In Islington (N1) the split is 81% flats to 19% houses over 8,725 households, and the stock is Georgian and early Victorian.
With 27% private renting against 27% owner-occupied, most N1 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Walls are often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, with 47% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first, so the fixing that matters in Islington is chosen on site — the usual failure here is Islington gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
Islington 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 — barnsbury and Canonbury squares, antique shops and the Almeida — which is why a N1 quote is not a Islington average.
Narrow squares with resident bays, listed frontages and basement flats down external steps. Nearest station is Highbury & Islington (Victoria, Overground), 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 Islington 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 Islington East & Arlington and Islington North & Canonbury West neighbourhood itself — not Islington-wide averages, and not estimates.
18,861
Residents
Islington East & Arlington and Islington North & Canonbury West neighbourhood, Census 2021
8,725
Households
Median age 33.9
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
36.2%
Privately rented
26.5%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Islington East & Arlington, Islington North & Canonbury West (E02000569, E02000571) — the published geography that covers Islington, 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 Islington on the streets near Islington Green and the Almeida Theatre, with 27% of N1 homes being privately rented, 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 Islington bookings. 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 Islington rounds, with 27% owner-occupation locally — and Islington Green and the Almeida Theatre a few streets away.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the streets near Islington Green and the Almeida Theatre, with 19% of Islington homes being houses. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Islington most weeks on N1 jobs, with 47% social-rented stock nearby.
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 streets near Islington Green and the Almeida Theatre, with Islington Green and the Almeida Theatre a few streets away.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on N1 jobs. With 81% of Islington homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on the Islington rounds, with 27% of N1 homes being privately rented, 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 around Highbury & Islington (Victoria, Overground) — and 8,725 households on this patch, with 36% 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 Islington N1 price you agree is the price you pay in Islington, with Islington parking rules in play.
All three. With 27% of Islington privately rented and 27% owner-occupied, roughly half the N1 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on the Islington rounds, with Islington parking rules in play.
Islington Green and the Almeida Theatre is the marker we route to across N1, with Islington parking rules in play — and 19% of Islington homes being houses, and narrow squares with resident bays, listed frontages and basement flats down external steps. A N1 slot added to an existing Islington round usually lands the same week rather than the next on the Islington rounds, with 81% of homes here being flats.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Islington 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.
