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Islington · EC1V · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Professional Restaurant and cafe clearance in Old Street, EC1V
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Old Street fitters · Fixed written pricesBooking restaurant and cafe clearance near Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground? Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards, 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.
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- £5m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
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- Restaurant and cafe clearance in Old Street EC1V from £380, fixed in writing
- Most booked here: safety fixings
- 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.
- London Borough of Islington permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge itemised, never hidden
- Trustpilot 4.5· 3,100+ reviews
- Google 3.9· 1,429 reviews
- £5m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
- From, front-of-house strip-out, small unit
- £380From, front-of-house strip-out, small unit
- Old Street homes are flats
- 98%Old Street homes are flats
- Privately rented
- 28%Privately rented
- Households in Old Street
- 4,949Households in Old Street
Overview
Restaurant and cafe clearance in Old Street EC1V, explained
Booked mostly by social-housing-led households around Old Street, restaurant and cafe clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £380. With 98% of Old Street's 4,949 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in EC1V shape the slot length we hold.
How it works
How restaurant and cafe clearance works in Old Street
Five steps, the same on every EC1V job, so you know what happens before you commit. In EC1V, Council and housing-association blocks built from precast concrete and dense block — which is why London Borough of Islington kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded is what we plan for here.
Step 1
Site visit and equipment list
Every appliance, fridge and fixture is listed against a disconnect-and-remove plan before a date is booked.
Step 2
Gas and electrical sign-off confirmed
We wait for written confirmation that appliances are isolated by a qualified engineer before moving them.
Step 3
Kitchen stripped in sequence
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
Grease trap and drainage cleared
Trap emptied and removed by a licensed handler, with the disposal note kept for the site file.
Step 5
Front-of-house and final sweep
Tables, chairs and fittings cleared, unit swept and photographed for the landlord handover.
Why choose us
Why Old Street customers book us
What follows is specific to Old Street: its walls, its access and the paperwork Islington agents ask for.
Crew sized to the job
Two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment. Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards.
Booked around your day
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. Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) is the nearest station, so a EC1V visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
Old Street walls, not generic walls
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit, the pattern behind 4,949 households inside the EC1V neighbourhood in EC1V, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Old Street stock goes, which is what a 98% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Old Street actually produces.
Fixed prices
Restaurant and cafe clearance prices in Old Street
Fixed prices for EC1V and the rest of Islington. The number of plumbed and gas-connected appliances, not the floor area. 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.
| 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
What's included in Old Street
The same scope across EC1V, whether the job is a single item or a full room.
Included in the price
- In Old Street: certified F-gas degassing before any refrigeration or cold room is removed, timed against the walk in from Old Street (Northern, Great Northern)
- On EC1V jobs: grease trap emptying and disposal to a licensed food-waste treatment facility, agreed on the doorstep in Old Street before anything is unpacked
- Standard on Islington bookings: disconnection of gas and electrical appliances confirmed with a qualified engineer before removal, allowing for the 28% of EC1V homes that are privately rented and need the landlord's sign-off
- Extraction canopy, ductwork and filter removal, including access equipment where ceiling height requires it, noted on the Old Street job sheet so the next visit starts from it
- In Old Street: segregation of stainless steel and scrap catering equipment for recycling credit where applicable, sized for the red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards
- On EC1V jobs: waste transfer note and, where requested, a certificate of destruction for branded signage and menus, local restaurant and cafe clearance included
Not included
- Gas safe disconnection itself, which must be carried out or signed off by a Gas Safe engineer before we remove the appliance, which we refer on to the right trade in Old Street
- Structural kitchen extract ducting that runs through the building fabric beyond the unit's own ceiling void, quoted separately if you need it arranged in EC1V
- Cellar cooling and beer line servicing contracts, which are usually held directly with the brewery or supplier, outside the fixed price on Old Street bookings
- Licensed premises signage removal that requires scaffold or a road closure, which is quoted separately, and we will say so before the EC1V visit rather than on the day
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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
Where we work around Old Street EC1V
Restaurant and cafe clearance across Islington and the EC1V district, mapped below.
Also in this area
Other handyman work in Old Street
Same fitters, same EC1V rounds, same fixed-price approach.
Business clearance in Old Street
The parent commercial silo — offices, units, shops and estate handovers.
Furniture disposal in Old Street
Desks, chairs, bedroom and FF&E furniture removed per item or per load.
Rubbish disposal in Old Street
Mixed loads collected by volume with a same-day waste transfer note.
Appliance and WEEE clearance in Old Street
Fridges, catering plant and powered equipment removed under WEEE rules.
Most booked alongside this in Old Street EC1V
Working in Old Street
Old Street EC1V at a glance
Published figures for the neighbourhood that covers Old Street — the numbers that actually change a restaurant and cafe clearance quote.
In Old Street (EC1V) the split is 98% flats to 2% houses over 4,949 households, and the stock is post-war.
With 28% private renting against 19% owner-occupied, most EC1V bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit, the pattern behind 4,949 households inside the EC1V neighbourhood behind the plaster in EC1V. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Old Street stock goes, which is what a 98% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Old Street actually produces is the fault we are called back to undo.
The roundabout, tech offices and warehouse conversions on the City fringe. That character decides the practical detail of restaurant and cafe clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. Old Street sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards. Nearest station is Old Street (Northern, Great Northern), 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
Old Street EC1V by the numbers
Who lives in Old Street 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 Old Street & St Luke's neighbourhood itself — not Islington-wide averages, and not estimates.
10,675
Residents
Old Street & St Luke's neighbourhood, Census 2021
4,949
Households
Median age 31.5
Flats vs houses
Flats 98.3%Houses 1.6%
Residents by sex
Male48.3%
Female51.7%
Single-person households
38.9%
Privately rented
28.3%
- Median age
- 31.5
- Owner-occupied
- 19.2%
- Social rented
- 52.2%
- Postcode districts
- EC1V, EC1
- Nearest station
- Old Street
- Parking
- CPZ + C-Charge + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Old Street & St Luke's (E02000576) — the published geography that covers Old Street, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the EC1V district: 51.5268, -0.0978 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Common questions
Restaurant and cafe clearance in Old Street EC1V — your questions.
How much does restaurant and cafe clearance cost in Old Street EC1V?
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Old Street across EC1V, with this being a short walk from Old Street (Northern, Great Northern), 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 this side of Islington. 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 EC1V jobs — and 28% of EC1V homes being privately rented, with Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground a few streets away.
Do you assemble IKEA and other flat-pack furniture in Old Street EC1V?
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on this side of Islington, with 19% owner-occupation locally. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Old Street most weeks across EC1V, with this being a short walk from Old Street (Northern, Great Northern).
How long does flat-pack assembly take in Old Street?
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level in this 98% flats neighbourhood, with 28% of EC1V homes being privately rented.
Will a built wardrobe fit through a Old Street doorway?
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in this 98% flats neighbourhood. With 98% of Old Street homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm for Old Street (EC1V) addresses, with 2% of Old Street homes being houses — and 98% of homes here being flats, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
How quickly can you reach Old Street from your Islington round?
Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground is the marker we route to on this side of Islington, with Islington parking rules in play — and Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground a few streets away, and red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards. A EC1V slot added to an existing Islington round usually lands the same week rather than the next in this 98% flats neighbourhood, with 98% of homes here being flats.
Is same-day or evening restaurant and cafe clearance available in Islington?
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 Islington — and 28% of EC1V homes being privately rented, with a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood. Old Street sits close to Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) across EC1V — and 39% one-person households here, with this being London Borough of Islington territory, so we can usually add a EC1V job to an existing Islington round at short notice.
Do you handle difficult access in Old Street?
Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards around Old Street (Northern, Great Northern). 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 across EC1V — and this being London Borough of Islington territory, with Islington parking rules in play.
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