Kensington and Chelsea · SW5 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Earl's Court fitters · Fixed written pricesBooking restaurant and cafe clearance near The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment? Dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift, 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
Restaurant and cafe clearance in Earl's Court SW5 is a fixed-price visit for renter-heavy homes in Kensington and Chelsea, most of them period conversion. 3,241 households sit inside this SW5 patch, 97% of them flats, so we quote on access near The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment 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. Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly) is the nearest station, so a SW5 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, which is what a 97% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Earl's Court actually produces in SW5, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Earl's Court gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, and with 44% 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. Dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift.
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 Earl's Court
Earl's Court SW5 is period conversion and renter-heavy: 97% of homes here are flats and 3% are houses, across 3,241 households (ONS Census 2021).
The renter-heavy mix here (25% owned, 44% privately rented) means a SW5 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, which is what a 97% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Earl's Court actually produces behind the plaster in SW5. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Earl's Court gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, and with 44% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the fault we are called back to undo.
Earl's Court 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 — tall stucco terraces of flats and short lets around the former exhibition site — which is why a SW5 quote is not a Kensington and Chelsea average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift. Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly) 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 Earl's Court 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 Earl's Court neighbourhood itself — not Kensington and Chelsea-wide averages, and not estimates.
6,212
Residents
Earl's Court neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,241
Households
Median age 35.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
49%
Privately rented
43.7%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Earl's Court (E02000591) — the published geography that covers Earl's Court, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SW5 district: 51.4916, -0.1919 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Earl's Court on SW5 jobs, with 31% social-rented stock nearby, 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 around Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly). 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 in Earl's Court — and 25% owner-occupation locally, with The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment a few streets away.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on Kensington and Chelsea bookings, with 31% social-rented stock nearby. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Earl's Court most weeks in this 97% flats neighbourhood, with 25% owner-occupation locally.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level around Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly), with 25% owner-occupation locally.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the Earl's Court rounds. With 97% of Earl's Court homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm across SW5, with 44% of SW5 homes being privately rented — and The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment a few streets away, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment is the marker we route to in this 97% flats neighbourhood, with 49% one-person households here — and a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood, and dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift. A SW5 slot added to an existing Kensington and Chelsea round usually lands the same week rather than the next around Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly), with Kensington and Chelsea 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 the streets near The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment — and 25% owner-occupation locally, with this being a short walk from Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly). Earl's Court sits close to Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly) for Earl's Court (SW5) addresses — and The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment a few streets away, with 44% of SW5 homes being privately rented, so we can usually add a SW5 job to an existing Kensington and Chelsea round at short notice.
Dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift around Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly). Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards in Earl's Court — and this being a short walk from Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly), with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Earl's Court SW5 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of kensington and chelsea.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
