Kensington and Chelsea · W11 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Notting Hill fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for restaurant and cafe clearance in Notting Hill W11? We work in Notting Hill most weeks — pastel terraces, communal garden squares and the carnival's home streets — and price restaurant and cafe clearance against that reality rather than a London average. Fixed written quote from £380, insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
This page prices restaurant and cafe clearance for Notting Hill W11 specifically: mixed-era stock, 43% privately rented and 9,720 households in total. Work starts at £380, fixed in writing, with parking and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 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. Notting Hill Gate (Central, Circle, District) is the nearest station, so a W11 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs, the reality on the streets around Portobello Road Market in W11, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in Notting Hill, which crumbles the key and drops the panel, which is what a 75% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Notting Hill 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. Carnival weekend closures, resident bays all week and communal gardens with no vehicle 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 Notting Hill
Notting Hill W11 is mixed-era and renter-heavy: 75% of homes here are flats and 25% are houses, across 9,720 households (ONS Census 2021).
With 43% private renting against 42% owner-occupied, most W11 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Notting Hill substrates run to with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs, the reality on the streets around Portobello Road Market. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in Notting Hill, which crumbles the key and drops the panel, which is what a 75% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Notting Hill actually produces is the mistake that costs a W11 customer twice.
Notting Hill 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 — pastel terraces, communal garden squares and the carnival's home streets — which is why a W11 quote is not a Kensington and Chelsea average.
Carnival weekend closures, resident bays all week and communal gardens with no vehicle access. Nearest station is Notting Hill Gate (Central, Circle, District), 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 Notting Hill 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 Notting Hill Gate and Notting Hill South and Notting Hill West neighbourhood itself — not Kensington and Chelsea-wide averages, and not estimates.
20,146
Residents
Notting Hill Gate and Notting Hill South and Notting Hill West neighbourhood, Census 2021
9,720
Households
Median age 39.3
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
44.4%
Privately rented
43.1%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Notting Hill Gate, Notting Hill South, Notting Hill West (E02000582, E02000583, E02000584) — the published geography that covers Notting Hill, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the W11 district: 51.5123, -0.2155 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Notting Hill on Kensington and Chelsea bookings, with this being Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea territory, 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 in Notting Hill. 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 for Notting Hill (W11) addresses, with 9,720 households on this patch.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in Notting Hill, with Kensington and Chelsea parking rules in play. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Notting Hill most weeks around Notting Hill Gate (Central, Circle, District), with 44% one-person households here.
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 Notting Hill rounds, with a median age of 39 in this neighbourhood.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on Kensington and Chelsea bookings. With 75% of Notting Hill homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm in this 75% flats neighbourhood, with 15% social-rented stock nearby — and 9,720 households on this patch, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Carnival weekend closures, resident bays all week and communal gardens with no vehicle access on this side of Kensington and Chelsea. 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 this 75% flats neighbourhood — and this being a short walk from Notting Hill Gate (Central, Circle, District), with 43% of W11 homes being privately rented.
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 in Notting Hill, with 25% of Notting Hill homes being houses. That paperwork is what most Kensington and Chelsea letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat around Notting Hill Gate (Central, Circle, District), with 15% social-rented stock nearby.
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 Notting Hill Gate (Central, Circle, District), with 25% of Notting Hill homes being houses, 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 Notting Hill W11 price you agree is the price you pay in Notting Hill, with Portobello Road Market a few streets away.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Notting Hill W11 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.
