Kensington and Chelsea · SW7 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local South Kensington fitters · Fixed written pricesRestaurant and cafe clearance in South Kensington SW7, Kensington and Chelsea, from £380. Museum quarter, French lycée and cream-stucco crescents, which is why our SW7 quotes account for museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions. You get a fixed price in writing, an insured fitter and a tidy finish.
Overview
This page prices restaurant and cafe clearance for South Kensington SW7 specifically: period conversion stock, 54% privately rented and 2,840 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
Two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment. Museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions.
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. South Kensington (Circle, District, Piccadilly) is the nearest station, so a SW7 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 — which is what a 86% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering South Kensington actually produces in SW7, 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 — and a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — and museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions.
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.
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 South Kensington
Walk South Kensington from The Victoria and Albert Museum outwards and the period conversion pattern is obvious: 86% of the 2,840 households in SW7 live in flats, 14% in houses.
Private renting sits at 54% and owner-occupation at 38%; the first group books restaurant and cafe clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
South Kensington substrates run to with solid brick on the party and external walls — and lath and plaster over timber studs — which is what a 86% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering South Kensington actually produces. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because which crumbles the key and drops the panel — and a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster — and museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions is the mistake that costs a SW7 customer twice.
Anyone who knows South Kensington knows the pattern near The Victoria and Albert Museum: museum quarter, French lycée and cream-stucco crescents. We plan the SW7 visit around it. South Kensington sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions. South Kensington (Circle, 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 South Kensington 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 South Kensington neighbourhood itself — not Kensington and Chelsea-wide averages, and not estimates.
5,764
Residents
South Kensington neighbourhood, Census 2021
2,840
Households
Median age 36.5
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
45.3%
Privately rented
53.7%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood South Kensington (E02000592) — the published geography that covers South Kensington, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SW7 district: 51.4963, -0.1770 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in South Kensington around South Kensington (Circle, District, Piccadilly), with 8% 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 on SW7 jobs. 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 this side of Kensington and Chelsea — and 86% of homes here being flats, with The Victoria and Albert Museum a few streets away.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in South Kensington, with this being Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea territory. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in South Kensington most weeks on this side of Kensington and Chelsea, with a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood.
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 86% flats neighbourhood, with 45% one-person households here. Near The Victoria and Albert Museum that usually means an earlier start so the van can be unloaded once.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in South Kensington. With 86% of South Kensington homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on this side of Kensington and Chelsea — and 14% of South Kensington homes being houses, with 54% of SW7 homes being privately rented, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
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 Victoria and Albert Museum — and a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood, with 2,840 households on this patch. South Kensington sits close to South Kensington (Circle, District, Piccadilly) on SW7 jobs, with a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood — and Kensington and Chelsea parking rules in play, so we can usually add a SW7 job to an existing Kensington and Chelsea round at short notice.
Museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions around South Kensington (Circle, 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 South Kensington — and Kensington and Chelsea parking rules in play, with 14% of South Kensington homes being houses.
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 on the South Kensington rounds, with 14% of South Kensington 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 on Kensington and Chelsea bookings, with 8% social-rented stock nearby.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. South Kensington SW7 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.
