Lewisham · SE4 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Brockley fitters · Fixed written pricesRestaurant and cafe clearance for Brockley (SE4) households — 6,905 of them, 70% in flats. From £380 fixed, two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment Insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
Restaurant and cafe clearance in Brockley SE4 is a fixed-price visit for social-housing-led homes in Lewisham, most of them mainly Victorian. 6,905 households sit inside this SE4 patch, 70% of them flats, so we quote on access near Hilly Fields Park 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
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SE4, often with surface conduit — the pattern behind 6,905 households inside the SE4 neighbourhood in SE4, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in SE4, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — with 31% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first.
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. Steep hills, long front paths and conversion flats up two or three flights.
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. Brockley (Overground) is the nearest station, so a SE4 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
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 Brockley
The SE4 stock around Hilly Fields Park is mainly Victorian. ONS records 70% flats, 30% houses and 6,905 households in Brockley.
Private renting sits at 30% and owner-occupation at 39%; the first group books restaurant and cafe clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Brockley substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SE4, often with surface conduit — the pattern behind 6,905 households inside the SE4 neighbourhood. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in SE4, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — with 31% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first is the mistake that costs a SE4 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Brockley: conservation-area streets of large Victorian villas and the Hilly Fields view. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Brockley is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: steep hills, long front paths and conversion flats up two or three flights. Brockley (Overground) 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 Brockley 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 Brockley East & St Johns and Brockley West neighbourhood itself — not Lewisham-wide averages, and not estimates.
16,501
Residents
Brockley East & St Johns and Brockley West neighbourhood, Census 2021
6,905
Households
Median age 33.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
30%
Privately rented
29.8%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Brockley East & St Johns, Brockley West (E02000660, E02000662) — the published geography that covers Brockley, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE4 district: 51.4610, -0.0352 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Brockley around Brockley (Overground), with 30% of SE4 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 SE4 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 Lewisham — and Hilly Fields Park a few streets away, with 30% of Brockley homes being houses.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions for Brockley (SE4) addresses, with 30% one-person households here. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Brockley most weeks on the streets near Hilly Fields Park, with Lewisham parking rules in play.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level around Brockley (Overground), with 30% of SE4 homes being privately rented.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in for Brockley (SE4) addresses. With 70% of Brockley homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on the streets near Hilly Fields Park, with Lewisham parking rules in play, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
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 SE4 jobs, with a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood. That paperwork is what most Lewisham letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on the Brockley rounds, with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory.
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 on SE4 jobs, with 30% of SE4 homes being privately rented — and this being a short walk from Brockley (Overground), 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 Brockley SE4 price you agree is the price you pay around Brockley (Overground), with this being a short walk from Brockley (Overground).
All three. With 30% of Brockley privately rented and 39% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE4 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door around Brockley (Overground) — and a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood, with this being a short walk from Brockley (Overground).
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Brockley SE4 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of lewisham.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
