Lewisham · SE23 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Forest Hill fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide restaurant and cafe clearance in Forest Hill SE23 for houses and flats around The Horniman Museum and Gardens. From £380, quoted in writing before the visit, with two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
Booked mostly by mixed-tenure households around Forest Hill, restaurant and cafe clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £380. With 58% of Forest Hill's 6,684 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in SE23 shape the slot length we hold.
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. Forest Hill (Overground) is the nearest station, so a SE23 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms, and with 28% one-person households in Forest Hill, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site in SE23, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Forest Hill gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, where 54% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
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 gradients, narrow hill roads and permit bays around the station.
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 Forest Hill
In Forest Hill (SE23) the split is 58% flats to 42% houses over 6,684 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
Because 27% of Forest Hill is privately rented and 19% socially rented, a lot of SE23 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms, and with 28% one-person households in Forest Hill, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site, so the fixing that matters in Forest Hill is chosen on site — the usual failure here is Forest Hill gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, where 54% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Forest Hill is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — the Horniman Museum, the hill views and a compact village centre — which is why a SE23 quote is not a Lewisham average.
Steep gradients, narrow hill roads and permit bays around the station. Nearest station is Forest Hill (Overground), 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 Forest 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 Forest Hill East and Forest Hill West neighbourhood itself — not Lewisham-wide averages, and not estimates.
15,955
Residents
Forest Hill East and Forest Hill West neighbourhood, Census 2021
6,684
Households
Median age 36
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
28.3%
Privately rented
26.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Forest Hill East, Forest Hill West (E02000673, E02000676) — the published geography that covers Forest Hill, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE23 district: 51.4415, -0.0491 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Forest Hill in this 58% flats neighbourhood, with 28% one-person households here, 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 Forest Hill (Overground). 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 Forest Hill — and a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood, with 58% of homes here being flats.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in this 58% flats neighbourhood, with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Forest Hill most weeks for Forest Hill (SE23) addresses, with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on Lewisham bookings, with 58% of homes here being flats.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on this side of Lewisham. With 58% of Forest Hill homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm across SE23, with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory — and Lewisham parking rules in play, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
The Horniman Museum and Gardens is the marker we route to in this 58% flats neighbourhood, with Lewisham parking rules in play, and steep gradients, narrow hill roads and permit bays around the station. A SE23 slot added to an existing Lewisham round usually lands the same week rather than the next on Lewisham bookings, with 58% of homes here being flats.
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 in this 58% flats neighbourhood, with 58% of homes here being flats. Forest Hill sits close to Forest Hill (Overground) on this side of Lewisham, with The Horniman Museum and Gardens a few streets away, so we can usually add a SE23 job to an existing Lewisham round at short notice.
Steep gradients, narrow hill roads and permit bays around the station around Forest Hill (Overground). Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Lewisham it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards in Forest Hill — and 28% one-person households here, with 6,684 households on this patch.
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Free quote · 1-hour reply
Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Forest Hill SE23 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.
