Lewisham · SE12 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Lee fitters · Fixed written pricesRestaurant and cafe clearance for Lee (SE12) households — 6,151 of them, 39% 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 Lee SE12 is a fixed-price visit for owner-occupier-led homes in Lewisham, most of them mainly Victorian. 6,151 households sit inside this SE12 patch, 39% of them flats, so we quote on access near The Manor House and its gardens 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 solid London stock brick in Lee, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — a median age of 38 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here in SE12, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in SE12, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — with 18% 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. Driveways on many streets; Lee High Road is a red route with short bays.
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. Lee (Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE12 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 Lee
The SE12 stock around The Manor House and its gardens is mainly Victorian. ONS records 39% flats, 60% houses and 6,151 households in Lee.
Owner-occupation runs at 60% in Lee, so alongside the 22% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Lee substrates run to solid London stock brick in Lee, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — a median age of 38 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in SE12, fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body — with 18% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first is the mistake that costs a SE12 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Lee: manor House library, Lee Green's shops and streets of interwar houses. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Lee is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
On access, driveways on many streets; Lee High Road is a red route with short bays — one reason two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment. Fitters travelling in use Lee (Southeastern).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Lee 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 Grove Park & Lee South and Lee neighbourhood itself — not Lewisham-wide averages, and not estimates.
15,387
Residents
Grove Park & Lee South and Lee neighbourhood, Census 2021
6,151
Households
Median age 37.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
27.4%
Privately rented
21.6%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Grove Park & Lee South, Lee (E02000668, E02000675) — the published geography that covers Lee, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE12 district: 51.4445, 0.0198 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Lee across SE12, with this being London Borough of Lewisham 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 on the streets near The Manor House and its gardens. 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 Lee (SE12) addresses — and 60% of Lee homes being houses, with Lewisham parking rules in play.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions around Lee (Southeastern), with this being a short walk from Lee (Southeastern). We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Lee most weeks, with 60% 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 for Lee (SE12) addresses, with 18% social-rented stock nearby.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in for Lee (SE12) addresses. With 39% of Lee homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on the streets near The Manor House and its gardens, with 27% one-person households here, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
All three. With 22% of Lee privately rented and 60% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE12 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door in this 39% flats neighbourhood — and this being London Borough of Lewisham territory, with 18% social-rented stock nearby.
The Manor House and its gardens is the marker we route to for Lee (SE12) addresses, with 22% of SE12 homes being privately rented — and this being a short walk from Lee (Southeastern), and driveways on many streets; Lee High Road is a red route with short bays. A SE12 slot added to an existing Lewisham round usually lands the same week rather than the next in this 39% flats neighbourhood, with this being a short walk from Lee (Southeastern).
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 SE12 jobs — and 27% one-person households here, with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory. Lee sits close to Lee (Southeastern), with 39% of homes here being flats, so we can usually add a SE12 job to an existing Lewisham round at short notice on this side of Lewisham.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Lee SE12 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.
