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Lewisham · SE14 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Professional Restaurant and cafe clearance in New Cross, SE14
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local New Cross fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for restaurant and cafe clearance in New Cross SE14? We work in New Cross most weeks — goldsmiths' campus, the Venue and student-heavy Victorian 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.
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- Since 2019
SE14
- Restaurant and cafe clearance in New Cross SE14 from £380, fixed in writing
- Most booked here: safety fixings
- 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.
- London Borough of Lewisham permits, ULEZ itemised, never hidden
- Trustpilot 4.5· 3,100+ reviews
- Google 3.9· 1,429 reviews
- £5m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
- From, front-of-house strip-out, small unit
- £380From, front-of-house strip-out, small unit
- New Cross homes are flats
- 73%New Cross homes are flats
- Privately rented
- 34%Privately rented
- Households in New Cross
- 11,771Households in New Cross
Overview
Restaurant and cafe clearance in New Cross SE14, explained
This page prices restaurant and cafe clearance for New Cross SE14 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 34% privately rented and 11,771 households in total. Work starts at £380, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Lewisham permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
How it works
How restaurant and cafe clearance works in New Cross
Five steps, the same on every SE14 job, so you know what happens before you commit. In SE14, Council and housing-association blocks built from precast concrete and dense block — and with 33% one-person households in New Cross, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is what we plan for here.
Step 1
Site visit and equipment list
Every appliance, fridge and fixture is listed against a disconnect-and-remove plan before a date is booked.
Step 2
Gas and electrical sign-off confirmed
We wait for written confirmation that appliances are isolated by a qualified engineer before moving them.
Step 3
Kitchen stripped in sequence
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
Grease trap and drainage cleared
Trap emptied and removed by a licensed handler, with the disposal note kept for the site file.
Step 5
Front-of-house and final sweep
Tables, chairs and fittings cleared, unit swept and photographed for the landlord handover.
Why choose us
Why New Cross customers book us
What follows is specific to New Cross: its walls, its access and the paperwork Lewisham agents ask for.
Crew sized to the job
Two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment. September student turnover, New Cross Road red route and narrow permit-only streets.
Booked around your day
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. New Cross (Overground, Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE14 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
New Cross walls, not generic walls
We expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here in SE14, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the New Cross stock goes, the reality on the streets around Goldsmiths, University of London.
Fixed prices
Restaurant and cafe clearance prices in New Cross
Fixed prices for SE14 and the rest of Lewisham. The number of plumbed and gas-connected appliances, not the floor area. 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.
| 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
What's included in New Cross
The same scope across SE14, whether the job is a single item or a full room.
Included in the price
- In New Cross: certified F-gas degassing before any refrigeration or cold room is removed, timed against the walk in from New Cross (Overground, Southeastern)
- On SE14 jobs: grease trap emptying and disposal to a licensed food-waste treatment facility, agreed on the doorstep in New Cross before anything is unpacked
- Standard on Lewisham bookings: disconnection of gas and electrical appliances confirmed with a qualified engineer before removal, allowing for the 34% of SE14 homes that are privately rented and need the landlord's sign-off
- Extraction canopy, ductwork and filter removal, including access equipment where ceiling height requires it, noted on the New Cross job sheet so the next visit starts from it
- In New Cross: segregation of stainless steel and scrap catering equipment for recycling credit where applicable, sized for the september student turnover, new cross road red route and narrow permit-only streets
- On SE14 jobs: waste transfer note and, where requested, a certificate of destruction for branded signage and menus, restaurant and cafe clearance london included
Not included
- Gas safe disconnection itself, which must be carried out or signed off by a Gas Safe engineer before we remove the appliance, and we will say so before the SE14 visit rather than on the day
- Structural kitchen extract ducting that runs through the building fabric beyond the unit's own ceiling void, handled by London Borough of Lewisham or a specialist contractor instead
- Cellar cooling and beer line servicing contracts, which are usually held directly with the brewery or supplier, which we refer on to the right trade in New Cross
- Licensed premises signage removal that requires scaffold or a road closure, which is quoted separately, quoted separately if you need it arranged in SE14
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Coverage
Where we work around New Cross SE14
Restaurant and cafe clearance across Lewisham and the SE14 district, mapped below.
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Furniture disposal in New Cross
Desks, chairs, bedroom and FF&E furniture removed per item or per load.
Rubbish disposal in New Cross
Mixed loads collected by volume with a same-day waste transfer note.
Appliance and WEEE clearance in New Cross
Fridges, catering plant and powered equipment removed under WEEE rules.
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Working in New Cross
New Cross SE14 at a glance
Published figures for the neighbourhood that covers New Cross — the numbers that actually change a restaurant and cafe clearance quote.
In New Cross (SE14) the split is 73% flats to 27% houses over 11,771 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
With 34% private renting against 30% owner-occupied, most SE14 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Walls are often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here, so the fixing that matters in New Cross is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the New Cross stock goes, the reality on the streets around Goldsmiths, University of London.
Goldsmiths' campus, the Venue and student-heavy Victorian streets. That character decides the practical detail of restaurant and cafe clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. New Cross 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: september student turnover, New Cross Road red route and narrow permit-only streets. New Cross (Overground, Southeastern) 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
New Cross SE14 by the numbers
Who lives in New Cross 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 New Cross & Deptford South and New Cross Gate and New Cross South neighbourhood itself — not Lewisham-wide averages, and not estimates.
29,076
Residents
New Cross & Deptford South and New Cross Gate and New Cross South neighbourhood, Census 2021
11,771
Households
Median age 31.9
Flats vs houses
Flats 73.3%Houses 26.6%
Residents by sex
Male47.8%
Female52.2%
Single-person households
32.6%
Privately rented
34.3%
- Median age
- 31.9
- Owner-occupied
- 29.7%
- Social rented
- 35.8%
- Postcode districts
- SE14
- Nearest station
- New Cross
- Parking
- CPZ + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods New Cross & Deptford South, New Cross Gate, New Cross South (E02000655, E02000657, E02006798) — the published geography that covers New Cross, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE14 district: 51.4759, -0.0423 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Common questions
Restaurant and cafe clearance in New Cross SE14 — your questions.
How much does restaurant and cafe clearance cost in New Cross SE14?
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in New Cross around New Cross (Overground, Southeastern), with this being a short walk from New Cross (Overground, Southeastern), 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 New Cross. 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, with Goldsmiths, University of London a few streets away.
Do you assemble IKEA and other flat-pack furniture in New Cross SE14?
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the streets near Goldsmiths, University of London, with Lewisham parking rules in play. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in New Cross most weeks on SE14 jobs, with 33% one-person households here.
How long does flat-pack assembly take in New Cross?
In New Cross, 5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on this side of Lewisham, with Lewisham parking rules in play. That covers restaurant and cafe clearance london on New Cross jobs too.
Will a built wardrobe fit through a New Cross doorway?
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in New Cross. With 73% of New Cross homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm around New Cross (Overground, Southeastern), with 34% of SE14 homes being privately rented — and Lewisham parking rules in play, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
How quickly can you reach New Cross from your Lewisham round?
Goldsmiths, University of London is the marker we route to around New Cross (Overground, Southeastern), with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory, and september student turnover, New Cross Road red route and narrow permit-only streets. A SE14 slot added to an existing Lewisham round usually lands the same week rather than the next across SE14, with a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood.
Is same-day or evening restaurant and cafe clearance available in Lewisham?
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 across SE14 — and this being a short walk from New Cross (Overground, Southeastern), with Lewisham parking rules in play. New Cross sits close to New Cross (Overground, Southeastern) on the streets near Goldsmiths, University of London, with 27% of New Cross homes being houses, so we can usually add a SE14 job to an existing Lewisham round at short notice.
Do you handle difficult access in New Cross?
September student turnover, New Cross Road red route and narrow permit-only streets on SE14 jobs. 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 around New Cross (Overground, Southeastern) — and 36% social-rented stock nearby, with 33% one-person households here.
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