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. Railway-arch loading limits, tight factory-yard entrances and permit bays.
Southwark · SE16 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Professional Restaurant and cafe clearance in Bermondsey, SE16
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Bermondsey fitters · Fixed written pricesRestaurant and cafe clearance in Bermondsey SE16, Southwark, from £380. Former biscuit and leather factories converted into lofts, plus the Blue market, which is why our SE16 quotes account for railway-arch loading limits, tight factory-yard entrances and permit bays. You get a fixed price in writing, an insured fitter and a tidy finish.
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- Restaurant and cafe clearance in Bermondsey SE16 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 Southwark permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge 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
- Bermondsey homes are flats
- 88%Bermondsey homes are flats
- Privately rented
- 29%Privately rented
- Households in Bermondsey
- 23,919Households in Bermondsey
Overview
Restaurant and cafe clearance in Bermondsey SE16, explained
Booked mostly by social-housing-led households around Bermondsey, restaurant and cafe clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £380. With 88% of Bermondsey's 23,919 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in SE16 shape the slot length we hold.
How it works
How restaurant and cafe clearance works in Bermondsey
Five steps, the same on every SE16 job, so you know what happens before you commit. Council and housing-association blocks built from precast concrete and dense block, as the Bermondsey stock goes, a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here 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 Bermondsey customers book us
Local knowledge is not a slogan on this page — it is what stops a bracket coming out of a Bermondsey wall.
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. Bermondsey (Jubilee) is the nearest station, so a SE16 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
Bermondsey walls, not generic walls
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Bermondsey, often with surface conduit — with 48% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first in SE16, 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 on these streets — and with 36% one-person households in Bermondsey, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
Insured and documented
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
Restaurant and cafe clearance prices in Bermondsey
Fixed prices for SE16 and the rest of Southwark. 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 Bermondsey
The same scope across SE16, whether the job is a single item or a full room.
Included in the price
- On SE16 jobs: certified F-gas degassing before any refrigeration or cold room is removed, with 88% of homes here being flats, planned around the stair or the lift
- In Bermondsey: grease trap emptying and disposal to a licensed food-waste treatment facility, the way it is done on Bermondsey jobs
- Disconnection of gas and electrical appliances confirmed with a qualified engineer before removal — including restaurant and cafe clearance london
- Standard on Southwark bookings: extraction canopy, ductwork and filter removal, including access equipment where ceiling height requires it, arranged with London Borough of Southwark where the kerb needs it
- On SE16 jobs: segregation of stainless steel and scrap catering equipment for recycling credit where applicable, local restaurant and cafe clearance included
- In Bermondsey: waste transfer note and, where requested, a certificate of destruction for branded signage and menus, sized for the railway-arch loading limits, tight factory-yard entrances and permit bays
Not included
- Gas safe disconnection itself, which must be carried out or signed off by a Gas Safe engineer before we remove the appliance, outside the fixed price on Bermondsey bookings
- Structural kitchen extract ducting that runs through the building fabric beyond the unit's own ceiling void, quoted separately if you need it arranged in SE16
- 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 Bermondsey
- Licensed premises signage removal that requires scaffold or a road closure, which is quoted separately, handled by London Borough of Southwark or a specialist contractor instead
Reviews for business clearance across the UK
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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.
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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
Where we work around Bermondsey SE16
Restaurant and cafe clearance across Southwark and the SE16 district, mapped below.
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The parent commercial silo — offices, units, shops and estate handovers.
Furniture disposal in Bermondsey
Desks, chairs, bedroom and FF&E furniture removed per item or per load.
Rubbish disposal in Bermondsey
Mixed loads collected by volume with a same-day waste transfer note.
Appliance and WEEE clearance in Bermondsey
Fridges, catering plant and powered equipment removed under WEEE rules.
Most booked alongside this in Bermondsey SE16
Working in Bermondsey
Bermondsey SE16 at a glance
Published figures for the neighbourhood that covers Bermondsey — the numbers that actually change a restaurant and cafe clearance quote.
Walk Bermondsey from The Bermondsey Beer Mile and Maltby Street Market outwards and the mainly Victorian pattern is obvious: 88% of the 23,919 households in SE16 live in flats, 13% in houses.
29% of households rent privately and 24% own, which is why restaurant and cafe clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Bermondsey substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Bermondsey, often with surface conduit — with 48% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — and with 36% one-person households in Bermondsey, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the mistake that costs a SE16 customer twice.
Anyone who knows Bermondsey knows the pattern near The Bermondsey Beer Mile and Maltby Street Market: former biscuit and leather factories converted into lofts, plus the Blue market. We plan the SE16 visit around it. Bermondsey sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Railway-arch loading limits, tight factory-yard entrances and permit bays. Nearest station is Bermondsey (Jubilee), 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
Bermondsey SE16 by the numbers
Who lives in Bermondsey 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 Bermondsey East and Bermondsey North and London Bridge & Bermondsey West and South Bermondsey Central and South Bermondsey East and South Bermondsey West neighbourhood itself — not Southwark-wide averages, and not estimates.
54,359
Residents
Bermondsey East and Bermondsey North and London Bridge & Bermondsey West and South Bermondsey Central and South Bermondsey East and South Bermondsey West neighbourhood, Census 2021
23,919
Households
Median age 32.5
Flats vs houses
Flats 87.5%Houses 12.5%
Residents by sex
Male48.6%
Female51.4%
Single-person households
35.9%
Privately rented
28.5%
- Median age
- 32.5
- Owner-occupied
- 23.6%
- Social rented
- 47.6%
- Postcode districts
- SE16, SE1
- Nearest station
- Bermondsey
- Parking
- CPZ + C-Charge + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Bermondsey East, Bermondsey North, London Bridge & Bermondsey West, South Bermondsey Central, South Bermondsey East, South Bermondsey West (E02000810, E02000812, E02000816, E02000817, E02000819, E02006942) — the published geography that covers Bermondsey, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE16 district: 51.4966, -0.0532 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Common questions
Restaurant and cafe clearance in Bermondsey SE16 — your questions.
How much does restaurant and cafe clearance cost in Bermondsey SE16?
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Bermondsey for Bermondsey (SE16) addresses, with Southwark parking rules in play, 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 Bermondsey. 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 Southwark bookings — and this being a short walk from Bermondsey (Jubilee), with 29% of SE16 homes being privately rented.
Do you assemble IKEA and other flat-pack furniture in Bermondsey SE16?
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions across SE16, with 48% social-rented stock nearby. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Bermondsey most weeks on the Bermondsey rounds, with 13% of Bermondsey homes being houses.
How long does flat-pack assembly take in Bermondsey?
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on SE16 jobs, with 48% social-rented stock nearby.
Will a built wardrobe fit through a Bermondsey doorway?
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the streets near The Bermondsey Beer Mile and Maltby Street Market. With 88% of Bermondsey homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm across SE16, with a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood — and 88% of homes here being flats, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Who books restaurant and cafe clearance in Bermondsey SE16 — tenants, landlords or owners?
All three. With 29% of Bermondsey privately rented and 24% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE16 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door in Bermondsey — and 29% of SE16 homes being privately rented, with 23,919 households on this patch.
How quickly can you reach Bermondsey from your Southwark round?
The Bermondsey Beer Mile and Maltby Street Market is the marker we route to in this 88% flats neighbourhood, with 36% one-person households here, and railway-arch loading limits, tight factory-yard entrances and permit bays. A SE16 slot added to an existing Southwark round usually lands the same week rather than the next on Southwark bookings, with Southwark parking rules in play.
Is same-day or evening restaurant and cafe clearance available in Southwark?
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 SE16 — and 36% one-person households here, with 88% of homes here being flats. Bermondsey sits close to Bermondsey (Jubilee), with Southwark parking rules in play, so we can usually add a SE16 job to an existing Southwark round at short notice on the streets near The Bermondsey Beer Mile and Maltby Street Market.
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Get a fixed price for Restaurant and cafe clearance in Bermondsey SE16
Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Bermondsey SE16 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of southwark.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.