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Southwark · SE22 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Professional Restaurant and cafe clearance in East Dulwich, SE22
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local East Dulwich fitters · Fixed written pricesBooking restaurant and cafe clearance near Dulwich Park? Narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton, and that is planned into the slot rather than discovered on the day. Prices start at £380 and are fixed before we travel. Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
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- Since 2019
SE22
- Restaurant and cafe clearance in East Dulwich SE22 from £380, fixed in writing
- Most booked here: heavy mirrors and a full flat-pack wardrobe anchored to the wall
- 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
- East Dulwich homes are flats
- 43%East Dulwich homes are flats
- Privately rented
- 25%Privately rented
- Households in East Dulwich
- 3,337Households in East Dulwich
Overview
Restaurant and cafe clearance in East Dulwich SE22, explained
Booked mostly by owner-occupier-led households around East Dulwich, restaurant and cafe clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £380. With 43% of East Dulwich's 3,337 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in SE22 shape the slot length we hold.
How it works
How restaurant and cafe clearance works in East Dulwich
Five steps, the same on every SE22 job, so you know what happens before you commit. In SE22, Terraced houses with solid London stock brick and later plasterboard linings — and with 26% one-person households in East Dulwich, 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 East Dulwich customers book us
Local knowledge is not a slogan on this page — it is what stops a bracket coming out of a East Dulwich wall.
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. Narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton.
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. East Dulwich (Thameslink) is the nearest station, so a SE22 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
East Dulwich walls, not generic walls
We expect some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick, a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here in SE22, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the East Dulwich stock goes, the reality on the streets around Dulwich Park.
Fixed prices
Restaurant and cafe clearance prices in East Dulwich
Fixed prices for SE22 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 East Dulwich
The same scope across SE22, whether the job is a single item or a full room.
Included in the price
- In East Dulwich: certified F-gas degassing before any refrigeration or cold room is removed, sized for the narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a luton
- On SE22 jobs: grease trap emptying and disposal to a licensed food-waste treatment facility, restaurant and cafe clearance included
- Standard on Southwark bookings: disconnection of gas and electrical appliances confirmed with a qualified engineer before removal, with 3,337 households in this neighbourhood, it is the question we are asked most
- Extraction canopy, ductwork and filter removal, including access equipment where ceiling height requires it, checked on every SE22 visit
- In East Dulwich: segregation of stainless steel and scrap catering equipment for recycling credit where applicable, timed against the walk in from East Dulwich (Thameslink)
- On SE22 jobs: waste transfer note and, where requested, a certificate of destruction for branded signage and menus, agreed on the doorstep in East Dulwich before anything is unpacked
Not included
- Gas safe disconnection itself, which must be carried out or signed off by a Gas Safe engineer before we remove the appliance, which we refer on to the right trade in East Dulwich
- 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 SE22
- Cellar cooling and beer line servicing contracts, which are usually held directly with the brewery or supplier, outside the fixed price on East Dulwich bookings
- Licensed premises signage removal that requires scaffold or a road closure, which is quoted separately, and we will say so before the SE22 visit rather than on the day
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Coverage
Where we work around East Dulwich SE22
Restaurant and cafe clearance across Southwark and the SE22 district, mapped below.
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Furniture disposal in East Dulwich
Desks, chairs, bedroom and FF&E furniture removed per item or per load.
Rubbish disposal in East Dulwich
Mixed loads collected by volume with a same-day waste transfer note.
Appliance and WEEE clearance in East Dulwich
Fridges, catering plant and powered equipment removed under WEEE rules.
Most booked alongside this in East Dulwich SE22
Working in East Dulwich
East Dulwich SE22 at a glance
Published figures for the neighbourhood that covers East Dulwich — the numbers that actually change a restaurant and cafe clearance quote.
3,337 households sit inside the SE22 neighbourhood covering East Dulwich. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 43% of those homes are flats.
Because 25% of East Dulwich is privately rented and 16% socially rented, a lot of SE22 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
East Dulwich substrates run to some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick, a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the East Dulwich stock goes, the reality on the streets around Dulwich Park is the mistake that costs a SE22 customer twice.
Lordship Lane's shops and rows of bay-fronted Victorian family houses. That character decides the practical detail of restaurant and cafe clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. East Dulwich sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton — 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 East Dulwich (Thameslink).
Area at a glance
East Dulwich SE22 by the numbers
Who lives in East Dulwich 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 East Dulwich neighbourhood itself — not Southwark-wide averages, and not estimates.
8,296
Residents
East Dulwich neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,337
Households
Median age 36
Flats vs houses
Flats 43%Houses 56.8%
Residents by sex
Male48.6%
Female51.4%
Single-person households
25.6%
Privately rented
25.3%
- Median age
- 36
- Owner-occupied
- 58.2%
- Social rented
- 16.4%
- Postcode districts
- SE22
- Nearest station
- East Dulwich
- Parking
- CPZ + C-Charge + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood East Dulwich (E02000836) — the published geography that covers East Dulwich, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE22 district: 51.4544, -0.0724 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Common questions
Restaurant and cafe clearance in East Dulwich SE22 — your questions.
How much does restaurant and cafe clearance cost in East Dulwich SE22?
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in East Dulwich for East Dulwich (SE22) addresses, with 25% of SE22 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 in this 43% flats neighbourhood. 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 around East Dulwich (Thameslink) — and 26% one-person households here, with 57% of East Dulwich homes being houses.
Do you assemble IKEA and other flat-pack furniture in East Dulwich SE22?
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in this 43% flats neighbourhood, with Southwark parking rules in play. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in East Dulwich most weeks on this side of Southwark, with 26% one-person households here.
How long does flat-pack assembly take in East Dulwich?
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level for East Dulwich (SE22) addresses, with 26% one-person households here.
Will a built wardrobe fit through a East Dulwich doorway?
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in this 43% flats neighbourhood. With 43% of East Dulwich homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm for East Dulwich (SE22) addresses — and Southwark parking rules in play, with Dulwich Park a few streets away, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Do you handle difficult access in East Dulwich?
Narrow terraced streets, resident bays and side returns too tight for a Luton for East Dulwich (SE22) addresses. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Southwark it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards on the streets near Dulwich Park — and 25% of SE22 homes being privately rented, with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood.
Are your fitters insured for work in SE22?
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 this side of Southwark, with 57% of East Dulwich homes being houses. That paperwork is what most Southwark letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat in East Dulwich, with 16% social-rented stock nearby.
What is not included in restaurant and cafe clearance in East Dulwich?
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 in this 43% flats neighbourhood, with 16% social-rented stock nearby — and Dulwich Park a few streets away, 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 East Dulwich SE22 price you agree is the price you pay on Southwark bookings, with 57% of East Dulwich homes being houses.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. East Dulwich SE22 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of southwark.
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