Southwark · SE24 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Herne Hill fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide restaurant and cafe clearance in Herne Hill SE24 for houses and flats around Brockwell Park and Lido. 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
This page prices restaurant and cafe clearance for Herne Hill SE24 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 19% privately rented and 3,150 households in total. Work starts at £380, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Southwark permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
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. Herne Hill (Thameslink, Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE24 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect solid London stock brick in Herne Hill, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, measured on the walk in from Herne Hill (Thameslink, Southeastern) rather than assumed from a map in SE24, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Herne Hill gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, a median age of 41 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
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. Railway-bridge height limits on Half Moon Lane and permit-only side streets.
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 Herne Hill
In Herne Hill (SE24) the split is 27% flats to 73% houses over 3,150 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
Because 19% of Herne Hill is privately rented and 12% socially rented, a lot of SE24 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect solid London stock brick in Herne Hill, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, measured on the walk in from Herne Hill (Thameslink, Southeastern) rather than assumed from a map behind the plaster in SE24. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Herne Hill gives us fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, a median age of 41 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here is the fault we are called back to undo.
Herne Hill sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — brockwell Park, the velodrome and a compact village of independents — which is why a SE24 quote is not a Southwark average.
Railway-bridge height limits on Half Moon Lane and permit-only side streets. Nearest station is Herne Hill (Thameslink, Southeastern), 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 Herne 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 Herne Hill & Dulwich Park neighbourhood itself — not Southwark-wide averages, and not estimates.
8,559
Residents
Herne Hill & Dulwich Park neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,150
Households
Median age 40.7
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
19.6%
Privately rented
18.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Herne Hill & Dulwich Park (E02000837) — the published geography that covers Herne Hill, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE24 district: 51.4558, -0.1004 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Herne Hill for Herne Hill (SE24) addresses, with 19% of SE24 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 on the streets near Brockwell Park and Lido. 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 across SE24, with 69% owner-occupation locally — and 73% of Herne Hill homes being houses.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the Herne Hill rounds, with 27% of homes here being flats. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Herne Hill most weeks on Southwark bookings, with Southwark parking rules in play.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on Southwark bookings, with 20% one-person households here. With 27% of homes in Herne Hill being flats, we plan the route up front.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in Herne Hill. With 27% of Herne Hill homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm around Herne Hill (Thameslink, Southeastern) — and this being a short walk from Herne Hill (Thameslink, Southeastern), with 12% social-rented stock nearby, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Railway-bridge height limits on Half Moon Lane and permit-only side streets across SE24. 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 this side of Southwark, with 3,150 households on this patch.
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 the streets near Brockwell Park and Lido, with Brockwell Park and Lido a few streets away. That paperwork is what most Southwark letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat for Herne Hill (SE24) addresses, with 73% of Herne Hill homes being houses.
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 for Herne Hill (SE24) addresses — and 27% of homes here being flats, with 12% social-rented stock nearby, 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 Herne Hill SE24 price you agree is the price you pay in this 27% flats neighbourhood, with 73% of Herne Hill 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. Herne Hill SE24 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.
