Southwark · SE1 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local London Bridge and Bermondsey Street fitters · Fixed written pricesRestaurant and cafe clearance in London Bridge and Bermondsey Street SE1, Southwark, from £380. The Shard, Borough Market and the Georgian shopfronts of Bermondsey Street, which is why our SE1 quotes account for market delivery windows before 09:00, railway-arch streets and booked goods lifts in the towers. You get a fixed price in writing, an insured fitter and a tidy finish.
Overview
Restaurant and cafe clearance in London Bridge and Bermondsey Street SE1 is a fixed-price visit for social-housing-led homes in Southwark, most of them Georgian and early Victorian. 4,532 households sit inside this SE1 patch, 95% of them flats, so we quote on access near Borough Market 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
Two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment. Market delivery windows before 09:00, railway-arch streets and booked goods lifts in the towers.
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 Bridge (Northern, Jubilee, National Rail) is the nearest station, so a SE1 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — and with 36% one-person households in London Bridge and Bermondsey Street, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site in SE1, 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 — the pattern behind 4,532 households inside the SE1 neighbourhood.
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
| 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 London Bridge and Bermondsey Street
Census 2021 puts London Bridge and Bermondsey Street at 4,532 households with a median age of 31.7. The Georgian and early Victorian stock is social-housing-led, which is why 5% houses and 95% flats need different handling in SE1.
29% of households rent privately and 21% own, which is why restaurant and cafe clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Walls are often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — and with 36% one-person households in London Bridge and Bermondsey Street, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site, so the fixing that matters in London Bridge and Bermondsey Street is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — the pattern behind 4,532 households inside the SE1 neighbourhood.
Anyone who knows London Bridge and Bermondsey Street knows the pattern near Borough Market: the Shard, Borough Market and the Georgian shopfronts of Bermondsey Street. We plan the SE1 visit around it. London Bridge and Bermondsey Street sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Market delivery windows before 09:00, railway-arch streets and booked goods lifts in the towers. Nearest station is London Bridge (Northern, Jubilee, National Rail), 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 London Bridge and Bermondsey Street 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 London Bridge & Bermondsey West neighbourhood itself — not Southwark-wide averages, and not estimates.
10,788
Residents
London Bridge & Bermondsey West neighbourhood, Census 2021
4,532
Households
Median age 31.7
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
36.2%
Privately rented
28.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood London Bridge & Bermondsey West (E02000812) — the published geography that covers London Bridge and Bermondsey Street, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE1 district: 51.4992, -0.0915 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in London Bridge and Bermondsey Street on SE1 jobs — and 50% social-rented stock nearby, with this being a short walk from London Bridge (Northern, Jubilee, National Rail), 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 London Bridge and Bermondsey Street rounds. 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 SE1 — and 4,532 households on this patch, with 50% social-rented stock nearby.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on this side of Southwark, with 50% social-rented stock nearby. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in London Bridge and Bermondsey Street most weeks on SE1 jobs, with 5% of London Bridge and Bermondsey Street homes being houses.
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 Southwark, with 21% owner-occupation locally. London Borough of Southwark rules apply where the kerb or a bay suspension is involved.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in across SE1. With 95% of London Bridge and Bermondsey Street homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on this side of Southwark — and Borough Market a few streets away, with 29% of SE1 homes being privately rented, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
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 this being London Borough of Southwark territory. That paperwork is what most Southwark letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat across SE1, with 29% of SE1 homes being privately rented.
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 on this side of Southwark, with 50% social-rented stock nearby — and this being London Borough of Southwark territory, 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 London Bridge and Bermondsey Street SE1 price you agree is the price you pay in this 95% flats neighbourhood, with 5% of London Bridge and Bermondsey Street homes being houses.
All three. With 29% of London Bridge and Bermondsey Street privately rented and 21% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE1 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on this side of Southwark — and this being London Borough of Southwark territory, with 4,532 households on this patch.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. London Bridge and Bermondsey Street SE1 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.
