Southwark · SE16 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Rotherhithe fitters · Fixed written pricesRestaurant and cafe clearance for Rotherhithe (SE16) households — 3,735 of them, 66% in flats. From £380 fixed, two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment Insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
This page prices restaurant and cafe clearance for Rotherhithe SE16 specifically: recent new-build stock, 41% privately rented and 3,735 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
We expect with metal stud partitions between rooms — and dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — measured on the walk in from Rotherhithe (Overground) rather than assumed from a map in SE16, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in SE16, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — the pattern behind 3,735 households inside the SE16 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.
Two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment. Peninsula road loops, tunnel approach restrictions and gated riverside estates.
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. Rotherhithe (Overground) is the nearest station, so a SE16 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
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 Rotherhithe
The SE16 stock around The Brunel Museum and the Mayflower is recent new-build. ONS records 66% flats, 34% houses and 3,735 households in Rotherhithe.
41% of households rent privately and 40% own, which is why restaurant and cafe clearance demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Rotherhithe substrates run to with metal stud partitions between rooms — and dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — measured on the walk in from Rotherhithe (Overground) rather than assumed from a map. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in SE16, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — the pattern behind 3,735 households inside the SE16 neighbourhood is the mistake that costs a SE16 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Rotherhithe: river peninsula of dock basins, the Mayflower pub and 1980s dockland housing. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Rotherhithe 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, peninsula road loops, tunnel approach restrictions and gated riverside estates — 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 Rotherhithe (Overground).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Rotherhithe 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 Rotherhithe neighbourhood itself — not Southwark-wide averages, and not estimates.
8,227
Residents
Rotherhithe neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,735
Households
Median age 33.7
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
31.2%
Privately rented
41.3%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Rotherhithe (E02000807) — the published geography that covers Rotherhithe, 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).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Rotherhithe on SE16 jobs, with this being London Borough of Southwark territory, 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 Rotherhithe 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 SE16 — and this being London Borough of Southwark territory, with Southwark parking rules in play.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the Rotherhithe rounds, with 41% of SE16 homes being privately rented. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Rotherhithe most weeks on SE16 jobs, with this being London Borough of Southwark territory.
For SE16 bookings, 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 40% owner-occupation locally. It works the same way on every Rotherhithe (SE16) booking.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the Rotherhithe rounds. With 66% of Rotherhithe homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on SE16 jobs — and a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood, with Southwark parking rules in play, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
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 on SE16 jobs — and a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood, with 66% of homes here being flats. Rotherhithe sits close to Rotherhithe (Overground), with Southwark parking rules in play, so we can usually add a SE16 job to an existing Southwark round at short notice on the Rotherhithe rounds.
Peninsula road loops, tunnel approach restrictions and gated riverside estates across SE16. 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 — and a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood, with 19% social-rented stock nearby.
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 Rotherhithe rounds, with 40% owner-occupation locally. That paperwork is what most Southwark letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on Southwark bookings, with this being a short walk from Rotherhithe (Overground).
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Free quote · 1-hour reply
Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Rotherhithe 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.
