Westminster · W9 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Maida Vale fitters · Fixed written pricesMaida Vale W9 is a regular stop on our Westminster round. Wide tree-lined avenues of Edwardian mansion blocks above the Regent's Canal at Little Venice, so restaurant and cafe clearance here is quoted on the street the job is on — from £380, in writing, with insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
This page prices restaurant and cafe clearance for Maida Vale W9 specifically: mainly Edwardian stock, 48% privately rented and 3,623 households in total. Work starts at £380, fixed in writing, with parking and Westminster City Council 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
Two to three operatives as standard, with a specialist F-gas engineer booked in for any unit holding refrigerant-charged equipment. Mansion blocks with small lifts and porters, resident bays all week and narrow canal-side roads.
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. Maida Vale (Bakerloo) is the nearest station, so a W9 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — which is what a 95% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Maida Vale actually produces in W9, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — and with 35% one-person households in Maida Vale, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
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 Maida Vale
Census 2021 puts Maida Vale at 3,623 households with a median age of 34.6. The mainly Edwardian stock is renter-heavy, which is why 5% houses and 95% flats need different handling in W9.
Owner-occupation runs at 34% in Maida Vale, so alongside the 48% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Walls are dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms — which is what a 95% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Maida Vale actually produces, so the fixing that matters in Maida Vale is chosen on site — the usual failure here is short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — and with 35% one-person households in Maida Vale, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
Anyone who knows Maida Vale knows the pattern near Little Venice: wide tree-lined avenues of Edwardian mansion blocks above the Regent's Canal at Little Venice. We plan the W9 visit around it. Maida Vale sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: mansion blocks with small lifts and porters, resident bays all week and narrow canal-side roads. Maida Vale (Bakerloo) is the nearest station, 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 Maida Vale 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 Maida Vale neighbourhood itself — not Westminster-wide averages, and not estimates.
7,876
Residents
Maida Vale neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,623
Households
Median age 34.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
35.2%
Privately rented
48.3%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Maida Vale (E02000965) — the published geography that covers Maida Vale, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the W9 district: 51.5249, -0.1926 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Maida Vale on Westminster bookings, with Little Venice a few streets away, 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 95% 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 for Maida Vale (W9) addresses — and 95% of homes here being flats, with this being a short walk from Maida Vale (Bakerloo).
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions for Maida Vale (W9) addresses, with 34% owner-occupation locally. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Maida Vale most weeks in this 95% flats neighbourhood, with 17% social-rented stock nearby.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on Westminster bookings, with a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood. Near Little Venice that usually means an earlier start so the van can be unloaded once.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the Maida Vale rounds. With 95% of Maida Vale homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on W9 jobs, with 3,623 households on this patch — and 35% one-person households here, 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 around Maida Vale (Bakerloo), with 3,623 households on this patch. That paperwork is what most Westminster letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on W9 jobs, with a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood.
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 Maida Vale — and 34% owner-occupation locally, with Westminster parking rules in play, 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 Maida Vale W9 price you agree is the price you pay for Maida Vale (W9) addresses, with 95% of homes here being flats.
All three. With 48% of Maida Vale privately rented and 34% owner-occupied, roughly half the W9 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door in Maida Vale, with 35% one-person households here.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Maida Vale W9 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of westminster.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
