Westminster · SW1 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Pimlico fitters · Fixed written pricesBooking restaurant and cafe clearance near Tate Britain? Resident-permit streets all week, basement flats down steep steps and no lifts in most conversions, 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.
Overview
Booked mostly by renter-heavy households around Pimlico, restaurant and cafe clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £380. With 93% of Pimlico's 7,917 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in SW1 shape the slot length we hold.
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. Pimlico (Victoria) is the nearest station, so a SW1 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SW1, often with surface conduit, which is why Westminster City Council kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded in SW1, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Pimlico gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, which is what a 93% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Pimlico actually produces.
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. Resident-permit streets all week, basement flats down steep steps and no lifts in most conversions.
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 Pimlico
In Pimlico (SW1) the split is 93% flats to 7% houses over 7,917 households, and the stock is post-war.
With 39% private renting against 27% owner-occupied, most SW1 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Pimlico substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SW1, often with surface conduit, which is why Westminster City Council kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Pimlico gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, which is what a 93% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Pimlico actually produces is the mistake that costs a SW1 customer twice.
Pimlico 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 — cubitt's white stucco grid between Victoria and the river, quieter than its neighbours — which is why a SW1 quote is not a Westminster average.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: resident-permit streets all week, basement flats down steep steps and no lifts in most conversions. Pimlico (Victoria) 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 Pimlico 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 Pimlico North and Pimlico South neighbourhood itself — not Westminster-wide averages, and not estimates.
15,966
Residents
Pimlico North and Pimlico South neighbourhood, Census 2021
7,917
Households
Median age 36.2
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
45.5%
Privately rented
39.4%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Pimlico North, Pimlico South (E02000981, E02000983) — the published geography that covers Pimlico, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SW1 district: 51.4974, -0.1401 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Pimlico on this side of Westminster, with 27% owner-occupation locally, 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 SW1 jobs. 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 Pimlico (Victoria) — and 34% social-rented stock nearby, with 7% of Pimlico homes being houses.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on this side of Westminster, with 39% of SW1 homes being privately rented. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Pimlico most weeks, with Tate Britain a few streets away.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level for Pimlico (SW1) addresses, with this being Westminster City Council territory.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in across SW1. With 93% of Pimlico homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm around Pimlico (Victoria) — and 7% of Pimlico homes being houses, with 27% owner-occupation locally, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Tate Britain is the marker we route to around Pimlico (Victoria), with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood, and resident-permit streets all week, basement flats down steep steps and no lifts in most conversions. A SW1 slot added to an existing Westminster round usually lands the same week rather than the next in Pimlico, with 7,917 households on this patch.
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 this side of Westminster — and 93% of homes here being flats, with Tate Britain a few streets away. Pimlico sits close to Pimlico (Victoria), with 7% of Pimlico homes being houses, so we can usually add a SW1 job to an existing Westminster round at short notice across SW1.
Resident-permit streets all week, basement flats down steep steps and no lifts in most conversions for Pimlico (SW1) addresses. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in Westminster City Council it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards on the streets near Tate Britain, with 7% of Pimlico 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. Pimlico SW1 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.
