Westminster · W1 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Soho fitters · Fixed written pricesSoho W1 is a regular stop on our Westminster round. Post-production studios, restaurants and above-shop flats packed into a Georgian grid, 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
Restaurant and cafe clearance in Soho W1 is a fixed-price visit for renter-heavy homes in Westminster, most of them Georgian and early Victorian. 4,257 households sit inside this W1 patch, 98% of them flats, so we quote on access near Carnaby Street and Golden Square 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. Pedestrian zones, night-time economy congestion and no lifts in most walk-ups — carry-up is the default.
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. Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) is the nearest station, so a W1 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — which is what a 98% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Soho actually produces in W1, 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 — measured on the walk in from Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) rather than assumed from a map.
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 Soho
Walk Soho from Carnaby Street and Golden Square outwards and the Georgian and early Victorian pattern is obvious: 98% of the 4,257 households in W1 live in flats, 2% in houses.
Private renting sits at 52% and owner-occupation at 20%; the first group books restaurant and cafe clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — which is what a 98% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Soho actually produces behind the plaster in W1. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs on these streets — measured on the walk in from Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) rather than assumed from a map is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Soho knows the pattern near Carnaby Street and Golden Square: post-production studios, restaurants and above-shop flats packed into a Georgian grid. We plan the W1 visit around it. Soho 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: pedestrian zones, night-time economy congestion and no lifts in most walk-ups — carry-up is the default. Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) 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 Soho 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 Fitzrovia West & Soho neighbourhood itself — not Westminster-wide averages, and not estimates.
7,879
Residents
Fitzrovia West & Soho neighbourhood, Census 2021
4,257
Households
Median age 33.9
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
53%
Privately rented
51.8%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Fitzrovia West & Soho (E02000972) — the published geography that covers Soho, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the W1 district: 51.5158, -0.1424 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Front-of-house strip-out, small unit starts at £380 in Soho on W1 jobs, with 2% of Soho homes being houses, 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 Soho 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 in Soho — and 28% social-rented stock nearby, with 98% of homes here being flats.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in this 98% flats neighbourhood, with this being Westminster City Council territory. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Soho most weeks on Westminster bookings, with a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level in this 98% flats neighbourhood, with 98% of homes here being flats.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in around Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line). With 98% of Soho homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm across W1, with 2% of Soho homes being houses — and 28% social-rented stock nearby, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
All three. With 52% of Soho privately rented and 20% owner-occupied, roughly half the W1 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on W1 jobs — and 2% of Soho homes being houses, with 53% one-person households here.
Carnaby Street and Golden Square is the marker we route to on Westminster bookings, with 2% of Soho homes being houses, and pedestrian zones, night-time economy congestion and no lifts in most walk-ups — carry-up is the default. A W1 slot added to an existing Westminster round usually lands the same week rather than the next in Soho, with Carnaby Street and Golden Square a few streets away.
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 around Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) — and 20% owner-occupation locally, with 52% of W1 homes being privately rented. Soho sits close to Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) on W1 jobs — and 98% of homes here being flats, with Carnaby Street and Golden Square a few streets away, so we can usually add a W1 job to an existing Westminster round at short notice.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Soho W1 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.
