Westminster · SW1 · Restaurant and cafe clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local St James's fitters · Fixed written pricesBooking restaurant and cafe clearance near St James's Palace? Royal Parks restrictions, listed building rules and narrow service entrances off Duke Street, 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 Green Park, restaurant and cafe clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £380. With 95% of St James's's 3,927 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. Green Park (Piccadilly, Victoria, Jubilee) is the nearest station, so a SW1 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, the pattern behind 3,927 households inside the SW1 neighbourhood in SW1, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is St James's gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, the reality on the streets around St James's Palace.
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. Royal Parks restrictions, listed building rules and narrow service entrances off Duke Street.
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 St James's
St James's SW1 is mixed-era and renter-heavy: 95% of homes here are flats and 5% are houses, across 3,927 households (ONS Census 2021).
Because 44% of St James's is privately rented and 29% socially rented, a lot of SW1 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms, the pattern behind 3,927 households inside the SW1 neighbourhood, so the fixing that matters in St James's is chosen on site — the usual failure here is St James's gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, the reality on the streets around St James's Palace.
St James's 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 — gentlemen's clubs, galleries and Jermyn Street shirtmakers between the palace and Piccadilly — which is why a SW1 quote is not a Westminster average.
Royal Parks restrictions, listed building rules and narrow service entrances off Duke Street. Nearest station is Green Park (Piccadilly, Victoria, Jubilee), 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 St James's 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 Central Westminster neighbourhood itself — not Westminster-wide averages, and not estimates.
8,090
Residents
Central Westminster neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,927
Households
Median age 35.1
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
46.3%
Privately rented
43.5%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Central Westminster (E02000979) — the published geography that covers St James's, 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 St James's on Westminster bookings, with 28% 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 the St James's 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 for St James's (SW1) addresses — and St James's Palace a few streets away, with 5% of St James's homes being houses.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on Westminster bookings, with 46% one-person households here. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in St James's most weeks in this 95% flats neighbourhood, with 3,927 households on this patch.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level for St James's (SW1) addresses, with this being Westminster City Council territory.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in this 95% flats neighbourhood. With 95% of St James's homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on this side of Westminster, with St James's Palace a few streets away — and 28% owner-occupation locally, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
St James's Palace is the marker we route to on Westminster bookings, with a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood, and royal Parks restrictions, listed building rules and narrow service entrances off Duke Street. A SW1 slot added to an existing Westminster round usually lands the same week rather than the next in St James's, with 3,927 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 Westminster bookings — and a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood, with St James's Palace a few streets away. St James's sits close to Green Park (Piccadilly, Victoria, Jubilee) on the streets near St James's Palace, with 5% of St James's homes being houses — and St James's Palace a few streets away, so we can usually add a SW1 job to an existing Westminster round at short notice.
Royal Parks restrictions, listed building rules and narrow service entrances off Duke Street on Westminster bookings. 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 St James's rounds, with 29% social-rented stock nearby.
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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. St James's 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.
