Crew sized to the job
Two crew and a Luton for a studio or one-bed; three crew and a second van on two- and three-bedroom apartments or any duplex. Dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift.
Kensington and Chelsea · SW5 · Flat and apartment clearance
Professional Flat and apartment clearance in Earl's Court, SW5
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Earl's Court fitters · Fixed written pricesFlat and apartment clearance in Earl's Court SW5, Kensington and Chelsea, from £140. Tall stucco terraces of flats and short lets around the former exhibition site, which is why our SW5 quotes account for dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift. You get a fixed price in writing, an insured fitter and a tidy finish.
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- £5m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
SW5
- Flat and apartment clearance in Earl's Court SW5 from £140, fixed in writing
- Most booked here: safety fixings
- Same-week across every borough, with next-day cover common on studios and single-room clears where a check-out date is fixed.
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge itemised, never hidden
- Trustpilot 4.5· 3,100+ reviews
- Google 3.9· 1,429 reviews
- £5m public liability
- Licensed waste carrier CBDU300454
- Since 2019
- From, studio or single room clear
- £140From, studio or single room clear
- Earl's Court homes are flats
- 97%Earl's Court homes are flats
- Privately rented
- 44%Privately rented
- Households in Earl's Court
- 3,241Households in Earl's Court
Overview
Flat and apartment clearance in Earl's Court SW5, explained
Flat and apartment clearance in Earl's Court SW5 is a fixed-price visit for renter-heavy homes in Kensington and Chelsea, most of them period conversion. 3,241 households sit inside this SW5 patch, 97% of them flats, so we quote on access near The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment rather than a London average.
How it works
How flat and apartment clearance works in Earl's Court
Five steps, the same on every SW5 job, so you know what happens before you commit. Earl's Court gives us council and housing-association blocks built from precast concrete and dense block, and with 44% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is what we plan for here.
Step 1
Photos or a video walk-through
A short video of each room and a note of the floor is enough for a fixed price on most London flats.
Step 2
Clear the building access
We contact the block manager or concierge about the lift, the loading bay and the permitted hours before the day.
Step 3
Protect the route
Hall, lift lobby and communal stairs sheeted, because damage to a shared area is the one thing a block will charge back.
Step 4
Sort, dismantle, load
Room by room: keep pile set aside, reusable items separated, the rest dismantled and barrowed out.
Step 5
Reuse, recycle, receipt
Usable contents to a reuse partner, the balance split by stream, transfer note handed to you on site.
Why choose us
Why Earl's Court customers book us
What follows is specific to Earl's Court: its walls, its access and the paperwork Kensington and Chelsea agents ask for.
Booked around your day
Same-week across every borough, with next-day cover common on studios and single-room clears where a check-out date is fixed. Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly) is the nearest station, so a SW5 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
Earl's Court walls, not generic walls
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — measured on the walk in from Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly) rather than assumed from a map in SW5, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in SW5, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — the pattern behind 3,241 households inside the SW5 neighbourhood.
Insured and documented
Registered waste carrier working to duty-of-care rules. Upholstered items go into the POPs stream, mattresses to a licensed shredding facility and WEEE to an approved treatment site, with a transfer note issued in your name for every load.
Fixed prices
Flat and apartment clearance prices in Earl's Court
Fixed prices for SW5 and the rest of Kensington and Chelsea. Volume leaving the flat, the floor it is on and the building's access rules set the price. A tenth-floor flat with a booked goods lift is cheaper to clear than a third-floor walk-up holding the same contents.
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio or single room clear | £140 | 1–2 hrs | Priced on the volume that leaves the door rather than the hours on site, so a tight studio is never charged as a full flat. |
| One-bedroom flat, part clear | £220 | 2–3 hrs | Furniture and loose contents from one or two rooms, dismantled where a shared stairwell will not take them whole. |
| One-bedroom flat, full clear | £320 | 3–4 hrs | Everything out including kitchen contents, with the lift or loading bay booked with the block manager first. |
| Two-bedroom flat, full clear | £450 | 4–6 hrs | Two bedrooms plus reception and kitchen: usually a full Luton load and a second run to the transfer station. |
| Three-bedroom apartment or maisonette | £620 | 1 day | Split-level and duplex layouts add a second carry stage, and the load routinely fills more than one van. |
| End-of-tenancy strip-out to bare shell | £380 | 3–5 hrs | Landlord and agent work to a check-out deadline, with photographs and the transfer note issued the same day. |
Studio or single room clear
£140 · 1–2 hrs
Priced on the volume that leaves the door rather than the hours on site, so a tight studio is never charged as a full flat.
One-bedroom flat, part clear
£220 · 2–3 hrs
Furniture and loose contents from one or two rooms, dismantled where a shared stairwell will not take them whole.
One-bedroom flat, full clear
£320 · 3–4 hrs
Everything out including kitchen contents, with the lift or loading bay booked with the block manager first.
Two-bedroom flat, full clear
£450 · 4–6 hrs
Two bedrooms plus reception and kitchen: usually a full Luton load and a second run to the transfer station.
Three-bedroom apartment or maisonette
£620 · 1 day
Split-level and duplex layouts add a second carry stage, and the load routinely fills more than one van.
End-of-tenancy strip-out to bare shell
£380 · 3–5 hrs
Landlord and agent work to a check-out deadline, with photographs and the transfer note issued the same day.
Domestic prices are the total you pay; landlord, agent, block manager and probate invoices are plus VAT. Dismantling, the carry down stairs or through a lift lobby, and the waste transfer note are all included. Where a bay suspension, permit, ULEZ or Congestion Charge applies it is itemised in the written quote.
Scope
What's included in Earl's Court
The same scope across SW5, whether the job is a single item or a full room.
Included in the price
- Two crew who clear room by room, with stairs, walk-ups and long lift-lobby carries included — including flat and apartment clearance london
- Standard on Kensington and Chelsea bookings: dismantling wardrobes, beds and sofas in the room where the door or stairwell will not take them, arranged with Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea where the kerb needs it
- On SW5 jobs: lift booking, concierge sign-in and loading-bay arrangements made with the block manager for you, with 97% of homes here being flats, planned around the stair or the lift
- In Earl's Court: reusable furniture, clothing and homeware offered to London reuse partners before anything is tipped, the way it is done on Earl's Court jobs
- Waste transfer note issued in your name on the day, plus before-and-after photographs on request, noted on the Earl's Court job sheet so the next visit starts from it
- Standard on Kensington and Chelsea bookings: communal areas sheeted and the flat swept through before we hand the keys back, allowing for the 44% of SW5 homes that are privately rented and need the landlord's sign-off
Not included
- Asbestos-containing materials, paint, solvents and gas bottles, which need a licensed specialist, which we refer on to the right trade in Earl's Court
- Removing fitted kitchens, bathrooms or built-in joinery where carcassing has to be cut out, handled by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea or a specialist contractor instead
- Piano and safe removal, which needs specialist lifting equipment, outside the fixed price on Earl's Court bookings
- Anything in a communal bin store that is not the flat's own waste, quoted separately if you need it arranged in SW5
Clearance and waste removal reviews across the UK
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Coverage
Where we work around Earl's Court SW5
Flat and apartment clearance across Kensington and Chelsea and the SW5 district, mapped below.
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Same fitters, same SW5 rounds, same fixed-price approach.
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Business clearance in Earl's Court
Desks, chairs, racking and IT stripped out of a let unit with WEEE evidence.
All clearance services in Earl's Court
Single items, builders' waste and part-loads across the borough.
Pre-move-in cleaning in Earl's Court
The property cleaned before your things arrive, not around them.
Movers near you in Earl's Court
Local moving crews working from the same borough, not across the city.
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Working in Earl's Court
Earl's Court SW5 at a glance
Published figures for the neighbourhood that covers Earl's Court — the numbers that actually change a flat and apartment clearance quote.
Census 2021 puts Earl's Court at 3,241 households with a median age of 35.6. The period conversion stock is renter-heavy, which is why 3% houses and 97% flats need different handling in SW5.
Owner-occupation runs at 25% in Earl's Court, so alongside the 44% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — measured on the walk in from Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly) rather than assumed from a map behind the plaster in SW5. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in SW5, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — the pattern behind 3,241 households inside the SW5 neighbourhood is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Earl's Court knows the pattern near The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment: tall stucco terraces of flats and short lets around the former exhibition site. We plan the SW5 visit around it. Earl's Court 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: dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift. Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly) is the nearest station, and two crew and a Luton for a studio or one-bed; three crew and a second van on two- and three-bedroom apartments or any duplex.
Area at a glance
Earl's Court SW5 by the numbers
Who lives in Earl's Court and what they live in decides how flat and apartment clearance is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Earl's Court neighbourhood itself — not Kensington and Chelsea-wide averages, and not estimates.
6,212
Residents
Earl's Court neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,241
Households
Median age 35.6
Flats vs houses
Flats 97.2%Houses 2.7%
Residents by sex
Male47.1%
Female52.9%
Single-person households
49%
Privately rented
43.7%
- Median age
- 35.6
- Owner-occupied
- 24.8%
- Social rented
- 31.4%
- Postcode districts
- SW5
- Nearest station
- Earl's Court
- Parking
- CPZ + C-Charge + ULEZ
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Earl's Court (E02000591) — the published geography that covers Earl's Court, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SW5 district: 51.4916, -0.1919 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Common questions
Flat and apartment clearance in Earl's Court SW5 — your questions.
How much does flat and apartment clearance cost in Earl's Court SW5?
Studio or single room clear starts at £140 in Earl's Court on SW5 jobs — and 31% social-rented stock nearby, with 3,241 households on this patch, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Volume leaving the flat, the floor it is on and the building's access rules set the price on this side of Kensington and Chelsea, with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood. A tenth-floor flat with a booked goods lift is cheaper to clear than a third-floor walk-up holding the same contents across SW5, with this being Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea territory.
Do you assemble IKEA and other flat-pack furniture in Earl's Court SW5?
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the streets near The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment, with this being a short walk from Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly). We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Earl's Court most weeks across SW5, with 25% owner-occupation locally.
How long does flat-pack assembly take in Earl's Court?
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level across SW5, with 3% of Earl's Court homes being houses.
Will a built wardrobe fit through a Earl's Court doorway?
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the Earl's Court rounds. With 97% of Earl's Court homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on SW5 jobs, with this being a short walk from Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly) — and 31% social-rented stock nearby, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Are your fitters insured for work in SW5?
Registered waste carrier working to duty-of-care rules. Upholstered items go into the POPs stream, mattresses to a licensed shredding facility and WEEE to an approved treatment site on this side of Kensington and Chelsea, with 3,241 households on this patch — and The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment a few streets away, with a transfer note issued in your name for every load. That paperwork is what most Kensington and Chelsea letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat across SW5, with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood.
What is not included in flat and apartment clearance in Earl's Court?
Asbestos-containing materials, paint, solvents and gas bottles, which need a licensed specialist; Removing fitted kitchens, bathrooms or built-in joinery where carcassing has to be cut out; Piano and safe removal on the Earl's Court rounds — and 97% of homes here being flats, with 3,241 households on this patch, which needs specialist lifting equipment; Anything in a communal bin store that is not the flat's own waste. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Earl's Court SW5 price you agree is the price you pay on SW5 jobs, with 49% one-person households here.
Who books flat and apartment clearance in Earl's Court SW5 — tenants, landlords or owners?
All three. With 44% of Earl's Court privately rented and 25% owner-occupied, roughly half the SW5 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door across SW5, with The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment a few streets away.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Earl's Court SW5 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of kensington and chelsea.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.