Kensington and Chelsea · SW7 · Flat and apartment clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local South Kensington fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide flat and apartment clearance in South Kensington SW7 for houses and flats around The Victoria and Albert Museum. From £140, quoted in writing before the visit, with 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 Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
This page prices flat and apartment clearance for South Kensington SW7 specifically: period conversion stock, 54% privately rented and 2,840 households in total. Work starts at £140, fixed in writing, with parking and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
How it works
Step 1
A short video of each room and a note of the floor is enough for a fixed price on most London flats.
Step 2
We contact the block manager or concierge about the lift, the loading bay and the permitted hours before the day.
Step 3
Hall, lift lobby and communal stairs sheeted, because damage to a shared area is the one thing a block will charge back.
Step 4
Room by room: keep pile set aside, reusable items separated, the rest dismantled and barrowed out.
Step 5
Usable contents to a reuse partner, the balance split by stream, transfer note handed to you on site.
Why choose us
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.
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. Museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions.
Same-week across every borough, with next-day cover common on studios and single-room clears where a check-out date is fixed. South Kensington (Circle, District, Piccadilly) is the nearest station, so a SW7 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect lath and plaster over timber studs; locally that also means with solid brick on the party and external walls, which is why Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded in SW7, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster; locally that also means which crumbles the key and drops the panel, where 38% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Fixed prices
| 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
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 →
Sultan assembled our new wardrobe. Really good service. Was also able to find clearance through them. Both services were good
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 →
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Coverage
Also in this area
Green waste, decking, sheds and hard landscaping taken away and split for composting.
Desks, chairs, racking and IT stripped out of a let unit with WEEE evidence.
Single items, builders' waste and part-loads across the borough.
The property cleaned before your things arrive, not around them.
Local moving crews working from the same borough, not across the city.
Working in South Kensington
South Kensington SW7 is period conversion and renter-heavy: 86% of homes here are flats and 14% are houses, across 2,840 households (ONS Census 2021).
With 54% private renting against 38% owner-occupied, most SW7 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
South Kensington substrates run to lath and plaster over timber studs; locally that also means with solid brick on the party and external walls, which is why Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster; locally that also means which crumbles the key and drops the panel, where 38% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a SW7 customer twice.
Museum quarter, French lycée and cream-stucco crescents. That character decides the practical detail of flat and apartment clearance here far more than the borough boundary does. South Kensington 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: museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions. South Kensington (Circle, 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
Who lives in South Kensington 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 South Kensington neighbourhood itself — not Kensington and Chelsea-wide averages, and not estimates.
5,764
Residents
South Kensington neighbourhood, Census 2021
2,840
Households
Median age 36.5
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
45.3%
Privately rented
53.7%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood South Kensington (E02000592) — the published geography that covers South Kensington, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SW7 district: 51.4963, -0.1770 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Studio or single room clear starts at £140 in South Kensington on Kensington and Chelsea bookings, with The Victoria and Albert Museum a few streets away — and 38% owner-occupation locally, 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 the South Kensington rounds, with 54% of SW7 homes being privately rented. A tenth-floor flat with a booked goods lift is cheaper to clear than a third-floor walk-up holding the same contents on SW7 jobs, with this being a short walk from South Kensington (Circle, District, Piccadilly).
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on Kensington and Chelsea bookings, with a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in South Kensington most weeks in this 86% flats neighbourhood, with this being Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea territory.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on Kensington and Chelsea bookings, with 86% of homes here being flats. With 86% of homes in South Kensington being flats, we plan the route up front.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in this 86% flats neighbourhood. With 86% of South Kensington homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on this side of Kensington and Chelsea, with 8% social-rented stock nearby — and a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
The Victoria and Albert Museum is the marker we route to for South Kensington (SW7) addresses, with 8% social-rented stock nearby, and museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions. A SW7 slot added to an existing Kensington and Chelsea round usually lands the same week rather than the next on the streets near The Victoria and Albert Museum, with 14% of South Kensington homes being houses.
Same-week across every borough, with next-day cover common on studios and single-room clears where a check-out date is fixed on Kensington and Chelsea bookings, with this being a short walk from South Kensington (Circle, District, Piccadilly). South Kensington sits close to South Kensington (Circle, District, Piccadilly) in this 86% flats neighbourhood — and 2,840 households on this patch, with 54% of SW7 homes being privately rented, so we can usually add a SW7 job to an existing Kensington and Chelsea round at short notice.
Museum-visitor traffic, single-lane service roads and lift-free upper floors in older conversions on Kensington and Chelsea bookings. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards in South Kensington — and 86% of homes here being flats, with 8% 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. South Kensington SW7 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.
