Westminster · W1 · Flat and apartment clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Soho fitters · Fixed written pricesBooking flat and apartment clearance near Carnaby Street and Golden Square? Pedestrian zones, night-time economy congestion and no lifts in most walk-ups — carry-up is the default, and that is planned into the slot rather than discovered on the day. Prices start at £140 and are fixed before we travel. Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
Flat and apartment 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
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
Same-week across every borough, with next-day cover common on studios and single-room clears where a check-out date is fixed. Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) is the nearest station, so a W1 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in Soho, with metal stud partitions between rooms, measured on the walk in from Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) rather than assumed from a map in W1, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Soho gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, the reality on the streets around Carnaby Street and Golden Square.
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. Pedestrian zones, night-time economy congestion and no lifts in most walk-ups — carry-up is the default.
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 Soho
In Soho (W1) the split is 98% flats to 2% houses over 4,257 households, and the stock is Georgian and early Victorian.
Because 52% of Soho is privately rented and 28% socially rented, a lot of W1 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Soho substrates run to dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork in Soho, with metal stud partitions between rooms, measured on the walk in from Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) rather than assumed from a map. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Soho gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, the reality on the streets around Carnaby Street and Golden Square is the mistake that costs a W1 customer twice.
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. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — post-production studios, restaurants and above-shop flats packed into a Georgian grid — which is why a W1 quote is not a Westminster average.
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 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 Soho 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 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).
Studio or single room clear starts at £140 in Soho on the streets near Carnaby Street and Golden Square, with Westminster parking rules in play, 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 Westminster bookings, with 98% of homes here being flats. A tenth-floor flat with a booked goods lift is cheaper to clear than a third-floor walk-up holding the same contents on the Soho rounds, with this being Westminster City Council territory.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the streets near Carnaby Street and Golden Square, with 52% of W1 homes being privately rented. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Soho most weeks for Soho (W1) addresses, with Carnaby Street and Golden Square 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 on the Soho rounds, with 28% social-rented stock nearby.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in for Soho (W1) addresses. With 98% of Soho homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm in Soho, with a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood — and 98% of homes here being flats, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Carnaby Street and Golden Square is the marker we route to in this 98% flats neighbourhood — and Westminster parking rules in play, 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 on Westminster bookings, with Carnaby Street and Golden Square a few streets away.
Same-week across every borough, with next-day cover common on studios and single-room clears where a check-out date is fixed on the streets near Carnaby Street and Golden Square, with a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood. Soho sits close to Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) for Soho (W1) addresses — and 4,257 households on this patch, with this being Westminster City Council territory, so we can usually add a W1 job to an existing Westminster round at short notice.
Pedestrian zones, night-time economy congestion and no lifts in most walk-ups — carry-up is the default on the streets near Carnaby Street and Golden Square, with Westminster parking rules in play. 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 across W1, with 98% of homes here being flats.
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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.
