Southwark · SE15 · Hoarder clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Nunhead fitters · Fixed written pricesHoarder clearance for Nunhead (SE15) households — 7,127 of them, 58% in flats. From £240 fixed, two to four operatives depending on severity, with PPE for biohazard handling and a plain, unmarked vehicle available on request Insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
Booked mostly by social-housing-led households around Nunhead, hoarder clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £240. With 58% of Nunhead's 7,127 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in SE15 shape the slot length we hold.
How it works
Step 1
We talk through the situation with whoever is coordinating — family member, social worker or the individual themselves — before any visit is booked.
Step 2
A schedule that suits the household is set, whether that is one long day or several shorter visits, rather than a schedule that suits the van.
Step 3
Every room is worked through by hand, with valuables, documents and anything flagged by the family set aside before waste is loaded.
Step 4
Any contaminated or soiled material is bagged separately under PPE and moved on its own licensed disposal route.
Step 5
Once the contents are out, a deep clean is booked and the property handed back photographed, with no images shared beyond the family.
Why choose us
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SE15, often with surface conduit — which is what a 58% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Nunhead actually produces in SE15, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in SE15, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — the pattern behind 7,127 households inside the SE15 neighbourhood.
Registered waste carrier with a transfer note for every load and a separate consignment route for biohazard material. Staff are briefed on discretion and safeguarding before any hoarding job, and no photograph leaves the file without written permission.
Two to four operatives depending on severity, with PPE for biohazard handling and a plain, unmarked vehicle available on request. Steep hill streets, narrow railway bridges and permit bays near the station.
Same-week for a single room, one to two weeks for a severe multi-room clear where the pace has to be agreed with the household or the professional managing the case first. Nunhead (Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE15 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single room clearance | £240 | 3–4 hrs | One badly affected room sorted by hand rather than shovelled, because valuables and paperwork can be mixed into the same pile as rubbish. |
| One-bed flat, moderate hoarding | £620 | 1 day | Every room sorted, walkways reopened and a full van run booked, priced for the volume rather than the floor area since a hoarded flat holds far more than an ordinary one. |
| Two/three-bed house, severe hoarding | £1,450 | 2–3 days | Multiple vehicle loads and a phased sort across every room, often with items stacked to ceiling height that have to be worked down layer by layer for safety. |
| Biohazard and sharps handling, per visit | £180 | 1–2 hrs | Contaminated bedding, soiled material or found sharps need PPE, a separate waste stream and a licensed disposal route rather than a standard bag. |
| Garden and outbuilding clearance, added | £280 | half day | Hoarding frequently extends into a garden, shed or garage, which is quoted separately because the access and the waste mix are different from the house. |
| Post-clearance deep clean handover | £340 | 4–6 hrs | Once the contents are out, a deep clean is often what actually returns the property to a liveable or lettable state, and we hand it over photographed. |
Single room clearance
£240 · 3–4 hrs
One badly affected room sorted by hand rather than shovelled, because valuables and paperwork can be mixed into the same pile as rubbish.
One-bed flat, moderate hoarding
£620 · 1 day
Every room sorted, walkways reopened and a full van run booked, priced for the volume rather than the floor area since a hoarded flat holds far more than an ordinary one.
Two/three-bed house, severe hoarding
£1,450 · 2–3 days
Multiple vehicle loads and a phased sort across every room, often with items stacked to ceiling height that have to be worked down layer by layer for safety.
Biohazard and sharps handling, per visit
£180 · 1–2 hrs
Contaminated bedding, soiled material or found sharps need PPE, a separate waste stream and a licensed disposal route rather than a standard bag.
Garden and outbuilding clearance, added
£280 · half day
Hoarding frequently extends into a garden, shed or garage, which is quoted separately because the access and the waste mix are different from the house.
Post-clearance deep clean handover
£340 · 4–6 hrs
Once the contents are out, a deep clean is often what actually returns the property to a liveable or lettable state, and we hand it over photographed.
Prices include VAT. We work at the pace the household or family can manage rather than against a fixed daily rate, and we agree the schedule before the first visit rather than pushing for one long day. No photographs of the property are shared without written permission.
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
The parent residential silo — full property clears with a same-day quote.
Sofas, wardrobes and bulky items removed and recycled where possible.
Deep clean and sanitisation once the clearance itself is complete.
Mixed loads collected by volume with a same-day waste transfer note.
Working in Nunhead
The SE15 stock around Nunhead Cemetery is mainly Victorian. ONS records 58% flats, 42% houses and 7,127 households in Nunhead.
Private renting sits at 20% and owner-occupation at 41%; the first group books hoarder clearance at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SE15, often with surface conduit — which is what a 58% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Nunhead actually produces behind the plaster in SE15. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in SE15, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — the pattern behind 7,127 households inside the SE15 neighbourhood is the fault we are called back to undo.
Two streets can behave very differently in Nunhead: cemetery, hill views and a quiet village green between Peckham and Brockley. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Nunhead sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Steep hill streets, narrow railway bridges and permit bays near the station. Nearest station is Nunhead (Southeastern), and two to four operatives depending on severity, with PPE for biohazard handling and a plain, unmarked vehicle available on request.
Area at a glance
Who lives in Nunhead and what they live in decides how hoarder clearance is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Nunhead North and Nunhead South & Newlands neighbourhood itself — not Southwark-wide averages, and not estimates.
17,370
Residents
Nunhead North and Nunhead South & Newlands neighbourhood, Census 2021
7,127
Households
Median age 35.1
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
30.1%
Privately rented
19.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Nunhead North, Nunhead South & Newlands (E02000832, E02000835) — the published geography that covers Nunhead, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE15 district: 51.4728, -0.0656 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Single room clearance starts at £240 in Nunhead on Southwark bookings, with 42% of Nunhead homes being houses, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Volume and severity, not floor area. A single room stacked to the ceiling can take longer than an ordinary two-bed flat on this side of Southwark, with 41% owner-occupation locally — and Southwark parking rules in play, and biohazard material adds its own handling cost regardless of the room count.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the streets near Nunhead Cemetery, with Southwark parking rules in play. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Nunhead most weeks across SE15, with 58% of homes here being flats.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on SE15 jobs, with this being London Borough of Southwark territory.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in this 58% flats neighbourhood. With 58% of Nunhead homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on Southwark bookings, with Southwark parking rules in play — and 30% one-person households here, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
All three. With 20% of Nunhead privately rented and 41% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE15 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door in this 58% flats neighbourhood, with 7,127 households on this patch.
Nunhead Cemetery is the marker we route to on this side of Southwark, with 30% one-person households here, and steep hill streets, narrow railway bridges and permit bays near the station. A SE15 slot added to an existing Southwark round usually lands the same week rather than the next on SE15 jobs, with Southwark parking rules in play.
Same-week for a single room, one to two weeks for a severe multi-room clear where the pace has to be agreed with the household or the professional managing the case first on the streets near Nunhead Cemetery — and Nunhead Cemetery a few streets away, with this being London Borough of Southwark territory. Nunhead sits close to Nunhead (Southeastern), with 20% of SE15 homes being privately rented, so we can usually add a SE15 job to an existing Southwark round at short notice for Nunhead (SE15) addresses.
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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. Nunhead SE15 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of southwark.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
