Camden · NW3 · House and flat clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Swiss Cottage fitters · Fixed written pricesBooking house and flat clearance near Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence? Finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks, and that is planned into the slot rather than discovered on the day. Prices start at £280 and are fixed before we travel. Doorframes and stair nosings are protected before wardrobes come out.
Overview
House and flat clearance in Swiss Cottage NW3 is a fixed-price visit for renter-heavy homes in Camden, most of them mainly Victorian. 3,083 households sit inside this NW3 patch, 89% of them flats, so we quote on access near Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence rather than a London average.
How it works
Step 1
Video walk-through or a visit; we count rooms, lofts and outbuildings so the volume figure is real.
Step 2
You tell us what must be kept — paperwork, jewellery, photographs — and it is bagged separately and handed over.
Step 3
Furniture in good order goes to reuse partners; textiles, metal, WEEE and wood are split on the van.
Step 4
Everything is carried out, with flat-pack units broken down where a lift or stairwell will not take them whole.
Step 5
Broom-clean rooms, photos of the finished property and the waste transfer note by email.
Why choose us
Executors and landlords usually book three to five days ahead; we hold same-week slots for tenancy deadlines and completion dates. Swiss Cottage (Jubilee) is the nearest station, so a NW3 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect lath and plaster over timber studs in Swiss Cottage, with solid brick on the party and external walls, and with 46% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does in NW3, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is which crumbles the key and drops the panel, over a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster, where 33% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Every house clearance is carried out under our upper-tier waste carrier registration, with a waste transfer note naming the transfer station, the weight and the date.
A two-person crew and a Luton for flats; three or four crew and two vans for houses with lofts, cellars or garages. Finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio or one-bed flat | £280 | 2–3 hrs | Usually a half to three-quarter Luton load once wardrobes and a bed base are broken down. |
| Two-bed flat or maisonette | £450 | 3–5 hrs | Two bedrooms of furniture plus a kitchen strip typically fills one van and part of a second. |
| Three-bed house | £650 | 5–7 hrs | Loft, shed and garage contents are what push a three-bed past a single load. |
| Four-bed house or larger | £950 | 1 day | Two vans and three or four crew, with multiple transfer-station runs across the day. |
| Probate clearance with valuation set-aside | £420 | By survey | Paperwork, photographs and items set aside for the executor take time a straight clear does not. |
| Single room or garage clear | £160 | 1–2 hrs | Priced on the volume that leaves the property, so a packed garage costs more than an empty spare room. |
Studio or one-bed flat
£280 · 2–3 hrs
Usually a half to three-quarter Luton load once wardrobes and a bed base are broken down.
Two-bed flat or maisonette
£450 · 3–5 hrs
Two bedrooms of furniture plus a kitchen strip typically fills one van and part of a second.
Three-bed house
£650 · 5–7 hrs
Loft, shed and garage contents are what push a three-bed past a single load.
Four-bed house or larger
£950 · 1 day
Two vans and three or four crew, with multiple transfer-station runs across the day.
Probate clearance with valuation set-aside
£420 · By survey
Paperwork, photographs and items set aside for the executor take time a straight clear does not.
Single room or garage clear
£160 · 1–2 hrs
Priced on the volume that leaves the property, so a packed garage costs more than an empty spare room.
Prices are for the total volume cleared, agreed before we start. Landlord, executor and letting-agent invoices are issued plus VAT at 20% with the waste transfer note attached. Permits, bay suspensions, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge, where they apply, appear as separate lines in the 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
Single items, garden waste, builders' waste and office strip-outs across the borough.
When the load is moving somewhere rather than going to a transfer station.
Local moving crews working from the same borough, not across the city.
The property cleaned before your things arrive, not around them.
Working in Swiss Cottage
Swiss Cottage NW3 is mainly Victorian and renter-heavy: 89% of homes here are flats and 11% are houses, across 3,083 households (ONS Census 2021).
The renter-heavy mix here (33% owned, 46% privately rented) means a NW3 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Expect lath and plaster over timber studs in Swiss Cottage, with solid brick on the party and external walls, and with 46% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in NW3. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why which crumbles the key and drops the panel, over a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster, where 33% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the fault we are called back to undo.
Swiss Cottage 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 — finchley Road's shops and library beside 1930s flats and post-war blocks — which is why a NW3 quote is not a Camden average.
Finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks. Nearest station is Swiss Cottage (Jubilee), and a two-person crew and a Luton for flats; three or four crew and two vans for houses with lofts, cellars or garages.
Area at a glance
Who lives in Swiss Cottage and what they live in decides how house and flat clearance is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Swiss Cottage neighbourhood itself — not Camden-wide averages, and not estimates.
7,117
Residents
Swiss Cottage neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,083
Households
Median age 35.2
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
35.7%
Privately rented
45.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Swiss Cottage (E02000182) — the published geography that covers Swiss Cottage, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the NW3 district: 51.5523, -0.1725 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Studio or one-bed flat starts at £280 in Swiss Cottage in this 89% flats neighbourhood, with Camden parking rules in play, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Volume first, then access. A second-floor flat with no lift, a shared stairwell or a permit-only frontage adds crew time to the same amount of furniture on the Swiss Cottage rounds, with this being London Borough of Camden territory.
A studio or one-bed starts at £280 and a two-bed at £450, quoted from a video walk-through so the volume figure is real on Camden bookings, with 3,083 households on this patch. With 89% of Swiss Cottage homes being flats, most local jobs land in that band once wardrobes and bed bases are broken down in this 89% flats neighbourhood, with a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood.
Yes — from £420, including a set-aside list. Paperwork, photographs and anything the executor flags is bagged separately and handed over across NW3, with 89% of homes here being flats, with photos of each room before and after for the estate file.
Yes. 11% of homes here are houses, with this being a short walk from Swiss Cottage (Jubilee) — and 3,083 households on this patch, and lofts, sheds and garages are the contents that push a three-bed past a single Luton — we survey them up front so the price does not move on the day for Swiss Cottage (NW3) addresses.
Where London Borough of Camden controls the frontage, yes in Swiss Cottage. We arrange the suspension and show it as its own line in the quote on this side of Camden. 33% of Swiss Cottage homes are owner-occupied, with Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence a few streets away, and completion-day clears are exactly where an unbooked bay costs a whole morning in this 89% flats neighbourhood.
Yes — every clear ends with a waste transfer note naming the transfer station, weight and date around Swiss Cottage (Jubilee), with 33% owner-occupation locally. It matters here: 46% of local homes are privately rented and agents ask for it at check-out in this 89% flats neighbourhood, with this being a short walk from Swiss Cottage (Jubilee).
Finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks in this 89% flats neighbourhood, with 33% owner-occupation locally. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Camden it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards around Swiss Cottage (Jubilee) — and this being London Borough of Camden territory, with 21% 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. Swiss Cottage NW3 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of camden.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
