Greenwich · SE28 · House and flat clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Thamesmead fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide house and flat clearance in Thamesmead SE28 for houses and flats around Southmere Lake. From £280, quoted in writing before the visit, with a two-person crew and a Luton for flats; three or four crew and two vans for houses with lofts, cellars or garages Doorframes and stair nosings are protected before wardrobes come out.
Overview
Booked mostly by social-housing-led households around Abbey Wood, house and flat clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £280. With 47% of Thamesmead's 7,133 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in SE28 shape the slot length we hold.
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. Abbey Wood (Elizabeth line) is the nearest station, so a SE28 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SE28, often with surface conduit, which is why Royal Borough of Greenwich kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded in SE28, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Thamesmead gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, the reality on the streets around Southmere Lake.
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. Deck-access blocks with limited lifts, long walkway carries and estate service roads.
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 Thamesmead
7,133 households sit inside the SE28 neighbourhood covering Thamesmead. The build is post-war, the tenure profile social-housing-led, and 47% of those homes are flats.
The social-housing-led mix here (32% owned, 28% privately rented) means a SE28 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SE28, often with surface conduit, which is why Royal Borough of Greenwich kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded, so the fixing that matters in Thamesmead is chosen on site — the usual failure here is Thamesmead gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, the reality on the streets around Southmere Lake.
Thamesmead is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — brutalist canals and lakes, now under one of London's biggest regeneration programmes — which is why a SE28 quote is not a Greenwich average.
On access, deck-access blocks with limited lifts, long walkway carries and estate service roads — one reason a two-person crew and a Luton for flats; three or four crew and two vans for houses with lofts, cellars or garages. Fitters travelling in use Abbey Wood (Elizabeth line).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Thamesmead 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 Thamesmead Birchmere Park and West Thamesmead neighbourhood itself — not Greenwich-wide averages, and not estimates.
20,595
Residents
Thamesmead Birchmere Park and West Thamesmead neighbourhood, Census 2021
7,133
Households
Median age 33.3
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
29.4%
Privately rented
28.4%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Thamesmead Birchmere Park, West Thamesmead (E02000313, E02000314) — the published geography that covers Thamesmead, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE28 district: 51.5020, 0.1036 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Studio or one-bed flat starts at £280 in Thamesmead in this 47% flats neighbourhood, with 29% one-person households here, 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 in Thamesmead, with 47% of homes here being flats.
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 this side of Greenwich, with 39% social-rented stock nearby. With 47% of Thamesmead homes being flats, most local jobs land in that band once wardrobes and bed bases are broken down across SE28, with 32% owner-occupation locally.
Yes — from £420, including a set-aside list. Paperwork, photographs and anything the executor flags is bagged separately and handed over around Abbey Wood (Elizabeth line), with 28% of SE28 homes being privately rented, with photos of each room before and after for the estate file.
Yes. 53% of homes here are houses, with this being Royal Borough of Greenwich territory — and Southmere Lake a few streets away, 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 across SE28.
Where Royal Borough of Greenwich controls the frontage, yes on SE28 jobs. We arrange the suspension and show it as its own line in the quote around Abbey Wood (Elizabeth line). 32% of Thamesmead homes are owner-occupied, with Greenwich parking rules in play, and completion-day clears are exactly where an unbooked bay costs a whole morning in Thamesmead.
Yes — every clear ends with a waste transfer note naming the transfer station, weight and date on the streets near Southmere Lake, with 7,133 households on this patch. It matters here: 28% of local homes are privately rented and agents ask for it at check-out for Thamesmead (SE28) addresses, with a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood.
Carpet lifting and skirting removal unless it is quoted as a strip-out; Asbestos, chemicals, paint and gas bottles — these need a licensed hazardous carrier; Deep cleaning after the clear on this side of Greenwich, with a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood — and 29% one-person households here, which we quote separately as an end-of-tenancy clean. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Thamesmead SE28 price you agree is the price you pay in this 47% flats neighbourhood, with 7,133 households on this patch.
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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. Thamesmead SE28 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of greenwich.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
