Kensington and Chelsea · W8 · House and flat clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Kensington fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide house and flat clearance in Kensington W8 for houses and flats around Kensington Palace. 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
This page prices house and flat clearance for Kensington W8 specifically: period conversion stock, 46% privately rented and 13,346 households in total. Work starts at £280, 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
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. High Street Kensington (Circle, District) is the nearest station, so a W8 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect lath and plaster over timber studs in Kensington, with solid brick on the party and external walls, and with 43% one-person households in Kensington, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site in W8, 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 — and a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster, which is what a 83% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Kensington actually produces.
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. Mansion blocks with cage lifts and porter sign-in; Kensington High Street loading windows are short.
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 Kensington
13,346 households sit inside the W8 neighbourhood covering Kensington. The build is period conversion, the tenure profile renter-heavy, and 83% of those homes are flats.
Because 46% of Kensington is privately rented and 19% socially rented, a lot of W8 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect lath and plaster over timber studs in Kensington, with solid brick on the party and external walls, and with 43% one-person households in Kensington, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site behind the plaster in W8. 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 — and a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster, which is what a 83% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Kensington actually produces is the fault we are called back to undo.
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. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — the high street, palace gardens and the quiet garden squares of Kensington proper — which is why a W8 quote is not a Kensington and Chelsea average.
On access, mansion blocks with cage lifts and porter sign-in; Kensington High Street loading windows are short — 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 High Street Kensington (Circle, District).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Kensington 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 Kensington Abingdon and Kensington Gardens and North Kensington and South Kensington neighbourhood itself — not Kensington and Chelsea-wide averages, and not estimates.
28,503
Residents
Kensington Abingdon and Kensington Gardens and North Kensington and South Kensington neighbourhood, Census 2021
13,346
Households
Median age 37.4
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
42.9%
Privately rented
45.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Kensington Abingdon, Kensington Gardens, North Kensington, South Kensington (E02000579, E02000587, E02000589, E02000592) — the published geography that covers Kensington, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the W8 district: 51.5012, -0.1943 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Studio or one-bed flat starts at £280 in Kensington on the Kensington rounds, with Kensington Palace a few streets away, 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 around High Street Kensington (Circle, District), with this being a short walk from High Street Kensington (Circle, District).
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 the Kensington rounds, with Kensington and Chelsea parking rules in play. With 83% of Kensington homes being flats, most local jobs land in that band once wardrobes and bed bases are broken down across W8, with 43% one-person households here.
Yes — from £420, including a set-aside list. Paperwork, photographs and anything the executor flags is bagged separately and handed over on the streets near Kensington Palace, with this being Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea territory, with photos of each room before and after for the estate file.
Yes. 17% of homes here are houses, with 35% owner-occupation locally, 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 in this 83% flats neighbourhood. Near Kensington Palace that usually means an earlier start so the van can be unloaded once.
Where Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea controls the frontage, yes for Kensington (W8) addresses. We arrange the suspension and show it as its own line in the quote on the streets near Kensington Palace. 35% of Kensington homes are owner-occupied, with this being a short walk from High Street Kensington (Circle, District), and completion-day clears are exactly where an unbooked bay costs a whole morning across W8.
Yes — every clear ends with a waste transfer note naming the transfer station, weight and date on W8 jobs, with 19% social-rented stock nearby. It matters here: 46% of local homes are privately rented and agents ask for it at check-out on the Kensington rounds, with 35% owner-occupation locally.
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 the Kensington rounds, with 19% social-rented stock nearby — and 83% of homes here being flats, which we quote separately as an end-of-tenancy clean. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Kensington W8 price you agree is the price you pay on W8 jobs, with 17% of Kensington homes being houses.
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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. Kensington W8 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.
