Westminster · W1 · House and flat clearance
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Soho fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for house and flat clearance in Soho W1? We work in Soho most weeks — post-production studios, restaurants and above-shop flats packed into a Georgian grid — and price house and flat clearance against that reality rather than a London average. Fixed written quote from £280, insured crews, set-aside items kept, broom-clean at hand-back.
Overview
Booked mostly by renter-heavy households around Tottenham Court Road, house and flat clearance here covers supply-free fitting from £280. With 98% of Soho's 4,257 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in W1 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. Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line) is the nearest station, so a W1 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork, the reality on the streets around Carnaby Street and Golden Square 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, and with 52% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does.
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. 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 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 Soho
Soho W1 is Georgian and early Victorian and renter-heavy: 98% of homes here are flats and 2% are houses, across 4,257 households (ONS Census 2021).
With 52% private renting against 20% owner-occupied, most W1 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Soho substrates run to with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork, the reality on the streets around Carnaby Street and Golden Square. 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, and with 52% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does 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 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 Soho 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 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 one-bed flat starts at £280 in Soho on Westminster bookings, with Carnaby Street and Golden Square 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 for Soho (W1) addresses, with this being a short walk from Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line).
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 Soho rounds, with Carnaby Street and Golden Square a few streets away. With 98% of Soho homes being flats, most local jobs land in that band once wardrobes and bed bases are broken down across W1, with 2% of Soho homes being houses.
Yes — from £420, including a set-aside list. Paperwork, photographs and anything the executor flags is bagged separately and handed over on W1 jobs, with 20% owner-occupation locally, with photos of each room before and after for the estate file.
Yes. 2% of homes here are houses, with 20% 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 on this side of Westminster — and 53% one-person households here. Westminster City Council rules apply where the kerb or a bay suspension is involved.
Where Westminster City Council controls the frontage, yes. We arrange the suspension and show it as its own line in the quote on the Soho rounds. 20% of Soho homes are owner-occupied, with a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood, and completion-day clears are exactly where an unbooked bay costs a whole morning on W1 jobs.
Yes — every clear ends with a waste transfer note naming the transfer station, weight and date across W1, with 28% social-rented stock nearby. It matters here: 52% of local homes are privately rented and agents ask for it at check-out around Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line), with 20% 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 Soho rounds — and 28% social-rented stock nearby, with 4,257 households on this patch, which we quote separately as an end-of-tenancy clean. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Soho W1 price you agree is the price you pay on W1 jobs, with 53% one-person households here.
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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. 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.
