Bromley · SE9 · Fridge and freezer disposal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Mottingham fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide fridge and freezer disposal in Mottingham SE9 for houses and flats around Mottingham Village and Fairmount recreation ground. From £45, quoted in writing before the visit, with one or two crew depending on access; American-style and full-height units on an upper floor with no lift are booked as a two-person job as standard Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
Fridge and freezer disposal in Mottingham SE9 is a fixed-price visit for social-housing-led homes in Bromley, most of them inter-war. 3,789 households sit inside this SE9 patch, 25% of them flats, so we quote on access near Mottingham Village and Fairmount recreation ground rather than a London average.
How it works
Step 1
Under-counter, full-height or American-style — that alone sets the price, no visit needed to quote.
Step 2
The degassing fee is already inside the figure; nothing is added once the facility processes the unit.
Step 3
Next-day is standard across every borough; same-day is often available for a single unit.
Step 4
Unit is kept upright wherever possible to avoid disturbing the compressor oil and refrigerant lines.
Step 5
Taken to an approved WEEE facility where the refrigerant is recovered before scrapping, with the transfer note emailed to you.
Why choose us
Refrigerant-containing appliances are classed as WEEE and controlled under the Ozone-Depleting Substances Regulations and the F-Gas Regulations — the gas must be recovered by a certified technician before the unit is crushed or scrapped, and we handle that step at an approved facility rather than leaving it to the tip.
One or two crew depending on access; American-style and full-height units on an upper floor with no lift are booked as a two-person job as standard. Wide roads and driveways throughout, with easy turning for a Luton.
Next-day collection is standard across every borough, and same-day is usually available for a single unit booked before mid-morning. Mottingham (Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE9 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Mottingham, often with surface conduit, where 50% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year in SE9, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Mottingham gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, which is what a 25% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Mottingham actually produces.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under-counter fridge or freezer | £45 | 20–30 min | Smaller units still need the same degassing process, so the price floor reflects the facility charge rather than the size. |
| Full-height fridge or fridge-freezer | £60 | 20–30 min | Priced per unit for collection plus the WEEE facility's per-item gate fee for degassing and recycling. |
| American-style or larger fridge-freezer | £85 | 30–45 min | Extra crew time for the size and weight through a doorway, plus a higher refrigerant charge on some larger units. |
| Chest or upright freezer | £55 | 20–30 min | Same F-gas recovery step as a fridge, priced per unit against the approved facility's rate. |
| Wine cooler or drinks fridge | £40 | 15–20 min | Smaller refrigerant charge than a full fridge, but still requires the same certified recovery step before scrapping. |
| Second unit on the same visit | £30 each | Added to visit | One collection, one degassing trip to the facility — each extra unit avoids a second call-out charge. |
Under-counter fridge or freezer
£45 · 20–30 min
Smaller units still need the same degassing process, so the price floor reflects the facility charge rather than the size.
Full-height fridge or fridge-freezer
£60 · 20–30 min
Priced per unit for collection plus the WEEE facility's per-item gate fee for degassing and recycling.
American-style or larger fridge-freezer
£85 · 30–45 min
Extra crew time for the size and weight through a doorway, plus a higher refrigerant charge on some larger units.
Chest or upright freezer
£55 · 20–30 min
Same F-gas recovery step as a fridge, priced per unit against the approved facility's rate.
Wine cooler or drinks fridge
£40 · 15–20 min
Smaller refrigerant charge than a full fridge, but still requires the same certified recovery step before scrapping.
Second unit on the same visit
£30 each · Added to visit
One collection, one degassing trip to the facility — each extra unit avoids a second call-out charge.
Domestic prices are the total you pay. Landlord and letting-agent invoices are quoted plus VAT at 20%. Every price includes the WEEE facility's degassing and recycling charge, which is fixed per unit regardless of how far it travels. Where a permit, bay suspension, ULEZ or the Congestion Charge applies it is itemised separately.
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Coverage
Also in this area
Single items, part-loads, garden waste and office strip-outs across the borough.
The wider rubbish disposal hub — every waste stream we collect, in one place.
Sofas, beds, wardrobes and mattresses collected per item, dismantling included.
Whole-property clears, probate and end-of-tenancy strip-outs, sorted room by room.
Drum, seal and filter cleaned to clear odours and standing water.
Working in Mottingham
In Mottingham (SE9) the split is 25% flats to 75% houses over 3,789 households, and the stock is inter-war.
The social-housing-led mix here (50% owned, 17% privately rented) means a SE9 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Mottingham, often with surface conduit, where 50% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year, so the fixing that matters in Mottingham is chosen on site — the usual failure here is Mottingham gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, which is what a 25% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Mottingham actually produces.
A quiet interwar suburb between Eltham and Chislehurst. That character decides the practical detail of fridge and freezer disposal here far more than the borough boundary does. Mottingham is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: wide roads and driveways throughout, with easy turning for a Luton. Mottingham (Southeastern) is the nearest station, and one or two crew depending on access; American-style and full-height units on an upper floor with no lift are booked as a two-person job as standard.
Area at a glance
Who lives in Mottingham and what they live in decides how fridge and freezer disposal is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Mottingham neighbourhood itself — not Bromley-wide averages, and not estimates.
9,330
Residents
Mottingham neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,789
Households
Median age 36.9
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
30.4%
Privately rented
17.3%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Mottingham (E02000127) — the published geography that covers Mottingham, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE9 district: 51.4451, 0.0549 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Under-counter fridge or freezer starts at £45 in Mottingham for Mottingham (SE9) addresses, with 33% social-rented stock nearby, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Unit size and the refrigerant charge set the floor price; stairs, narrow galley kitchens and integrated housings that need levering out add crew time on top on the streets near Mottingham Village and Fairmount recreation ground — and this being a short walk from Mottingham (Southeastern), with 75% of Mottingham homes being houses.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in this 25% flats neighbourhood, with 33% social-rented stock nearby. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Mottingham most weeks on this side of Bromley, with 50% owner-occupation locally.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on SE9 jobs, with 50% owner-occupation locally.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the Mottingham rounds. With 25% of Mottingham homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm across SE9, with 3,789 households on this patch — and Mottingham Village and Fairmount recreation ground a few streets away, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Disconnecting an integrated fridge or freezer that is plumbed or wired in — that is a trade job we can refer you for; Commercial catering refrigeration and cold rooms — and a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood, which are quoted separately due to larger refrigerant volumes; Units that have been dismantled or had the refrigerant circuit cut open in this 25% flats neighbourhood, with this being London Borough of Bromley territory, which need a specialist hazardous-waste route instead. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Mottingham SE9 price you agree is the price you pay around Mottingham (Southeastern), with a median age of 37 in this neighbourhood.
All three. With 17% of Mottingham privately rented and 50% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE9 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door across SE9 — and 25% of homes here being flats, with 30% one-person households here.
Mottingham Village and Fairmount recreation ground is the marker we route to, with 33% social-rented stock nearby, and wide roads and driveways throughout around Mottingham (Southeastern), with easy turning for a Luton. A SE9 slot added to an existing Bromley round usually lands the same week rather than the next in Mottingham, with 75% of Mottingham 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. Mottingham SE9 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of bromley.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
