Camden · WC1 · Fridge and freezer disposal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Holborn fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for fridge and freezer disposal in Holborn WC1? We work in Holborn most weeks — legal London — the Inns of Court, Lincoln's Inn Fields and Sicilian Avenue — and price fridge and freezer disposal against that reality rather than a London average. Fixed written quote from £45, insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
This page prices fridge and freezer disposal for Holborn WC1 specifically: post-war stock, 30% privately rented and 3,090 households in total. Work starts at £45, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Camden permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
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. Inns of Court gate access, weekday loading windows and listed staircases.
Next-day collection is standard across every borough, and same-day is usually available for a single unit booked before mid-morning. Holborn (Central, Piccadilly) is the nearest station, so a WC1 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, and with 42% one-person households in Holborn, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site in WC1, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Holborn stock goes, and with 30% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does.
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
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Working in Holborn
Holborn WC1 is post-war and social-housing-led: 95% of homes here are flats and 5% are houses, across 3,090 households (ONS Census 2021).
The social-housing-led mix here (18% owned, 30% privately rented) means a WC1 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork, and with 42% one-person households in Holborn, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site, so the fixing that matters in Holborn is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Holborn stock goes, and with 30% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does.
Legal London — the Inns of Court, Lincoln's Inn Fields and Sicilian Avenue. That character decides the practical detail of fridge and freezer disposal here far more than the borough boundary does. Holborn sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: inns of Court gate access, weekday loading windows and listed staircases. Holborn (Central, Piccadilly) 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 Holborn 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 Hatton Garden & Theobalds Road neighbourhood itself — not Camden-wide averages, and not estimates.
6,659
Residents
Hatton Garden & Theobalds Road neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,090
Households
Median age 34.4
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
42.2%
Privately rented
30.4%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Hatton Garden & Theobalds Road (E02000192) — the published geography that covers Holborn, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the WC1 district: 51.5219, -0.1215 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Under-counter fridge or freezer starts at £45 in Holborn across WC1, with this being London Borough of Camden territory, 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 Holborn rounds — and 30% of WC1 homes being privately rented, with a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions across WC1, with 95% of homes here being flats. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Holborn most weeks on the streets near Lincoln's Inn Fields, with Camden parking rules in play.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level around Holborn (Central, Piccadilly), with 42% one-person households here.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in Holborn. With 95% of Holborn homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on Camden bookings — and 42% one-person households here, with this being a short walk from Holborn (Central, Piccadilly), so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Lincoln's Inn Fields is the marker we route to in this 95% flats neighbourhood, with Lincoln's Inn Fields a few streets away, and inns of Court gate access, weekday loading windows and listed staircases. A WC1 slot added to an existing Camden round usually lands the same week rather than the next on Camden bookings, with 95% of homes here being flats.
Next-day collection is standard across every borough, with this being London Borough of Camden territory, and same-day is usually available for a single unit booked before mid-morning across WC1. Holborn sits close to Holborn (Central, Piccadilly), with 95% of homes here being flats, so we can usually add a WC1 job to an existing Camden round at short notice around Holborn (Central, Piccadilly).
Inns of Court gate access, weekday loading windows and listed staircases across WC1. 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 on this side of Camden — and Lincoln's Inn Fields a few streets away, with Camden parking rules in play.
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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. Holborn WC1 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.
