Croydon · SE19 · Fridge and freezer disposal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Crystal Palace fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide fridge and freezer disposal in Crystal Palace SE19 for houses and flats around Crystal Palace Park and the dinosaurs. 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 Crystal Palace SE19 is a fixed-price visit for mixed-tenure homes in Croydon, most of them mainly Victorian. 4,203 households sit inside this SE19 patch, 68% of them flats, so we quote on access near Crystal Palace Park and the dinosaurs 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
Next-day collection is standard across every borough, and same-day is usually available for a single unit booked before mid-morning. Crystal Palace (Overground, Southern) is the nearest station, so a SE19 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms, measured on the walk in from Crystal Palace (Overground, Southern) rather than assumed from a map in SE19, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Crystal Palace gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, where 50% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
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. The steepest streets in south London, narrow triangle junctions and permit bays.
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 Crystal Palace
4,203 households sit inside the SE19 neighbourhood covering Crystal Palace. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile mixed-tenure, and 68% of those homes are flats.
Because 27% of Crystal Palace is privately rented and 23% socially rented, a lot of SE19 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork; locally that also means with metal stud partitions between rooms, measured on the walk in from Crystal Palace (Overground, Southern) rather than assumed from a map, so the fixing that matters in Crystal Palace is chosen on site — the usual failure here is Crystal Palace gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, where 50% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
Crystal Palace 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 — the park's dinosaurs, the transmitter and a triangle of independent shops on the hill — which is why a SE19 quote is not a Croydon average.
The steepest streets in south London, narrow triangle junctions and permit bays. Nearest station is Crystal Palace (Overground, Southern), 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 Crystal Palace 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 Crystal Palace Triangle neighbourhood itself — not Croydon-wide averages, and not estimates.
9,211
Residents
Crystal Palace Triangle neighbourhood, Census 2021
4,203
Households
Median age 36.9
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
36.2%
Privately rented
27.4%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Crystal Palace Triangle (E02000194) — the published geography that covers Crystal Palace, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE19 district: 51.4180, -0.0861 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Under-counter fridge or freezer starts at £45 in Crystal Palace around Crystal Palace (Overground, Southern), with Croydon parking rules in play, 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 across SE19 — and this being London Borough of Croydon territory, with 68% of homes here being flats.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in Crystal Palace, with 68% of homes here being flats. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Crystal Palace most weeks around Crystal Palace (Overground, Southern), with Croydon 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 across SE19, with 36% one-person households here.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in around Crystal Palace (Overground, Southern). With 68% of Crystal Palace homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on SE19 jobs, with this being a short walk from Crystal Palace (Overground, Southern) — and 36% one-person households here, 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 Crystal Palace Park and the dinosaurs a few streets away, which are quoted separately due to larger refrigerant volumes; Units that have been dismantled or had the refrigerant circuit cut open in this 68% flats neighbourhood, with this being a short walk from Crystal Palace (Overground, Southern), which need a specialist hazardous-waste route instead. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Crystal Palace SE19 price you agree is the price you pay around Crystal Palace (Overground, Southern), with 50% owner-occupation locally.
All three. With 27% of Crystal Palace privately rented and 50% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE19 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door around Crystal Palace (Overground, Southern) — and Croydon parking rules in play, with 36% one-person households here.
Crystal Palace Park and the dinosaurs is the marker we route to across SE19, with 27% of SE19 homes being privately rented, and the steepest streets in south London, narrow triangle junctions and permit bays. A SE19 slot added to an existing Croydon round usually lands the same week rather than the next on this side of Croydon, with this being a short walk from Crystal Palace (Overground, Southern).
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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. Crystal Palace SE19 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of croydon.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
