Greenwich · SE28 · Fridge and freezer disposal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Thamesmead fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for fridge and freezer disposal in Thamesmead SE28? We work in Thamesmead most weeks — brutalist canals and lakes, now under one of London's biggest regeneration programmes — 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 Thamesmead SE28 specifically: post-war stock, 28% privately rented and 7,133 households in total. Work starts at £45, fixed in writing, with parking and Royal Borough of Greenwich 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
Next-day collection is standard across every borough, and same-day is usually available for a single unit booked before mid-morning. Abbey Wood (Elizabeth line) is the nearest station, so a SE28 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SE28, often with surface conduit, and with 28% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does in SE28, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Thamesmead gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, measured on the walk in from Abbey Wood (Elizabeth line) rather than assumed from a map.
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. Deck-access blocks with limited lifts, long walkway carries and estate service roads.
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 Thamesmead
In Thamesmead (SE28) the split is 47% flats to 53% houses over 7,133 households, and the stock is post-war.
The social-housing-led mix here (32% owned, 28% privately rented) means a SE28 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SE28, often with surface conduit, and with 28% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in SE28. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Thamesmead gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, measured on the walk in from Abbey Wood (Elizabeth line) rather than assumed from a map is the fault we are called back to undo.
Thamesmead 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 — brutalist canals and lakes, now under one of London's biggest regeneration programmes — which is why a SE28 quote is not a Greenwich average.
On access, deck-access blocks with limited lifts, long walkway carries and estate service roads — one reason 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. Fitters travelling in use Abbey Wood (Elizabeth line).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Thamesmead 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 Thamesmead Birchmere Park and West Thamesmead neighbourhood itself — not Greenwich-wide averages, and not estimates.
20,595
Residents
Thamesmead Birchmere Park and West Thamesmead neighbourhood, Census 2021
7,133
Households
Median age 33.3
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
29.4%
Privately rented
28.4%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Thamesmead Birchmere Park, West Thamesmead (E02000313, E02000314) — the published geography that covers Thamesmead, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE28 district: 51.5020, 0.1036 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Under-counter fridge or freezer starts at £45 in Thamesmead for Thamesmead (SE28) addresses, with 53% of Thamesmead homes being houses, 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 Southmere Lake — and 28% of SE28 homes being privately rented, with Greenwich parking rules in play.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on Greenwich bookings, with this being Royal Borough of Greenwich territory. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Thamesmead most weeks in this 47% flats neighbourhood, with 47% of homes here being flats.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level in Thamesmead, with 7,133 households on this patch.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in Thamesmead. With 47% of Thamesmead homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on Greenwich bookings — and 47% of homes here being flats, with this being Royal Borough of Greenwich territory, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
In Thamesmead, deck-access blocks with limited lifts, long walkway carries and estate service roads in this 47% flats neighbourhood. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in Royal Borough of Greenwich it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards around Abbey Wood (Elizabeth line) — and this being Royal Borough of Greenwich territory, with a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood. That covers fridge and freezer disposal london on Thamesmead jobs too.
For SE28 bookings, 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 in this 47% flats neighbourhood — and 7,133 households on this patch, with 32% owner-occupation locally, and we handle that step at an approved facility rather than leaving it to the tip. That paperwork is what most Greenwich letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on this side of Greenwich, with this being a short walk from Abbey Wood (Elizabeth line). Around Abbey Wood (Elizabeth line) we allow for the parking and the walk-in before the slot is confirmed.
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, which are quoted separately due to larger refrigerant volumes; Units that have been dismantled or had the refrigerant circuit cut open around Abbey Wood (Elizabeth line) — and 29% one-person households here, with 53% of Thamesmead homes being houses, which need a specialist hazardous-waste route instead. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Thamesmead SE28 price you agree is the price you pay in Thamesmead, with Southmere Lake a few streets away.
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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. Thamesmead SE28 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of greenwich.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
