Kensington and Chelsea · SW5 · Fridge and freezer disposal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Earl's Court fitters · Fixed written pricesFridge and freezer disposal in Earl's Court SW5, Kensington and Chelsea, from £45. Tall stucco terraces of flats and short lets around the former exhibition site, which is why our SW5 quotes account for dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift. You get a fixed price in writing, an insured fitter and a tidy finish.
Overview
Booked mostly by renter-heavy households around Earl's Court, fridge and freezer disposal here covers supply-free fitting from £45. With 97% of Earl's Court's 3,241 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in SW5 shape the slot length we hold.
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
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. Dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift.
Next-day collection is standard across every borough, and same-day is usually available for a single unit booked before mid-morning. Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly) is the nearest station, so a SW5 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here in SW5, 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 on these streets — with 31% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first.
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.
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 Earl's Court
The SW5 stock around The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment is period conversion. ONS records 97% flats, 3% houses and 3,241 households in Earl's Court.
Owner-occupation runs at 25% in Earl's Court, so alongside the 44% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Walls are often with surface conduit — and precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here, so the fixing that matters in Earl's Court is chosen on site — the usual failure here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — with 31% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first.
Anyone who knows Earl's Court knows the pattern near The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment: tall stucco terraces of flats and short lets around the former exhibition site. We plan the SW5 visit around it. Earl's Court sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
Dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift. Nearest station is Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly), 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 Earl's Court 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 Earl's Court neighbourhood itself — not Kensington and Chelsea-wide averages, and not estimates.
6,212
Residents
Earl's Court neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,241
Households
Median age 35.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
49%
Privately rented
43.7%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Earl's Court (E02000591) — the published geography that covers Earl's Court, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SW5 district: 51.4916, -0.1919 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Under-counter fridge or freezer starts at £45 in Earl's Court for Earl's Court (SW5) addresses, with 97% of homes here being flats, 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 in Earl's Court — and this being a short walk from Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly), with Kensington and Chelsea parking rules in play.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on Kensington and Chelsea bookings, with The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment a few streets away. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Earl's Court most weeks on the Earl's Court rounds, with 97% 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 for Earl's Court (SW5) addresses, with 25% owner-occupation locally.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the streets near The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment. With 97% of Earl's Court homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on Kensington and Chelsea bookings, with 3,241 households on this patch — and a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Next-day collection is standard across every borough, with Kensington and Chelsea parking rules in play, and same-day is usually available for a single unit booked before mid-morning on this side of Kensington and Chelsea. Earl's Court sits close to Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly) in Earl's Court, with 49% one-person households here — and 3,241 households on this patch, so we can usually add a SW5 job to an existing Kensington and Chelsea round at short notice.
Dense short-let turnover, permit bays and five flights of communal stairs with no lift on the streets near The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards across SW5 — and this being a short walk from Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly), with 3,241 households on this patch.
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 on the streets near The Earl's Court exhibition site redevelopment — and this being a short walk from Earl's Court (District, Piccadilly), with Kensington and Chelsea parking rules in play, and we handle that step at an approved facility rather than leaving it to the tip. That paperwork is what most Kensington and Chelsea letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat for Earl's Court (SW5) addresses, with 49% 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. Earl's Court SW5 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of kensington and chelsea.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
