Newham · E16 · Fridge and freezer disposal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Custom House fitters · Fixed written pricesFridge and freezer disposal in Custom House E16, Newham, from £45. Regeneration streets between the docks and Canning Town, transformed by the Elizabeth line, which is why our E16 quotes account for construction diversions, estate service roads and new blocks with booked lifts. You get a fixed price in writing, an insured fitter and a tidy finish.
Overview
Booked mostly by social-housing-led households around Custom House, fridge and freezer disposal here covers supply-free fitting from £45. With 50% of Custom House's 3,330 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in E16 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. Construction diversions, estate service roads and new blocks with booked lifts.
Next-day collection is standard across every borough, and same-day is usually available for a single unit booked before mid-morning. Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR) is the nearest station, so a E16 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in E16, often with surface conduit — the reality on the streets around Custom House station and Victoria Dock in E16, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in E16, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — the pattern behind 3,330 households inside the E16 neighbourhood.
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.
Scope
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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 Custom House
Walk Custom House from Custom House station and Victoria Dock outwards and the post-war pattern is obvious: 50% of the 3,330 households in E16 live in flats, 50% in houses.
Private renting sits at 24% and owner-occupation at 26%; the first group books fridge and freezer disposal at short notice, the second plans it.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in E16, often with surface conduit — the reality on the streets around Custom House station and Victoria Dock behind the plaster in E16. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why in E16, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — the pattern behind 3,330 households inside the E16 neighbourhood is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Custom House knows the pattern near Custom House station and Victoria Dock: regeneration streets between the docks and Canning Town, transformed by the Elizabeth line. We plan the E16 visit around it. Custom House is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Construction diversions, estate service roads and new blocks with booked lifts. Nearest station is Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR), 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 Custom House 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 Custom House neighbourhood itself — not Newham-wide averages, and not estimates.
9,552
Residents
Custom House neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,330
Households
Median age 32.9
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
26%
Privately rented
24.4%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Custom House (E02000749) — the published geography that covers Custom House, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the E16 district: 51.5103, 0.0301 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Under-counter fridge or freezer starts at £45 in Custom House on the Custom House rounds, with Custom House station and Victoria Dock a few streets away, 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 E16 — and this being a short walk from Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR), with 50% of Custom House homes being houses.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions across E16, with this being a short walk from Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR). We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Custom House most weeks on this side of Newham, with 26% 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 the streets near Custom House station and Victoria Dock, with 26% one-person households here.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the streets near Custom House station and Victoria Dock. With 50% of Custom House homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm across E16, with 50% of Custom House homes being houses — and Custom House station and Victoria Dock a few streets away, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
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 Custom House rounds — and Custom House station and Victoria Dock a few streets away, with Newham 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 Newham letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on Newham bookings, with 26% one-person households here.
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 for Custom House (E16) addresses, with 50% of homes here being flats — and this being London Borough of Newham territory, which need a specialist hazardous-waste route instead. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Custom House E16 price you agree is the price you pay on the streets near Custom House station and Victoria Dock, with this being London Borough of Newham territory.
All three. With 24% of Custom House privately rented and 26% owner-occupied, roughly half the E16 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on the streets near Custom House station and Victoria Dock — and this being London Borough of Newham territory, with 3,330 households on this patch.
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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. Custom House E16 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of newham.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
