Southwark · SE5 · Fridge and freezer disposal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Camberwell fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide fridge and freezer disposal in Camberwell SE5 for houses and flats around Camberwell Green and the South London Gallery. 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 Camberwell SE5 is a fixed-price visit for social-housing-led homes in Southwark, most of them Georgian and early Victorian. 12,806 households sit inside this SE5 patch, 83% of them flats, so we quote on access near Camberwell Green and the South London Gallery 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. Denmark Hill (Overground, Thameslink) is the nearest station, so a SE5 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit, and with 24% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does in SE5, 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 Camberwell stock goes, measured on the walk in from Denmark Hill (Overground, Thameslink) 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. Hospital-area restrictions, narrow Georgian streets and steep front steps.
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 Camberwell
In Camberwell (SE5) the split is 83% flats to 17% houses over 12,806 households, and the stock is Georgian and early Victorian.
Because 24% of Camberwell is privately rented and 44% socially rented, a lot of SE5 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit, and with 24% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does behind the plaster in SE5. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, as the Camberwell stock goes, measured on the walk in from Denmark Hill (Overground, Thameslink) rather than assumed from a map is the fault we are called back to undo.
Camberwell sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — georgian Camberwell Grove, the art college and King's College Hospital — which is why a SE5 quote is not a Southwark average.
Hospital-area restrictions, narrow Georgian streets and steep front steps. Nearest station is Denmark Hill (Overground, Thameslink), 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 Camberwell 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 Camberwell Green and Camberwell North and Camberwell South neighbourhood itself — not Southwark-wide averages, and not estimates.
30,076
Residents
Camberwell Green and Camberwell North and Camberwell South neighbourhood, Census 2021
12,806
Households
Median age 33.7
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
33.7%
Privately rented
24%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Camberwell Green, Camberwell North, Camberwell South (E02000826, E02000827, E02000830) — the published geography that covers Camberwell, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE5 district: 51.4739, -0.0915 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Under-counter fridge or freezer starts at £45 in Camberwell on Southwark bookings, with a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood, 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 Camberwell rounds — and 83% of homes here being flats, with 12,806 households on this patch.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions around Denmark Hill (Overground, Thameslink), with 31% owner-occupation locally. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Camberwell most weeks on SE5 jobs, with this being a short walk from Denmark Hill (Overground, Thameslink).
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on Southwark bookings, with Camberwell Green and the South London Gallery a few streets away.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on the Camberwell rounds. With 83% of Camberwell homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on Southwark bookings — and Southwark parking rules in play, with this being London Borough of Southwark territory, 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, with 17% of Camberwell homes being houses — and 44% social-rented stock nearby, which are quoted separately due to larger refrigerant volumes; Units that have been dismantled or had the refrigerant circuit cut open in this 83% flats neighbourhood, which need a specialist hazardous-waste route instead. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Camberwell SE5 price you agree is the price you pay on Southwark bookings, with Camberwell Green and the South London Gallery a few streets away.
All three. With 24% of Camberwell privately rented and 31% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE5 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door in this 83% flats neighbourhood — and 24% of SE5 homes being privately rented, with Southwark parking rules in play.
Camberwell Green and the South London Gallery is the marker we route to in Camberwell, with Southwark parking rules in play, and hospital-area restrictions, narrow Georgian streets and steep front steps. A SE5 slot added to an existing Southwark round usually lands the same week rather than the next for Camberwell (SE5) addresses, with 83% of homes here being flats.
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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. Camberwell SE5 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of southwark.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
