Islington · EC1V · Rubbish removal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Old Street fitters · Fixed written pricesRubbish removal in Old Street EC1V, Islington, from £45. The roundabout, tech offices and warehouse conversions on the City fringe, which is why our EC1V quotes account for red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards. You get a fixed price in writing, an insured fitter and a tidy finish.
Overview
This page prices rubbish removal for Old Street EC1V specifically: post-war stock, 28% privately rented and 4,949 households in total. Work starts at £45, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Islington permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
How it works
Step 1
A couple of photos are enough for a volume price; nobody has to be on site to be quoted.
Step 2
Volume, tip charge and any permit are itemised in one figure before the van is booked.
Step 3
Crew carry from wherever it sits — flat, garden, communal bin store or garage.
Step 4
Metal, WEEE, wood and textiles are separated on the van rather than tipped as one load.
Step 5
A waste transfer note with the site, weight and date arrives by email.
Why choose us
Two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton as standard; heavy rubble loads run below the legal weight limit rather than filling the space. Red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards.
Most London collections are covered within 48 hours, with same-day slots usually available before 10am. Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) is the nearest station, so a EC1V 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 28% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does in EC1V, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is in EC1V, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — and with 39% one-person households in Old Street, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site.
We are a registered upper-tier waste carrier and issue a waste transfer note for every collection — the document that protects you from a fly-tipping fine if your waste is later found dumped.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single item collection | £45 | 20–40 min | One mattress, sofa or appliance carried out and weighed in at a licensed transfer station. |
| Minimum load (approx. 1.5 cubic yards) | £95 | 20–30 min | A few bags and a couple of items — priced on the space taken, not on a call-out fee. |
| Quarter-load (approx. 3 cubic yards) | £120 | 30–60 min | The usual size for a flat clear-down: bagged waste, a bed frame and some boxes. |
| Half-load (approx. 6 cubic yards) | £200 | 1–2 hrs | A garage or loft clear-down, still one van and two crew. |
| Full Luton load (approx. 12 cubic yards) | £380 | 2–4 hrs | Full van, two crew, the transfer-station charge and the waste transfer note included. |
| Garden or builders' waste, per cubic yard | £70 | By volume | Soil, rubble and hardcore are capped by weight rather than space — heavy loads cost more per yard. |
Single item collection
£45 · 20–40 min
One mattress, sofa or appliance carried out and weighed in at a licensed transfer station.
Minimum load (approx. 1.5 cubic yards)
£95 · 20–30 min
A few bags and a couple of items — priced on the space taken, not on a call-out fee.
Quarter-load (approx. 3 cubic yards)
£120 · 30–60 min
The usual size for a flat clear-down: bagged waste, a bed frame and some boxes.
Half-load (approx. 6 cubic yards)
£200 · 1–2 hrs
A garage or loft clear-down, still one van and two crew.
Full Luton load (approx. 12 cubic yards)
£380 · 2–4 hrs
Full van, two crew, the transfer-station charge and the waste transfer note included.
Garden or builders' waste, per cubic yard
£70 · By volume
Soil, rubble and hardcore are capped by weight rather than space — heavy loads cost more per yard.
Domestic prices are the total you pay. Commercial and landlord invoices are quoted plus VAT at 20%. Permits, bay suspensions, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge, where they apply, are itemised in the written quote before the crew is booked.
Scope
The guys arrived prompt at 9 am . Sorry I’m rubbish at names but I remember the one guys initials were AB . He really worked hard . Both guys were very polite and were happy to pop back up the stairs to finish dusting the bedrooms surfaces that were missed . Not one moan… Read in full →
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We had a good experience with this company for our move from London to Spain. Everything went well. They also helped us with our move out clean.
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Coverage
Also in this area
Whole-property clears, probate and end-of-tenancy strip-outs, sorted room by room.
Single items, garden waste, builders' waste and office strip-outs across the borough.
When the load is moving somewhere rather than going to a transfer station.
A full top-to-bottom clean of the property once it has been emptied.
A van and driver for the load you have, priced by size rather than by guesswork.
Working in Old Street
The EC1V stock around Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground is post-war. ONS records 98% flats, 2% houses and 4,949 households in Old Street.
28% of households rent privately and 19% own, which is why rubbish removal demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Old Street substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork; locally that also means often with surface conduit — and with 28% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in EC1V, drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it — and with 39% one-person households in Old Street, one adult is usually the only pair of hands on site is the mistake that costs a EC1V customer twice.
Anyone who knows Old Street knows the pattern near Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground: the roundabout, tech offices and warehouse conversions on the City fringe. We plan the EC1V visit around it. Old Street sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, red-route roundabout with no kerbside loading, goods-lift booking in the towers and gated estate yards — one reason two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton as standard; heavy rubble loads run below the legal weight limit rather than filling the space. Fitters travelling in use Old Street (Northern, Great Northern).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Old Street and what they live in decides how rubbish removal is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Old Street & St Luke's neighbourhood itself — not Islington-wide averages, and not estimates.
10,675
Residents
Old Street & St Luke's neighbourhood, Census 2021
4,949
Households
Median age 31.5
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
38.9%
Privately rented
28.3%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Old Street & St Luke's (E02000576) — the published geography that covers Old Street, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the EC1V district: 51.5268, -0.0978 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Single item collection starts at £45 in Old Street, with Islington parking rules in play, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Volume sets the price and access moves it: stairs above the second floor without a lift, red-route frontages and permit-only bays are the three London variables on Islington bookings — and 19% owner-occupation locally, with 39% one-person households here.
A minimum load is £95 and a quarter-load £120, priced on the space the waste takes in the van across EC1V, with Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground a few streets away. Around Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground most jobs are quoted from two photos on this side of Islington, with 28% of EC1V homes being privately rented — and Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground a few streets away, and the price is fixed before the crew sets off.
Usually, once London Borough of Islington's skip permit, the wait for the licence and the risk of other people filling it are counted around Old Street (Northern, Great Northern), with 98% of homes here being flats. A van crew loads, leaves and issues the paperwork the same visit — nothing sits on the street overnight on EC1V jobs, with Islington parking rules in play.
Yes. 98% of homes here are flats, with a median age of 32 in this neighbourhood, so lift bookings, porter sign-in and communal bin stores are routine — tell us the floor and whether there is a lift and the crew size is set for it for Old Street (EC1V) addresses.
Every collection comes with a waste transfer note naming the transfer station, weight and date on the Old Street rounds. With 28% of Old Street homes privately rented, that is what letting agents and landlords ask to see on Islington bookings, with 52% social-rented stock nearby.
We are a registered upper-tier waste carrier and issue a waste transfer note for every collection — the document that protects you from a fly-tipping fine if your waste is later found dumped in Old Street — and Old Street roundabout and Bunhill Fields burial ground a few streets away, with 4,949 households on this patch. That paperwork is what most Islington letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat for Old Street (EC1V) addresses, with 39% one-person households here.
Hazardous waste — paint, solvents, gas bottles, asbestos and clinical waste need a specialist carrier; Anything fixed to the building: kitchen units, boilers and radiators are quoted as a strip-out; Loads from unsafe access — a cellar or loft that has not been surveyed around Old Street (Northern, Great Northern) — and 2% of Old Street homes being houses, with this being London Borough of Islington territory. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Old Street EC1V price you agree is the price you pay on EC1V jobs, with 98% 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. Old Street EC1V jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of islington.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
