Camden · NW3 · Mattress and bed disposal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Swiss Cottage fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide mattress and bed disposal in Swiss Cottage NW3 for houses and flats around Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence. From £45, quoted in writing before the visit, with two crew and a Luton on a standard mattress and base; the same crew dismantles bunk frames and storage divans on site before the carry Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
This page prices mattress and bed disposal for Swiss Cottage NW3 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 46% privately rented and 3,083 households in total. Work starts at £45, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Camden permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
How it works
Step 1
Single through super king, mattress only or with the base, and whether there is a lift. That is enough for a fixed price with no change on the day.
Step 2
The gate fee for a mattress is higher than ordinary bulky waste because it cannot be compacted, so this is shown as its own line rather than folded into a vague total.
Step 3
Divan bases and bunk frames come apart where they will not pass a stair turn or a communal lift door whole.
Step 4
The mattress is wrapped before it leaves the room, protecting the stairwell and keeping the load hygienic for the crew and for you.
Step 5
Taken to a site permitted to strip mattresses for scrap steel and foam recycling, with the transfer note emailed the same day.
Why choose us
Same-week across every borough, with next-day slots common where a new mattress delivery is already booked and the old one has to be out of the room first. Swiss Cottage (Jubilee) is the nearest station, so a NW3 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect lath and plaster over timber studs; locally that also means with solid brick on the party and external walls, where 33% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year in NW3, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in Swiss Cottage, which crumbles the key and drops the panel, a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
Registered waste carrier. Mattresses go to a permitted site that strips springs for scrap steel and foam for recycling rather than a standard landfill cell, and a waste transfer note is issued for every collection.
Two crew and a Luton on a standard mattress and base; the same crew dismantles bunk frames and storage divans on site before the carry. Finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single mattress, any type | £45 | 20–30 min | Mattresses do not compact, so the van still fills at the same rate as a much bulkier item — the tip charges a flat gate fee per mattress regardless of size. |
| Double or king mattress | £55 | 20–30 min | A wider mattress needs two carriers on most stairwells rather than one, which is the labour cost behind the size step. |
| Divan base or bed frame, per item | £40 | 20–30 min | Divan bases are often heavier than the mattress on top and usually need unscrewing from the headboard first. |
| Mattress and base together | £75 | 30–45 min | Priced as a pair rather than two singles, since both come off the same room in the same carry. |
| Bunk bed or divan with drawers, dismantled | £90 | 40–60 min | Bunk frames and storage divans have to be taken apart before they will fit through a standard door or down a stair turn. |
| Multiple mattress collection, 3+ units | £35/item | By volume | Discounted per unit for landlords, letting agents and student blocks clearing several rooms in one visit. |
Single mattress, any type
£45 · 20–30 min
Mattresses do not compact, so the van still fills at the same rate as a much bulkier item — the tip charges a flat gate fee per mattress regardless of size.
Double or king mattress
£55 · 20–30 min
A wider mattress needs two carriers on most stairwells rather than one, which is the labour cost behind the size step.
Divan base or bed frame, per item
£40 · 20–30 min
Divan bases are often heavier than the mattress on top and usually need unscrewing from the headboard first.
Mattress and base together
£75 · 30–45 min
Priced as a pair rather than two singles, since both come off the same room in the same carry.
Bunk bed or divan with drawers, dismantled
£90 · 40–60 min
Bunk frames and storage divans have to be taken apart before they will fit through a standard door or down a stair turn.
Multiple mattress collection, 3+ units
£35/item · By volume
Discounted per unit for landlords, letting agents and student blocks clearing several rooms in one visit.
Domestic prices are the total you pay; landlord, letting agent and student-accommodation invoices are plus VAT at 20%. Carrying, dismantling of bed frames and the tip gate fee are included. Where a bay suspension, permit, ULEZ or the Congestion Charge applies it is itemised in the written quote before the crew is booked.
Scope
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Coverage
Also in this area
Single items, part-loads, garden waste and office strip-outs across the borough.
Mixed household and bulky waste taken by the load with a transfer note the same day.
Sofas, wardrobes, tables and old white goods collected per item, dismantling included.
Overgrown beds, hedges and years of accumulated green waste cleared and taken away.
Local moving crews working from the same borough, not across the city.
Deep extraction cleaning if the mattress is worth keeping.
Working in Swiss Cottage
3,083 households sit inside the NW3 neighbourhood covering Swiss Cottage. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile renter-heavy, and 89% of those homes are flats.
The renter-heavy mix here (33% owned, 46% privately rented) means a NW3 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Walls are lath and plaster over timber studs; locally that also means with solid brick on the party and external walls, where 33% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year, so the fixing that matters in Swiss Cottage is chosen on site — the usual failure here is a plasterboard plug spun into lime plaster in Swiss Cottage, which crumbles the key and drops the panel, a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here.
Swiss Cottage 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 — finchley Road's shops and library beside 1930s flats and post-war blocks — which is why a NW3 quote is not a Camden average.
On access, finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks — one reason two crew and a Luton on a standard mattress and base; the same crew dismantles bunk frames and storage divans on site before the carry. Fitters travelling in use Swiss Cottage (Jubilee).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Swiss Cottage and what they live in decides how mattress and bed disposal is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Swiss Cottage neighbourhood itself — not Camden-wide averages, and not estimates.
7,117
Residents
Swiss Cottage neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,083
Households
Median age 35.2
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
35.7%
Privately rented
45.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Swiss Cottage (E02000182) — the published geography that covers Swiss Cottage, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the NW3 district: 51.5523, -0.1725 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Single mattress, any type starts at £45 in Swiss Cottage across NW3, with 36% one-person households here, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Mattress size and whether the base comes too on this side of Camden, then the floor it sits on. A mattress cannot be compacted in the van on NW3 jobs, with 89% of homes here being flats — and 36% one-person households here, so the tip gate fee is charged per unit rather than by volume — that is why the price step between sizes is smaller than on other bulky items.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on the Swiss Cottage rounds, with a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Swiss Cottage most weeks across NW3, with this being London Borough of Camden territory.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level across NW3, with 46% of NW3 homes being privately rented.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in across NW3. With 89% of Swiss Cottage homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on the streets near Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence — and 11% of Swiss Cottage homes being houses, with 89% of homes here being flats, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Mattresses soaked through with bodily fluid contamination requiring a biohazard route rather than standard disposal; Bed bug or pest-infested mattresses, which need pest control treatment before collection can proceed safely; Fitting or assembling a replacement bed, which is booked separately as a flat-pack or bed-assembly visit; Structural bed frames fixed to the wall or floor for Swiss Cottage (NW3) addresses, with 33% owner-occupation locally — and Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence a few streets away, which need a joiner rather than a clearance crew. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Swiss Cottage NW3 price you agree is the price you pay on the streets near Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence, with 3,083 households on this patch.
All three. With 46% of Swiss Cottage privately rented and 33% owner-occupied, roughly half the NW3 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on Camden bookings — and this being London Borough of Camden territory, with 89% of homes here being flats.
Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence is the marker we route to on Camden bookings, with this being a short walk from Swiss Cottage (Jubilee) — and Swiss Cottage Library by Basil Spence a few streets away, and finchley Road is a red route; loading is from side streets with permits and lift booking in the blocks. A NW3 slot added to an existing Camden round usually lands the same week rather than the next on the Swiss Cottage rounds, with a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood.
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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. Swiss Cottage NW3 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of camden.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
