Croydon · CR8 · Mattress and bed disposal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Kenley fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide mattress and bed disposal in Kenley CR8 for houses and flats around Kenley Aerodrome and Common. 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
Booked mostly by owner-occupier-led households around Kenley, mattress and bed disposal here covers supply-free fitting from £45. With 21% of Kenley's 5,051 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in CR8 shape the slot length we hold.
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. Kenley (Southern) is the nearest station, so a CR8 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick, which is why London Borough of Croydon kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded in CR8, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Kenley stock goes, and with 12% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does.
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. Very steep private drives, narrow lanes and limited turning space.
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 Kenley
5,051 households sit inside the CR8 neighbourhood covering Kenley. The build is post-war, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 21% of those homes are flats.
The owner-occupier-led mix here (76% owned, 12% privately rented) means a CR8 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Kenley substrates run to some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment — and solid London stock brick, which is why London Borough of Croydon kerb rules get settled before the van is loaded. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Kenley stock goes, and with 12% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the mistake that costs a CR8 customer twice.
Kenley is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it. What shapes the job more is the neighbourhood itself — airfield common, wooded valleys and large houses on steep plots — which is why a CR8 quote is not a Croydon average.
Very steep private drives, narrow lanes and limited turning space. Nearest station is Kenley (Southern), and 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.
Area at a glance
Who lives in Kenley 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 Kenley North and Kenley South neighbourhood itself — not Croydon-wide averages, and not estimates.
13,255
Residents
Kenley North and Kenley South neighbourhood, Census 2021
5,051
Households
Median age 40.7
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
21.2%
Privately rented
11.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Kenley North, Kenley South (E02000233, E02000235) — the published geography that covers Kenley, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the CR8 district: 51.3319, -0.1144 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Single mattress, any type starts at £45 in Kenley on Croydon bookings, with 76% owner-occupation locally, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Mattress size and whether the base comes too in Kenley, then the floor it sits on. A mattress cannot be compacted in the van on this side of Croydon, with 12% of CR8 homes being privately rented — and this being a short walk from Kenley (Southern), 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 in this 21% flats neighbourhood, with Croydon parking rules in play. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Kenley most weeks on this side of Croydon, with 21% one-person households here.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level around Kenley (Southern), with 21% one-person households here.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in this 21% flats neighbourhood. With 21% of Kenley homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm for Kenley (CR8) addresses, with Kenley Aerodrome and Common a few streets away — and 12% social-rented stock nearby, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Kenley Aerodrome and Common is the marker we route to around Kenley (Southern), with 21% one-person households here, and very steep private drives, narrow lanes and limited turning space. A CR8 slot added to an existing Croydon round usually lands the same week rather than the next in Kenley, with Croydon parking rules in play.
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 on the Kenley rounds — and Kenley Aerodrome and Common a few streets away, with 21% of homes here being flats. Kenley sits close to Kenley (Southern), with Croydon parking rules in play, so we can usually add a CR8 job to an existing Croydon round at short notice on Croydon bookings.
Very steep private drives, narrow lanes and limited turning space on CR8 jobs. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Croydon it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards around Kenley (Southern) — and 12% social-rented stock nearby, with 5,051 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. Kenley CR8 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of croydon.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
