Croydon · CR7 · Mattress and bed disposal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Thornton Heath fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide mattress and bed disposal in Thornton Heath CR7 for houses and flats around Selhurst Park. 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
Mattress and bed disposal in Thornton Heath CR7 is a fixed-price visit for mixed-tenure homes in Croydon, most of them mainly Victorian. 12,862 households sit inside this CR7 patch, 38% of them flats, so we quote on access near Selhurst Park rather than a London average.
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. Thornton Heath (Southern) is the nearest station, so a CR7 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick, where 54% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year in CR7, 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 Thornton Heath stock goes, which is what a 38% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Thornton Heath actually produces.
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. Match-day parking bans, high-street loading windows and narrow terraced streets.
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 Thornton Heath
12,862 households sit inside the CR7 neighbourhood covering Thornton Heath. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile mixed-tenure, and 38% of those homes are flats.
Because 31% of Thornton Heath is privately rented and 15% socially rented, a lot of CR7 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, over solid London stock brick, where 54% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year, so the fixing that matters in Thornton Heath is chosen on site — the usual failure here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Thornton Heath stock goes, which is what a 38% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Thornton Heath actually produces.
Thornton Heath 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 — a busy high street, the pond junction and Selhurst Park's match-day crowds — which is why a CR7 quote is not a Croydon average.
On access, match-day parking bans, high-street loading windows and narrow terraced streets — 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 Thornton Heath (Southern).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Thornton Heath 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 Thornton Heath Central and Thornton Heath North East and Thornton Heath North West and Thornton Heath West neighbourhood itself — not Croydon-wide averages, and not estimates.
34,192
Residents
Thornton Heath Central and Thornton Heath North East and Thornton Heath North West and Thornton Heath West neighbourhood, Census 2021
12,862
Households
Median age 37
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
28.8%
Privately rented
30.8%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Thornton Heath Central, Thornton Heath North East, Thornton Heath North West, Thornton Heath West (E02000198, E02000199, E02000202, E02000203) — the published geography that covers Thornton Heath, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the CR7 district: 51.3993, -0.1067 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Single mattress, any type starts at £45 in Thornton Heath around Thornton Heath (Southern), with this being London Borough of Croydon territory, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Mattress size and whether the base comes too in Thornton Heath, then the floor it sits on. A mattress cannot be compacted in the van on the Thornton Heath rounds, with Croydon parking rules in play — and 29% 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 in Thornton Heath, with Selhurst Park a few streets away. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Thornton Heath most weeks on Croydon bookings, with 62% of Thornton Heath homes being houses.
In Thornton Heath, 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 Selhurst Park, with 12,862 households on this patch. That covers mattress and bed disposal on Thornton Heath jobs too.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on CR7 jobs. With 38% of Thornton Heath homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on this side of Croydon, with 29% one-person households here — and Selhurst Park a few streets away, 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, with 12,862 households on this patch, 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 on the streets near Selhurst Park, which need a joiner rather than a clearance crew. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Thornton Heath CR7 price you agree is the price you pay across CR7, with 29% one-person households here.
All three. With 31% of Thornton Heath privately rented and 54% owner-occupied, roughly half the CR7 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door around Thornton Heath (Southern) — and Selhurst Park a few streets away, with 29% one-person households here.
Selhurst Park is the marker we route to for Thornton Heath (CR7) addresses, with this being London Borough of Croydon territory, and match-day parking bans, high-street loading windows and narrow terraced streets. A CR7 slot added to an existing Croydon round usually lands the same week rather than the next on the streets near Selhurst Park, with a median age of 37 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. Thornton Heath CR7 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.
