Lambeth · SE11 · Mattress and bed disposal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Kennington fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for mattress and bed disposal in Kennington SE11? We work in Kennington most weeks — georgian terraces, the Oval's gasholders and the park between them — and price mattress and bed disposal against that reality rather than a London average. Fixed written quote from £45, insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
This page prices mattress and bed disposal for Kennington SE11 specifically: Georgian and early Victorian stock, 25% privately rented and 8,644 households in total. Work starts at £45, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Lambeth 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. Kennington (Northern) is the nearest station, so a SE11 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Kennington, often with surface conduit, where 28% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year in SE11, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Kennington gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, a median age of 34 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. Match-day restrictions at the Oval, Duchy estate rules and basement-step access.
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.
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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 Kennington
In Kennington (SE11) the split is 88% flats to 12% houses over 8,644 households, and the stock is Georgian and early Victorian.
Because 25% of Kennington is privately rented and 47% socially rented, a lot of SE11 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in Kennington, often with surface conduit, where 28% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year behind the plaster in SE11. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why Kennington gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here is the fault we are called back to undo.
Kennington 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 terraces, the Oval's gasholders and the park between them — which is why a SE11 quote is not a Lambeth average.
Match-day restrictions at the Oval, Duchy estate rules and basement-step access. Nearest station is Kennington (Northern), 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 Kennington 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 Kennington West & Vauxhall North and Lambeth Walk & North Kennington neighbourhood itself — not Lambeth-wide averages, and not estimates.
18,944
Residents
Kennington West & Vauxhall North and Lambeth Walk & North Kennington neighbourhood, Census 2021
8,644
Households
Median age 34.2
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
37.9%
Privately rented
25.4%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Kennington West & Vauxhall North, Lambeth Walk & North Kennington (E02000619, E02000620) — the published geography that covers Kennington, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE11 district: 51.4898, -0.1116 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Single mattress, any type starts at £45 in Kennington on Lambeth bookings, with 38% 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 the Kennington rounds, then the floor it sits on. A mattress cannot be compacted in the van for Kennington (SE11) addresses, with 88% of homes here being flats — and 8,644 households on this patch, 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 across SE11, with this being a short walk from Kennington (Northern). We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Kennington most weeks on the streets near The Kia Oval, with 25% of SE11 homes being privately rented.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on SE11 jobs, with 12% of Kennington homes being houses.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in this 88% flats neighbourhood. With 88% of Kennington homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on this side of Lambeth, with this being London Borough of Lambeth territory — and 88% 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 on Lambeth bookings — and Lambeth parking rules in play, 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, with 47% social-rented stock nearby, which need a joiner rather than a clearance crew. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Kennington SE11 price you agree is the price you pay in Kennington, with 12% of Kennington homes being houses.
All three. With 25% of Kennington privately rented and 28% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE11 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door around Kennington (Northern) — and 12% of Kennington homes being houses, with a median age of 34 in this neighbourhood.
The Kia Oval is the marker we route to across SE11, with 88% of homes here being flats, and match-day restrictions at the Oval, Duchy estate rules and basement-step access. A SE11 slot added to an existing Lambeth round usually lands the same week rather than the next on this side of Lambeth, with this being London Borough of Lambeth territory.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Kennington SE11 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of lambeth.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
