Lewisham · SE12 · Mattress and bed disposal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Lee fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for mattress and bed disposal in Lee SE12? We work in Lee most weeks — manor House library, Lee Green's shops and streets of interwar houses — 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 Lee SE12 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 22% privately rented and 6,151 households in total. Work starts at £45, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Lewisham 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. Lee (Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE12 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, with 18% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first in SE12, 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 Lee stock goes, a median age of 38 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. Driveways on many streets; Lee High Road is a red route with short bays.
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 Lee
6,151 households sit inside the SE12 neighbourhood covering Lee. The build is mainly Victorian, the tenure profile owner-occupier-led, and 39% of those homes are flats.
With 22% private renting against 60% owner-occupied, most SE12 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Lee substrates run to solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, with 18% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Lee stock goes, a median age of 38 in this neighbourhood shapes what gets ordered here is the mistake that costs a SE12 customer twice.
Lee 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 — manor House library, Lee Green's shops and streets of interwar houses — which is why a SE12 quote is not a Lewisham average.
Driveways on many streets; Lee High Road is a red route with short bays. Nearest station is Lee (Southeastern), 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 Lee 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 Grove Park & Lee South and Lee neighbourhood itself — not Lewisham-wide averages, and not estimates.
15,387
Residents
Grove Park & Lee South and Lee neighbourhood, Census 2021
6,151
Households
Median age 37.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
27.4%
Privately rented
21.6%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Grove Park & Lee South, Lee (E02000668, E02000675) — the published geography that covers Lee, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE12 district: 51.4445, 0.0198 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Single mattress, any type starts at £45 in Lee, with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Mattress size and whether the base comes too for Lee (SE12) addresses, then the floor it sits on. A mattress cannot be compacted in the van in this 39% flats neighbourhood, with Lewisham parking rules in play, 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 around Lee (Southeastern), with 27% one-person households here. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Lee most weeks on SE12 jobs, with 6,151 households on this patch.
In Lee, 5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level on this side of Lewisham, with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory. Ask for it in writing before the SE12 visit and it is on the job sheet.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in Lee. With 39% of Lee homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on Lewisham bookings, with 6,151 households on this patch — and 60% of Lee homes being houses, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Driveways on many streets; Lee High Road is a red route with short bays across SE12. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Lewisham it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards on this side of Lewisham, with this being a short walk from Lee (Southeastern).
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 on SE12 jobs — and this being a short walk from Lee (Southeastern), with 27% one-person households here, and a waste transfer note is issued for every collection. That paperwork is what most Lewisham letting agents and managing agents ask for before work starts in a leasehold flat on this side of Lewisham, with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory.
Mattresses soaked through with bodily fluid contamination requiring a biohazard route rather than standard disposal; Bed bug or pest-infested mattresses in Lee, which need pest control treatment before collection can proceed safely; Fitting or assembling a replacement bed, with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory — and The Manor House and its gardens a few streets away, which is booked separately as a flat-pack or bed-assembly visit; Structural bed frames fixed to the wall or floor, which need a joiner rather than a clearance crew. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Lee SE12 price you agree is the price you pay for Lee (SE12) addresses, with a median age of 38 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. Lee SE12 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of lewisham.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
