Greenwich · SE9 · Rubbish removal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Eltham fitters · Fixed written pricesBooking rubbish removal near Eltham Palace? Driveway parking on most streets; the high street has timed loading only, and that is planned into the slot rather than discovered on the day. Prices start at £40 and are fixed before we travel. Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
This page prices rubbish removal for Eltham SE9 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 15% privately rented and 13,732 households in total. Work starts at £40, fixed in writing, with parking and Royal Borough of Greenwich permit rules costed before an insured fitter travels.
How it works
Step 1
Send a few photos of the pile or the room and the volume is confirmed against real reference points, not guessed.
Step 2
One figure covering volume, tip gate fee and any access cost, with our carrier registration number on it.
Step 3
Most postcodes have a next-day slot; same-day is usually available if you call before mid-morning.
Step 4
The crew carries everything out and loads the van — you are not asked to help unless you want to.
Step 5
Site, weight and date confirmed the same day, which is what a landlord or the council asks for if waste is ever traced.
Why choose us
Registered upper-tier waste carrier with the Environment Agency. A waste transfer note is issued for every collection, which is the document that protects you if rubbish is later found fly-tipped — liability for the waste otherwise sits with whoever produced it, not the person who took it away.
One person and a car for boot-loads; two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton for anything from a quarter-load upward. Driveway parking on most streets; the high street has timed loading only.
Next-day slots are standard across every borough, and same-day collection is usually available if booked before mid-morning. Eltham (Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE9 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, the pattern behind 13,732 households inside the SE9 neighbourhood in SE9, 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 Eltham stock goes, the reality on the streets around Eltham Palace.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boot-load of mixed rubbish | £40 | 15–30 min | Priced for a small car boot's worth — bin bags, packaging and small offcuts that do not justify a van visit. |
| Quarter-load (approx. 3 cubic yards) | £95 | 30–60 min | Charged on the volume the rubbish takes in the van, weighed against the transfer station's gate rate. |
| Half-load (approx. 6 cubic yards) | £165 | 45–90 min | A typical loft, garage or shed's worth of mixed general waste, loaded by hand from wherever it sits. |
| Full Luton load (approx. 12 cubic yards) | £300 | 1.5–3 hrs | Full van and the transfer-station charge, with the waste transfer note issued the same day. |
| Two-van full load | £560 | 3–5 hrs | Where one van cannot take the volume in a single trip; two crews run in parallel rather than one van doing two runs. |
| Rubbish removal with same-day booking | +£25 | Within hours | A dispatch premium for slotting a same-day job between booked collections rather than a next-day charge. |
Boot-load of mixed rubbish
£40 · 15–30 min
Priced for a small car boot's worth — bin bags, packaging and small offcuts that do not justify a van visit.
Quarter-load (approx. 3 cubic yards)
£95 · 30–60 min
Charged on the volume the rubbish takes in the van, weighed against the transfer station's gate rate.
Half-load (approx. 6 cubic yards)
£165 · 45–90 min
A typical loft, garage or shed's worth of mixed general waste, loaded by hand from wherever it sits.
Full Luton load (approx. 12 cubic yards)
£300 · 1.5–3 hrs
Full van and the transfer-station charge, with the waste transfer note issued the same day.
Two-van full load
£560 · 3–5 hrs
Where one van cannot take the volume in a single trip; two crews run in parallel rather than one van doing two runs.
Rubbish removal with same-day booking
+£25 · Within hours
A dispatch premium for slotting a same-day job between booked collections rather than a next-day charge.
Domestic prices are the total you pay. Landlord and letting-agent invoices are quoted plus VAT at 20%. Rubbish is priced by volume in the van, not by weight or by the hour, and the figure is confirmed before the crew is booked. Where a permit, bay suspension, ULEZ or the Congestion Charge applies it is itemised in the written quote.
Scope
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Coverage
Also in this area
Single items, part-loads, garden waste and office strip-outs across the borough.
The wider rubbish disposal hub — every waste stream we collect, in one place.
Sofas, beds, wardrobes and mattresses collected per item, dismantling included.
Whole-property clears, probate and end-of-tenancy strip-outs, sorted room by room.
A full top-to-bottom clean of the property once it has been emptied.
Working in Eltham
Eltham SE9 is mainly Victorian and owner-occupier-led: 27% of homes here are flats and 73% are houses, across 13,732 households (ONS Census 2021).
With 15% private renting against 64% owner-occupied, most SE9 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Walls are solid London stock brick; locally that also means some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, the pattern behind 13,732 households inside the SE9 neighbourhood, so the fixing that matters in Eltham is chosen on site — the usual failure here is fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Eltham stock goes, the reality on the streets around Eltham Palace.
The medieval palace, Art Deco Eltham Palace and streets of 1930s semis. That character decides the practical detail of rubbish removal here far more than the borough boundary does. Eltham is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Driveway parking on most streets; the high street has timed loading only. Nearest station is Eltham (Southeastern), and one person and a car for boot-loads; two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton for anything from a quarter-load upward.
Area at a glance
Who lives in Eltham and what they live in decides how rubbish removal is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Eltham North and Eltham Park and Eltham South and Eltham West and New Eltham neighbourhood itself — not Greenwich-wide averages, and not estimates.
34,732
Residents
Eltham North and Eltham Park and Eltham South and Eltham West and New Eltham neighbourhood, Census 2021
13,732
Households
Median age 40
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
28%
Privately rented
14.6%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Eltham North, Eltham Park, Eltham South, Eltham West, New Eltham (E02000335, E02000337, E02000339, E02000340, E02000344) — the published geography that covers Eltham, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE9 district: 51.4451, 0.0549 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Boot-load of mixed rubbish starts at £40 in Eltham on SE9 jobs, with Eltham Palace a few streets away, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Volume in the van is the main driver. Walk-up flats above the second floor with no lift, red-route frontages and permit-only bays are what add crew time to an otherwise identical load across SE9, with 21% social-rented stock nearby.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions across SE9, with 13,732 households on this patch. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Eltham most weeks around Eltham (Southeastern), with a median age of 40 in this neighbourhood.
5–2 hours. Sliding-door and corner wardrobes take two to four times as long because the tracks have to be dead level in this 27% flats neighbourhood, with 27% of homes here being flats.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in across SE9. With 27% of Eltham homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on the streets near Eltham Palace, with Eltham Palace a few streets away — and this being Royal Borough of Greenwich territory, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Hazardous waste — paint, solvents, gas bottles, asbestos and clinical waste — which needs a specialist licensed carrier; Anything fixed to the building, such as kitchen units still plumbed in or a fitted bathroom suite; Trade waste from a registered business across SE9, with Eltham Palace a few streets away — and 28% one-person households here, which is quoted separately with a commercial waste transfer note. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Eltham SE9 price you agree is the price you pay on this side of Greenwich, with 27% of homes here being flats.
All three. With 15% of Eltham privately rented and 64% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE9 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on the streets near Eltham Palace — and a median age of 40 in this neighbourhood, with this being Royal Borough of Greenwich territory.
Eltham Palace is the marker we route to on the Eltham rounds, with this being a short walk from Eltham (Southeastern), and driveway parking on most streets; the high street has timed loading only. A SE9 slot added to an existing Greenwich round usually lands the same week rather than the next on SE9 jobs, with 64% owner-occupation locally.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Eltham SE9 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of greenwich.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
