Greenwich · SE18 · Rubbish removal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Plumstead fitters · Fixed written pricesBooking rubbish removal near Plumstead Common? Very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station, 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
Booked mostly by mixed-tenure households around Plumstead, rubbish removal here covers supply-free fitting from £40. With 33% of Plumstead's 9,964 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in SE18 shape the slot length we hold.
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. Very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station.
Next-day slots are standard across every borough, and same-day collection is usually available if booked before mid-morning. Plumstead (Elizabeth line) is the nearest station, so a SE18 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect solid London stock brick in SE18, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, measured on the walk in from Plumstead (Elizabeth line) rather than assumed from a map in SE18, 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 Plumstead stock goes, and with 32% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does.
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 Plumstead
Plumstead SE18 is mainly Victorian and mixed-tenure: 33% of homes here are flats and 67% are houses, across 9,964 households (ONS Census 2021).
With 32% private renting against 41% owner-occupied, most SE18 bookings land on a move-in day rather than a weekend.
Plumstead substrates run to solid London stock brick in SE18, some of it dry-lined during a later refurbishment, measured on the walk in from Plumstead (Elizabeth line) rather than assumed from a map. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because fixings landing in soft lime mortar joints instead of the brick body, as the Plumstead stock goes, and with 32% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does is the mistake that costs a SE18 customer twice.
Terraced streets climbing steeply from the high street to the common. That character decides the practical detail of rubbish removal here far more than the borough boundary does. Plumstead is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Getting to the door matters as much as the job: very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station. Plumstead (Elizabeth line) is the nearest station, 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 Plumstead 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 Plumstead Common & Riverside and Plumstead High Street and Plumstead South neighbourhood itself — not Greenwich-wide averages, and not estimates.
28,010
Residents
Plumstead Common & Riverside and Plumstead High Street and Plumstead South neighbourhood, Census 2021
9,964
Households
Median age 35.6
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
27.2%
Privately rented
32%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Plumstead Common & Riverside, Plumstead High Street, Plumstead South (E02000318, E02000319, E02000329) — the published geography that covers Plumstead, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE18 district: 51.4845, 0.0723 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Boot-load of mixed rubbish starts at £40 in Plumstead on Greenwich bookings, with a median age of 36 in this neighbourhood, 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 on this side of Greenwich, with 33% of homes here being flats.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on SE18 jobs, with this being Royal Borough of Greenwich territory. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Plumstead most weeks on the Plumstead rounds, with 33% of homes here being flats.
In Plumstead, 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 Greenwich, with Greenwich parking rules in play. Ask for it in writing before the SE18 visit and it is on the job sheet.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in in Plumstead. With 33% of Plumstead homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on Greenwich bookings, with this being Royal Borough of Greenwich territory — and 9,964 households on this patch, 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 SE18 — and 27% social-rented stock nearby, with 67% of Plumstead homes being houses, which is quoted separately with a commercial waste transfer note. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Plumstead SE18 price you agree is the price you pay on this side of Greenwich, with Plumstead Common a few streets away.
All three. With 32% of Plumstead privately rented and 41% owner-occupied, roughly half the SE18 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door on this side of Greenwich — and 27% one-person households here, with 32% of SE18 homes being privately rented.
Plumstead Common is the marker we route to around Plumstead (Elizabeth line), with 27% one-person households here, and very steep hills, narrow terraced streets and permit bays near the station. A SE18 slot added to an existing Greenwich round usually lands the same week rather than the next in Plumstead, with Greenwich parking rules in play.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Plumstead SE18 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.
