Lewisham · SE13 · Rubbish removal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Lewisham fitters · Fixed written pricesLooking for rubbish removal in Lewisham SE13? We work in Lewisham most weeks — the market, the shopping centre and a cluster of new residential towers — and price rubbish removal against that reality rather than a London average. Fixed written quote from £40, insured fitters, every fixing torqued, and the flat-pack packaging taken away.
Overview
This page prices rubbish removal for Lewisham SE13 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 33% privately rented and 3,987 households in total. Work starts at £40, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Lewisham 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
Next-day slots are standard across every borough, and same-day collection is usually available if booked before mid-morning. Lewisham (DLR, Southeastern) is the nearest station, so a SE13 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SE13, often with surface conduit, and with 33% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does in SE13, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Lewisham gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, where 32% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year.
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. Roundabout red routes, market-day loading limits and booked lifts in the towers.
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 Lewisham
Lewisham SE13 is mainly Victorian and social-housing-led: 75% of homes here are flats and 25% are houses, across 3,987 households (ONS Census 2021).
The social-housing-led mix here (32% owned, 33% privately rented) means a SE13 diary swings between short-notice tenancy deadlines and appointments set a fortnight out.
Lewisham substrates run to precast concrete panels and dense blockwork in SE13, often with surface conduit, and with 33% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because Lewisham gives us drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it, where 32% owner-occupation means the same home is booked again rather than a new tenant each year is the mistake that costs a SE13 customer twice.
Lewisham 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 — the market, the shopping centre and a cluster of new residential towers — which is why a SE13 quote is not a Lewisham average.
On access, roundabout red routes, market-day loading limits and booked lifts in the towers — one reason one person and a car for boot-loads; two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton for anything from a quarter-load upward. Fitters travelling in use Lewisham (DLR, Southeastern).
Area at a glance
Who lives in Lewisham 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 Lewisham Central & Park neighbourhood itself — not Lewisham-wide averages, and not estimates.
9,142
Residents
Lewisham Central & Park neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,987
Households
Median age 35.3
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
36.4%
Privately rented
32.9%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Lewisham Central & Park (E02007009) — the published geography that covers Lewisham, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SE13 district: 51.4596, -0.0097 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Boot-load of mixed rubbish starts at £40 in Lewisham on the streets near Lewisham Market on the High Street, with 33% of SE13 homes being privately rented, 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 Lewisham, with 32% owner-occupation locally.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions in Lewisham, with 3,987 households on this patch. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Lewisham most weeks on Lewisham bookings, with a median age of 35 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 for Lewisham (SE13) addresses, with Lewisham Market on the High Street a few streets away.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in around Lewisham (DLR, Southeastern). With 75% of Lewisham homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm on SE13 jobs, with this being London Borough of Lewisham territory — and 36% one-person households here, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
Roundabout red routes, market-day loading limits and booked lifts in the towers on the Lewisham rounds. 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 SE13 jobs — and Lewisham parking rules in play, with a median age of 35 in this neighbourhood.
Registered upper-tier waste carrier with the Environment Agency. A waste transfer note is issued for every collection in this 75% flats neighbourhood — and 36% one-person households here, with 35% social-rented stock nearby, 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. 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 32% owner-occupation locally.
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 in Lewisham — and this being a short walk from Lewisham (DLR, Southeastern), with 33% of SE13 homes being privately rented, which is quoted separately with a commercial waste transfer note. Anything outside that scope is quoted separately so the Lewisham SE13 price you agree is the price you pay for Lewisham (SE13) addresses, with this being a short walk from Lewisham (DLR, Southeastern).
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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. Lewisham SE13 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.
