Wandsworth · SW18 · Rubbish removal
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Earlsfield fitters · Fixed written pricesWe provide rubbish removal in Earlsfield SW18 for houses and flats around King George's Park. From £40, quoted in writing before the visit, with one person and a car for boot-loads; two crew and a 3.5-tonne Luton for anything from a quarter-load upward Units are built in the room they live in, then wall-anchored where they need it.
Overview
This page prices rubbish removal for Earlsfield SW18 specifically: mainly Victorian stock, 32% privately rented and 7,243 households in total. Work starts at £40, fixed in writing, with parking and London Borough of Wandsworth 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. Earlsfield (South Western) is the nearest station, so a SW18 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork, measured on the walk in from Earlsfield (South Western) rather than assumed from a map in SW18, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is Earlsfield gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, which is what a 61% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Earlsfield actually produces.
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. Narrow terraced streets, permit bays and railway-bridge height limits.
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
The guys arrived prompt at 9 am . Sorry I’m rubbish at names but I remember the one guys initials were AB . He really worked hard . Both guys were very polite and were happy to pop back up the stairs to finish dusting the bedrooms surfaces that were missed . Not one moan… Read in full →
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We had a good experience with this company for our move from London to Spain. Everything went well. They also helped us with our move out clean.
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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 Earlsfield
In Earlsfield (SW18) the split is 61% flats to 39% houses over 7,243 households, and the stock is mainly Victorian.
Because 32% of Earlsfield is privately rented and 16% socially rented, a lot of SW18 work is agreed with a landlord or managing agent rather than the person opening the door.
Walls are with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork, measured on the walk in from Earlsfield (South Western) rather than assumed from a map, so the fixing that matters in Earlsfield is chosen on site — the usual failure here is Earlsfield gives us short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs, which is what a 61% flat share across the ONS neighbourhood covering Earlsfield actually produces.
Earlsfield 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 — garratt Lane's independents and quiet grids of Victorian terraces — which is why a SW18 quote is not a Wandsworth average.
Narrow terraced streets, permit bays and railway-bridge height limits. Nearest station is Earlsfield (South Western), 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 Earlsfield 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 Earlsfield North and Earlsfield South neighbourhood itself — not Wandsworth-wide averages, and not estimates.
18,610
Residents
Earlsfield North and Earlsfield South neighbourhood, Census 2021
7,243
Households
Median age 33.2
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
26.1%
Privately rented
32.2%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhoods Earlsfield North, Earlsfield South (E02000941, E02000946) — the published geography that covers Earlsfield, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the SW18 district: 51.4515, -0.1915 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Boot-load of mixed rubbish starts at £40 in Earlsfield for Earlsfield (SW18) addresses, with this being London Borough of Wandsworth territory, 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 SW18, with 7,243 households on this patch.
Yes — IKEA, Argos, Wayfair, Made and independent brands are all built to the manufacturer's instructions on Wandsworth bookings, with 39% of Earlsfield homes being houses. We are independent of every retailer; the names simply describe what we assemble in Earlsfield most weeks on the streets near King George's Park, with 16% social-rented stock nearby.
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 Wandsworth, with 16% social-rented stock nearby. On Earlsfield jobs we confirm it when the slot is booked, not on the day.
That is exactly why we build in the room it will live in on Wandsworth bookings. With 61% of Earlsfield homes being flats, narrow hallways and tight turns are the norm in this 61% flats neighbourhood, with a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood, so anything that will not pass a doorway once assembled is built where it stands.
King George's Park is the marker we route to on Wandsworth bookings, with this being a short walk from Earlsfield (South Western), and narrow terraced streets, permit bays and railway-bridge height limits. A SW18 slot added to an existing Wandsworth round usually lands the same week rather than the next on the Earlsfield rounds, with 51% owner-occupation locally.
Next-day slots are standard across every borough, with King George's Park a few streets away, and same-day collection is usually available if booked before mid-morning across SW18. Earlsfield sits close to Earlsfield (South Western), with 39% of Earlsfield homes being houses, so we can usually add a SW18 job to an existing Wandsworth round at short notice on the streets near King George's Park.
Narrow terraced streets, permit bays and railway-bridge height limits on the streets near King George's Park. Where a permit or a suspended bay is needed in London Borough of Wandsworth it is itemised on the quote before the visit, never added afterwards across SW18 — and 39% of Earlsfield homes being houses, with 61% of homes here being flats.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Earlsfield SW18 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of wandsworth.
No deposit is taken until the price and slot are confirmed in writing.
