Complete Waste Management Ltd · Essex, London and Hertfordshire
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Office Clearance in Cambridge

Offices, labs, units and sites in Cambridge cleared and stripped back, ready for the next tenant or for handing the keys over.

  • Cambridgeshire
  • Load prices published
  • Written price before it is booked

Photograph: Clem Onojeghuo clemono2, Cambridge, United Kingdom (Unsplash KAaAotRE6YY).jpg, CC0. Cropped.

A research city, and the fit-outs it gets through

Most of the commercial floorspace worth naming here sits north of the city. Cambridge Science Park is on Milton Road, St John's Innovation Park is a couple of miles north of the centre near junction 33 of the A14 and a short walk from the Science Park, and Cambridge Business Park sits against the A14 as well. St John's Innovation Centre was founded by the college in 1987 and was the first in Europe aimed at knowledge-based businesses.

What that produces is a steady churn of fit-outs. Companies grow, move, merge or fold, and each of those is a suite going back to a lettable state: partitions, benching, cabling, server racks, kitchens. The parks themselves are straightforward to work in, with loading access and space. The awkward jobs are the older offices in the city centre, where a permit street and a narrow stair replace the loading bay.

Load sizes and prices

Our own price list
Load sizes with the price for each
Load sizeWaste Price
Full loadMixed waste£400
Three-quarter loadMixed waste£300
Half loadMixed waste£220
Quarter loadMixed waste£120
Clean wood loadSingle material£300
Hardcore loadSingle material£280

These are the load prices off our own price list. You are told the load size and the price before anything is booked, so there is nothing to work out at the end of the job.

Try the price calculator What the price covers

Tick off what you have got and it works out the load size and the price. It is an indication and we confirm it before anything is booked.

The same prices in Cambridge

There is one price list and Cambridge is on it. Send a photograph of what needs shifting on WhatsApp and you get the load size and the figure back, rather than being asked to guess it yourself.

Try the price calculator What the price covers

Get a price for Cambridge

Three short fields and we come back with a written price.

Three fields, all short. It comes straight to us and we come back to you with a written price. Nothing is shared with anyone else.

Or price it yourself, right now

Tick off what needs taking and the tool works your price out two ways, off our collection list and off our load sizes, and shows you the cheaper one. Then pick a day. It takes about a minute and you do not have to wait for anybody.

Try the price calculator

Or send a photo, which is quicker

  • A photo tells us the load size straight away, so you get a real price instead of a range.
  • You are not asked to guess whether it is a half load or a full one. That is our job.
  • The price you are given is the price you pay, and it covers the labour and the disposal.
  • It goes straight to us, not to a call centre, and we are the ones who come back to you.

What office clearance in Cambridge takes in

What a commercial job here usually is, and where each stops.

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  • Soft strip out. Back to shell. Partitions, ceiling grid, floor boxes, fitted kitchens, benching and storage out, floor swept end to end.
  • Renovation clearance. Taken away as the work runs rather than after it, which on a park with shared service yards is what keeps you on good terms with the neighbours.
  • Outbuilding clearance and demolition. A derelict outbuilding or store taken down and cleared, which is a different job from emptying one.
  • Construction site clearance and strip out. Cleared while a build runs and stripped before one starts. Access, hours and shared yards are the first three questions on a park.
  • Land clearing. Plots, yards and access ways cleared of what has been dumped or grown over them, and left flat and usable.

Here it is not just refused, it is an offence

Every county on our patch bars business waste from its household recycling centres. Cambridgeshire says what that means more directly than the others: business waste is waste arising from any trade, business, industrial or commercial activity, and a business presenting its waste as household waste at one of these sites is committing a criminal offence.

That is worth taking seriously when somebody offers to clear your office in a transit at a price that looks too good. The permit scheme is for households, it is one per household, and it was never a route for a unit on the Science Park.

A commercial clearance here goes to a transfer station. It is loaded, taken away and disposed of, and what can be recycled is recycled, with the load size and the figure in writing before anything starts.

Jobs like this one

Three of the twelve from the commercial end: a rip-out carried out along a passage, a plot cut back to bare earth, and timber and rubble cleared off a boundary.

All twelve jobs
  • After. Passage and patio cleared and swept, back to the brick and the paving.
    Before. Plasterboard, timber and cardboard stacked the length of the passage after a rip-out.Before

    Builders waste

    Side passage full of building waste

    Found
    Plasterboard, timber and cardboard stacked the length of the passage after a rip-out.
    Left
    Passage and patio cleared and swept, back to the brick and the paving.
  • After. Cut back and cleared to bare earth, the full width of the garden usable.
    Before. Grass and weeds above waist height right across the plot behind the terrace.Before

    Land clearing

    Garden lost to waist-high growth

    Found
    Grass and weeds above waist height right across the plot behind the terrace.
    Left
    Cut back and cleared to bare earth, the full width of the garden usable.
  • After. Garden cleared and cut, the fence panels stacked flat and the ground clear.
    Before. A pile of timber, plasterboard and rubble bags stacked against the fence line.Before

    Builders waste

    Timber and rubble against the fence

    Found
    A pile of timber, plasterboard and rubble bags stacked against the fence line.
    Left
    Garden cleared and cut, the fence panels stacked flat and the ground clear.

Questions we get asked about this

Ask us something else
Can you clear a suite on the Science Park out of hours?

Yes, and on a shared service yard that is often preferred by everybody. Tell us the window and the quote covers it.

Do you take server racks, benching and cabling?

Yes, as part of the same strip out rather than as a second job. Tell us if anything needs to be kept or handled separately.

Someone offered to take it to the tip for us. Should we?

No. Business waste at a household recycling centre is a criminal offence in this county, and it is your waste with your name on it.