Office Clearance in Epping
Offices, shops, units, barns and yards around Epping cleared and stripped back, ready for the next trade or for handing over.
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The commercial centre is the High Street, and it is protected
Epping's business life runs along one road. The High Street carries the shops, the offices over them, the professional practices and the district council's own offices at number 323. It is also a conservation area, one of the town's five, so a strip-out here happens inside a protected street with a loading restriction and a pavement full of people.
Away from the High Street the commercial fabric turns agricultural quickly. A fair share of what we clear around this town is a barn, a redundant farm building or a yard rather than an office, where the constraint is ground conditions and gateway width instead of a stair and a loading window. They are two genuinely different jobs and we price them as two.
Load sizes and prices
Our own price list| Load size | Waste | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Full load | Mixed waste | £400 |
| Three-quarter load | Mixed waste | £300 |
| Half load | Mixed waste | £220 |
| Quarter load | Mixed waste | £120 |
| Clean wood load | Single material | £300 |
| Hardcore load | Single 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 Epping
There is one price list and Epping 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.
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Get a price for Epping
Three short fields and we come back with a written price.
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 calculatorOr 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 Epping takes in
Commercial work in Epping, split between the High Street and the farms.
- Soft strip out. Back to shell. Partitions, ceiling grid, floor boxes and fitted kitchen removed and the floor swept. Along the High Street it means carrying down a stair to a kerb you cannot sit on.
- Renovation clearance. Cleared as the work goes rather than left to pile up, which on a protected frontage with a pavement in front of it is not optional.
- Outbuilding clearance and demolition. A derelict outbuilding or farm building dropped and carried away. Out towards Coopersale and North Weald this is a regular job rather than a rare one.
- Construction site clearance and strip out. A site cleared while the build is running, and a strip-out before one begins. The first question on a rural site is what the access will take in the wet.
- Land clearing. Yards, plots and gateway entrances cleared and left level enough to work off.
No trade waste anywhere in the county's sites
For a business in Epping there is no council route of any kind. Essex County Council recycling centres take household waste only and business, trade and commercial waste is not accepted at any of them, Waltham Abbey included. That site also refuses DIY waste and rubble from everybody and will not book a van in, so the vehicle is turned away before the load is even discussed.
The district's special collection is a household service, and its excluded list reads like a strip-out inventory: building waste, worktops, fixtures, fittings, carpet, glass, fence panels. There is no reading of it that covers a unit going back to shell or a barn coming out.
So it is loaded, carried away and disposed of properly at a transfer station, with whatever can be recycled separated first. You have the load size and the figure in writing before we begin.
Jobs like this one
Three of the twelve from the commercial and land end: a unit stripped and swept, a plant deck taken back to bare concrete, and timber and rubble cleared off a boundary.
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Soft strip out
Commercial unit stripped and swept
- Found
- Broken pallets and timber piled behind hazard tape across the unit floor.
- Left
- Floor swept end to end, daylight back through the shopfront.
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Commercial strip out
Plant deck stripped out
- Found
- A bank of air-conditioning condensers and old steel walkway grating behind the palisade.
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- Condensers and grating removed, deck taken back to bare concrete.
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Builders waste
Timber and rubble against the fence
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- 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.
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Questions we get asked about this
Do you clear barns and farm buildings?
Yes, and they are a regular job out this way. Tell us what the access is like and whether anything in there needs separating.
The shop is on the High Street with no rear access.
Almost every commercial job in this town is shaped that way. We work to short stops at the kerb and clear as we go rather than stacking anything on the pavement.
Has a business here got any council option at all?
No. Essex sites refuse trade waste, Waltham Abbey refuses rubble from anybody, and the special collection is for households. A transfer station is where it ends up.