
Office Clearance in Wanstead
Shops, offices, units and yards around Wanstead cleared and stripped back, ready for the next tenant or for handing the keys over.
Photograph: Stacey Harris, High Street, Wanstead - geograph.org.uk - 2383108.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped.
A village high street with everything stacked above and behind it
Wanstead's commercial ground is one street and the lanes off it. Shops at pavement level, offices, surgeries and flats above them, and yards and stores behind that are reachable only through the lanes the council's own appraisal singles out as what makes the village work. Some of those shops are single-storey buildings put up in front of eighteenth-century houses, so the depth of a unit rarely matches its frontage.
A strip-out here is therefore about the route rather than the volume. The question is whether a vehicle gets into the lane and to the rear door, or whether everything comes out through a shopfront onto a busy pavement. It is worth ten minutes on the phone before anybody quotes a figure, and it is the first thing we ask.
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 Wanstead
There is one price list and Wanstead 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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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 Wanstead takes in
Commercial work in Wanstead, decided by whether a vehicle reaches the back door.
- Soft strip out. Back to shell. Partitions, ceiling grid, floor boxes and fitted kitchen out and the floor swept. Whether that goes out the back or the front decides the sequence and the price.
- Renovation clearance. Cleared as the work goes rather than left to pile up, which above a trading shop on this street is not optional.
- Outbuilding clearance and demolition. A store, lock-up or yard structure off one of the lanes taken down and cleared rather than emptied.
- Construction site clearance and strip out. Site clearance while a build runs, and a strip-out before one begins. In a conservation area designated in 1970, what comes out and the route it takes are part of the plan.
- Land clearing. Yards, plots and gateway entrances cleared and left level enough to work from.
Chigwell Road does not take commercial waste at all
The East London Waste Authority is explicit: commercial waste is not accepted at the Chigwell Road centre, and it points businesses at Frizlands Lane, Gerpins Lane or Jenkins Lane instead. Every one of those is in another borough and every one is a paid trade route rather than a free one.
The vehicle rules close the door from the other side as well. Chigwell Road allows nothing over 3,500kg, no Luton, no tail lift and no tipper, and there are number plate cameras on the site specifically to catch commercial waste coming in. A shop being emptied over a weekend has no version of that route available to it.
So it leaves on a vehicle, is sorted, and anything recyclable comes out before the rest goes for disposal. The load size and the figure come in writing before anything starts, and inside the ULEZ the £12.50 line is on that quote rather than added later.
Jobs like this one
Three of the twelve from the commercial end: a unit stripped and swept to the shopfront, a plant deck taken back to bare concrete, and a tight side passage of building waste cleared.
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Before
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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Before
Commercial strip out
Plant deck stripped out
- Found
- A bank of air-conditioning condensers and old steel walkway grating behind the palisade.
- Left
- Condensers and grating removed, deck taken back to bare concrete.
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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.
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Questions we get asked about this
Can any of the shop fit go through the council tip?
No. Commercial waste is not accepted at Chigwell Road at all, and the vehicle you would use is barred anyway. A transfer station takes it.
Can you get a vehicle down the lane to our back door?
Tell us which lane and we will tell you honestly. If it will not fit, we carry through and load at the kerb, and the quote says which.
Is ULEZ added on top of the load price?
It is a published line of its own, £12.50 for a zone address, printed on the written quote from the outset.