
Waste Clearance in Enfield
Household and trade waste taken off any address in Enfield. A single item or a full vehicle, with the figure agreed before we set off.
Photograph: Jim Osley, Enfield, semi-detached cottages, Chase Side - geograph.org.uk - 7892701.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped.
Everything on the not-collected list is what we get rung about
Enfield's free collection has a published list of what it will not take, and reading it tells you what waste clearance in this borough actually is. Bricks. Building material. Electrical items. Garden waste. Gas bottles. Glass panels such as shower screens. Large fluid containers. Rubble and soil. Tree trunks and thick branches. Tyres. Windows and patio doors.
In other words, a free service for furniture and a closed door for everything a refit, a garden or a garage produces. A bathroom out, a hedge down, an old shower screen and a bag of soil is four separate refusals from one job. That is the gap, and it is where nearly all of our Enfield work comes from.
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 Enfield
There is one price list and Enfield 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 WhatsApp 07523 280964 What the price covers
Get a price for Enfield
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.
Rubbish removal in Enfield is this same job
Rubbish removal, rubbish clearance and waste clearance are three names for one thing here: the load the free service will not take. One vehicle and one published list, so it is one page and not three.
What waste clearance in Enfield takes in
The jobs this covers in Enfield, read straight off the not-collected list.
- Garage clearance. Front to back, to a swept floor and bare block, appliances included rather than charged separately.
- Garden clearance. Hedge cuttings, turf, brash, tree trunks and thick branches. Every one of those is named on the council's not-collected list.
- Builders waste clearance. Plasterboard, timber, bricks, rubble, soil, windows and patio doors. The free collection refuses all of it by name, which is why this is the most common call we get here.
- Fly-tip clearance. Waste dumped on a verge, a service road or the edge of an industrial estate. Around the Lee Valley estates that happens more than anywhere else in the borough.
- Wait and load service. Loaded and gone in the one visit. On a Chase Side frontage with no drive that beats a skip and a road permit.
- Hazardous waste clearance. Gas bottles, paint and large fluid containers are all on the refusal list. Say what is in the store before the day and you get a straight answer on whether it can go.
- Warehouse clearance and rip out. Warehouses and units emptied and ripped out, fittings included. Around Brimsdown that is a regular job.
- Shop clearance and rip out. Shop fits pulled out in the town and on the parades, ready to give the keys back.
One site, shut Mondays, and a permit as well as an appointment
Barrowell Green on Barrowell Green, N21 3AU, is the only recycling centre in the borough. It is open Tuesday to Sunday, 8am to 4pm, and closed every Monday. You must book an appointment to enter the site by vehicle at all, and if you are driving a van, towing a trailer or in a pick-up you need a valid permit as well as the appointment. Number plate recognition and cameras run on the site. On foot, you need neither.
That is a lot of process for a load of rubble, and the free collection is no help because bricks, building material, rubble and soil are all on its not-collected list along with garden waste, glass panels, windows and patio doors. Anything with a plug is off the free service too and priced at £54 for a single item.
So the practical route for a real load here is a vehicle and a transfer station. We price it off a published load list, show the £12.50 zone line separately, and give you the whole figure in writing before booking you in.
Jobs like this one
Three of the twelve that are exactly this work in Enfield: timber and rubble against a fence, a garden lost to waist-high growth, and a fly-tip lifted out of a residential parking bay.
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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.
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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.
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Before
Fly-tip clearance
Fly-tip in a residential parking bay
- Found
- Broken furniture, cardboard, a wire trolley and a fuel can dumped across the parking bay.
- Left
- Block paving swept back to the surface, the whole bay usable again.
What our customers think
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Questions we get asked about this
The council will not take my rubble. Will you?
Yes. Bricks, rubble and soil are on Enfield's own not-collected list, and it is the most common reason people in this borough ring us.
Do you charge extra for the fridge?
No. The council charges £54 for a single appliance; for us it is part of the load.
Am I billed for ULEZ?
The whole borough sits in the zone, so the £12.50 line is on the quote before you commit.