Rubbish, junk and waste taken out of homes, flats, gardens, offices and building sites across Hackney. We load it by hand, sweep up after ourselves, and take it somewhere it will actually be sorted. One job, one crew, one price agreed before we start.
Furniture, white goods, bags, boxes, the lot
Green waste, turf, soil, timber, old sheds
Office strip-outs, shop fit-outs, studio clear-outs
Rubble, plasterboard, packaging, site debris
Fig. 01 — the four waste streams we separate on every job
Most rubbish is not rubbish. It is wood, metal, cardboard and furniture that someone gave up on sorting.
A skip is one container. Everything that goes in it gets treated the same way, which usually means the worst way. We work the other end of that problem — separating on the van as we load, so timber goes with timber, metal goes with metal, and the electricals go where the regulations say they have to.
It is slower than tipping a house into a container. It is also the difference between a clearance you can account for and one you cannot. We keep the transfer notes, and you can have a copy — particularly worth having if you are a landlord or running a site.
If it needs taking away and it is not hazardous, it is probably on this list. One item or a whole house, a back garden or a shop fit-out — the job is the same shape either way. We look at it, agree a figure, load it, and sweep the space before we go.
What makes a Hackney job different
London Fields, Dalston and the streets off Mare Street are permit-controlled end to end. A tipper cannot legally sit outside most of them for long, so we either arrange a bay or work from the nearest legal point and barrow it. We check the street before quoting rather than turning up and improvising.
A huge share of Hackney clearance is carried down. Converted houses in Clapton split into three flats, walk-ups above shops on Kingsland High Street, estate blocks where the lift is too small for a sofa. That is hand-balling, and it is the single biggest thing that changes a quote.
Hackney Wick and the Haggerston side bring a different job entirely — studio clear-outs, workshop waste, part-commercial and part-domestic in the same unit. It needs separating properly because some of it is trade waste and has to be documented as such.
Stoke Newington Church Street and the surrounding terraces have rear alleys that are the only practical access. Half of them are gated, and some are too narrow for anything but a barrow. Worth telling us which applies to you.
No skip on your street, no permit to apply for, no neighbours filling it overnight. We carry it out, which also means we can take what is upstairs and leave what is staying.
Timber, metal, cardboard, electricals and general waste go on separately. Sorting on the van is the only point where separating is still cheap — once it is mixed, it stays mixed.
Waste transfer notes kept and copied to you on request. If you are a landlord, an agent or running a site, that paperwork is the part that matters when somebody asks.
Hackney is not one clearance problem. A Stoke Newington family house with a side return and a Dalston walk-up above a shop need different crews, different timings and a different answer about where the van goes.
Mare Street, the Narrow Way and the terraces running off them — busy, bus-heavy, and tight for a tipper mid-morning.
Flats above shops on Kingsland High Street, back-garden studios, and a lot of end-of-tenancy work.
Church Street conservation terraces and larger family houses — loft, cellar and garden clear-outs.
Estate blocks and newer developments around the hospital, plus terraced streets towards the Marshes.
Victorian terraces, basement conversions, and narrow streets where a permit bay is usually the only option.
Big converted houses split into flats, long back gardens, and the odd cellar nobody has opened in years.
Studios, small offices and warehouse conversions — commercial strip-outs as often as household clearances.
Dense terraced streets and large family homes, with loading that has to be worked around parked cars.
Warehouse units, artist studios and new-build blocks — studio clear-outs and builders' waste in equal measure.
Constantly — it is most of Hackney. Everything is carried down by hand, which is why we ask which floor you are on before we ask how much there is.
For most household jobs, yes, and there is no permit to apply for and nothing sitting on the street collecting other people’s waste overnight. For a long building project a skip sometimes still wins, and we will say so.
Sorted on the van as we load — timber, metal, cardboard and electricals separately — then to the right route for each. Waste transfer documentation is kept and copied to you on request.
Not if we can get access and there is somewhere legal to stand. Plenty of jobs are done on keys with an agent or a neighbour, agreed in advance.
Yes. It is agreed before we start, and it only changes if what is being cleared changes — not because the job took longer than we guessed.
What it is, which floor it is on, and where a van can stand. That is enough for a proper quote — and the quote is what you pay, not a starting point.