Same-day clearance, seven days a week

Rubbish Removal in London

Same-day clearance across every London borough, seven days a week. You pay for the time the job takes, and disposal is included in the price.

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  • Registered waste carrier CBDU248824
  • Disposal included in the price
  • Priced by the hour from £90
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Load prices, VAT included

See what your clearance will cost

The skip you booked never turned up, the old kitchen is stacked in the front garden, and your neighbour has started giving you a look. That is the point most people call us.

Plenty of London clearance firms publish a "from" figure and confirm the real number once the crew is already outside your door. These are the two load sizes we clear most often, and the price you see is the price we work to.

Typical clearance loads All prices include VAT

  • Half van

    A bedroom clear-out, a small garden tidy, or a handful of bulky items such as a sofa and a few bags.

    Load price £230

  • Full van

    A garage, a loft, a small flat clearance, or post-renovation debris from a single room.

    Load price £350

  • Multiple loads

    Send photos and we will price the whole job before we start.

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Every price covers
  • Van
  • Crew
  • Loading
  • Disposal
  • VAT

The number shown is the number you pay

Every price above covers the van, the crew, the loading and the disposal. There is no separate tip fee added afterwards. That is worth checking with anyone else you call, because the trip to the transfer station and the charge to empty the van is the real cost in this work, and it has to appear somewhere.

Most London clearance firms publish their prices before VAT and add twenty per cent at the end, so an advertised £390 full load becomes £468 by the time you pay it. Our number is the number. Our full rate card covers every van and crew combination, and you can book and pay online in under a minute.

Before you book

Rubble, soil and hardcore are priced by weight

Transfer stations charge by the tonne rather than by the cubic metre, so a quarter van of broken concrete can cost more to get rid of than a full van of cardboard. Tell us the load is heavy and we will price it properly instead of guessing.

Fridges and mattresses carry a surcharge

Fridges contain refrigerant gases and fall under WEEE rules, and mattresses have to be processed separately, so every legitimate firm in London charges for both. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either adding it on the day or not disposing of it properly.

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What goes on the van

Check your load against what we take

Household junk, old furniture, white goods, garden and green waste, office furniture, IT equipment and building waste from renovations all go on the van. If it fits and it is legal to carry, we will take it.

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  • Household junk and bagged waste
  • Old furniture
  • White goods and appliances
  • Garden and green waste
  • Office furniture
  • IT equipment
  • Building waste from renovations
The one exception

We will not take asbestos, under any circumstances

It needs a licensed asbestos contractor and specialist disposal. If you think a garage roof or some old panelling might contain it, stop and have it tested before anyone touches it.

Unsure about something else in the pile?

Chemicals, gas cylinders or clinical waste, for example. Send a photo (opens in a new tab) . We would far rather tell you before we arrive than after.

Licence and duty of care

Check our licence before we arrive

Our waste carrier registration is CBDU248824, and it is upper tier, which is the level required by anyone carrying other people's waste. You can look it up on the Environment Agency public register (opens in a new tab) right now, before you book. We would rather you did.

Registered waste carrier CBDU248824

Upper tier registration, held by GT Removals. Takes about ten seconds to confirm.

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Why checking matters Your duty of care and how to protect yourself Householders can face a fixed penalty of up to £600 if waste is passed to an unregistered carrier.

The legal duty sits with you, not only with the van

Under section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the Household Waste Duty of Care (England) Regulations 2005, the duty to make sure your waste is handled properly sits with you as the householder. Hand your rubbish to an unregistered van, and if that driver tips it down a country lane, the council will go through the pile looking for a name.

Householders who cannot show they took reasonable steps can be issued a fixed penalty notice of up to £600. Each council sets its own level within that range. Refuse to pay and it goes to court, where the fine has no upper limit.

It happens to people who thought they were paying someone reliable

In one Ashford case, a resident paid £200 in cash to a stranger in a white lorry to take household waste to the tip. It was fly-tipped 800 metres away. The council traced the load back and issued a £400 fixed penalty notice, reduced to £300 for payment inside ten days. The same council warns that unlicensed carriers usually find their customers through social media and local small ads.

Everything we collect goes to a licensed waste transfer station, where recyclable material is separated rather than sent straight to landfill.

The SCRAP code 5
  • Suspect Treat any unexpected offer with caution, and take a note of the vehicle registration.
  • Check Look the waste carrier number up on the Environment Agency register yourself.
  • Refuse Turn down cold-call offers to clear your waste, however cheap they sound.
  • Ask Ask where your waste is going and which site it will be taken to.
  • Paperwork Get a waste transfer note, and keep it. It is the document that protects you.

What your waste transfer note shows

  • Our waste carrier registration number
  • The collection address
  • The date of collection
  • A description of what we took
  • Where the load went
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From photo to swept floor

See how collection day works

Open each step to see what happens

Send us photos

WhatsApp a few pictures of the pile, or call and describe it. You get a price and a slot, usually within the hour.

Pick your time

We collect 8am to 7pm Monday to Friday, and 8am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. Same-day collection is available inside those hours if you catch us early enough.

We do the lifting

Nothing needs to be moved outside first. Stairs, lofts, sheds and back gardens are all part of the job. Landlords and letting agents booking an end-of-tenancy clearance do not need to attend, provided our crew can reach the waste, and the transfer note goes over by email the same day.

We tidy up and you pay

The space is left swept, your waste transfer note is issued, and payment is taken once the work is done.

  1. You pay for time, not guesswork

    The hourly rate is published, so you can work out roughly what your own job costs before you call. Plenty of London price lists show a headline figure and confirm the real number once the crew is already outside your door.

  2. A licence you can actually check

    Plenty of firms write "fully licensed" and stop there. We publish CBDU248824 and send you straight to the register, which takes about ten seconds to confirm.

  3. The same crew who move houses

    More than 10,000 jobs completed by our own employed team, not agency drivers booked for the morning. Our reviews name individual movers, because customers keep meeting the same faces.

  4. Clearance and removal in one booking

    Most clearance firms cannot move the things you are keeping. Most removal firms cannot dispose of the rest. We handle clearing a property before you move out and the move itself on the same day, which matters at the end of a tenancy. For items you want kept rather than binned, hourly van hire for things you are keeping works out cheaper.

Clearance questions

Ask us what everyone asks

Cost, same-day slots, whether you need to be in, and what happens to the load once it leaves your address.

Faster than describing it

Rubbish is hard to describe over the phone. A few photos of the pile get you a price and a slot, usually within the hour.

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How much does rubbish removal cost in London?
Expect somewhere between £90 and £250 for most household clearances with GT Removals, depending on how long the job takes. Because we charge by the hour rather than by a fraction of a van, you are not paying for space you did not fill, which tends to work out lower on bigger loads. Every price includes VAT and disposal.
Do I need to be there when you collect?
Not always. If the waste is somewhere our crew can reach without going through the property, a front garden or a driveway for example, we can collect while you are out. Confirm the access details when you book and we will call you when the job is done.
Is rubbish removal cheaper than hiring a skip?
Usually, for anything under a full van. A skip left on a public road needs a permit from your council, sits there for days, and you load it yourself. We arrive, load it, and are gone inside a couple of hours.
Can you collect the same day?
Yes, seven days a week, inside our collection hours of 8am to 7pm on weekdays and 8am to 5pm at weekends. Morning bookings have the best chance of a same-day slot.
What happens to my rubbish after you take it?
It goes to a licensed waste transfer station, where recyclable material is separated out rather than being sent straight to landfill. You get a waste transfer note recording where the load went, which is the paperwork that protects you under your duty of care.
Do you charge extra for fridges and mattresses?
Yes. Both need specialist processing, fridges because of the refrigerant gases they contain and mattresses because they cannot go through general disposal. Mention them when you book and the surcharge appears in your quote rather than on the day.
Would my council take this away for free?
Possibly, and it is worth two minutes of your time to find out before you pay anyone. Most London boroughs run a bulky waste collection, though the free allowance is usually capped at a handful of items and the wait can run to a fortnight. You can check your borough's bulky waste service on GOV.UK (opens in a new tab). If you have a garage to empty or a renovation to clear, that route will not stretch far enough and you will want a van.
October 2026

The paper waste transfer note is being retired

One change is worth knowing about if you are choosing a clearance firm this year. Under section 58 of the Environment Act 2021, the government's Digital Waste Tracking Service went live in April and becomes compulsory for waste transfer stations in October 2026, then for carriers like us the following October.

Every load will be logged electronically, which means the Environment Agency will be able to see where waste went instead of waiting to inspect a filing cabinet. It exists because waste crime is estimated to cost the country around a billion pounds a year, and most of it hides in missing paperwork.

Your duty of care does not change. What does change is that any London firm still unable to hand you a number you can check is running out of places to hide.

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