Rubbish Removal & House Clearance Hayes — UB3 & UB4

Hayes sits in the south of the London Borough of Hillingdon, and its two postcodes split the town neatly: UB3 covers central Hayes, Botwell, Townfield and the area around Hayes & Harlington station (now on the Elizabeth line), while UB4 takes in Hayes End, Yeading and Wood End to the north. Between them run the Grand Union Canal, Uxbridge Road, Coldharbour Lane and Yeading Lane, with landmarks like Barra Hall Park and the regenerated Old Vinyl Factory — the former EMI works — anchoring the town.

We handle the practical side of clearing waste here. Hillingdon’s household recycling centre is the Harefield Civic Amenity Site on New Years Green Lane (UB9) — a fair drive north from Hayes, and one where cars need a HillingdonFirst card and vans need two forms of ID and are limited to 12 visits a year. For most Hayes households a load-and-go collection is far simpler: we lift it, load it and dispose of it under licence, with no skip permit and no tip trip. The council’s bulky-item collection is an alternative for one or two large pieces, but it books ahead and leaves you to drag everything to the kerb.

Typical Hayes jobs: flat clearances around Botwell and the station, sofa and mattress removals in the Townfield and Yeading estates, garden and builders’ waste from the terraces off Coldharbour Lane, and same-day loads from the retail and business units near Stockley Park (UB11) on the town’s edge. Access varies a lot between the busy central one-way system and the quieter residential streets of Hayes End, so tell us the address and we’ll bring the right van. Before booking a waste collection: ask us to identify the registered carrier handling the job and provide the registration details, then verify those details on the Environment Agency public register before handing over any waste.

Hayes is the busiest end-of-tenancy market we cover. A lot of UB3 and UB4 stock is flats and HMOs with a high turnover, so the recurring job is a property emptied between tenants against a deadline, often with a landlord rather than a resident booking it.

Everything below is priced by the space the load fills and the labour involved, not by the hour, and the price is fixed after a photo or video walk-through before anyone sets off. Every figure includes two people, all the loading and lifting, and the disposal and recycling fees. No skip, no permit, and no VAT to add — the price shown is the price paid.

Rubbish and waste removal in UB3 and UB4, by the load

Landlords should note the council route is priced differently for them: Hillingdon charges landlords £94 a slot rather than £53, which closes most of the gap to a full collection where you keep the whole load and the lifting.

House and flat clearance in Hayes

Man and van hire in Hayes

Moves and collections that are not clearances are charged hourly, with a two-hour minimum. Longer bookings and full moves are quoted as a fixed all-in price instead.

Garden and green waste in UB3 and UB4

Heavy builders’ and DIY waste is priced by weight instead, from £95 for up to 100kg, because rubble and furniture do not weigh the same per cubic yard.

Sofa, mattress and upholstered furniture in Hayes

Upholstered seating and mattresses are not priced on the load ladder above — they are all-in by the item, because POPs rules mean they must be incinerated separately. What moves the price is whether you put the item outside for us or we carry it out of the property.

Carrying it out adds £55 — any room, any floor, stairs and no-lift flats included, about 40 minutes of our £95/hr two-person crew. Every figure is all-in: the specialist disposal fee is inside the price, never added on the day.

Items that carry an eco fee

A handful of items carry a legally required specialist disposal cost. Sofas, armchairs and mattresses are all-in on our sofa & mattress prices — £95 if you put it outside, £150 if we carry it out — so the fee below is already inside that price and nothing is added on the day. For the other items, the fee is added to the load prices above:

The London Borough of Hillingdon runs a paid bulky waste collection across UB3 and UB4, and for a small qualifying job it is good value. It is charged per collection slot, not per item:

One slot covers a single fridge or freezer on its own, or up to six other items such as a sofa, bed, mattress or wardrobe. The price is per slot rather than per item — so one mattress on its own still costs the full £53.

The four limits that catch people out

1. The crew will not come inside. Everything must be at the boundary of your property, at ground-floor level and accessible, by 6am on the day. Miss that window and the crew moves on. If you cannot get the wardrobe down the stairs yourself, the service does not help you.

2. Six items per slot, and a fridge counts as the whole slot. A garage, loft or end-of-tenancy clear-out runs past that immediately, and each further slot is another £53.

3. It takes no building or DIY waste. No rubble, no soil, no garden waste, no tyres, no hazardous items. After a refit, the council route is not available to you at all.

4. It is booked, not same-day. Collections run Monday to Friday and you take the next free date. At busy periods that can be several days out — worth knowing if you are clearing before a completion or a tenancy handover.

Full detail, including the current item list and the exclusions, is in our Hillingdon bulky waste guide.

Your nearest household recycling centre is Harefield Civic Amenity Site at New Years Green Lane, Harefield, UB9 6LX. If you are doing the job yourself it is worth knowing how it works before you load the car — we have written the full Harefield Civic Amenity Site guide, but the essentials are these.

It is open seven days a week, 8am to 4pm, last entry 3.45pm.

It is free for Hillingdon residents, but cars need a HillingdonFirst card and vans need two forms of ID and are capped at 12 visits a year. It is household waste only — no trade waste.

Since 15 July, Hillingdon residents can also use Space Waye in Feltham, which is open seven days and much closer for the south of the borough.

The council specifically asks residents not to turn right into New Years Green Lane from Harvil Road — the junction backs up badly at weekends.

The catch that is unique to this borough is geography: the tip is up at Harefield, so “free” costs more the further south of the borough you live. From the bottom of Hillingdon a round trip plus a van permit is often dearer in fuel and a Saturday morning than a collection is.

Disposal and recycling are handled as part of the fixed price when we do it instead, with waste transfer paperwork on request so your duty of care is covered. Before booking any collection — with us or anyone — ask for the registered carrier’s details and verify them on the Environment Agency public register.