Loft Clearance in London
Old boxes, dusty furniture, forgotten suitcases, a defunct water tank or leftover insulation — we climb up through the hatch, bring it all down and clear it. You never touch the ladder. Fixed prices from a quick WhatsApp photo.
From £95 • we handle the hatch, ladder and lifting • recycled where we can
How it works
Send a photo & get a price
WhatsApp a picture of the loft, or describe what's up there. We reply with a fixed, all-in quote by volume.
Book a slot
Pick a time that suits you — same day or next day is usually possible across London, subject to availability.
We go up, bring it down, clear it
Our crew climbs into the loft, passes everything down through the hatch, loads the van and recycles what it can.
Why book a loft clearance with us
We access & empty the loft
Awkward hatch, folding ladder or a cramped eaves space — we get up there so you don't have to.
All the lifting & carrying down
Heavy tanks, boxes and old furniture come down through the hatch and out to the van by our two-person crew.
Recycled where we can
We sort the load and take reusable and recyclable items to licensed sites so less goes to landfill.
Fixed price up front
One firm quote from your photos — labour and disposal included, no surprises added on the day.
Loft clearance prices
Loft clearances are priced by the load — the share of the van your items fill, plus labour and disposal. Send a photo on WhatsApp for a fixed price before we arrive.
Minimum charge — a handful of boxes, suitcases or a single old tank.
A lightly used loft: stacked boxes and a few bulky pieces.
A well-filled loft, roughly half a Luton van of stored clutter.
A packed loft — years of furniture, boxes and old insulation.
Prices shown by van load (Luton van). See more options on our full price list. Final price confirmed on the day or from your photos — no hidden fees.
The safe way to empty a London loft
A loft is the one room in the house nobody wants to tackle. Access is through a small hatch, often with a rickety folding ladder or none at all, the boarding may be partial, and everything up there has to be carried down at head height and out through the landing. Our two-person crew is set up for exactly this: we bring our own steps, work carefully around the joists and the boarded and unboarded sections, and pass items down through the hatch hand to hand so nothing gets dropped and no ceiling gets damaged. You stay safely on the landing while we do the climbing and the heavy lifting.
Lofts fill up with the things a house has nowhere else to put. Old boxes of paperwork, Christmas decorations and childhood keepsakes, suitcases and travel bags, spare furniture and mattresses, broken electricals, disused cold-water tanks, offcuts of timber, and bag after bag of leftover or degraded insulation. We clear the lot — the useful, the broken and the plain forgotten — sort it as we load, and take reusable and recyclable material to licensed recycling centres and transfer stations wherever we can rather than sending everything to landfill. If any of it is worth keeping, we set it aside for you before it goes in the van.
Most people book a loft clearance for a reason: getting the space ready for new loft insulation, prepping for a loft conversion, or emptying a property before a sale or a move. Clearing it first makes every one of those jobs quicker and cheaper, and it turns dead storage back into usable space. If the clear-out is part of a bigger project, take a look at our house clearance service for whole properties, our garage clearance for the other end of the house, or straightforward rubbish removal if it is really just junk that needs taking away. Whatever the job, the process is the same: send a photo, get a fixed price, and we go up and bring it all down.
Loft clearance — your questions answered
How much does loft clearance cost?
Loft clearances are priced by the load — how much of the van your items fill, plus labour and disposal. A few items start from £95, a quarter van load from £195, a half van load from £320 and a full van load from £495. Send a photo of the loft on WhatsApp and we'll give you a fixed price before we arrive.
Do you go into the loft and bring things down?
Yes — that's the whole point. We do the awkward access for you: up through the hatch, working around the joists and boarding, and passing everything down by hand. You don't need to climb the ladder or lift a thing. Just tell us if the hatch is especially small or the ladder is missing so we bring the right kit.
Do you recycle what you take?
Yes. We sort the load and take reusable and recyclable material — metal, wood, working electricals, furniture in good condition — to licensed recycling centres and transfer stations for proper, licensed disposal, so as little as possible ends up in landfill.
Can you clear a loft the same day?
Often, yes — subject to availability. We keep same-day and next-day slots open across London and can regularly reach you within a few hours of your call. Send your postcode and a photo and we'll confirm the earliest slot we can offer.
Areas we serve
Based in Uxbridge, we clear lofts across West London, every London borough and the Home Counties. Same price across every London borough and our Home Counties areas.
What the price includes — and what it doesn't
The most common complaint about clearance companies is a price that grows once the van is loaded. So here is the whole of ours, before you book, including the parts that cost extra.
Included in the price we quote
No line of this is billed separately afterwards.
- Labour — the crew, the carrying and the loading.
- The van, the fuel, ULEZ and the congestion charge — London charges are ours, not yours.
- Disposal and recycling of the load — the tipping cost is inside the price.
- Access from anywhere on the property — any room, up or down stairs, or out of the garden.
- VAT — the price you are shown is the price you pay.
- Waste transfer paperwork for your load, on request — so your duty of care is documented.
Priced separately, or not carried at all
Told to you up front, never discovered on the invoice.
- Upholstered seating and mattresses carry their own disposal fee, because the law forces them down a more expensive route than the rest of your load. The amount is on our pricing page before you book.
- Hazardous items — paint, chemicals, asbestos, tyres and gas bottles cannot travel in a general load and need a specialist route. We will tell you which one.
- Fridges, freezers and electricals have a separate WEEE route — flag them when you book so we arrive with the right van.
- Anything flammable, explosive, illegal, or alive — we cannot carry it, and we will say so before the day.
If there turns out to be more than we quoted for, you hear the new price before anything goes in the van — not once it is loaded, and not on the invoice. The same goes for access: tell us when you book if your street is permit-only or on a red route, or if the job is above the third floor with no lift, and we plan for it instead of pricing round it on the day.
What happens to your waste after we drive away
Most clearance companies stop this story at the word "recycled". Here is the actual route your load takes, including the part of it that nobody advertises.
It goes in by hand
Everything is carried out and loaded by the crew — from the room, the garden or the kerbside. What is in the load matters, because what is in it decides where it is legally allowed to go.
Sorted, not buried
The load goes to a licensed transfer station or recycling centre, where it is separated by material. It is not tipped straight into a hole in the ground.
Recovered by material
Metal, wood, cardboard, textiles and electricals are pulled out for recycling or recovery. Green waste is composted.
The bit nobody advertises
Upholstered furniture cannot be recycled at all. Since January 2023 the Environment Agency presumes every domestic sofa, armchair and padded dining chair contains persistent organic pollutants, so it must be kept apart from other waste and incinerated — never landfilled, never shredded for reuse. That law, not a markup, is why soft seating carries its own fee. Whatever is genuinely left after sorting goes to energy recovery.
- Metal
- Wood
- Cardboard & paper
- Textiles
- Electricals (WEEE)
- Green waste
We do not publish a recycling percentage. You will see "90% diverted from landfill" on a lot of clearance websites. The sorting happens at the transfer station, after our van has left, and we are not going to take credit for a figure we cannot evidence. What we can give you is the route your load takes and the paperwork for it — and if you want to check who handles it, ask us to identify the registered carrier for your collection and verify them on the Environment Agency public register before we load.
Proof, not adjectives
Anyone can type "trusted" and "reliable" onto a website. These are the things about us you can actually check.
We are a small London crew, not a national booking platform, and we are not going to pretend otherwise: we have 27 five-star reviews on Google and 3 on Yell. That is all of them. Every one is public, unedited and one tap away — which is worth rather more than a five-figure review count you have no way of reading.
Harlesden NW10Kerbside clearance, done the same dayBagged household waste, flattened cardboard and moulded packaging cleared off the pavement outside a terraced property — no skip, no permit, no waiting.Read the job →
Ealing W5A garden full of tree cuttingsPalm and cordyline cuttings and branches stacked along the pavement, loaded by hand and taken away for composting and recycling.Read the job →Book your loft clearance today
Send a quick photo on WhatsApp or call for a free, no-obligation quote. We climb up, bring it down and clear it — same-day slots across London subject to availability.