Guide prices, and what moves them.
Everything below is a starting point for standard light and bulky non-hazardous waste with normal access. Your firm price comes from photos and a postcode.
Standard collections.
Each band includes labour, loading time, transport and disposal at an authorised facility.
Items with their own disposal route.
These are added to a load band, not charged instead of one. Each reflects what the receiving facility charges to handle that item properly.
Why dense waste is not sold as a load size.
The van has two limits and they rarely run out together. The table shows which limit each waste type reaches first, and therefore how it is priced.
Same cage, different waste
Change the waste type and watch which bar runs out first.
Space is the limit here. This load fills the cage before it reaches the vehicle's safe weight limit, so standard load-band pricing applies.
Relative illustration · the vehicle’s weight limit is confirmed on your quote
Single-item collections.
If you have one sofa and nothing else, this is the price — not the add-on figure above. A single item is its own journey, its own crew time and its own trip to the disposal facility, so it costs more than the same item riding along in a paid load.
What is agreed before it starts.
Every load band includes a loading allowance. These apply only beyond it, and only after you have agreed to them. Rates assume our standard two-person crew.
£15 per 15 min
Beyond the allowance included in your band. We ask before the chargeable time starts.
£15 per 15 min
Only where we are kept waiting for a reason outside our control, and only after the allowance.
From £25
Where something has to come apart to get it out. Send photos and we price it up front.
From £20
Stairs with no lift, or a long carry to where the van can legally stop. Only where the labour genuinely increases.
What happens if plans change.
Every figure below is a maximum, not an automatic penalty. We charge what the cancellation actually cost us, taking into account what we saved and whether the slot could be refilled — often that is nothing.
Five things that move the number.
Waste type
The single biggest factor. It decides the disposal facility, the gate fee and whether the job prices on volume or weight.
Access
Floor level, lift, stairs, carry distance and where the van can legally stop. This changes loading time.
Road charges
Congestion Charge, ULEZ and tunnel crossings where the route requires them. Shown separately, never buried.
Loading time
Each band includes an allowance. Dismantling, sorting or a long carry uses more, agreed before it starts.
Special items
Mattresses, appliances, tyres and anything with its own regulated treatment route.
Not on this list
How urgently you need it, or what you told a competitor. The price reflects the job, not the pressure.