What London Carriers Bid on House Clearance Jobs
31 bids were submitted on 14 London jobs posted under “house clearance” (June 2026 – September 2026). The median bid was £240, quartiles £150–£350, full range £95–£450. On the 11 jobs that drew more than one bid, the median gap between the highest and lowest bid for the same job was 60%; on one job the dearest bid was 163% above the cheapest.
Read this before using the £240: “house clearance” is the category the customer picks when posting, and most of these 14 jobs were part-loads rather than whole properties — a dozen bin bags, a cupboard and a bike, a pile of garden furniture. Only one reads as a full property clearance. So £240 is not what it costs to clear a house; for whole-property estimates see house clearance in London. What this data does show honestly is how far apart licensed carriers price the same job. Small single-platform sample; no borough-level figures are published because none has reached 15 bids across 4 jobs.
Table 1: What London carriers bid, by job type (June 2026 – September 2026)
Whole-job bids from EA-licensed carriers on the RubbishBids platform. A row is only published once it reaches 15 bids across 4 jobs. House clearance is the second dearest job type on the platform and has the second widest bid spread.
| Job type | Median bid | 25th–75th pct | Range | Median spread | Bids | Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed construction waste | £250 | £183–£343 | £80–£600 | 33% | 39 | 40 |
| House clearance ← | £240 | £150–£350 | £95–£450 | 60% | 31 | 14 |
| Hardcore & soil | £200 | £180–£250 | £100–£420 | 41% | 17 | 10 |
| Bulky waste | £150 | £100–£235 | £50–£500 | 68% | 55 | 25 |
| Office clearance | £150 | £150–£225 | £100–£420 | 50% | 19 | 9 |
| Garden waste | £150 | £115–£170 | £70–£650 | 33% | 20 | 10 |
| All job types | £200 | £150–£250 | £50–£650 | 50% | 181 | 108 |
Bids are whole-job prices as submitted, not final invoiced amounts. Median spread is the median per-job gap between the highest and lowest bid, across jobs that drew more than one bid. Bids with no price or £0 are excluded. Figures are generated directly from the platform database, not entered by hand — see the methodology note below.
We can't break house clearance down by number of bedrooms — the platform records the load size a customer selects, not a bedroom count. Where load size does clear the threshold: Medium load — median £200 (18 bids, 8 jobs).
Table 2: How far apart bids on the same job land
Spread = the gap between the highest and lowest bid submitted on one job, as a percentage of the lowest. It is the one figure a published price list cannot give you: it needs several carriers pricing the same property on the same day. Only jobs that drew more than one bid are counted.
| Job type | Jobs with 2+ bids | Median spread | Narrowest | Widest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mixed construction waste | 11 | 33% | 0% | 100% |
| House clearance ← | 11 | 60% | 7% | 163% |
| Hardcore & soil | 6 | 41% | 0% | 186% |
| Bulky waste | 20 | 68% | 0% | 300% |
| Office clearance | 7 | 50% | 33% | 180% |
| Garden waste | 7 | 33% | 0% | 114% |
| All job types | 62 | 50% | 0% | 300% |
Spread per job = (highest bid \u2212 lowest bid) \u00f7 lowest bid \u00d7 100. The figure shown is the median of those per-job values. With 11 qualifying house clearance jobs, the median moves noticeably with each new job \u2014 read it as an order of magnitude, not a precise constant.
Why this matters: a 60% median spread means that on a typical London house clearance, the dearest EA-licensed carrier bids around half again what the cheapest does \u2014 for the same scope. On the widest job recorded here the gap was 163%. Comparing bids on RubbishBids costs nothing.
Table 3: Borough-level prices \u2014 not published yet, and why
A borough median only appears here once that borough reaches 15 bids across 4 house clearance jobs. Below that, one unusually cheap or dear job moves the median by hundreds of pounds, and the number would mislead more than it informs. House clearance jobs so far span 11 boroughs; here is exactly how far each one has got.
| Borough | Jobs | Bids | Median bid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwich | 2 | 8 | below threshold |
| Bromley | 2 | 5 | below threshold |
| Harrow | 2 | 4 | below threshold |
| Haringey | 1 | 3 | below threshold |
| Waltham Forest | 1 | 3 | below threshold |
| Ealing | 1 | 2 | below threshold |
| Lambeth | 1 | 2 | below threshold |
| Westminster | 1 | 2 | below threshold |
| Kingston upon Thames | 1 | 1 | below threshold |
| Southwark | 1 | 1 | below threshold |
| Sutton | 1 | 0 | below threshold |
Threshold: 15 bids across 4 jobs. The best-covered borough currently has 8 bids. Until a row clears the bar it stays suppressed rather than being filled with an estimate.
Methodology
- Source: Bids submitted on the RubbishBids platform by EA-licensed waste carriers on London house clearance jobs. Figures are computed straight from the platform's jobs and bids tables by
scripts/compute-bid-stats.mjsand written to a generated data file \u2014 nothing on this page is typed in by hand. - Period: June 2026 – September 2026 (first to most recent house clearance job on the platform). Last recomputed September 2026.
- Dataset size: 31 bids across 14 jobs; 13 jobs drew at least one bid. Mean 2.2 bids per job, maximum 5 on a single job. This is a small sample and we would rather label it as such than round it up.
- Primary unit: each bid is one data point, so a job with 3 bids contributes 3. This measures what licensed carriers bid for the work, not what one customer finally paid \u2014 and it is what makes the spread figures in Table 2 calculable at all, which completed-job prices cannot support.
- Bids vs invoiced prices: figures are bids submitted before a site visit. Final invoiced amounts may differ if a carrier finds significant additional items or access problems on the day.
- Publication threshold: a row is published only with 15 bids across 4 separate jobs. Rows below it are shown as “below threshold” rather than estimated \u2014 which is why Table 3 currently publishes no borough figures at all.
- Excluded: bids with no price or a price of \u00a30.
- Carrier qualification: all bidding carriers hold a valid Environment Agency Waste Carrier Licence, verified by the platform before they can submit bids.
- Quartiles: the 25th\u201375th percentile range is given alongside the full min\u2013max so a single outlier bid is visible rather than hidden.
- Geographic coverage: London only. For UK-wide house clearance prices, see the UK house clearance costs guide.
Frequently Asked Questions
What did carriers bid on these house clearance jobs?
Across 31 bids on 14 London jobs posted under "house clearance" (June 2026 – September 2026), the median bid was £240, with half of all bids between £150 and £350 and a full range of £95 to £450. Important caveat: most of these jobs were part-loads rather than whole properties — a dozen bin bags, a cupboard and a bike, garden furniture — because "house clearance" is the category the customer selects when posting. Only one of the 14 reads as a full property clearance. Do not use £240 to budget for clearing a house.
Why do house clearance quotes vary so much for the same job?
On the 11 of these London jobs that drew more than one bid, the median gap between the highest and lowest bid on the same job was 60%. The narrowest gap was 7%; the widest was 163%. Carriers have different vehicle sizes, route densities, disposal facility relationships and staffing costs. A carrier already working in your neighbourhood on the day can price well below one travelling across London for the same job. This is the single strongest argument for comparing bids rather than accepting the first quote.
How many bids does a London house clearance job typically receive?
House clearance jobs on RubbishBids averaged 2.2 bids from EA-licensed carriers; the most any single job received was 5. 13 of 14 jobs received at least one bid. Jobs posted in less active areas or at quieter times attract fewer. All bidding carriers hold a valid Environment Agency Waste Carrier Licence, verified before they can access the platform.
So what does clearing a whole property actually cost?
Not what this page's median says. The jobs behind these figures were mostly part-loads, so they price a van-load of belongings, not an emptied house. For whole-property estimates — roughly £400–£800 for a two-bedroom, £600–£1,200 for a three-bedroom — see the London house clearance page; those are market ranges, not our bid data. We will publish our own whole-property figures once enough genuine full clearances have gone through the platform to clear the publication threshold.
Which London borough is cheapest for house clearance?
We can't answer this from our own data yet, and we'd rather say so than guess. Borough-level figures are only published here once a borough reaches 15 bids across 4 jobs. House clearance jobs on the platform so far span 11 London boroughs, and none has reached that threshold — the largest has 8 bids. Publishing a borough median off two or three jobs would produce a number that moves wildly with the next booking. These rows will appear as the dataset grows.
Do the bids include VAT?
Whether a bid includes VAT depends on the individual carrier. Carriers on RubbishBids are independent businesses — some are VAT-registered, others are not. The platform displays bids as submitted. Confirm VAT status with your chosen carrier before accepting.
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This guide covers London bid prices in detail. For the broader UK picture, see How Much Does House Clearance Cost in the UK? (2026 Price Guide). To post a London house clearance job and receive bids from EA-licensed carriers, see House Clearance London. For construction and renovation waste specifically, see the Hackney bathroom strip-out case study — three real bids, £300 to £600, for the same job.
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