Office Clearance Services

When you need to clear an office — whether you're vacating a lease, downsizing, refitting or closing a site — you need a company that does more than just put things in a van. We sort, recycle, resell and responsibly dispose of everything in your office, with complete documentation and environmental reporting as standard.

What Office Clearance Involves

Office clearance is the professional removal of everything from a commercial premises — furniture, IT equipment, filing, fixtures, confidential waste and general rubbish. Unlike a skip or a man-with-a-van, a proper clearance service handles the entire lifecycle of every item:

• Sorting — separating items for reuse, resale, recycling and disposal on-site
• Furniture resale and donation — quality desks, chairs and storage units go to trade buyers or charities, not landfill
• IT asset disposal — secure data destruction with certificates, WEEE-compliant recycling
• Confidential waste — cross-cut paper shredding and hard drive destruction
• Waste documentation — Duty of Care waste transfer notes for every load
• ESG impact reporting — exact breakdowns of what was diverted from landfill and the carbon savings

The end result: your premises are left broom-clean and ready for the next tenant, your legal obligations are met, and you have a clear record of where everything went.

Why Choose a Professional Clearance Company

When faced with an office clearance, most businesses consider three options: hiring skips, calling a waste removal company, or asking their building contractor to handle it. Each has serious drawbacks compared to a specialist clearance service.

Skip hire — cheap, but you do all the work

A skip is just a metal box. You're responsible for carrying everything down to it, sorting waste streams (legally required for commercial waste), arranging separate disposal for IT equipment and confidential documents, and providing your own waste documentation. For anything larger than a single room, it's impractical, slow, and exposes you to compliance risk if waste isn't sorted correctly.

Waste removal companies — they take waste, but miss the value

A general waste removal company treats everything as waste. That Herman Miller chair worth £300 on the secondhand market? Into the truck with the broken filing cabinets. There's no sorting for resale, no furniture valuation, no ESG reporting, and often no data destruction capability. You're paying to dispose of assets that have genuine value — and missing the environmental benefits of reuse.

Building contractors — expensive and not their specialism

If you're doing a refit, your fit-out contractor will sometimes offer to clear the existing contents as part of the project. Clearance isn't their core business — they'll subcontract it, mark it up, and it often becomes the lowest priority in the project timeline. Delays in clearance mean delays to the refit. And you're paying construction day-rates for work that a clearance specialist does faster and cheaper.

Professional clearance — everything in one service

A specialist clearance company like Clear Workspace handles the whole chain: sorting, reuse, recycling, data destruction, waste documentation, and environmental reporting. You get one point of contact, one invoice, and a complete audit trail. Items with value are recovered and offset against your costs. Everything else is recycled or responsibly disposed of with full Duty of Care compliance.

Our Clearance Process

Every clearance follows the same proven process, whether it's a 5-person office or a 500-person headquarters:

1. Free site visit — we visit your premises, assess the volume and contents, check access (lifts, parking, building management requirements) and understand your timeline
2. Fixed-price quote — a detailed written quote with no hidden charges. We'll tell you what we expect to resell or donate and how that offsets your costs
3. Pre-clearance planning — we coordinate with building management, arrange permits and parking, and confirm access windows. For multi-tenanted buildings, we handle method statements and risk assessments
4. On-site clearance — our team works through the space systematically, sorting items into reuse, recycle and dispose streams. Furniture for resale is wrapped and loaded separately
5. Data destruction — any IT equipment with data is wiped or physically destroyed on-site. You receive certificates of destruction
6. Final clean — we leave the space broom-clean and ready for handover
7. Documentation pack — waste transfer notes, data destruction certificates and an ESG impact report delivered within 5 working days

What's Included

Every Clear Workspace office clearance includes:

• Free site visit and fixed-price quote
• All labour, vehicles and equipment
• Furniture sorting — resale, donation, recycling and disposal
• IT equipment disposal (WEEE-compliant)
• Confidential paper shredding
• Duty of Care waste transfer notes
• ESG impact report
• Broom-clean finish

Available extras:

• Hard drive destruction with ADISA-certified certificates
• Deep cleaning or carpet cleaning for lease returns
• Cat A or Cat B strip out (partitions, flooring, ceilings)
• Temporary storage for items being relocated

Office Clearance Costs

Every clearance is different, but here are typical UK price ranges to help you budget:

What affects the price: floor level and lift access, restricted working hours, volume of IT equipment requiring data destruction, hazardous waste (fluorescent tubes, batteries), tight deadlines, and London/SE England location premiums.

What can bring it down: quality furniture we can resell (offset against your bill), flexible timing, good access, and items pre-sorted and labelled.

Get a quick estimate with our cost estimator tool, or book a free site visit for an accurate fixed-price quote.

Environmental Responsibility

We track every item that leaves your premises and report exactly where it ends up. A typical Clear Workspace clearance achieves:

• 85–95% landfill diversion — through reuse, resale, donation and recycling
• 30–50% reuse rate — quality furniture and equipment given a second life
• Full carbon accounting — CO₂ savings from diversion vs virgin production

Every client receives an ESG impact report showing the exact breakdown by weight and category. This is increasingly valuable for corporate sustainability reporting, B Corp certification, and demonstrating responsible business practices to stakeholders.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does office clearance cost?

Office clearance in the UK typically costs between £80 and £200 per person, depending on volume, access difficulty and disposal requirements. A 20-person office clearance usually ranges from £2,000 to £6,000. We provide free site visits and fixed-price quotes with no hidden charges.

How long does an office clearance take?

A small office (under 10 people) can usually be cleared in half a day. Medium offices (10–50 people) take 1–3 days. Larger or multi-floor offices may take a week or more, particularly if there is specialist equipment or data destruction involved.

What happens to the furniture and equipment?

We sort everything on-site. Quality furniture is resold through trade channels or donated to charities. Metals, plastics, wood and cardboard are recycled. IT equipment is wiped or destroyed to ADISA standards. Only items that genuinely cannot be reused or recycled go to licensed waste facilities.

Do I get waste documentation?

Yes — every clearance includes full Duty of Care waste transfer notes as required by law. You also receive an ESG impact report showing exactly what was reused, recycled and diverted from landfill, along with data destruction certificates for any IT equipment.

Can you clear an office out of hours or at weekends?

Absolutely. Many of our clearances are completed evenings and weekends to avoid disruption to other tenants, especially in multi-tenanted buildings and London offices. Out-of-hours work may carry a small premium.

Do I need to sort everything before you arrive?

No — our team sorts everything on-site. However, if you can label items as keep, sell, donate or clear in advance, it speeds up the process and may reduce costs.