A UK removals company that explains the seven things which actually move the price, then surveys your move properly and sends a clear written quote. Houses, flats, single rooms, long hauls, storage and moves into Europe.
No price list on this site, deliberately — here is why.
If something genuinely changes on the day, we tell you what it means before we act on it — not afterwards on an invoice.
Seven things, in roughly the order they matter. None of them are secret and none of them need a figure to be useful — once you know which apply to your move, you know whether yours sits at the simple end or the complicated one.
Four steps, and the fourth is the one that matters. Most complaints about removals firms are not about the price — they are about finding out the price late.
Get a quoteBoth addresses, the floor at each end, roughly how much there is. Five minutes, no obligation.
By video for most moves, in person for larger ones. We measure the volume and look at the route out of the building, because that is what decides the day.
The volume we measured, the access we found, what is included, what is not, and what would change the number.
If something genuinely changes on the day, we tell you what it means before we act on it. Not afterwards, on an invoice.
What drives the cost of moving a whole home.
Read more →Why floors, lifts and communal doors change the number.
Read more →When the small option really is the cheaper one.
Read more →Where distance stops being a detail and becomes the job.
Read more →The line most people can move up or down themselves.
Read more →What storage adds, and when it saves more than it costs.
Read more →Most of the difference between two removals quotes is not margin — it is a different assumption. Ask both firms these and the gap usually explains itself.
A quote that cannot answer this has not measured anything, and the number will move later.
The commonest hidden difference by a wide margin. One quote may assume you are doing all of it.
Floors, lift, how far the carry is, and whether a parking bay needs suspending. The factor discovered on the morning.
Collected anywhere in the UK. The same transparency applies — what is included, what is not, and what the customs side of a European move actually involves.
Because a figure given before anyone has looked at your move is a guess with a pound sign on it. Every removals price depends on the volume, the access, the packing and the distance, and none of those are knowable from a bedroom count. What we publish instead is an honest explanation of what moves the number, and then we survey your move and put a real figure in writing.
Seven things, in roughly this order of impact: how much there is, how far it goes, the access at both ends, how much packing you want done, whether anything needs storing, when you move, and the extras. Each one is explained in plain words on our page about what affects the cost.
Yes, and there is no obligation attached to it. Most moves are surveyed by video — you walk round on your phone and we see the volume, the doorways, the stairs and the access. For larger homes or awkward buildings we come out.
You can get a clear idea of what will drive your cost, which is more useful than a number that was never going to apply to you. Read the seven factors, work out which ones are true of your move, and you will know whether yours sits at the simple end or the complicated one.
Yes. We are not a local firm with a nationwide page — we work across the country, collecting and delivering in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bristol and everywhere between. There is no branch on your high street and we are not going to invent one.
Tell us about it and we will survey it properly, then send a clear written quote that lists what is included and what would change it. No figure before we have looked — that would just be a guess with a pound sign on it.