Moving...

[hawkida]

Does anyone know the approximate costs of removals companies?

Specifically I'm going to be moving stuff from a reasonably full mid-size 3 bedroom house approximately 100 miles. Like with storage firms, websites are bloody useless. They want to give me exact quotes, or send people out to asess my needs. All I want at this stage is a ballpark figure - I want to know if I'm talking about 250 quid or 2000 quid for this sort of thing in order to consider alternatives such as friends, family and van hire.

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[drplokta]

It should be much closer to £250 than £2000, as long as you use a local "man with big van" kind of outfit. I'd budget £500.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Yes.

If you want to be mildly horrified, ask Pickfords for a quote.

I forget how much we paid in total, but it wasn't a simple house move. It involved slowly moving half the house into a storage unit in Hanwell before putting the house on the market, using a removals company to place the remainder into 2 storage units in Stevenage when we moved out, and then using that company again some weeks later to collect the content of the various storage units and bring them up here. So we were complicated by two different removals involving 4 locations. And not to mention the storage unit fees, and the cattery fees.

(On the other hand, the money in the bank did actually earn almost enough interzest to pay those fees.)

Having said which, we found Britannia a pretty good bunch. They did an exceedingly good job of packing a small house load into a storage unit, such that when bellinghwoman visited the storage unit in SG, she opened the door, and boggled. There was a solid wall of stuff an inch behind that door, floor to ceiling.