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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[evil-mogwai.livejournal.com]

I would not suggest a man and van, it takes far too long and is far too much trouble. You will also need practically a lorry/truck for a decent amount of stuff in a three bed house. They are also experts at getting things like sofas etc apart easily to get them out of the house when they were 'built' after being brought in

When we moved we filled a full truck of the biggest variety (about the size you see on the road with transport company names on - 2700 cubit foot if I remember correctly). We also had 6 guys working on packing, moving and unpacking.

We spent £1400 including VAT and no packing service. DO NOT ask Pickfords IIRC they came in over £2k and wanted 3 days to do the loading/unloading.

They said that our house had enough in it for a family of four who were all hoarders :) so yours should be under £1k.

Some things worth remembering:

- most of them will have "hangng" boxes so no need to pack your wardrobe stuff into boxes.

- Most will give you a number of boxes for "free" as part of the quote... get those nice and early to help packing time! The ones we were given were 18X12X12inch and 18X18X18inch. They get bloody heavy though. You may have to buy more but we just raided the supermarkets for empty boxes of a decent size instead.

- Items that do not need to be deconstructed to fit in the van and have drawers do not need the drawers unpacked. Our removals company just took the drawers out, put it in the van,and put the drawers back in.

Obviously you should have it easier than us... we had 2 days notice that it was all going through and hadn't done much the week before as we had thought it had fallen through. We finished packing at 11am friday morning by literally shoving things into black bags and shoving them in the car.