A house move in Central London is mostly logistics and partly lifting. Two addresses, two sets of parking restrictions, often two different boroughs with their own suspension rules, and a completion time nobody controls. Sorting that out before the day is what separates a move that finishes by mid-afternoon from one that finishes in the dark.
- ✓A crew sized to the access rather than to the number of bedrooms
- ✓Blanket wrapping for sofas, mattresses and wooden furniture before anything leaves the room
- ✓Dismantling and reassembly of beds, wardrobes and large tables where needed
More on house removals →Most of what moves in Central London is a flat, and the flats vary more than anything else about the job. A second floor walk-up in Soho and a concierge-managed apartment in Mayfair hold the same amount of furniture and take completely different amounts of time. The two questions that decide the day are the floor and the lift.
- ✓Crew sized to the floor and the staircase, not just the number of bedrooms
- ✓Goods lift and loading bay booking arranged with your concierge or building manager
- ✓Blanket wrapping and corner protection before anything leaves the flat
More on flat removals →Man and van sits in the gap between a courier who will not carry anything upstairs and a removals firm booked for a job that never needed one. A studio flat, a few large items, a collection that needs two people and a blanket. Most weeks that is the bulk of what we do across the centre.
- ✓One driver, or two people where the load or the access needs it
- ✓A clean van sized to the job and to the street rather than one fixed vehicle
- ✓Blankets, straps and trolleys as standard
More on man and van hire →Some moves cannot be booked three weeks out because nobody knew they were happening. A chain collapses the day before completion. A landlord brings a tenancy end forward. A pipe goes through a ceiling and a flat has to be emptied before the loss adjuster arrives. We keep capacity back every day for exactly those jobs.
- ✓Same day slots subject to availability, and next day in most weeks
- ✓A crew sized to get it done in the window rather than the cheapest option
- ✓Wrapping and protection, even at speed
More on emergency hire →Bought something bulky online or in a store and no way to get it home? That is the job. IKEA flat-pack, a Gumtree sofa, a Facebook Marketplace wardrobe, an Argos click-and-collect order. We collect it, load it, and carry it into the room you want it in rather than leaving it on the pavement.
- ✓Collection from the store, warehouse or seller and delivery to your room, not to the door
- ✓Retail collections against your order number, including IKEA and Argos click-and-collect
- ✓Carrying up and down stairs at both ends
More on furniture pickups →A second-hand sofa is cheap right up to the moment you have to get it home. The seller is on a fourth floor in Hackney, the listing says "collection only", and a parcel courier will not take a sofa at all. That is the job we do most weekends: collect from the seller at a time agreed with them, carry it down their stairs and up yours, and put it in the room you bought it for.
- ✓Collection window confirmed with the seller directly before the day
- ✓Two person carry at both ends, including stairs with no lift
- ✓Taking off feet, legs and back cushions to get through doors, and putting them back on
More on marketplace pickups →An office move in Central London is a paperwork exercise with some lifting at the end. Loading dock booked, goods lift reserved, crew names and insurance filed with building security, method statement supplied if the building wants one. Get that in place and the move itself is straightforward.
- ✓Loading dock and goods lift booking arranged with the building
- ✓Crew names, vehicle registration and insurance evidence filed with building security in advance
- ✓Desk dismantling and reassembly
More on office moves →Student moving in Central London happens in two short, intense bursts. Late June when halls empty and late September when they fill, concentrated around Bloomsbury, South Kensington, Aldgate and Elephant and Castle. In those weeks the slots go quickly and the halls, not you, control the timings.
- ✓Loading slot booked with the halls or accommodation office
- ✓Collection from the room rather than from the ground floor
- ✓Boxes, bikes, and furniture in one load where it fits
More on student moves →Clearance work usually turns up attached to something else. A tenancy ending with furniture the next tenant does not want, a refurbishment leaving old units in the hallway, an office strip-out with twenty chairs nobody has a use for. We take it away and dispose of it properly, which is the part that actually matters.
- ✓Loading from inside the property rather than from the kerbside
- ✓Carrying down stairs and out of upper floor flats
- ✓Disposal at a licensed waste transfer facility
More on waste clearance →Two services that tend to be needed together. Packing, because a move booked for Friday and a flat still unpacked on Thursday evening is a familiar situation. And storage runs, because a great many Central London moves have a gap in the middle where the furniture has to go somewhere.
- ✓Full packing, or part packing of just the kitchen and fragile items
- ✓Boxes, tape, paper and bubble wrap supplied
- ✓Room by room labelling so unpacking is not a treasure hunt
More on packing and storage →Plenty of Central London moves have a gap in the middle. A sale completes three weeks before the purchase, one tenancy ends on the last Friday and the next starts on the fifteenth, a flat is being gutted and rewired. The furniture has to live somewhere for a while. We do not own a warehouse and we do not pretend to. What we do is help you pick the right self storage unit, load it so it is still usable in six months, and bring everything back out when the new place is ready.
- ✓Advice on the facility and the unit size before you sign anything
- ✓Wrapping and bagging suited to months in a unit rather than an hour in a van
- ✓Loading the unit heavy first, with the things you will need nearest the door
More on moving and storage →Most of the flats we move in Central London are rented, and a rental move ends differently from a sale. There is a date the flat has to be empty by, an inventory clerk who will walk round it afterwards, and a deposit that depends on what they find. The move itself is an ordinary flat move. Planning it around the checkout, the keys and whatever you are leaving behind is what this page is about.
- ✓A move date planned around the checkout appointment and key return rather than the last possible day
- ✓Move-out slot and goods lift booked with building management where the block requires it
- ✓Protection for door frames, floors and communal parts on the way out
More on end of tenancy →A lot of Central London will not let you move in the middle of a weekday. Managed blocks restrict the goods lift to set hours, office buildings keep the lobby clear until the staff have gone home, and plenty of people simply cannot take a day off to wait for a van. Evening and weekend moves fit the job into the window that actually exists, and after six o'clock the Congestion Charge stops as well.
- ✓A crew booked to the building's permitted hours rather than ours
- ✓Goods lift and move slot booked with the building on your behalf
- ✓Loud work and communal carries finished early in the evening
More on evening and weekend →Leaving London is a different job from moving across it. The drive stops being the gap between two lots of carrying and becomes most of the day, the destination is somewhere we visit rather than work every week, and the thing you are buying is a van and a crew committed to your move rather than an hourly rate. We quote one figure covering all of it.
- ✓A dedicated van and crew for your move alone, on the date you booked
- ✓Two, three or four crew, sized to the staircase at the far end rather than the room count
- ✓Blanket wrapping and corner protection applied in the room before anything moves
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