Flat and Apartment Removals in Central London

People assume the number of floors is what makes a walk-up hard. It is the staircase geometry. A wide Victorian staircase on the fourth floor is easier than a tight Georgian dogleg on the second, because the turn at the half landing is what physically stops a sofa.

If you can measure two things, the narrowest point of the stairs and the widest dimension of your largest piece, we can tell you before you book whether it goes up whole, comes apart, or does not go at all. That last answer is worth having in advance. We would rather lose the booking than damage your wall proving a point.

The red brick mansion blocks off Marylebone Road, in Victoria and across Kensington almost all have a head porter, a service entrance separate from the front door, and rules about protecting the common parts. None of that is difficult. All of it needs arranging before the day rather than negotiating in the lobby.

Give us the porter or building manager contact when you book and we deal with it directly: which entrance, which lift, what floor covering they expect, and whether they want our insurance details on file. A move stalling downstairs waiting for permission is the most avoidable delay in this whole trade.

The newer blocks around Victoria, Paddington Basin, King's Cross, Nine Elms and Elephant and Castle are the easiest moves in Central London once the paperwork is done. Underground loading bay, dedicated goods lift, a concierge who handles this weekly.

Two things catch people out. Loading bays have a height restriction, usually around two metres, which a Luton box van will not clear, so we need the stated headroom to bring the right vehicle. And the slot is typically an hour or two, which is plenty for most flats provided everything is packed before we arrive.

Clerkenwell, Shoreditch, Bermondsey and Bankside are full of converted industrial buildings with wonderful flats and highly variable lifts. Some take a sofa on its end without complaint. Some take one person and four boxes, and were installed for the conversion rather than designed for moving furniture.

That single detail can double the time a job takes, so we ask about it rather than assume. Send the internal dimensions or just a photograph of the lift, and the time we allow will be realistic instead of optimistic.

Bayswater, Paddington and parts of the West End turn over constantly, and a lot of those moves are booked with days rather than weeks of notice. We keep some capacity for that, and a small flat within the same week is usually possible.

Where notice genuinely matters is anything needing a bay suspension or a booked lift, because both are on somebody else's timetable. If your tenancy end is fixed, tell us as soon as you know it rather than once the date is close.