Studios and flats
One or two rooms, usually upstairs
A studio or a one- to two-bedroom flat. Small in volume and frequently awkward in access, because the constraint is a staircase or a lift rather than the quantity of furniture.
What it involves →By house size
Removals, sorted by house size
Grouped by how much house is moving, because that is what decides the crew, the vehicle and the length of the day far more reliably than the name of the service.
Two sizes at once — a house going into store and a flat going straight in — is a single job here.
Smaller than a house
Studios and flats, where access decides the day rather than volume.
A house
Terraces and semis — the bulk of British housing and of this work.
Terraced houses
Narrow hall, stairs with a turn
The most common house type in the country and the one that most often defeats a large sofa. A narrow hall, a turn at the bottom of the stairs, and no guaranteed space outside the door.
What it involves →Semi-detached houses
A drive, side access, a loft
Interwar and postwar semis: generous halls, straight stairs, a drive at most and side access to the rear. The easiest houses in the country to move out of, and the ones with the fullest lofts.
What it involves →A larger house
Detached and above, where the outbuildings hold more than the rooms.
Detached and larger houses
Outbuildings and carrying distance
Four bedrooms and upward, with garages, garden stores and a front path long enough to matter. The volume is rarely in the rooms; it is in everything around them.
What it involves →Any size, going far
Distance changes the packing standard, not the principle.
Long-distance moves
One crew, one vehicle, no transfers
Moves crossing the country rather than the town. The load stays on one vehicle with one crew from your door to the new one, because transfers and depot handling are where long moves go wrong.
What it involves →Any size, waiting
When the far end is not ready for whatever is coming to it.
Storage between homes
Held while the far end resolves
Goods collected, listed and held when the two dates do not meet. The same arrangement whatever size the house is; only the number of containers changes.
What it involves →What the figure is built from
Four things, and how far it is going is only one of them. How much is genuinely travelling, taken with a tape rather than inferred from a bedroom count. What the access allows at both ends. How much packing you want done. And whether anything is being held in between.
Distance changes two of those rather than simply adding mileage. It raises the packing standard, because a load on the road for hours works against itself in ways a fifteen-minute run never does, and it pushes the departure hour earlier.
No price, rate card or transit time appears anywhere on this site, because none of them is knowable before a survey. Start on the quote form, or read the questions page.
What size is the house?
Both addresses and roughly how much house is going. Five rungs from a studio to a country house, and knowing which one you are on is enough for us to ask something useful back.