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I know - a how long is a piece of string question!
We're hoping to move sometime in April and we were planning on doing the van-hire option as we're not going far (less than 10 miles).
But we're now thinking that a removal company would be a lot less stressful - and easier on the back!
Just wondered what people have paid for removals. Typical 3 bed semi.
We've not moved in 25 years so kind of out of touch! 🙂
Cheers!
Probably budget a grand or so depending on the size of your house
We moved from a 5 bed house with two large sheds, a utility room and a loft full of stuff. I'm in a wheelchair and my wife has a bad back. Bishops quoted us >£6,000, we went with a local firm for just under £2,000. That was to pack everything up move it, only three miles, move it in and unpack it. Final moving of everything to exactly where we wanted it within each room was up to us.
Last 2 times we've moved we used a local man with a van company. £50 an hour, 3 guys, totally professional. We packed everything, they turn up and load everything into the van and unload at the other end.
Unless you're moving priceless vases or a grand piano, the prices some folk pay for removals is absolute madness.
Moved from a three bed semi, with a lot of garden stuff. Just a about a mile between old and new house. £1000.
Put my details in to one of those compare the market type places for removal companies. Coukd have got it done for £400 as we had a load of calls from folks desperate for the work.
It was 10 years ago but Pickford’s was around £2k for a local move for a large house (100 boxes) moving around 20 miles. Worth every penny for the stress removal factor and everything is insured so if it gets dropped it gets replaced.
I moved house almost every year when we rented. We had very little stuff.... All the bike stuff went in. My van the rest of the house went in the car.
I've lived in my current place 10 years.
If I ever move I'll be paying a man....
That's with me owning a van and a trailer..
When my folks moved to France after 20 years in same house they filled a large box trailer, a mwb van and sold what was worth while and thenfilled a large roll off skip.....
With that in mind have a clear out before you move. Don't pay folk to move stuff that you won't use again/doesn't fit/work with the new house
I have a wife and 3 kids.We moved from a 4 bed plus shed and basement - 20 miles - was quoted 1-2k. went for the middle option. I had boxed everything up.
Happy to pay 3 other guys to empty my house and then put all the boxes in my new house.
I got a man with a Luton. I think it was about £150. He and I did the loading / unloading, I didn't realise until too late that an extra pair of hands would only have been another £20.
Granted, I didn't take things like beds as I wanted new. But two grand, seriously? Wow.
Man with a van, three trips 90 miles each way. He asked for £600 (but got a chunk more).
We used to move a fair bit when we rented, usually did the hire van and rope in a couple of mates thing.
Last time we moved though we got 3 blokes in a van to do all the big stuff and all the boxes went in the car but we were only moving 1/4 mile.
Moved my mum and dad 100 miles back at the start of December and I'd have gladly paid someone to do it for them as it ruined me for a couple of days. Not used to manual labour anymore.
You should budget for c£1k; that will get you insurance cover for loss and damage, them to wrap/pack/box as required, put stuff where you want it in new house and take away all packing materials.
I got a man with a Luton. I think it was about £150. He and I did the loading / unloading,
Well yeah I guess it depends if you want things such as the van to be insured with your belongings in transit /insured against damage. The van to be legal with your belongings (most lutons have a payload of **** all)
Reminds me of paying 60 quid for a man with a trailer to move my land rover between houses working on it. Mutually beneficial agreement in that I was getting it done cheap and quick...... If the trailer were to roll....the vehicle was essentially uninsured for damages.
Dems the chances but I wouldn't "wow" at people not doing it for slave labour rates
The marginal cost of having the removal men pack and box everything was a few hundred quid, and was the best money I have ever spent.
£50 an hour, 3 men
That must be cash. You can't legally run a business paying 3 guys plus a large van / lorry for £50 per hour.
We had quotes around £1000-£1500 for a 20 mile move with a lot of heavy workshop stuff (plus an oddball £3000 quote). Ended up having a complete change of plans as had to move in December (no removals available) and needing a double move with interim 12 days in a temporary house.
Ended up drip deeding everything to a local storage place over 3 weeks. Then minimal stuff to the temporary house. Then a self drive Luton assisted by family with a couple of small vans for the move proper. Exhausting but cheap. A decent payload Luton was £95 for 24 hours. I did price up a 7.5t truck but was over £300 for a 9-5 day (so over-run and it becomes £600 for 2 day hire) and only one place would do it with insurance.
One thing we are glad of is not using a removal plus storage package. All your stuff is crated and no chance of interim access, and you are beholden to when they are available to do the second move.
If you have anything other than a small flat then removals is well worth it. The pace and ease they work at is amazing. It is money very well spent.
Removals is on my list of things I’m happy to pay someone else to do (along with wall papering, window cleaning and dog anal gland clearing)
That must be cash. You can’t legally run a business paying 3 guys plus a large van / lorry for £50 per hour.
Paid by bank transfer to his business account
http://www.manwithavanglasgow.com/index.html
That must be cash. You can’t legally run a business paying 3 guys plus a large van / lorry for £50 per hour.
Paid by bank transfer to his business account
http://www.manwithavanglasgow.com/index.html/blockquote >
How on earth is freelance £~25/h (each) sustainable with van as well
I paid a removal company about £1200 to pack, move, and unpack a three-bedroom house worth of crap 200 miles.
Honestly the best value for money I've ever known.
Well yeah I guess it depends if you want things such as the van to be insured with your belongings in transit /insured against damage.
Fair point. I've no idea whether he was or not, it didn't occur to me to ask. By that point I was a long way past going out of my goddamn mind.
I guess I am being slightly disingenuous because I pitched a lot of stuff; the charity shop did well out of me and there was probably the same amount of removals that simply got broken up and taken away in another big van. A lot of my furniture was like "used to be my gran's" years old and there was a chunk of stuff left at the new place so I didn't need to transport things like white goods. Anything fragile or that I was otherwise man-with-a-van hesitant about, I took myself in the car. So, TV, a big mirror, that sort of thing. And of course, I kinda lived on my own so I didn't have a couple of kids' worth of shite to move.
So, yeah, sorry, I can see how it can add up. I didn't really think, I just saw the figure and thought "holy hell!"
Did a big move last year. 4 bed moved into their storage depot was ~£1k and £2k to move the lot 250 miles a while later. All insured etc, reputable regional kind of company.
They were absolutely brilliant, guys treated our stuff and houses like their own. Only thing that got misplaced or damaged was a ladder which got put to the side in storage. Their next truck north got sent on a wild detour to deliver it! If you're north east based can recommend them, Richardson https://www.richardsonremovals.co.uk/
Availability for Fridays is always tough for removal folk. If you can move on a day that's not Friday it'll help find someone.
We moved about 15 miles away a year ago from a three bedroom house. Three lovely men did two runs for around £650. It was slick, impressive and well worth the money.
How on earth is freelance £~25/h (each) sustainable with van as well
3 guys! It's more like 17ph including van.
May have been payed via bank transfer but you just can't make a profit at £50 p/h for three men plus van operating legally, insured etc.
As someone else said, go for the full spec option of pack/move/unpack and don't forget to have a monster clear out BEFORE they come to quote.
Although I have used a man, mate & van that was 25 years ago and even my motorbike went in the van. Since then always full-spec companies and full service.
May have been payed via bank transfer but you just can’t make a profit at £50 p/h for three men plus van operating legally, insured etc.
The common one is getting a 3.5te lwb or Luton van which has a payload of <1te and filling it with a house. Instantly undercutting anyone operating their vehicles legally.
Did a big move last year. 4 bed moved into their storage depot was ~£1k and £2k to move the lot 250 miles a while later. All insured etc, reputable regional kind of company.
Same here.
If you have anything other than a small flat then removals is well worth it. The pace and ease they work at is amazing. It is money very well spent.
Yep. And you have a lot more stuff than you think. And if it's a chain move, i.e. everyone moving in/out on the same day, you will never, never be as quick as professional, which leads to a long day (and it's always a long day anyway) and annoyed purchasers who can't get in cos you're in the way (been there, ended up going in ourselves and hoiking their stuff onto the drive).
Moved from Bristol to Gloucester about 10yrs ago £700, professional removal firm one trip everything loaded and unloaded in a few hours....
Moved locally 5yrs later (about 1,5miles down the road), again £700! Highly recommended local firm so we used them - took all day, weeks later found half our glass and ceramics items were smashed.....
Moved from Woking to Newbury March last year - full packing and unpacking service. Cost me £2100 for a 3 bed semi + a workshop and a shed. Packing occurred on one day, they stored and then moved it all a couple of days later and unpacked. It was relatively short notice so I probably paid a bit over the odds.
The packing and unpacking was a thing to behold - 6 guys just descended on the house and blitzed it in about 3 or 4 hours. No breakages and happy with the service (DBM express - cover SE england).
Having moved house by myself before, after experiencing this option i will never do it myself again!
Thanks all!
Getting someone in is sounding more and more appealing. Time to get some quotes sorted!
Moving house involves some people a lot of money for **** all actual work and a few people not all that much for working bloody hard. I think the removal people are the only ones who actually deserve what they get!
Having said that when I moved back into my house after 3 years I did it all on my own by wheelbarrow 🙂
Moved this year. 3bed house, only a few miles to next village. £1050 all in including loan of all the moving boxes. We did the packing. On the day it was 4 blokes, who were great and made the whole operation very smooth and quick.
Just done a similar move. 3 bed semi to a 4 bed detached about 5 miles away. I have a 19yr old son and 14yr old daughter and wife. There is no way i would pay someone to move for me as i actually see it as something the whole family should be involved in. If i am working my fingers to the bone packing and getting sorted, my kids are going to be doing similar amounts of graft.
That said, it was extremely hard work but in the end very rewarding. When we all sat down, exhausted we could all appreciate what was involved. We started at 9am on the Friday and we carried the last wardrobe up a flight of stairs at 9.30pm that day. It took about 6 trips back and forth. By the end of the day i had blisters, my wife was near to tears and my son had a washing machine land on his head 🙁
We then went back to the old house the next morning and topped to bottomed it cleaning everything down so it was immacualte. Its just how we work.
Would i do it again. Yes i think its a family job. Would i say its easy - Nope. Even carrying 3 beds and mattresses down the stairs and into the new house was a PITA. The 3 piece suit was not fun either. The washing machine nearly put my son in hospital.
Go for it, it was like an intensive training session rolled into 48hours
Sorry - last year.. Anyway it was the first move we have done when we have paid for a removal service. But it's the only completion day (out by noon job) type move we have done. All the others we have done by hiring a van and doing it ourselves or mates helping for beers and without a noon deadline. Not a chance of that working for us this time, so went with a removal company.
I just had 5 quotes in the last few weeks ahead of a move - should it ever exchange.
Costs were £900 to £1800 for removal point A to B. Packing service on top was £1300 to 3 grand.
We’ll likely go with full service on the middle price.
There is no way i would pay someone to move for me as i actually see it as something the whole family should be involved in. If i am working my fingers to the bone packing and getting sorted, my kids are going to be doing similar amounts of graft.
That said, it was extremely hard work but in the end very rewarding. When we all sat down, exhausted we could all appreciate what was involved. We started at 9am on the Friday and we carried the last wardrobe up a flight of stairs at 9.30pm that day. It took about 6 trips back and forth. By the end of the day i had blisters, my wife was near to tears and my son had a washing machine land on his head
thats the best advert for getting the professionals in...
i moved to my flat with 4 trips in an estate car and 2 mates in a morning, next property is about to be bought with the Mrs and no way are spending a weekend ‘recovering’ from the move ordeal.
will probably pack prized possessions and leave the rest to them.
as has been said before ‘worth every penny'
MrSmith - And yet i would do it again with the help of my family if it needed to be done. Its just one of those things i was proud of my kids for knuckling down and putting some proper hard graft in.
Having moved enough pieces of Ikea 'furniture' over the years, I've come to see paying the professionals as an investment.
Doing it myself with mates / other half and even kids generally results in structural failures within the stuff from Ikea as it is moved.
Net result has been several severely damaged / ruined Ikea products and more £ being spent on replacements.
Not to mention dents in washing machines, ripped carpet, holey plasterboard and scratched flooring.
Removals guys just manage to know all the tricks and transfer the nasty pieces of disposable junk from Ikea in tact and not damage the fabric of the house.
Paying the professionals is worth every penny.
MrSmith – And yet i would do it again with the help of my family if it needed to be done. Its just one of those things i was proud of my kids for knuckling down and putting some proper hard graft in.
All fine and dandy, but I just don't have access to the 'man-power' anymore. It would be me and the Mrs and there's some heavy old oak furniture! 🙂
If we had several days or a week we'd probably manage. But it will be a chain completion and we'll need to be out sharpish.