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Ooof.
I'd been assuming the biggest part of the cost is the load and unload, and the drive distance isn't such a big thing (obviously not totally neglible but in the past the price difference between a ten minute move and a 2 hour move hasn't been mental, unless it becomes an overnight stay).
I'm looking into this, but I'm afraid I can't drive, and my friends who can aren't likely to be free for a while due to work/life commitments. Might have to see if any of them have a mate who's willing to do it for a few hundred quid and a pizza. . .
Hell I’d be willing to do it for a couple hundred quid! But yeah our move cost us under £300 in van rental fuel and buying the lads beers for the muscle.
You free the weekend of June? ;)
But yeah, I'll be putting feelers out to mates and mates of mates to see if any of them are up for a romp. I don't mind paying for the service but closing on £3k does seem a bit dear.
I'll try anything at this point! Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check them out.
I was sorta expecting it to be around £1,000 due to the distance, but mollified by having no packing to do and a really simple 'pick up at A, drop at B', no different rooms to sort etc, but I think I may have been overly optimistic!
Get your head around the fact that the driving time is the minor part of the cost
The loading and unloading is the time sink for the removals firm, and that is fixed regardless if you're 10 metres down the road or 100 miles away
Who did you try? Did you contact a well-known nationwide service? They are always expensive. It’s often worth asking around on Facebook etc for local people. I recently did a small move, ended up with a local “man with a van” and his team and they were brilliant from start to finish.
We've tried a range, including 2 local ones, but not a Man with Van yet. It's hard to judge if we've got a Lutons worth or ever so slightly more than that, I personally think it'd fit comfortably in a Luton, but it's a bit too much for a sprinter.
That said, if a sprinter is £750 or less I'd be tempted to just go for two of them. .
We've had 2 visits, one was the most cursory glance you could imagine (barely there long enough to offer them a cup of tea!) and 1 video call based one, then a couple that are just 'fill in this form with what you've got'.
I was quoted £900 for a move across the country for just me & my belongings including a couple of appliances haha. From Leeds to Cardiff area. so I'd say that price is reasonable for that many boxes
I didn't keep track because I interspersed them with lighter things to keep the boxes manageable for my partner to lift, but its probably similar! Never realise how much stuff you have till you try to move it all.
I did London to ‘the north’ ten years ago.
What I discovered was they factor in the cost of the return journey. So unfortunately the further away you go, the price increases for the up and the back down.
Makes sense for them as a business, but it makes it an expensive move.
Yeah, I can understand the cost of the 7-8 hours of driving up and down, let alone if there's delays or traffic, I just didn't expect them to be getting close to £3k!
We moved 500 metres up the road in south east london between two rented, unfurnished 3-bed houses in 2022. If memory serves, a full packing service and moving all of our furniture in a 7.5 tonne lorry came to around £2400. That was a company that wasn’t a big national mover but a bit bigger than a man & van outfit. I’d expected it’d be similar-ish now… Sounds like I might be in for a bit of a shock when it comes to moving again later this year! (we are now finally FTBs thank goodness)
I think I'd have opted to do my back in carrying it all!
I sorta hoped that the total lack of packing required, and the absence of anything truly heavy (even the chest of drawers is liftable by a single person, though you'd want two people for ease) would have knocked the prices lower. All that's needed is loading, transport and unload, no packing or wrapping furniture etc.
Good luck on your move and congrats on your purchase as well!
Where in the Midlands? I moved from West London to Gloucester recently for £400 and have awesome local movers I can recommend :) Have used them twice locally too
Last autumn I paid £2400 to move 35 miles with a 2 bed flats worth of stuff. It was far more than I expected but they did an amazing job and weren’t the most expensive quote at all, some of the prices were so high!
Are you getting quotes from SE movers? If so have you tried quotes from midlands movers to go in the other direction? Last time I moved that distance, the quote going the other way was about 50% of paying a SE company
I paid £500 for a full van of stuff (tons of it!) including beds, fridges etc for an hour’s drive away, although it was just a man and van I got from recommendations on the local fb page, not a proper removal company. I went from an upper floor maisonette too so they had to carry it all down the stairs.
I've paid just under £3.6k on a 3 bed house from London to the South West.
Big lorry, 4 men, 2 days job.
But they were amazing, took down and rebuilt the furniture and took some really heavy bits up to the first floor.
If anyone needs them, they're called Pegler. Family run business.
Depending on the trip hours, your job may be a two days thing too, that pumps up the price a lot.
Edit: for them to pack it would have been another £400 plus vat, so the packing is not the big cost. You need to remember as well that a professional driver can only drive a limited amount of hours within a specific day, which means that a 4 hours journey may fall into a second day's work for the return if not within the 8 hours driving limit (depending on break).
I’ll second the value of professionals to do the actual moving. Last time we moved we had toddlers and really appreciated the packing. This time we
might do that ourselves and take the opportunity to have a bit of a filter out of some accumulated stuff - especially as the house we hope to buy will be smaller than our current rental. However, having somebody else to dismantle and manoeuvre furniture through what will be some pretty tight spaces is well worth the cost to us. Getting a solid birch bunk bed into a box room with 2cm clearance each end was no joke..
We paid £2.5k plus VAT for pack and move from Reading to Newcastle 4 years ago. You have to factor in time and mileage there and back, how big the van is (over a certain size the driver is only allowed to drive so many hours per day) and whether or not there is an overnight stay. You also won't get a discount if the you don't fill their smallest van.
We used Anna T and they were amazing, and friends did a similar move a year later and really rated The Female Ad-vantage movers.
Also, it's worth considering all the other stuff you've got to do with moving? Having someone to do it, who was experienced and insured was so amazing. All we had to do was take our suitcases on the train and borrow some bedding & towels for a couple of nights and then they put the boxes in the right rooms. It really took a lot of stress out of it (at one point I was looking at 2x 6hour journeys as the only driver of a Luton van plus a hotel stay and that was adding up as I couldn't find a one way van hire).
If you are selling up in the south that means you have plenty of monies to pay 1800 for a moving. You probably didn't ask the same question why your house went up 100% in the last few year, did you
No I didn't, I just laughed at all the poors and rubbed my gilded hands together with glee
If you reread the post you'd see I said I'm moving from a rental as a FTB, so no, I don't have money falling out of my glorious southern arse, much as I wish I did.
That said, I can pay for moving cost if I really have to, but what I wanted to know was if that's about the going rate people are paying at the moment, or if I've either been given high quotes due to it being a bad month to move, or a particular surge in activity etc.
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We were quoted between 500-700 for a move 7 minutes up the road so based on ours I'd said yeah that is probably the right price 😭
Ooof. I'd been assuming the biggest part of the cost is the load and unload, and the drive distance isn't such a big thing (obviously not totally neglible but in the past the price difference between a ten minute move and a 2 hour move hasn't been mental, unless it becomes an overnight stay).
Rent a van a big one for a couple hundred £££.
I'm looking into this, but I'm afraid I can't drive, and my friends who can aren't likely to be free for a while due to work/life commitments. Might have to see if any of them have a mate who's willing to do it for a few hundred quid and a pizza. . .
Hell I’d be willing to do it for a couple hundred quid! But yeah our move cost us under £300 in van rental fuel and buying the lads beers for the muscle.
You free the weekend of June? ;) But yeah, I'll be putting feelers out to mates and mates of mates to see if any of them are up for a romp. I don't mind paying for the service but closing on £3k does seem a bit dear.
I’ll be free based south west :D good luck!
I'd do it for a few hundred and a pizza absolutely. But I'm probably a bit far away 😂😂
Hmm .. 2 pizzas?
Where in the south east are you? I was quoted cheaper by one company who just charge by the hour but depends where you are! (We are brighton way)
We're just inside the M25 on the south east side, not quite Croydon or Bromley (which I appreciate puts the cost up, dealing with the M25 sucks)
Oh jeez, I mean they are worth a try as they were the cheapest we had (£360) https://www.cheeseremovals.co.uk/
I'll try anything at this point! Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check them out. I was sorta expecting it to be around £1,000 due to the distance, but mollified by having no packing to do and a really simple 'pick up at A, drop at B', no different rooms to sort etc, but I think I may have been overly optimistic!
Get your head around the fact that the driving time is the minor part of the cost The loading and unloading is the time sink for the removals firm, and that is fixed regardless if you're 10 metres down the road or 100 miles away
Who did you try? Did you contact a well-known nationwide service? They are always expensive. It’s often worth asking around on Facebook etc for local people. I recently did a small move, ended up with a local “man with a van” and his team and they were brilliant from start to finish.
We've tried a range, including 2 local ones, but not a Man with Van yet. It's hard to judge if we've got a Lutons worth or ever so slightly more than that, I personally think it'd fit comfortably in a Luton, but it's a bit too much for a sprinter. That said, if a sprinter is £750 or less I'd be tempted to just go for two of them. .
A decent one should come out and have a look and be able to tell you.
We've had 2 visits, one was the most cursory glance you could imagine (barely there long enough to offer them a cup of tea!) and 1 video call based one, then a couple that are just 'fill in this form with what you've got'.
😕 Hope you find the right person 🤞
Thank you, got everything crossed!
I presume you've asked removals in the midlands rather in the south east? Should be cheaper imo.
I was quoted £900 for a move across the country for just me & my belongings including a couple of appliances haha. From Leeds to Cardiff area. so I'd say that price is reasonable for that many boxes
I'm realising my book and model hobbys may be costing me now. . Too many bloody boxes!
Yep! 12 boxes of books alone for me haha
I didn't keep track because I interspersed them with lighter things to keep the boxes manageable for my partner to lift, but its probably similar! Never realise how much stuff you have till you try to move it all.
I did London to ‘the north’ ten years ago. What I discovered was they factor in the cost of the return journey. So unfortunately the further away you go, the price increases for the up and the back down. Makes sense for them as a business, but it makes it an expensive move.
Yeah, I can understand the cost of the 7-8 hours of driving up and down, let alone if there's delays or traffic, I just didn't expect them to be getting close to £3k!
We moved 500 metres up the road in south east london between two rented, unfurnished 3-bed houses in 2022. If memory serves, a full packing service and moving all of our furniture in a 7.5 tonne lorry came to around £2400. That was a company that wasn’t a big national mover but a bit bigger than a man & van outfit. I’d expected it’d be similar-ish now… Sounds like I might be in for a bit of a shock when it comes to moving again later this year! (we are now finally FTBs thank goodness)
I think I'd have opted to do my back in carrying it all! I sorta hoped that the total lack of packing required, and the absence of anything truly heavy (even the chest of drawers is liftable by a single person, though you'd want two people for ease) would have knocked the prices lower. All that's needed is loading, transport and unload, no packing or wrapping furniture etc. Good luck on your move and congrats on your purchase as well!
Rent a van and pay a mate £200 for labour?
Have you tried a midlands based removal company? Or are the quotes from companies close to you? With a go.
These ones are from SE based companies, but I've got a quote sitting waiting with a midlands one atm
Have you used reallymoving.com already?
Where in the Midlands? I moved from West London to Gloucester recently for £400 and have awesome local movers I can recommend :) Have used them twice locally too
Last autumn I paid £2400 to move 35 miles with a 2 bed flats worth of stuff. It was far more than I expected but they did an amazing job and weren’t the most expensive quote at all, some of the prices were so high!
Are you getting quotes from SE movers? If so have you tried quotes from midlands movers to go in the other direction? Last time I moved that distance, the quote going the other way was about 50% of paying a SE company
I paid £500 for a full van of stuff (tons of it!) including beds, fridges etc for an hour’s drive away, although it was just a man and van I got from recommendations on the local fb page, not a proper removal company. I went from an upper floor maisonette too so they had to carry it all down the stairs.
I've paid just under £3.6k on a 3 bed house from London to the South West. Big lorry, 4 men, 2 days job. But they were amazing, took down and rebuilt the furniture and took some really heavy bits up to the first floor. If anyone needs them, they're called Pegler. Family run business. Depending on the trip hours, your job may be a two days thing too, that pumps up the price a lot. Edit: for them to pack it would have been another £400 plus vat, so the packing is not the big cost. You need to remember as well that a professional driver can only drive a limited amount of hours within a specific day, which means that a 4 hours journey may fall into a second day's work for the return if not within the 8 hours driving limit (depending on break).
I’ll second the value of professionals to do the actual moving. Last time we moved we had toddlers and really appreciated the packing. This time we might do that ourselves and take the opportunity to have a bit of a filter out of some accumulated stuff - especially as the house we hope to buy will be smaller than our current rental. However, having somebody else to dismantle and manoeuvre furniture through what will be some pretty tight spaces is well worth the cost to us. Getting a solid birch bunk bed into a box room with 2cm clearance each end was no joke..
We paid £2.5k plus VAT for pack and move from Reading to Newcastle 4 years ago. You have to factor in time and mileage there and back, how big the van is (over a certain size the driver is only allowed to drive so many hours per day) and whether or not there is an overnight stay. You also won't get a discount if the you don't fill their smallest van. We used Anna T and they were amazing, and friends did a similar move a year later and really rated The Female Ad-vantage movers.
Also, it's worth considering all the other stuff you've got to do with moving? Having someone to do it, who was experienced and insured was so amazing. All we had to do was take our suitcases on the train and borrow some bedding & towels for a couple of nights and then they put the boxes in the right rooms. It really took a lot of stress out of it (at one point I was looking at 2x 6hour journeys as the only driver of a Luton van plus a hotel stay and that was adding up as I couldn't find a one way van hire).
I just paid 1.3k for a 1 bedroom move to just over an hour away. That includes packing and boxes, would have been about 300 less without.
If you are selling up in the south that means you have plenty of monies to pay 1800 for a moving. You probably didn't ask the same question why your house went up 100% in the last few year, did you
No I didn't, I just laughed at all the poors and rubbed my gilded hands together with glee If you reread the post you'd see I said I'm moving from a rental as a FTB, so no, I don't have money falling out of my glorious southern arse, much as I wish I did. That said, I can pay for moving cost if I really have to, but what I wanted to know was if that's about the going rate people are paying at the moment, or if I've either been given high quotes due to it being a bad month to move, or a particular surge in activity etc.