3hrs to load + 6hrs drive + 3hrs to unload + 6hrs drive back. That’s 1.5 days work for truck and 2 men approx £1000. I’d expect it to cost more than £1300 considering the distance. Are they reputable?
A friend of mine moved about the same distance for a few hundred quid – not lots of furniture though (Some nice Polish guys with a van did it 😀 ) Bit of a risk but all was great. Might be worth researching on Gumtree/ google if you aren’t too bothered about insurance etc
They are doing it in a day – 7am start 3 blokes. Getting some more quotes next week.
Moved with man with a van last time but nowhere near as much stuff and less than a mile.
Some of you must be lucky or have very good friends or at least unemployed ones if you can get 3 friends to help on a work day including a 400 miles round trip.
Seriously. Would you do it yourself? I had until this am a move planned just 3 miles away and had quotes of £600 for a 3 bed house.
I can’t move 3 double beds, sofas, piano, kitchen tables and boxes and boxes of books even with some mates. Not without breaking something or damaging walls getting in or out. Money well spent. How much would being off with a bad back cost you?
Seriously. Would you do it yourself? I had until this am a move planned just 3 miles away and had quotes of £600 for a 3 bed house.
I can’t move 3 double beds, sofas, piano, kitchen tables and boxes and boxes of books even with some mates. Not without breaking something or damaging walls getting in or out. Money well spent. How much would being off with a bad back cost you? What’s difficult about shifting that lot? Only thing that would cause any bother would be the piano, quick google of how to move a piano would soon sort that…
There nothing difficult about it, just whether you can be ar*** doing it..
Saying that if i was leaving this place, i’d probably take my laptop, my guitars and my bike and leave everything else!
Price sounds right.We just moved this week from a 2 bed flat 240 miles and with packing and dismantling of bed and sofa bed cost nearly £1500. Whatever you decide check your current home insurance policy as it probably covers damages during house moves so it makes hiring a van and a man type thing less risky.Pickfords quoted a ridiculous £294 for insurance!!
With a toddler, 2 cats, a dog and a wife then yes you are probably right, I can’t be arsed risking doing my back or asking my mates to do the same to save a few quid. They supply the packing boxes, tape and wrapping stuff, they move it to where I want it from this 3 storey house to the next 3 storey house and insure it against any breakages or damage done.
Just moved 3 bed house from London to ilkley, was 2.5k. That was the cheapest quote, all bar approved. I moved myself with a mate a few times before inc. To London in the first place but I wouldn’t have managed this. It took 3 men over 2 days Inc driving time.
I got some ‘man with van’ quotes at around 1300 but too much risk in trms of no show or van too small for me. If you want it yo go smoothly pay the pros!
Doing the move yourself is OK if you live alone, student style – but mix in a partner+kids… No regrets paying someone to do it last time. And if you can get them to do the packing too, do it.
Get as many quotes as you can, from firms at both ends. We moved in August, prices varied hugely – I think it depends alot on how much work they have on at the time.
We only moved 10 miles, but from big 4 bed house, have loads of stuff (garages, outbuildings, etc), went with firm from York, £850 all in including packing! All i had to do was dismantle the beds. 5 men, 2 vans, two days. No idea how they made any money. And they were brilliant.
I’d pay the extra for the pack as well. The only time I did it, work enforced move, Eating breakfast at 8.30 in a fully unpacked house and was leaving 3 hours later with whole contents in van. they then semi unpacked at the other end.
Next time I moved was with a van and me dad, cheating wife enforced move, not so much fun, but I did get to leave an absolute mess behind.
ElShalimo – I used Walmgate Removals. Would have no hesitation in recommending them. Nothing was too much for trouble for them, really great bunch of lads.
Look at the packing options, for the insurance to be worth anything coming to Oz they had to pack. Was incredibly fast and efficient and careful. Much quicker than I could do it.
I did it recently…moved a 3 bed family home about 20 miles. It was a complete nightmare. Me and two mates did it, along with about 100 members of the family who helped interfere. It took us two WHOLE days of about 16 hours each, plus the van rental.
It was massively stressful and I reckon the £1000 it would have cost for it to have been done professionally would have been worth every last penny.
You are limited to 3.5t if you passed your test in 1997 or later. This means you would be overweight as most of us have more possessions than the 1.5t typical payload in a Luton van.
Like carpet fitting, plumbing, and many other jobs, some things are best left to a professional. Moving is one of them, and distance isn’t really the issue, it’s volume! We moved twice in 2010, with two lorries. Fortunately it was paid for by a relocation company, but it was over £3000 each time, and was worth every penny.
Paying for packing is also money well spent. Watching them wrap and pack is wonderful. And I think it confers some additional protection for insurance. Unpacking is less useful to be honest, and they will admit that. Once furniture is in places beds assembled etc… there isn’t much left for them to do except wait for you to tell them.