Across London
We work across every London borough. What changes between them is almost never the load — it is whether a vehicle can stand, whether a lift can be held, and how far the carry is. Here is how that plays out area by area.
Nothing on this page is about how much you own.
EC · WC · W1
Three, nearly always
Not because the loads are large — they are usually small — but because nothing can stand anywhere. One person stays with the vehicle while the other two work, and that is a three-person day even when the flat is a studio.
N · NW · E · SE inner
Two, sometimes three
Communal stairs with a half-landing turn, and a front door that opens onto a hallway shared with the flat below. Two people handle it unless the turn is tight enough that a sofa has to go over the bannister, which needs a third.
E14 · SE16 · SW8 · NW10
Three, because of the lift
A booked goods lift is a fixed window with a queue behind it. Somebody holds the lift, somebody loads it and somebody works the flat — and if you try that with two, the lift leaves without you.
Bromley · Barnet · Hillingdon · Croydon
Two for flats, four for houses
Drives, garages and somewhere to put the van, which takes the building out of the argument and leaves the load to decide. A three-bed semi with a loft and a garage is a full crew whatever the parking is like.
London-wide
Three, and a walk
Where a vehicle physically cannot reach the door, the carry becomes the job. We measure that walk before quoting, because a hundred metres of it with a wardrobe is a different day from ten.
London-wide
Four and up
Building management, a service lift booking, a floor protection requirement and a window that closes. Small office moves fail on the paperwork rather than the lifting, so we do that part first.
All of them. Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, Westminster and the City of London.
We also run out of London to the rest of the UK, and we collect from Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bristol where a shipment is being consolidated here before going abroad. See how an overseas move runs for that.
Four things, and they are the same four every time: what floor it is on, whether there is a lift and whether it is shared, where a vehicle can legally stand, and how far that standing point is from the door.
Everything else — the number of boxes, the size of the sofa, whether it is a weekday — matters far less than people expect. Those four answers produce the crew size, and the crew size produces the price.
Permits and bay suspensions are applied for through the borough, and boroughs differ enormously in how much notice they want and what they charge. Start it well ahead of the move rather than the week before — it is the single most common avoidable problem on a London move.
Where there is genuinely nowhere legal to stop, the nearest usable point becomes part of the job and we measure the walk from it. A long trolleyed carry is ordinary work in the centre; it simply has to be known about while the crew is being decided.
Both addresses, what floor each one is on, where a vehicle can legally stand at either end, and the widest thing you own. That is what sets the crew — and the crew is what sets the price.