Removals - extra cost for "restricted access"?

QTPie

Does anyone know how much more it is likely to cost when you are moving to a house with "restricted access"?

The house is approached by a fairly narrow, steep private shared drive (maybe 200 yards long). Our private drive (at the top) starts with a tight bend (brick walls either side): this means that lorries or large trucks cannot get round to the house (and there is no alternative turning circle on the shared drive - so they can't stop there either).

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QT

BitterAndTwisted

Have you had any quotes from removal companies? I suspect it will depend on how far stuff has to be carried from house to truck, how many people will be doing it and how much longer it will take to do.

Cannon_Fodder

Can't they reverse up the drive - how do your bin-men cope?

Isn't this why the big vans have side doors..?

Sweet-talk the neighbour to be parked helpfully down the drive already, for just that day..?

QTPie

Actually I don't think they can nreverse up the shared drive....

The drive is too narrow and too steep (the entrance in particular is steep and sharp). A full sized removals truck certainly wouldn't get round the curve to our house (unless it can bend in the middle) - it is just too tight (and walled in).... We have had skips delivered/picked-up over the past week and they had to leave the skip completely blocking our private drive (because they couldn't get it to the house).

It would need small vans or possible small trucks...

The shared drive is probably about 30' along much of the 200 yards - would give the removals men a heart attack

I don't really want to other the immediate neighbours - her father is gravely ill at the moment and I just don't want to add to things

QT

G_M

Only a removal company could answer your question.... after looking at the problem. Thay might choose to use several small vans rather than one big one, or they might have to use man-power all the way up the drive. Phone and ask for quotes!

QTPie

G_M wrote: »

Only a removal company could answer your question.... after looking at the problem. Thay might choose to use several small vans rather than one big one, or they might have to use man-power all the way up the drive. Phone and ask for quotes!

Thanks, still waiting for them to get back to me to arrange to do quotations... obviously too busy working to provide quotes...

QT

ILW

QTPie wrote: »

Thanks, still waiting for them to get back to me to arrange to do quotations... obviously too busy working to provide quotes...

QT

By the sound of things, they are probably not that keen on getting the job.

QTPie

ILW wrote: »

By the sound of things, they are probably not that keen on getting the job.

Well hopefully someone will be - we want full packing the unpacking services and it is a 4 bedroom house: so not a small job. I assume that removals companies still like earning money these days...

QT

NEH

If the company is local then they may take a while to get back to you, ours helps out with the actual moving as well as quotes...

As for restricted access, it may be that thye need tohave a small van shuttling to and forth to the big van, which is what my friend had...Unfortuantely it is a case of them coming out to assess it, they've had to with ours to actually be able to judge it.

martindow

I had a move with access like this. They used a lorry and a transit van. The lorry was parked where it could and everything was transhipped and brought down a van load at a time. It's a tough job being a removal man.

Robert2009

So how was the furniture moved into the house in the first place?