Removal Van Costs ~ Is This Really How Much It Costs???

wnb

I paid about £230 to collect stuff from my gf's my mums and then finally the house the wife and I bought together. All in all about a 14 miles, used a local company in Carlisle and I would use them again.

Meatballs

DKLS wrote: »

I have hired transits with a tail lift for the last 3 moves, very handy for avoiding back pain, and getting heavier items off and on the van. Mine was £69 a day, also entertaining to drive, after a modern car lol

Yeah it makes a change to drive a van, especially with a LWB. Just dont take out any pedestrians around the corners...

david29dpo

i bought a van for £850 when i moved. sold it the week after for £1000.

Hapless_2

Just remember if you are going to buy a van or hire one that you can drive a van on your license, it's not automatically given these days. The same goes for trailers, licenses issued after a certain date do not have trailer permissions.

lynzpower

We paid about 200 in the end from a firm recommended on here ( London- A2B minimoves) they may travel.

we packed ourselves from a 2 bed flat to a 2 bed house about 5 miles away.

they worked like trojans and got us done in 2 hours ( I think they charged us 75 quid an hour, 2 men one van)

Superb service and would recommend again without hesitation

RHemmings

All these quotes sound quite cheap to me. We paid about £600 to move about 100 miles. And that was one of the cheaper quotes. We had a lot more *much* more expensive quotes. And that wasn't including packing.

Jeewhizz

I seem to be paying above average

I'm paying about £1700 to move from a three bed to a four bed. Requires two days as they are packing all valuables, and that also includes a high risk insurance policy as I have quite a lot of expensive items (hi-grade audio eqpt etc). Also have fish tanks and a upright piano to move. I did have cheaper quotes, but the cheapest was only about £300 difference, and the company we choose appeared a lot more professional

littlesaint

I've moved loads of time in recent years. I use the same guy every time. He's a gardener who does removals on the side. The lowest he charged us was £50 for two hours and on the latest occasion we paid £90 for more than three hours. We never thought about insurance. But to be honest - anyone who tried to nick our stuff would be really disappointed!

DKLS

Meatballs wrote: »

Yeah it makes a change to drive a van, especially with a LWB. Just dont take out any pedestrians around the corners...

Totally agree - Mixing bowl gearbox, 0-60 in well, eventually with a tail wind going down hill, Get let out of junctions by your fellow "white van man" just watch the reversing, and going round corners though.

Meatballs

Hapless wrote: »

Just remember if you are going to buy a van or hire one that you can drive a van on your license, it's not automatically given these days. The same goes for trailers, licenses issued after a certain date do not have trailer permissions.

The standard drivers license nowadays covers vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes when fully laden. I have a recent (1997+) rubbish license so had to check up on it all when I drove van for uni down to french alps

Cat B lets you:

Motor vehicles with a MAM not exceeding 3500kg having not more than 8 passenger seats with a trailer up to 750kg. Combinations of towing vehicles in category B and a trailer, where the MAM of the combination does not exceed 3500kg and the MAM of the trailer does not exceed the unladen mass of the towing vehicle.

DKLS: The first time I drove a minibus the instructor had me about an inch away from a porshe reversing around a car park using the mirrors! I was crapping myself but van/minibus wing mirrors are handy. Obv you do have to watch out for something that could be directly behind you