Removal and storage costs

eunja

£1700 for 2 bed cottage move (inc packing) from Surrey to Somerset. Had a quote for £1450 but the man smelled funny, like he'd bathed in Brut so I sacked him off. I didn't want my sofa smelling like a 1970s social club.

The picture of my face when I got the quote went viral so at least I got a tenner in ad clicks on my blog from it to ease the pain...

onlyroz

We paid Gil Stauffer £300 cash in hand to move the contents of our 2-bed flat 15 miles. This was in 2007.

As for storage, we paid Big Yellow about £80 a month for two small storage units about the size of your average garden shed.

tea-bag

I am paying £1500 for a 170 mile overnight move no packing local firm. Try to move on a week day not on a Friday or Saturday. You will get better rates.

Leory

We used Storefirst for our storage. If you book for 12 weeks there is 50% off, and they were already the cheapest we found. For something the size of a large garage it cost us £200 for the 3 months.

Paully232000

About 2 years ago we paid, as far as I remember, just £700-£800 for a packing and removal service we found from the british association of removers website. Hdd three quotes and this was the one in the middle.

They came on the morning of the move and packed, went off to have lunch and met us at the new house in the afternoon. Three men, and moved about 10 miles. 3 bed semi, 2 adults, 2 children.

LittleMissKitty

We're moving 530miles and it's being done as a three day move. Full packing.
Small 3 bed mid-terrace, we've had quotes from £3800 - £6700!

throwa

We moved 30 miles frmo SW London to near High Wycombe. 3 bed terrace plus shed (2 adults, 2 children (though one was only 6 weeks old, she hadn't had time to accumulate much stuff yet!)

About £1200 for nice man to pack the house up on a Thursday and for an artic to come and load us up Friday morning. We used a local HW firm rather than a London company (about 25% cheaper IIRC) and they were great. Everything ended up in the right rooms, nothing was broken (check their insurance, if you pack and it breaks when they move it, their insurance may not cover it) and they even rebuilt the beds for us.

They seemed to run on copious amounts of tea and chocolate digestives on the day, but were very good at refuelling on the move

nubbins

MrsFingersCrossed wrote: »

We're near Reading and no quotes under £1,000.00, moving 3 bed house 6 miles.

Any burly geezers in the family or friends, Luton van £150 for the weekend, £100 each and beers and BBQ for 2 or 3 of them.

MrsFingersCrossed

Would love to have done it like that, nubbins, like 30 years ago when we moved here but this time Luton van not big enough and creaky joints don't help!

poddle911

Whereabouts are you? We got quotes through AnyVan and went with TPSUK (Tiger Property Services) who were incredible. We paid around £250 for 2 men and a huge van and they worked solidly from 9am until 6pm - including a trip to our storage unit.