Move your selfs or Professional removals Company

jenster

Whats the consensus of opinion Please and any tips

Would you Move your selves or get a professional Company in to do it all for you ?

bouicca21

Professional removal with packing service every time. Did it ourselves in the dim and distant past. Takes way longer than you expect it to; lots of stuff hard to shift; packing delicate objects a nightmare. Worth every penny to get someone else to do it for you.

Rambosmum

Depends on how much stuff you have. When we moved in to this home we had very little as we were FTB - a bed, a sofa and our belongings pretty much, plus a piano and a dining table. 2 trips in 2 cars and 2 trips in a small van. Next time we'll be a family of 3 (or 4) moving a full furnished 3 bed house so we'll get the movers in, with packing if we can afford it.

Sammydog

Because we're moving a few hundred miles we're using professionals as the risk of misjudging how big a van we'd need and having to find a replacement on the day is too stressful to contemplate! Packing ourselves though to keep it under £2k ��

Doozergirl

I damaged my back eight years ago, moving ourselves. I still have to visit the chiropractor now. I know the answer to this one!

Even without the risk of hurting yourself, moving is exhausting. There's enough to do before and after without humping it around as well. And something always gets damaged.

ellie99

Depends what else is going on in your life...how much spare time do you have to pack, can you afford professionals, how far are you going?

I've never used professionals, done 2 moves in a cattle truck (clean!)

You don't have to be a first time buyer with hardly any furniture, both my moves were 3 bed houses, with kids...the second move as a single parent as well, so all the packing and planning down to me.

I'd say only consider doing it yourself if you have willing volunteers to help with the lifting, it's hard work!

Just remembered, years ago we helped my friend move into her first flat, moved all her stuff in a Ford Capri

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I've always had to move myself but if I could afford to pay to be moved.., I'd be in heaven. I don't know how I'm going to do it this time! But completely agree you do get to a point when you feel like you can't lift another thing.., usually when the van is still half full (yuk).

The thought of someone else packing for me is an impossible dream as I spend most of my life now trying to find things we must have available for use for the next few weeks, and what can be packed away (summer clothes about to disappear into vacuum bags).

marksoton

I'd say it depends on a number of factors

Distance
Quantity of goods
Number of people to assist
Cost of each method
Ease of access/egress

I helped my brother and his wife move a few years back. It was bloody hard work but as there was a fair few of us and they were only moving 20 miles it was worth the saving for them.

What he probably didn't factor in is the text requesting he reciprocates in the next month!

Davesnave

Last week, my daughter got everything she and her partner own into a the very largest Mercedes van that can be hired, but they've only been renting together 3 years.

On the other hand, I know someone who's been Freecycling weekly for 3 years and he still can't contemplate moving at all.

It all depends on what you have and what's valued.

If I ever move from here in anything other than a box, I shall have to pile up half of our stuff in the field and set fire to it. That will be much the cheapest option. Come to think of it, that's pretty much what the last people here did.

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Yes I've a similiar problem.., do I have the time to sell what I need to on ebay or do I just freecycle it all lol. I could do with the money so it'll probably be ebayed.

I've taken so many bags to charity shops in shopping trolleys.., I wonder why I don't get picked up by the police for being a bag lady lol. I suspect the charity shop evacuates now when I turn up (I have given away reasonable stuff, but always in bulk lol, including 100's of books).

Angie_B

When I moved into my flat as a FTB, I did it all in a Ford Focus with help from friends and family; however I was coming from furnished rented and didn't have any beds, sofas etc. That said, it takes so much longer than you think, even with friends and family helping. When I was done, I swore I would never move myself again, especially with furniture.

Moving from my flat to my house, I only moved a couple of miles down the road but I paid for professional movers and packers. I had too much stuff and a tiny car to ever consider doing it myself again and I had budgeted it all into my costs of moving. In the scheme of things, the packing only added about £200-250 onto the removal costs, and the whole thing came in under £1k, so worth every penny if you ask me.