Experiences of pickford removals

moneyistooshorttomention

From my experience of them packing - I refer you to Pastures' comment.......

Now I'm not quite sure how I could phrase what else I would wish to say about my experience with them....

purpleparrotuk

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

On the other hand if one of them is packing (and chatting to you for no good reason you can see) on one floor, whilst the other one is downstairs packing on the other floor................

:cool:

Oh dear. I was planning on leaving them alone and go to work. Bad idea?

moneyistooshorttomention

Let's just say any firm that size will take on a variety of employees of a variety of different types - some of whom maybe don't work for them any longer.......

They will probably send round two packers - have one person with each of them.....

Pumpkim

Out of interest (if you are happy to say) what scale were the quotes you got, lowest / highest?
We've got a similar size move but are moving 100 miles and no idea how much to expect to pay!

moneyistooshorttomention

Purple Parrot - I've sent you a Private Message.

sheff6107

They were a disaster 30 years ago. I still would never use them!

moneyistooshorttomention

sheff6107 wrote: »

They were a disaster 30 years ago. I still would never use them!

4 years ago in my case.

HonourlessWeasel

I used Pickfords eight years ago (bit too long?) and they were amazing. Three guys emptied a dormer bungalow, moved it 40 miles and then emptied the truck at the other end. Absolutely nothing broken whatsoever, no delays.

What surprised me was just how fast they were able to do everything. We did the packing mainly so we could go through stuff and get rid of anything we didn't want/need, but the loading of the van was super quick. There wasn't even a scuff on any of our furniture.

I recall the house we moved into had a really tricky bit at the top of the staircase, they had no issue with this. The van had a name too "The Chelmsford Chariot".

Rambosmum

I've heard bad things about our local bunch so decided against.

We have been quoted £950 from pickfords, 3 bed semi, 10mile ish move.

We had quote ranging from £350 to £1100.

A colleague moved from Ireland to Liverpool 3 months ago and paid £1300 all in including packing!

SophieH123

Rambosmum wrote: »

Manchester, if anyone has recommendations.

We used Britannia Bradshaw from Manchester 3.5 years ago. I'd definitely recommend them. If I remember correctly I did get a quote from Pickfords but decided against after reading a few bad reviews.

They did almost all of the packing (3 bed semi) moved us about 20 miles and unpacked everything in to a 3 storey house. We had a bit of a delay waiting to get in to new place as funds took longer to appear than expected and they didn't complain or charge us any extra. Best bit was them putting the bed together