Professional packers

Redwino222

Has anyone used them?

I spent yesterday packing - got the loft cleared and some clothes packed.  Took hours and barely made a dent.

I would live to bring in professionals - but it’s all so personal, and I am messy.  Mortified about what they might come across!!

Has anyone used them and does It won’t work if you are very organised to begin with? 

OldMusicGuy

We used them, they just pack absolutely everything as quick as they can. They don't care what it is. IIRC someone on here said that packers once packed an ashtray with cigarette butts still in it.....

purplebutterfly

I feel your pain.  Been packing (and purging) for a week and I am sure there is more stuff in the house now than before we started. It's a nightmare.  

Also we are beyond messy so I don't know how packers would know what goes in what room - I suppose you have to do that before they start?  ie put all bedroom stuff in the bedroom, all lounge stuff in the lounge?  Yes, yes, I KNOW that is where it should all be anyway but things get scattered around.  

If anyone can recommend any in North West England, I'd be interested

Redwino222

I did a purge before I put the house on the market so thought I had a head start! I live alone and have no idea how I have so much crap!  Twenty years worth of clothes - so much bedlinen - papers - books - bags and bags of old cables.  

I suppose if a packer came in and threw it all in boxes I would just have to sift through it all in the new house.  So it’s best I work though it now.  But it is hard going.  I really underestimated how much !!!!!! you accumulate- I need to be more ruthless and Chuck more out 

Soot2006

I paid for full packing, as well. I figured there wasn't much I owned that other people didn't have, so just let them get on with it after packing a little suitcase of things I NEEDED in the first few days. 

milla

britannia anchor removals ltd
Based in Worsley .
I used this company 5 months ago . Can recommend 

AdrianC

purplebutterfly said:

Also we are beyond messy so I don't know how packers would know what goes in what room - I suppose you have to do that before they start?  ie put all bedroom stuff in the bedroom, all lounge stuff in the lounge?  Yes, yes, I KNOW that is where it should all be anyway but things get scattered around.  

You would expect them to pack it according to the room they found it in...

So if your cereal bowls are in the bathroom - they're going in a box from the bathroom to the new bathroom. Complete with spot-welded cornflakes and dried-out milk.

You're hiring people to pack and move your stuff, not give you some kind of life-laundry...

Jaybee_16

Removal company also did the packing. They just put everything in boxes and wrote the room name on the box. Nothing in a logical order but then again I was a 'stuff it in a cupboard' person anyway. Too lazy to do it myself. 

Soot2006

AdrianC said:

purplebutterfly said:

Also we are beyond messy so I don't know how packers would know what goes in what room - I suppose you have to do that before they start?  ie put all bedroom stuff in the bedroom, all lounge stuff in the lounge?  Yes, yes, I KNOW that is where it should all be anyway but things get scattered around.  

You would expect them to pack it according to the room they found it in...

So if your cereal bowls are in the bathroom - they're going in a box from the bathroom to the new bathroom. Complete with spot-welded cornflakes and dried-out milk.

You're hiring people to pack and move your stuff, not give you some kind of life-laundry...

Exactly this!

Everything in the bathroom will go into a box labelled bathroom, because that's where it came from.

On a side note, if you have a cereal bowl with actual cereal in on the dining room table, it will probably get packed, milk and all.

pinkteapot

100% worth it. Have done it for my last four moves! Live pretty much normally (apart from decluttering if you want to) until the day before move day, then a team swarm through the house and pack everything. 

It’s cost us a few hundred quid each time and of the tens of thousands spent on those moves (in total) with all the fees, stamp duty, etc, that is by far the best value money. 

Just make sure that before they arrive you put to one side (or better, hide in your car), some basics to last you 24-48 hours. 

And don’t be embarrassed - they won’t care what you have. If you do have any, err, REALLY personal belongings, hide those in your car/cupboard you tell the packers not to touch.

youth_leader

I'd pay for a packing service if I ever move again, I'd left the kitchen until last and it took longer than the other rooms.