How much are removal companies?

hellosunshine17

We're moving from London to Yorkshire and just started to get some removals quotes. We've got a 1 bed flat without much furniture.

Appreciate we're going a fair way but the quote I just got back was £1200! That can't be right, can it?!

Irishpearce26

I would say that's about right. We paid £700 for a 3 bed moving 6 miles away. Likely the cost will be for overall time of travel/expenses etc. You could always do it yourself with a luton van rental.

RedFraggle

We paid £1300 for a 2 bed earlier this year between York and London

hellosunshine17

Yikes! Ok we've definitely under budgeted for this bit!! 

Ref44

We've got a quote of £2,400 to move from just outside the M25 to Hull (3 bed house)

House_owner

I got a quotes ranging from £650 to £850 to move a three bed house 5 miles

sheramber

if you using a local firm with London prices try a removal firm where you are going to. They may have cheaper rates.

Whoever you use has an empty journey unless they get another load to tie in, so it doesn't really matter where they come from.

pinkteapot

Agree with the others - sounds about right. For local moves you can do it cheaper with a man and van type rather than 'proper' removals but you might struggle to find one willing to do a longer distance move. For starters, at that distance you will need someone with a big enough truck to take all your stuff in one trip. 

Definitely worth getting multiple quotes though. When we did a long-distance move we had a wide range of prices. 

For that distance they may well have to pay for their staff to break overnight somewhere as they probably wouldn't manage to load, drive up, unload, and drive back in a single day. 

sheramber

Last year I moved 260 miles from north of Scotland to central Scotland. 

Lorry came down one day and stopped overnight in a local  business park . Men slept in lorry.

Unloaded next day and travelled home.

£1200.

Faodail

You don’t want to know how much my move is costing me from Shropshire to north east Scotland 😬

newbuildbudget

We got a quote for £800 for a 2 bed house moving 20 miles away. We’re renting a van for £100 and doing it ourselves with help from my dad.