Pickford's movers - expensive?

RogerBareford

greensalad said:

Just got a second quote in at just over £2,000. Seems moving costs an awful lot more than I was expecting. Waiting for one more quote from another local firm to come in but will have to go with theirs or this £2,000 quote. I had no idea it would cost this much! 

You will be better off renting a Luton Van for a couple days and doing it with a help from family/friends.

I've done this recently and spent the days leading up to it packing and dismantling furniture and sorting out what i want and don't want. Then on the day i was able to move out fully in only 3 hours with 2 others helping from a good sized 2 bed property. So was well worth it to save £500+.

greensalad

RogerBareford said:

greensalad said:

Just got a second quote in at just over £2,000. Seems moving costs an awful lot more than I was expecting. Waiting for one more quote from another local firm to come in but will have to go with theirs or this £2,000 quote. I had no idea it would cost this much! 

You will be better off renting a Luton Van for a couple days and doing it with a help from family/friends.

I've done this recently and spent the days leading up to it packing and dismantling furniture and sorting out what i want and don't want. Then on the day i was able to move out fully in only 3 hours with 2 others helping from a good sized 2 bed property. So was well worth it to save £500+.

Unfortunately we just don't have friends or family around to help. I'm not strong enough to help carry big pieces of furniture of which there are several. We have narrow and steep Victorian stairs. I just can't see it working at all. 

We've managed to find a quote with a local firm for £1,800 so have had to go with that.

twoLou

Apologies if it’s already been mentioned but have you tried Anyvan? local/National companies quote a price to do removals and you can choose which you prefer. 

If you do a search on Google they will come up. I’ve used the service and had a brilliant local removal company but it was a few years ago now so hopefully it’s still a good service but maybe worth a look.

greensalad

twoLou said:

Apologies if it’s already been mentioned but have you tried Anyvan? local/National companies quote a price to do removals and you can choose which you prefer. 

If you do a search on Google they will come up. I’ve used the service and had a brilliant local removal company but it was a few years ago now so hopefully it’s still a good service but maybe worth a look.

Yes I've used AnyVan before but have found they are not always great at moving furniture. I used them to courier some items and they were damaged. Problem is somewhere like AnyVan just recruit any local person with a van so they're not necessarily skilled movers.