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Ask which option you should be using
Before the figure, before the date, before anything else. It is a two-minute conversation and it changes what every quotation you receive afterwards actually means.
The question to ask any removals firm
How many times will my things be picked up and put down. It is an ordinary question with a countable answer, and how readily a firm answers it tells you a good deal.
If the answer is two, ask where the vehicle spends the night on a long run and whether it is emptied. If the answer is that it goes through a depot, the count is four and the quotation should reflect a different service rather than a discount.
Send photographs of both ends
The approach, the front door, the staircase and anything a vehicle would struggle with. Three or four photographs from each address settle most access questions before anybody visits, and they take you a couple of minutes rather than an email exchange.
If something went wrong
Write and say so plainly. Your booking contract covers claims and the time limits on them, and we would far rather deal with it directly than leave you reading clauses on your own.