The ledger
Not by load size, not by property type, and not by price tier. Each of these pages states what the service involves, how many handlings it carries, and the circumstances in which we would tell you to choose something else.
There is no service here we refuse to quote. There are several we will talk you out of.
Packing, which decides how every later handling goes.
Materials, labelling, and the order things come out in
Packing is not a handling of your furniture, but it decides how well every later handling goes. Badly packed cartons are the commonest cause of breakage on a move that is otherwise faultless.
What this involves →Picked up at one door, put down at the other. Nothing in between.
One crew, one vehicle, both addresses in a day
The lowest count there is. Your goods leave one house and enter another without being put down anywhere in between, which is why it is the option we recommend wherever the dates allow it.
What this involves →Scotland, Cornwall, Wales and everywhere in the middle
Still two handlings, even on a run the length of the country. The vehicle is loaded, secured and kept loaded overnight rather than unloaded into a depot, which is what keeps the count at two.
What this involves →A depot or a store sits in the middle. Cheaper, or unavoidable.
Your goods share a vehicle with other moves
Loaded at your house, unloaded at a depot, reloaded with other consignments, unloaded at the far end. It costs less because you are buying part of a vehicle rather than all of it, and we will say plainly what you are trading for that.
What this involves →Held between two dates that do not meet
Two extra handlings on top of whatever the move itself needs, and the reason our inventory is taken at your door rather than at a warehouse counter. Where the gap is unavoidable, so is the count.
What this involves →Where the count depends on whether the vehicle is yours alone.
Estonia, Slovakia, Iceland and Turkey by road and sea
The count depends entirely on whether you have a vehicle to yourself. A dedicated load crosses at two handlings; a groupage load on the same route is handled four or more times, and on a sea leg more again.
What this involves →Four things. The volume, taken at survey rather than guessed from a bedroom count. The access at both addresses. The distance. And the option you choose, which is the one this site is organised around.
The fourth is where most of the variation between two quotations for the same move comes from, and it is the one least often explained. A dedicated load and a part-load are not the same service at two prices — they are different services with different handling counts, and a firm that does not say which it is quoting is leaving you to guess.
No price, rate card or transit time appears anywhere on this site, because none of them is knowable before the survey. Start on the quote form, or read the questions page.
Both addresses, roughly what is going, and how much the dates can move. Where there is more than one sensible option we will quote both, with the count written on each.