One into one · 1 → 1
One house into one house
The simplest arithmetic on this site, and the one that needs the most people. Nothing has been edited out along the way, so everything that is in the house is going, including the parts of it that nobody has looked at in years.
A straight move is not a small move. It is the only shape where nothing gets left behind by definition.
What the day involves
The street decides more than the house does
In the terraced streets running back from the river there is frequently nowhere for a removals vehicle to stand within carrying distance, and the hill makes the carry harder in one direction than the other. On the Singlewell and Riverview estates there is a drive and the same house takes half the time.
Same volume, different day. So the survey looks at the street, the gradient and the parking before it looks at the furniture, and the crew is sized from that rather than from a bedroom count.
Where the volume actually is
Not in the rooms. It is in the loft, the garage and the shed, which is why those are opened at survey and why a quote moves when they have not been. A postwar semi with a boarded loft holds considerably more than the same house without one.
Garden equipment deserves its own mention. It is heavy, it is dirty, it is slow to load, and anything with fuel in it cannot travel at all.
Completion, and the hour nobody owns
Where the move depends on a sale, the hour keys are released is decided by solicitors and lenders working up a chain. We load early and plan to wait, because a crew waiting is a manageable cost and a crew sent home and recalled is not.
Tell us how many households are in the chain when you book. It changes what we plan for, and it is the single piece of information customers most often leave out.
Getting out of the borough
If the new address is north or west, the vehicle goes through the Dartford Crossing or a long way round it, and the decision is made on the day against the traffic. If it is into London, the far end usually needs a parking arrangement or a building booking made in advance.
One house into one house
Questions about one house into one house
- 01
When should we book?
Talk to us at offer stage and confirm at exchange. A survey costs nothing and settles the volume, and we would rather hold a provisional slot than take money against a date that has not firmed up.
- 02
Can you suspend a parking bay?
We will apply where a street needs it. We cannot guarantee it is granted or that the bay is clear on the day, and in the older terraced streets that is a real consideration rather than a formality.
- 03
Do you dismantle beds and wardrobes?
Yes, as standard. Anything that cannot come out whole is taken apart here and put back together at the other end.
- 04
Will you move the garden things?
If you want them. Nothing with fuel in it travels, and anything anchored into the ground needs taking out before we arrive.
- 05
What if completion slips?
The load stays secured on the vehicle. If the day fails entirely, goods go into store rather than back into a house you have just emptied.
- 06
Do you go outside DA11 and DA12?
Constantly — Northfleet, Ebbsfleet, Istead Rise, Meopham, Higham, Shorne and across into Medway and London.
How many homes, and how many addresses?
Every address involved, and how many households go into how many. That one sentence tells us more than a room count ever does.