Removals cost?

[Dan_1981]

Average 3 bed semi with usual amount of furniture I guess.

2 beds, no wardrobes, sofa, arm chair dining table etc.

30 miles move - how much roughly?

[Jasandjules]

I think we spent about £600 or so but that was also for a full pack service. And it was a long time ago now!

[Quattromaster]

Friends are paying £450 next week for a 2 bed house with cellar, new house is only 1 mile away.

They are based in Notts.

[Johnnytheboy]

We just paid £540 for something similar, only 10 miles or, but was an all day job. It certainly pays to shop round as some quotes were 1000 quid or so.

No packing for this price.

[HughG]

We we quoted £700 for a 1930s 3 bed semi and the contents of 2 sheds (which they estimated at 1060cubic ft).

In the end we ended up doing a move to store, store for a month then move out of store which was £600, £70/wk and £600 respectively.

That was no packing it fully insured.

[Zedboy1200]

This year, 2 bed flat to 4 bed house. 100 miles. Out on Saturday, in on Tuesday.... Except they couldn't complete the job so I needed a man/van for last mile.

Two thousand outrageous rip-off disgusting pounds.

Think twice about going to one of the national companies folks.

[Rick101]

Used to do man & van stuff, 10yrs ago, inc 3 bed semi's.

Nationals are silly prices. Try a few local guys in back of paper. If you had packed I would have charged £200-£250. Even if rates are double that now, would still be cheap compared to some.

Get references.

[condor]

There was a story in the newspapers recently of one couple who paid £40 for a removal firm advertised on facebook and their goods never appeared at their new place. The ad was taken down from facebook that day. If it's too cheap to be true!!
I did wonder why they didn't follow the van to their new place.

[Chris Jay]

I paid £400 this year to move from a two bed terrace, roughly a mile to the new place. I used a local firm who were excellent, the big firms wanted £600 for the same job.

Did all the packing myself to keep the cost down.

[Johnnytheboy]

Rick101 said:

Nationals are silly prices. Try a few local guys in back of paper.

We had a weird experience when we moved. Not a national but a big local firm with very fancy looking lorries came out to quote.

Guy walked in, plonked himself uninvited on the sofa and asked who else we'd got to quote.

When told the name of the little local firm we ended up using, he stood up and said "we're wasting each other's time then, we are in a totally different league", and walked out.

Apart from the brusqueness of the man, I couldn't quite work out the business model of "being in a different league" unless the product offered was better somehow.




Like a crazy parallel world where Audis were more expensive than Skodas, despite being effectively the same car.