Man+Van
About

A small crew. A serious van. London to Europe.

Based at Purfleet-on-Thames on London's eastern edge. Four destinations. No corporate softness, no anonymous national chain. Same crew loads in N1 and meets you in Nice.

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Every job starts as paperwork before it starts as lifting

Single van. Single crew. End-to-end.

We're a man-and-van outfit with one rule: the crew that loads in London is the crew that delivers at the destination. No sub-contracting, no warehouse handoff, no different driver at every stage. One van, one crew, your move.

The brief came from the customer side. People who'd been quoted by big removals firms wanted something simpler — a van, a crew, a fixed price, a phone that gets answered. That's what we built. Single-item delivery. Partial loads. Full vans. Four destinations. No menu of bolt-ons.

Lifting is the work.

The man-and-van category exists because lifting is the hard part of a move. Sofas through narrow doorways. Pianos down stair turns. Fridges up to fourth-floor flats with awkward lifts. We have the kit and the crew for all of it — stair-climbing trolleys, piano cradles, furniture-mover blankets, and a second pair of hands whenever a piece needs two.

What we don't do: tell you everything is "no problem" and then send a single 18-year-old with a broken trolley. The lift is what the booking is about. We turn up with the right kit and the right number of crew.

Cover and recourse.

Goods-in-transit cover is in place on every move we run, UK and European alike, and it applies from the moment the first item leaves your property to the moment the last one is set down at the other end. All-risks options are available for fragile and high-value items, and anything in that category should be itemised at survey rather than discovered on the day.

The certificate of insurance is attached to your written quote, so you can read the sum insured, the excess and the claims window before you book rather than after something goes wrong. Your statutory rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 apply to the booking in full.

Why four destinations.

France, Italy, Spain, Portugal. Four routes, run again and again. We don't pretend to cover anywhere else, or anywhere outside Europe. Staying narrow means we know each route end-to-end — the customs lanes at Calais, the comunidad president on the Costa, the strada bianca to your villa in Tuscany. The narrower the menu, the better the service.

Ready when you are

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How we work

Small on purpose.

A national chain quotes from a call-centre script and sends whichever subcontractor is free that week. The van that arrives has a badge on it nobody at the office has met. That model works at volume and it is exactly what we are not: the people who survey your move are the people who turn up to do it, and there is no broker layer between you and the crew.

It is also why the destination list is four countries rather than forty. France, Spain, Italy and Portugal can each be reached from London with the same van and the same crew, by road or with a short ferry leg, which means one crew, one inventory, one customs file and one person to ring. Add a destination where a partner crew would have to do the delivery and all of that breaks. We would rather tell you we do not cover somewhere than quote for a job we would have to hand away.

The local half.

Plenty of what leaves the yard never crosses the Channel. The European routes are what the brand is built around, but the weekly reality is a sofa from Hackney to Walthamstow, a flat-share ending in Peckham, a single wardrobe that will not go down a Victorian staircase. That work is not a sideline — it is what keeps a crew on London streets who already know which roads take a Luton and which need a shuttle.

It shapes how we price, too. A firm that only runs long-haul quotes a local job by volume and distance, because that is the model it knows. A firm working London every week prices by access, because access is what actually decides how long a move takes. The difference between a ground-floor flat with a loading bay and a third-floor walk-up on a controlled street is a lot of extra crew time, and it does not show up in any measure of cubic feet.

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