Five services. One van.
Each is part of the move where it applies. No menu of upsells, no hidden extras.
- 01One sofa · one fridge · one box
Single-item delivery
A single piece, lifted, loaded, driven, delivered. Built for one big thing a courier won't take: a sofa, a wardrobe, a fridge. Students, second-home owners, small consignments.
- One item, end-to-end
- Loaded by hand, no third-party warehousing
- Fixed price quoted up front
- Door-to-door — no depot drop-off
- 02Share a van, share the cost
Partial load
Half a van for half a move. We schedule partial loads on existing routes — your boxes share the van with someone else heading the same way. It costs less than booking the whole van; the trade-off is a longer transit window.
- Share van space on a scheduled run
- Common for student returns and flat-share moves
- Transit window set on the written quote
- Fixed price by volume
- 03Luton or Sprinter, your route, your dates
Full van — international
Whole van, your move only. Luton or Long-Wheelbase Sprinter, depending on volume. Direct route, your dates, no shared scheduling. The standard man-and-van international move.
- Luton (1,000–1,200 cu ft) or LWB Sprinter (500–600 cu ft)
- Direct route — no consolidation stops
- Two-person crew as standard
- Export declaration lodged, EU relief claim prepared
- 04Stairs · awkward angles · heavy items
Lifting & loading
We lift. Sofas through narrow doorways, pianos down stairs, fridges up to fourth floors. The man-and-van service exists because lifting is the hardest part of a move.
- One person or two, sized to the job
- Stair-climbing trolley for awkward floors
- Piano cradles for upright moves; grands quoted as specialist jobs
- Furniture-mover blankets and straps
- 05Export declaration · inventory · EU-side relief
Customs paperwork
Post-Brexit customs is the bit most man-and-van operators skip. We don't. The UK export declaration is lodged by us, the itemised inventory is built with you, and the transfer-of-residence relief claim prepared for the destination country's customs, where the goods enter the EU.
- Itemised inventory built with you
- UK export declaration lodged by us
- EU transfer-of-residence relief claim prepared
- Bilingual customs inventory prepared
Choosing between them
Which one is your job?
The honest answer is usually decided by two things — how much there is, and whether the van has to wait for you. Everything else follows from those.
One item, or one room
A sofa, a bed, a fridge, a marketplace pickup, a student's term's worth of belongings. One person and a long-wheelbase van covers nearly all of it. What decides whether it stays a one-trip job is honesty about volume and about the stairs at the far end — the two things people most often under-report. Photograph everything standing together in one place and the sizing is right first time.
A flat, or a small house
Two crew, a bigger van, and a longer job than a single item. This is where dismantling starts to matter: beds, wardrobes and table legs come apart with their fixings bagged and taped to the piece itself, and go back together at the other end. Stairs and awkward lifts are part of the job rather than an extra line on the invoice.
A full household, or a European run
A dedicated Luton and a direct route. On the four European corridors this is the version where nothing is transferred at the coast: the crew who load in London are the crew who unload in France, Spain, Italy or Portugal, and the customs paperwork is filed by the same people rather than handed to a broker who has never seen the load.
A part load, if the dates are flexible
A flat-sized load rarely fills a van bound for the Algarve. Sharing the run with another household going the same way is what makes a long European move viable for a small consignment — the trade is that the dates become a window rather than a fixed day. If your timing can flex, say so on the quote form; it is frequently the single biggest lever you have.
What we will turn down
We hold no waste carrier licence, so anything going to disposal rather than to an address, a buyer or a charity needs a licensed firm and we will say so rather than quietly load it. Upright pianos are routine for us. Grand pianos, safes and anything needing a crane are specialist jobs quoted separately. Where a piece has to go in through a window or over a balcony, we book an external furniture lift and it goes on the written quote. We do not disconnect gas appliances, plumbed white goods or hard-wired electrics — those need the relevant registered engineer. And hazardous goods cannot travel at all: paint, solvents, gas bottles, fuel and aerosols in quantity are refused at loading, because customs treats them as grounds to hold an entire load.