Student moves, every London borough
Moving out of halls or into a new flat? We charge by the hour from a one-hour minimum, with 10% off for students, so a single room costs the time it takes.
It is the last Saturday of your contract, the room has to be empty by ten, and everything you own is in nine bin bags and a suitcase with one working wheel.
Small moves are what we do most, and small is what the Transit van is built for. It holds 10.6 cubic metres, which is roughly a single room with the bed, desk, boxes and a bike still in it. The Luton is almost twice the space at 18.9 cubic metres and has a tail lift, which suits a whole houseshare or a flat you have been splitting with two other people.
Only shifting a handful of things? A driver and van for a single-room move is usually all it takes. Short on time before a deadline, and we can have the room boxed and labelled before the van arrives.
One thing worth settling before the day. Flatpack desks and wardrobes bought for a student room rarely survive a second disassembly, because the chipboard around the cam fixings strips out. A £40 unit that will not go back together can cost more in van time than it does to replace.
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Every rate below includes VAT, and that matters more than it sounds. Some movers quote before VAT and add the 20% at checkout, so a £60 hourly rate lands as £72 on the invoice. Ours is the number you pay. Students take 10% off the total on top, and it still applies when a parent is doing the booking and paying.
Clearing a fifth-floor room with no lift takes longer than a ground-floor move three miles further away, and on an hourly booking the clock is what you are paying for, not the mileage. Tell us the floor, the stairs and the parking situation when you ask, and the quote will land close to the final bill.
Prefer a single number to a running clock? Small loads and single items can be quoted as a fixed price instead, and longer-distance moves are always quoted in writing before the day. Hourly works out cheaper on a packed, ready room where the job is genuinely short. Fixed pricing suits a move where you would rather not be watching the time.
Industry guides put a single London student room at £150 to £300, and a full accommodation move at £300 to £600. Your price comes from your own details, not from an average. You can also see the full rate card for every van and crew size.
Free enquiry with no obligation. Send a few WhatsApp photos and we will confirm the van and crew before you book.
Most London movers set a two-hour minimum booking. Ours is one.
On a single-room move that is the difference between paying for the time the job actually takes and paying for an hour nobody used. A job that finishes at 90 minutes is billed at 90 minutes.
Your laptop holds three years of coursework. Your bike is how you get to lectures. Both go into the van wrapped and strapped down, not stacked loose against a wardrobe.
Every job carries £30,000 goods in transit insurance and £5 million public liability cover, so if something is damaged in transit there is a policy behind it and not a conversation.
The crew who turn up are our own employed team and not agency drivers booked for the morning. That is why customers name them individually in the reviews.
Halls empty on a single day, and private house shares changed this year. An early slot, or the day before where your contract allows it, is the biggest saving available on an hourly booking.
LSE and University of London halls on 31, 39, 40 and 42-week contracts all departed on this day. When an entire building moves out at once, the lift and the loading bay queue.
The same halls empty again for 50 and 51-week contracts. Late June and early September are the two weeks when slots go first.
The Renters' Rights Act took effect. Fixed-term student tenancies in private rentals became rolling assured periodic tenancies, and tenants can now give two months' notice at any point. Shelter's guide to ending a student tenancy (opens in a new tab) has the detail.
The only window in which a landlord can require a shared student house back, on four months' notice. Halls and most purpose-built accommodation run on licences and are not affected, so private move-out dates now spread across four months instead of landing in the same fortnight.
We work from Deer Park Road in Wimbledon and cover every London borough, so your campus is almost certainly on our patch.
The Congestion Charge runs from 7am to 6pm Monday to Friday, but only from noon to 6pm at weekends and on bank holidays.
Weekend bookings do carry a 1.5-hour minimum, so the sums work best on a move that was never going to be a quick one anyway.
Our base: 19 Deer Park Rd, Wimbledon, London SW19 3UX. Vans run out from here across the city seven days a week.
Cost, crew size, sharing a van with a housemate and how late we work. The answers are here in full.
Tell us the floor, the stairs and the parking, and we will tell you the van, the crew and the price.
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