Owning your own home

Find a reputable local firm and get some detailed quotes. When we moved last year my wife booked some random internet firm and it was a complete nightmare. The two Romanian guys they sent were very hard-working but the van was too small, the quote was massively under-specified so we ended up paying about twice the original "cheap" quote. The whole thing was a joke.

We are about to pay more than we though (2.4k not 1.6k we expected) with Grays in Hackney as i think somebody on here recommended them. other quotes were more or a little bit less but those quotes were not offering the same levels of service.

Every question has been replied with ‘not a problem’ ‘don’t worry we can do that for you’ and the reviews online all say how good the service has been.

this is for a full pack and move of a 1bed flat with not loads of furniture but a loft full of possessions that will half fill a garage plus taking as few things apart. no waiting charge if there is a delay with keys as some give you the option of insuring against this.
full pack on 1 day, move the next. N4 to SE19 4 men and 2 vans as the big one is on a long distance job.

I paid £1.5k a couple of years ago with https://www.storkremovals.co.uk/ who were very good.
3 bed flat to a place just down the road.
Included packing (which I would hugely recommend) and dismantling and reassembling furniture like beds that were too big to get out of the door.

Just under £1,200 for a full pack and move of 2-bed in Dartford (inc contents of loft and shed) to Thanet a few months ago courtesy of three lovely chaps from here: https://www.aneasymove4u.co.uk

They were a pleasure to deal with from initial visit to quote through to the move on the day although they did admit getting everything into one Luton 3.5tonne van needed a bit more Tetris skills than they anticipated!