Sorry if this boils down to a "why don't you go and %$^&*() phone them",
but I live in hope someone can help!

We're soon to be moving house and although we'll get some big burly
blokes to shift things, we're doing the packing. Because I'm an
itinerant horder, I've got a garage roof full of original boxes for
everything from Flymos down to the kitchen radio. Now, will the removals
men be content dealing with "small" boxes, as most of them are, or will
we have to pack them in bigger boxes for the move?

Failing that, do removals firms tend to offer the metal wire equipment
crates (things like a shopping trolley on its end with a wire door) to
home movers that we could pack?

--
Scott

Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:15:41 GMT, Scott M
wrote:


Sorry if this boils down to a "why don't you go and %$^&*() phone them",
but I live in hope someone can help!

We're soon to be moving house and although we'll get some big burly
blokes to shift things, we're doing the packing. Because I'm an
itinerant horder, I've got a garage roof full of original boxes for
everything from Flymos down to the kitchen radio. Now, will the removals
men be content dealing with "small" boxes, as most of them are, or will
we have to pack them in bigger boxes for the move?

Failing that, do removals firms tend to offer the metal wire equipment
crates (things like a shopping trolley on its end with a wire door) to
home movers that we could pack?


How are we meant to know.
Why don't you go and %$^&*() phone them.


SJW
A.C.S. Ltd.

Failing that, do removals firms tend to offer the metal wire equipment
crates (things like a shopping trolley on its end with a wire door) to
home movers that we could pack?

They seem to offer either plastic crate hire, or let you buy cardboard
boxes. Do yourself a favour and take them up on it. It is much nicer having
lots of similar sized boxes as they stack well. Use SMALL boxes for books,
or they'll refuse to lift them.

Christian.

"Christian McArdle" wrote in message
et...
Failing that, do removals firms tend to offer the metal wire equipment
crates (things like a shopping trolley on its end with a wire door) to
home movers that we could pack?

They seem to offer either plastic crate hire, or let you buy cardboard
boxes. Do yourself a favour and take them up on it. It is much nicer
having
lots of similar sized boxes as they stack well. Use SMALL boxes for books,
or they'll refuse to lift them.

Yes, we put some in a tea chest at our first move (aged 24). It was covered
but they guessd what it contained.

We have one of those trolleys if you want it - Leeds, Yorkshire ...

Mary

Christian.

Mary Fisher wrote:

Yes, we put some in a tea chest at our first move (aged 24). It was covered
but they guessd what it contained.

We have one of those trolleys if you want it - Leeds, Yorkshire ...

Thanks for the offer, but if I was much further south, I'd be in the
Solent!

--
Scott

Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?

Scott M wrote:

Sorry if this boils down to a "why don't you go and %$^&*() phone them",
but I live in hope someone can help!

We're soon to be moving house and although we'll get some big burly
blokes to shift things, we're doing the packing.

Why? I think you may well be surprised how little it costs to get the
removers to do all of the packing.

--
Chris Green

In message ,
writes
Scott M wrote:

Sorry if this boils down to a "why don't you go and %$^&*() phone them",
but I live in hope someone can help!

We're soon to be moving house and although we'll get some big burly
blokes to shift things, we're doing the packing.

Why? I think you may well be surprised how little it costs to get the
removers to do all of the packing.

Yeah, next time we move I think we will let them do most of or all the
packing. We let them do the breakable last time and they were so quick
at packing it all.
I can't imagine that packing everything would have cost much more.
--
Chris French, Leeds

Last time we moved, 6 years ago (both houses in Leeds and approx 10 miles
apart), we had them do the lot. We left our old house in the morning went
to work and returned to our new house at tea time, a neighbour made sure
everything was taken from the old house before the lorry drove off.
Everything was in put away and tidy when we got home. All we had to do was
leave them a list of which room was going to be which room in the new house,
if you see what I mean. My wife also packed her 'smalls' and took them to
work with her. Even the loo rolls were on the holders! Admittedly
everything wasn't in the 'correct' cupboard etc. in the kitchen but it was
far easier to redo these than pack up a whole house! The only things they
wouldn't do was any loft spaces, either empty or refill. They had cardboard
stand up wardrobes and just transferred clothes on hangers into them and
back out at the new house, this would be a problem obviously if the new
place didn't have any wardrobes.
If I remember correctly it cost somewhere around £350-£400 quid, but offset
that against hiring a Transit Luton, fuel, and trying to get 4 or 5 mates on
a Friday to help when they all work, not to mention the crates of ale and
chinese takeaway you would need to furnish them with.

HTH

John

"John" wrote in message
...
Last time we moved, 6 years ago (both houses in Leeds

If I remember correctly it cost somewhere around £350-£400 quid, but
offset
that against hiring a Transit Luton, fuel, and trying to get 4 or 5 mates
on
a Friday to help when they all work, not to mention the crates of ale and
chinese takeaway you would need to furnish them with.

Heavens! It cost a son £500+ to move a few hundred yards in Leeds.

Mary

"John" wrote

If I remember correctly it cost somewhere around £350-£400 quid, but
offset
that against hiring a Transit Luton, fuel, and trying to get 4 or 5 mates
on
a Friday to help when they all work, not to mention the crates of ale and
chinese takeaway you would need to furnish them with.


This is the key if you choose the DIY route: who your helpers are.

I can tell you from practical experience that kids - of the right age - can
actually be of great help. My two nephews, aged about 10 and 12, treated
taking 70 carrier bags of books (packed that way to divide them into
manageable-sized loads) from the van to the second floor as a race and great
fun, competing to see who shifted the most.

Sadly both are now grown up and more sensible, so I can't loan them out.

Barbara

wrote in message
...
Scott M wrote:

Sorry if this boils down to a "why don't you go and %$^&*() phone
them",
but I live in hope someone can help!

We're soon to be moving house and although we'll get some big
burly
blokes to shift things, we're doing the packing.

Why? I think you may well be surprised how little it costs to get
the
removers to do all of the packing.

I agree, getting them to pack is more reasonable than you may think.
In addition you are not covered by their insurance of something gets
broken that you pack yourself, get them to pack and you are covered
for everything.

Angela

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:15:41 GMT, Scott M
wrote:


We're soon to be moving house and although we'll get some big burly
blokes to shift things, we're doing the packing.

Don't. After 21 or so moves I've tried all combinations of how to
move house with least pain and came to the conclusion about move 15
that the only sensible solution is to tell them when they do the
estimate that how you are living is how they will find the house and
you want it all put back the same in the new house. Let them pack
and move the lot - you provide belt fed tea supplies.

--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:13:53 +0000, Peter Parry
wrote:

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:15:41 GMT, Scott M
wrote:


We're soon to be moving house and although we'll get some big burly
blokes to shift things, we're doing the packing.

Don't. After 21 or so moves I've tried all combinations of how to
move house with least pain and came to the conclusion about move 15
that the only sensible solution is to tell them when they do the
estimate that how you are living is how they will find the house and
you want it all put back the same in the new house. Let them pack
and move the lot - you provide belt fed tea supplies.

My head's swimming at the thought of *21* house moves ... ;-(

Whilst "get the removers to do everything" has undoubted attractions,
it does have at least one negative: you bring all your accumulated
crap to the new location. At least if you do your own packing you get
the chance to throw out all those things that you've forgotten you
own, or why you own, before the move ...

Julian

--
Julian Fowler
julian (at) bellevue-barn (dot) org (dot) uk

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:30:02 +0000, Julian Fowler wrote:

My head's swimming at the thought of *21* house moves ... ;-(

Likewise, I've only "moved" in the sense of requireing a removals
firms twice and that was bad enough, the other three or four I've done
myself with a van or multiple car journeys but they haven't involved
any furniture.

Whilst "get the removers to do everything" has undoubted
attractions, it does have at least one negative: you bring all your
accumulated crap to the new location.

Quite, though deciding what to keep and what to chuck/sell is
something that needs to be done well in advance of actually getting
removal quotes. Like start about the time you put your place on the
market.

As for boxing, both moves I've done we have opted for the partial self
pack. So things like books, records etc we did. Everything else they
did. Principle reason being that if they packed something and it got
damaged there was insurance, if we packed it there wasn't or very
limited.

And keeping orginal boxes. I used too but the first move got most of
those chucked out. I now keep boxes for a few weeks just in case
something dies, unless bought (in desparation) from a DSG company,
when the packing gets throw straight away, without the packing they
can't shrink wrap returns out the back and put them back on the shelf
"as new". Whats the point of keeping them? Bubble wrap and cardboard
is easy to come by. I seem to have plenty here and I've never bought
any.

--
Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:30:02 +0000, Julian Fowler
wrote:


Whilst "get the removers to do everything" has undoubted attractions,
it does have at least one negative: you bring all your accumulated
crap to the new location. At least if you do your own packing you get
the chance to throw out all those things that you've forgotten you
own, or why you own, before the move ...

Hah - move 9 was to Germany and some stuff went into storage while we
were there. I had one box I was using for rubbish and by mistake it
got sent off to store. 2 years later when we got everything back I
couldn't identify which one had been the rubbish box.

--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/

"Julian Fowler" wrote
| Peter Parry wrote:
| After 21 or so moves
| My head's swimming at the thought of *21* house moves ... ;-(

I moved five times in 12 months once ...

Only suitcases-on-a-trolley-borrowed-from-Tesco moves but nonetheless.

| Whilst "get the removers to do everything" has undoubted
| attractions, it does have at least one negative: you bring all
| your accumulated crap to the new location.

including the dust.

| At least if you do your own packing you get the chance to throw
| out all those things that you've forgotten you own, or why you
| own, before the move ...

Or at least wipe them over before packing.

Owain