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A move is a schedule of decisions, not a date

First, in case the domain suggests otherwise: this is a removals company. We move furniture between buildings. We do not remove marketing, data, online content or reviews, and there is no software here.

Every job is a sequence of decisions, and each one has a real deadline set by somebody — a council, a building, a supplier, a solicitor, or the simple fact that materials have to be ordered before they can be used.

Most moves that go badly did not go wrong on the day. They went wrong at a decision nobody named, weeks earlier. So we publish the schedule and the deadline on each item rather than keeping it in somebody’s head.

In the order they come

  1. What is going You, with us measuring
  2. What cannot travel The safety list
  3. Who packs it A supplier and a rota
  4. Whether there is a gap A solicitor, usually
  5. Whether a permit is needed The council
  6. Whether a lift must be booked The building
  7. What needs declaring You, in writing
  8. What happens if it slips Both of us, in advance

The three hollow markers are the deadlines somebody else sets. Those are the ones that cannot be recovered on the morning.

Six decisions

Each one is also a thing we do

These are not stages of a process you watch from outside. Each is a decision with a deadline and a scope of work attached to it, and each page says what the work involves and what happens if the decision arrives late.

Not sure which decision you are at? Describe the move in the notes on the quote form and we will tell you which one is next and which ones can wait.

The decision schedule

Eight decisions, in the order their deadlines fall

None of these is difficult. What makes them expensive is answering them out of order, or answering them after the person whose deadline it actually was has stopped being able to help.

  1. 01

    What is going

    When
    At the survey, before any figure is meaningful.
    Who decides
    You, with us measuring.

    Left late Every downstream decision is provisional until this one lands. A figure given before it is a guess, and a guess that turns out low becomes a conversation on your moving day.

  2. 02

    What cannot travel at all

    When
    At the survey, in the same visit.
    Who decides
    Us, against the list. You, on what to do instead.

    Left late Fuel, gas cylinders and solvents found on the morning come off the load and stay in an empty house. Decided at survey, there is time to use them up, give them away or arrange a licensed collection.

  3. 03

    Who packs it

    When
    Once the volume is known, well before the date.
    Who decides
    You, on the depth. Us, on what we would recommend.

    Left late Materials are ordered against this decision and crew hours are booked against it. Left late, full packing quietly becomes whatever can be done in the time available.

  4. 04

    Whether there is a gap between the dates

    When
    As soon as both dates exist, even provisionally.
    Who decides
    You, usually via a solicitor.

    Left late A planned hold is a load built to be stored. An unplanned one is a vehicle standing outside a house nobody can get into, with the goods stacked for a journey rather than for a month.

  5. 05

    Whether a suspension or permit is needed

    When
    As soon as the date is firm. Councils set the notice period.
    Who decides
    Us to apply, you to confirm the date in time.

    Left late There is no mechanism for arranging a bay suspension on the morning. Missed, the job becomes a long carry from wherever is legal, which is a different day and a different figure.

  6. 06

    Whether a lift or a loading window must be booked

    When
    As soon as the date is firm. The building sets the rules.
    Who decides
    You or your landlord to request, us to work to it.

    Left late A managed block without a booking may simply refuse access. It is among the easiest things to arrange with notice and among the hardest to solve at eight in the morning.

  7. 07

    Whether anything needs declaring for cover

    When
    Before the move, not after a claim.
    Who decides
    You, in writing.

    Left late Undeclared items of exceptional value are a standard exclusion. The declaration takes a sentence beforehand and cannot be made retrospectively.

  8. 08

    What happens if the date slips

    When
    Before the day, while it is still hypothetical.
    Who decides
    Both of us, agreed in writing.

    Left late Agreed in advance, a failed completion means the load stays secured and a fallback runs. Not agreed, it means a crew, a customer and a chain all making decisions at once in a hallway.

You will not be asked for all eight at once. They arrive in this order and we ask for each one when it becomes the next thing that matters, which is the only useful thing a system does.

If you arrived here by accident

Things this domain sounds like, and whether we do them

The name is long and it points in several directions at once. Rather than let anybody read three pages before working it out, here is the whole list. One row is a yes.

  • A tool for removing marketing emails or unsubscribing in bulk

    No. We are a removals company. We move furniture between buildings.

    Where to go instead Your email provider's own unsubscribe tools, or the Direct Marketing Association preference services.

  • A service that removes content or reviews from the internet

    No, and we would not offer one. Nothing on this site relates to online content of any kind.

    Where to go instead The platform hosting the content, or a solicitor if you believe something is unlawful.

  • Software, a CRM, or a marketing platform

    No. There is no product here. There are vans, crews and a written schedule.

    Where to go instead Nothing we can help with — we simply have a long domain name.

  • A data-removal or data-broker opt-out service

    No. We hold your details only to quote and carry out a move, as the privacy policy sets out.

    Where to go instead The Information Commissioner's Office publishes guidance on data rights.

  • A rubbish clearance or waste disposal firm

    No. We hold no waste carrier licence and do not dispose of anything.

    Where to go instead A registered waste carrier. Ask for their registration number — it is a fair question.

  • A removals company

    Yes. Household and commercial removals, packing, storage, and moves abroad.

    Where to go instead You are in the right place. Start at the top of the decision schedule.

If you are here for a removal, the schedule starts with one question: what is going. Everything else follows from the answer.

Start the schedule

Abroad

Where a document sets the date, not a sailing

An international move does not add decisions. It moves all of the existing ones much earlier and hands several of the deadlines to people no removals firm can telephone: a permit office, a registration desk, a consulate.

The four routes with their own pages were chosen because a different document sits at the head of each schedule — a residence card, a work permit, a declaration filed before sailing, and a consular certification. On all four the container is booked around the paperwork rather than the other way round.

Collection runs from every part of the mainland — London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bristol among them — with the survey booked against the paperwork rather than against the sailing.

Moving abroad

Asked most often

Questions about the schedule

01 Is this a marketing company?

No. We are a removals company — we move furniture between buildings. We do not remove marketing, data, online content or reviews, and there is no software product here. The domain is long and the business is simple.

02 What do you mean by a decision schedule?

Every move is a sequence of decisions, and each one has a real deadline set by somebody — a council, a building, a supplier, a solicitor. We publish the order they come in and what each one costs if it is left late.

03 Which decision has to be made first?

What is going. The volume sets the vehicle, the vehicle sets the crew, and the crew sets the day. Any figure quoted before that decision is a guess with a number attached to it.

04 Which deadline is missed most often?

The parking suspension. Councils set their own notice periods, there is no mechanism for arranging one on the morning, and people reasonably assume it is the remover's problem alone. We apply — but only once the date is firm.

05 What if we genuinely cannot decide something yet?

Then we plan for both outcomes and say which one the quotation assumes. An undecided question that everybody knows about is manageable; an undecided question that nobody has named is what ruins a moving day.

06 Do you cover the whole UK?

Everywhere on the mainland plus Wales, Scotland and the islands a ferry serves, and abroad by road, sea and air. Longer distances do not add decisions — they simply move the deadlines earlier.

More on the questions page — about the name, the first two decisions, packing and storage, deadlines other people set, when things slip, and how we work.

Which decision are you at?

Both addresses, roughly what is going, and how firm the dates are. Those three start the schedule and everything else follows from them.