Business
A business load that is too small for a contract and too big for a car. Very common, rarely catered for.
Stock to a market, work to a studio, equipment to a shoot, a few desks to a new office, a stand to an exhibition. The loads that fall between a courier and a commercial removals contract, which is most of what small businesses in this city actually need moving.
What a business run involves
Book both legs. The collection is the one people forget.
A stall goes in on Friday and has to be gone by Sunday evening, inside a break-down window set by the venue and enforced by them. Booking the delivery and assuming the collection will sort itself out is the commonest expensive mistake in this category.
Tell us both windows when you book and we will plan them as one job rather than two.
The building decides the access. Get its rules before you book anything.
Most studio and exhibition venues have a loading bay, an access window, a lift with a height restriction and sometimes a requirement for insurance documents in advance. None of it is difficult and all of it has a lead time.
Send us whatever the venue sent you. We will read it and tell you if anything in it is a problem.
A handful of desks and the IT is a van job. A whole office is not.
Moving a few desks, some chairs, a printer and a stack of boxes between two small offices is ordinary van work and we do it regularly. It needs a lift booking at both ends and floor protection where the building asks for it.
A full office relocation with a floor plan, a phased move and a dozen workstations is a commercial removals contract. We will say so rather than take it.
Same two addresses, repeatedly, is an arrangement rather than a booking.
Stock between a shop and a lock-up, work between a studio and a store, kit between a base and a site. Where it is the same route on a recurring basis, it is worth setting up as a standing arrangement rather than booking it afresh every time.
Get in touch and describe the pattern. It is usually simpler and cheaper to run that way for both of us.
Work, not home
If it is not a van job we will say so, and say what to book instead.
Both addresses, what the item is, what floor each end is on, and a photograph of the biggest thing. That is enough for a straight answer and a written price.