Packing
Full, partial, or materials only
Packing to whatever depth you actually want. We do the kitchen and the glass either way — those are the two that cost people money when they go into a box badly.
Wimbledon · SW19 & SW20
Removals and storage in Wimbledon, written down before anything moves
We are a removals firm in SW19 that keeps a proper inventory. Whether your things go straight into the next house or sit in a sealed container while the chain catches up, everything is listed at the door, numbered, and checked back to you at the other end.
Surveys are free and can be done by video if you would rather not have anyone in the house yet.
What we do
Sorted by where it sits in the move
Most firms list services alphabetically, which tells you nothing about which ones you need. These are grouped by stage instead: what happens before the van, what happens on the day, and what happens if there is a gap in the middle.
Before the van
Packing and materials — decided at survey, not on the morning.
Straight through
Collection and delivery on the same day, one address to the next.
Home removals
Out of one address, into the next
The ordinary case, and still the one that needs the most planning: a whole household surveyed room by room, loaded in an order that matches how it has to come off, and put back where you point.
Man and van
A room, a piece, a part-load
Two crew and a van when a full removal is more than the job needs. A studio off the Broadway, a sofa down from Wimbledon Park, a part-load that has to clear before a tenancy ends.
In the middle
Where storage sits: goods held under inventory between two dates.
Containerised storage
Inventoried, sealed, kept
Your things loaded into timber containers at the house, listed as they go in, sealed, and kept that way until you ask for them back. Nothing is repacked behind your back.
Gap between contracts
When the dates do not line up
Completion on one side and the keys on the other rarely land together. This is the arrangement for that: collect, hold, and redeliver on a date you set once you know it.
Out of hours
Commercial work scheduled around a building rather than a household.
Office and business moves
Merton offices, studios, stock
Office moves around the Broadway, Merton High Street and the Raynes Park side, run outside trading hours where the building allows it, with stock and records kept in a sealed chain.
Not sure which of these you are asking for? Describe the move on the quote form in your own words — sorting it into the right stage is our job, not yours.
The ladder
Storage sized by what fits, not by a tariff
Nobody knows how much space their belongings need, and guessing high is how people end up paying for air. We measure at the survey and put you on the rung that matches. If it turns out we called it wrong, you move rung — that is what the inventory is for.
- 01
Part of a room
Boxes, a bed frame, a chest of drawers, seasonal things off the landing.
Usually a decluttered house waiting on a viewing, or one room being redecorated.
- 02
A room
A full bedroom or a small studio: wardrobe, bed, drawers, twenty or so cartons.
Students off the Broadway, and lodgers between tenancies.
- 03
A flat
One or two bedrooms with the living room and the kitchen contents.
The most common hold in SW19 — a completed sale and a purchase still moving.
- 04
A house
Three bedrooms upward, garden furniture, the loft, and the garage nobody has emptied.
Chains that broke, renovations that ran on, and moves abroad waiting on a shipment.
Every rung is the same containerised arrangement underneath — timber containers, filled at your address and sealed there. The rung only says how many you need. More on how storage is run.
Chain of custody
Four points where your things change hands
Most complaints about storage are not about damage. They are about not knowing what happened in between. So the chain is kept short and each link is written down, with the same paperwork in your hands as in ours.
- 01
Listed at the house
The inventory is written where the goods are, not afterwards at a depot. Every container gets a number and a list, and you get the same list.
- 02
Loaded and sealed
Containers are filled, closed and sealed in front of you. The seal number goes on the paperwork next to the container number.
- 03
Held under number
The containers are stored closed. Nothing is opened, consolidated or repacked while your goods are in them.
- 04
Checked back out
When you call for redelivery the seals are checked against the paperwork before anything moves, and again with you at the other end.
If anything ever does not match — a seal, a container number, a line on the list — it gets resolved before the vehicle leaves, not afterwards by email.
SW19 & SW20
What changes street by street
Wimbledon is not one kind of place. A Village frontage and a Raynes Park semi are different jobs with different risks, and the quote should say so. These are the distinctions we actually price on.
Wimbledon Village SW19 Conservation area High Street frontages, gravel drives behind them and very little kerb to stand on. Most Village jobs are decided by where the vehicle can sit, not by what is in the house.
Wimbledon Town Centre SW19 Flats and blocks The Broadway, Hartfield Road and the newer blocks around the station. Loading bays, lift bookings and a concierge who wants notice — all of it arranged before the day.
Wimbledon Park SW19 Victorian terraces Long terraces off Arthur Road and Home Park Road. Bay windows, tiled paths, and a controlled parking zone that needs a suspension rather than optimism.
South Wimbledon SW19 Terraces and new build Merton High Street and the streets behind it: two-storey terraces alongside recent flats. Northern line at the end, and a main road that does not forgive a badly parked Luton.
Merton Park SW19 Conservation area Lime avenues, verges and the tram running through it. Quiet to work in, but the verges are protected and the crew keeps off them.
Raynes Park SW20 Interwar semis Nineteen-thirties semis with side returns and garages, mostly with a drive. The easiest loading in the coverage and the fastest surveys.
West Wimbledon SW20 Detached and gardens Copse Hill and the roads off it: larger detached houses, long front paths, and carrying distance that is worth measuring before quoting.
Colliers Wood & Southfields SW19 / SW18 Neighbours Crossed constantly and served, but both have their own firms. A move that begins and ends inside either belongs with them, not with us.
While the Championships are on, roads around Church Road and the Park are restricted and parking bays get suspended at short notice. If your move falls in that window we plan the standing and the route around it — tell us early and it is a non-event. Full coverage.
Leaving the country
Removals from Wimbledon to Europe
European moves leave SW19 on the same inventory as a local one, then pick up a customs file on top of it. We load in Merton, run down to the tunnel or the Dover crossing, and clear the paperwork before your things are anywhere near a border.
Wimbledon to France
Paris and the Île-de-France, Normandy, the Loire, Occitanie and the south-west.
Wimbledon to Spain
Madrid, Catalonia, Valencia, Andalucía, and the Balearics by ferry.
Wimbledon to Italy
Milan and the lakes, Piedmont, Tuscany, Umbria and Rome.
Wimbledon to Portugal
Lisbon and Cascais, Porto, the Silver Coast and the Algarve.
We collect from across London and take loads from Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bristol when a European run is already going. See how the international side works.
Asked most often
Questions we get from SW19
01 Do you do removals and storage together, or do I need two firms?
Together, and that is rather the point of this firm. The crew that empties the house is the crew that fills the containers, so nothing gets handled twice and one inventory covers the whole thing. Using a remover and a separate self-storage unit means loading your goods, unloading them into a unit, then loading them again later — three handlings instead of one.
02 How much storage will I need?
More than people guess, usually. We work it out at the survey by measuring what is actually going rather than counting bedrooms, and put you on the rung of the ladder that matches. If the survey calls it wrong, the rung changes — you are not locked into a size you do not fill.
03 Can you park in Wimbledon Village?
Sometimes, and where we cannot we arrange a bay suspension with Merton Council in advance. The High Street and the lanes off it have very little standing room, so Village moves are planned around where the vehicle sits. That is settled at survey, not argued about on the morning.
04 What happens if my completion date moves?
Tell us as soon as you know. Dates slipping is the normal case in SW19, not the exception, which is why the storage side exists at all — we can collect on the date that is fixed and hold everything under inventory until the other one lands.
05 Do you move offices as well as houses?
Yes, around the Broadway, Merton High Street and the Raynes Park side. Commercial work is scheduled around the building rather than the household — usually outside trading hours where the landlord allows it — and stock or records stay in the same sealed chain as everything else.
There are more on the questions page — parking suspensions, access to stored goods, what happens when a completion date slips.
Tell us what is moving
Describe the property, where it is going, and whether anything needs holding in between. We read it, ask what is missing, and come back with a written quote.