Service
Business and office
relocations
The lifting is the easy half. The job is the sequence — what moves when, what has to be working again first, and how little of your trading week the whole thing consumes.
A household move has one deadline. A business move has a dozen, and they belong to different people: the landlord's loading window, your IT provider's availability, the day the phones must answer, the hour your staff have to be out of the building.
Getting those into the right order is most of the work, which is why the survey for a commercial move is a planning meeting as much as a measure-up.
What we move
- Desks, pedestals, storage and meeting furniture, dismantled and rebuilt
- IT hardware moved, labelled and protected; reconnection left to your provider
- Filing and archive, kept in order and traceable as a controlled batch
- Stock, fixtures and display units for retail and studio space
- Workshop equipment and light machinery within reasonable weight limits
- Artwork and reception pieces, handled to the same standard as a private collection
Crates, delivered ahead
Reusable crates go out before the move so staff can pack and label their own desks. It costs nothing extra, it means the contents are labelled by the person who knows what they are, and it removes an entire day of packing from the move itself. The crates come back afterwards.
The sequence
Most commercial moves we run follow the same shape and it works: archive and dormant equipment go first, while the business carries on trading. Then the departments that can be down longest. Then the working floor, over a Friday night or a weekend. Then the snagging on Monday morning while people settle in.
Where a business genuinely cannot empty a building in one go, storage bridges the gap — archive and surplus furniture held while the new space is fitted, then delivered when it is ready. Quoted alongside the move rather than as a separate arrangement.
Access at both ends
In a managed office building or a retail centre the loading window is set by somebody else and it is rarely generous. That has to be established before anything else is planned. On an industrial estate it is usually straightforward — proper bays, level access, room to turn. Town-centre offices are the tight ones, and they are also where bay suspensions and out-of-hours access need arranging in advance.
What we will not do
We will not touch network or server configuration, we will not quote a floor we have not walked, and we will not promise a completion hour we cannot stand behind. Where a sequence is genuinely tight we will say so and propose a phased alternative rather than agree to something that will overrun.
Getting a quote
Both addresses, the approximate floor area, desk count or stock description, and any loading window either landlord imposes. We will arrange a walk round and come back with a written quote and a proposed sequence. Household work is on house removals; the full list is on services.
Planning it
Business move questions
Why out of hours?
Because the cost of a business move is not the removals invoice, it is the trading you lose. Closing normally on Friday and opening in the new premises on Monday costs a little more in crewing and saves considerably more than it costs.
Who reconnects the IT?
Your IT provider. We move, label and protect the hardware and we sequence the move so the racks arrive when your people can be on site to plug them in. We do not touch configuration.
Do you supply crates?
Yes, reusable ones rather than cardboard. They stack properly, they protect better, and they go back afterwards. We deliver them ahead of the move so staff can pack their own desks and label them.
Can we move in phases?
Often the right approach. Archive and rarely-used equipment first, then departments in an order that keeps the business trading, then the working floor last. We plan the sequence with you rather than emptying a building and hoping.
What about the landlord's loading window?
It is the first thing we establish, not the last. In a managed building or a shopping centre the window belongs to somebody else and it is rarely generous, and it changes the crew size, the vehicle and sometimes the whole sequence.
Do you handle confidential records?
Archive is kept in order, boxed and traceable, and moved as a single controlled batch rather than mixed through the load. If you have a retention or destruction policy, tell us and we will work to it.
Next step
Relocating premises?
Send both addresses, a rough floor area and any loading window your landlord imposes. We will walk it and propose a sequence.