House removals in North London

What a house removal costs in North London

The table on this page is for a local move, removals only, with you doing the packing. A studio is typically two to three hours of two movers. A two-bed flat usually fits in one Luton van. A three-bed house typically takes three movers and two Lutons, or one 7.5 tonne lorry, and a full day. Add packing if you want it (from £199 for a one-bed), and storage if the dates do not line up (from £20 + VAT a week per container).

Four things move the price: how far the vans are driving, how many floors without a lift, whether the street needs a parking suspension, and how much of the packing you are leaving to us. All four are settled at the survey, so the written quote is for your move, not an average one.

What is included

• Free survey at home, in person, across North London and Hertfordshire
• Fixed written quote for the whole move
• Our own professionally trained team, in our own branded vans
• Blanket-wrapping for sofas, mattresses and anything with a finish
• Furniture dismantling and reassembly, beds and wardrobes included
• Loading, transport and placing everything in the room you point to
• Optional full or part packing, with materials delivered ahead
• Optional storage in Kingsbury between completion dates
• Optional clearance of what you are leaving behind

How a house move works

1. Survey. We come to the house, walk every room with you, count the large items, look at the stairs, the front path and where a van can stand. Same for the new address if we can get to it.
2. Fixed written quote. One figure for the move, with packing, storage and any parking suspension listed separately so you can take them or leave them.
3. Packing. Either we deliver boxes, tape and wrap a week ahead, or our packers come in the day before and do the lot, kitchen and fragiles first.
4. Move day. The crew arrives at the time agreed, wraps and loads room by room, dismantles what has to come apart, and drives to the new house. Everything goes into the room it belongs in, and the beds are reassembled before we leave.
5. Unpack. You unpack at your pace, or book us to do it. Empty boxes are collected if you want them gone.

Parking on moving day in North London

Nobody plans a move around a parking ticket, but the street decides how close the van gets to the front door, and that decides how long the job takes. Two councils cover most of our patch:

• Barnet (Edgware, Barnet, Finchley, Mill Hill, Hendon): a parking dispensation for one van on a yellow line is £51.90 per day with 2 working days notice, and a suspended bay is £69.63 per day plus a £171.39 admin fee with 7 days notice. For a van that fits a bay the dispensation is the cheap route.
• Brent (Kingsbury, Wembley, Alperton): a suspended bay is £67 per day, plus a one-off £133 fee if booked less than 14 days ahead. A yellow-line dispensation is £38 for a single yellow or £73 for a double, for up to four hours.

Those are the fees at the time of writing and councils change them every April. Outside the controlled zones round the stations and high streets, most side streets in both boroughs are free to park on, and the survey tells us which kind yours is. We apply on your behalf where it is needed.

A typical job

A three-bed 1930s semi in Kingsbury moving to New Barnet, EN4, with the family packing most of it themselves and leaving the kitchen and the glass to us. Survey on a Saturday morning, packers in on the Thursday for the kitchen, crew of three on the Friday with two Lutons. Two beds and a wardrobe dismantled, the sofa blanket-wrapped and out through the bay window path, both vans loaded by early afternoon and unloaded into the new house by the evening, beds rebuilt before we leave. Priced in the three-bed band, from £999, plus fragiles packing from £99.

Why choose Sal Removals as your removal company in North London

Checkatrade member. Fully insured, and the insurance covers the packing service as well as the move. The crew who pack your kitchen are the crew who unload it, because it is our own team in our own vans, not labour hired for the day.

Where we work

Based at 19 Uphill Drive, Kingsbury, London NW9 0BU. That puts NW9, NW4, NW7, NW11, HA8, HA7, HA0, HA9, HA3, EN4 and EN5 within twenty minutes, and Hertfordshire towns such as Watford, Borehamwood, Radlett and St Albans on a straight run up the M1. We move people out of North London to central London and back, see Barnet, Kingsbury and all the areas we cover. For a single room, a student flat or a few large items, man and van is the cheaper option.

Once the date is fixed, our guide to changing your address when you move lists who to tell, in which order, and what it costs.

Call 020 3475 0377, Monday to Sunday 8am to 8pm, or book a free survey online and we will call you back to fix a time.