London-wide · by arrangement
Removals across London, handled properly.
Large homes that take more than a day. Objects that have to be crated rather than wrapped. Addresses where the building rules and the street rules rarely agree.
What we mean by discreet
A word most firms use and few define
Every removal produces the same uncomfortable document: a list of what is inside a particular address, and the date on which that address will be open and then empty.
For most moves it hardly matters. For some it matters a great deal — and "discreet" gets used freely by firms who have never said what they actually do differently.
Records are controlled
Inventories and survey notes are visible to your crew and to nobody else, and deleted when retention ends.
No marketing photography
Survey images exist to plan the move and record condition. They are not used for anything else.
Unbranded vehicles on request
A liveried lorry outside a house announces to the whole street what is happening.
Minimum disclosure
Buildings that require notice get the date and the flat. Never an inventory, never a valuation.
Discretion is not secrecy from lawful authority. We comply with legal obligations, and we will not conceal or misdescribe goods for any customer. The full position is here.
What we handle
Four disciplines
Six floors and a cellar
Large homes
Houses where the volume is the problem and one load was never going to do it.
Read more →Crated, not blanketed
Fine art and antiques
Items where the packing has to be built rather than wrapped.
Read more →Who knows, and when
Discretion
A move creates a record of what you own and when your house is empty. That deserves handling.
Read more →The hardest square mile to park in
Prime central London
Where the building rules and the street rules rarely agree.
Read more →Services
Five, described plainly
- House and home removals Whole-home moves across the capital, surveyed floor by floor and planned as a sequence rather than a single load.
- Specialist packing and crating Purpose-built crates for items that cannot simply be wrapped — frames, mirrors, marquetry, glass.
- Storage Sealed, inventoried containers in access-controlled facilities, for the gap between one house and the next.
- Office and private-office moves Discreet commercial relocations planned around trading hours, with records handled as records.
- Long-distance and country moves London to the country or to anywhere in mainland Britain, as a direct load.
Where we stop
The limits, stated
We are removals contractors. We are not conservators, fine-art shippers, valuers or security consultants, and we do not disconnect plumbed, wired or fitted items.
Where an object genuinely warrants a specialist fine-art shipper rather than a removals firm, we will tell you — there is a line and knowing where it sits is part of doing this properly.
We cannot obtain permission a square committee or freeholder declines to give, and we will not work in breach of a building's conditions of access.
Questions
Questions we are asked
The full list is on the FAQ page.
What does "discreet" actually mean here?
Specific things rather than a tone of voice. Records are access-controlled and visible only to your crew. We take no marketing photography. Vehicles can be unbranded on request. Buildings that require notification get the date and the flat, never an inventory. And we will not confirm to a third party that a move is happening — including to people who sound entitled to know.
Do you handle fine art and antiques?
We crate, protect and move them, with condition recorded before anything is touched. We are not conservators or fine-art shippers, and where an item genuinely warrants a specialist we will tell you rather than take the work.
Why does a large house take more than one day?
Because a house that needs three vehicles to empty will not empty between breakfast and dusk. Planning for that openly is safer than discovering it at six in the evening with a crew that has been working since seven.
What is different about a garden square?
Many are managed by a square committee rather than the council, so a borough bay suspension is the wrong application entirely. You need the square’s own permission, on its own timetable, and some will not grant it on certain days.
Will you take a window out to get something through?
Not from a listed building — altering protected fabric without consent is a criminal offence rather than a technicality. Where an item will not go, we say so at the survey while you still have options.
Do you cover all of London?
Yes, though the work concentrates in the centre and the western boroughs. Several boroughs in this network have their own local sites, and where one of them serves your address better we will point you to it.
Next step
Tell us what you are moving
Both addresses, the scale of the house, and anything that will need crating rather than wrapping. We will arrange a survey from there.