Six floors and a cellar
Large London homes
Houses where the volume is the problem and one load was never going to do it.
A five- or six-floor London townhouse is not a big version of an ordinary move. It is a different exercise, because the volume is genuinely beyond what a single vehicle and a single day can absorb.
The mistake is to treat it as one job with more boxes. Done properly it is a sequence: which rooms go first, what has to stay usable until the last moment, what travels together because it belongs together, and what goes into storage because the new house is not ready for it.
We survey every floor, including the parts people forget — the cellar, the attic, the garden store, the space behind the boiler.
How a large house is actually moved
The survey is longer and it produces a plan rather than a number. We walk every room and agree a sequence with you, because the order things leave in determines how liveable the house stays while the move is happening.
Most of these moves run across more than one day. That is not a failure of planning — it is the planning. A house that takes three vehicles to empty will not empty between breakfast and dusk, and pretending otherwise is how crews end up working dangerously late.
Where the new property is not ready for everything, part of the load goes into storage and comes out later. Splitting a household between two destinations needs an inventory that tracks which is which, which we prepare rather than improvise.
Large houses accumulate awkward things: full-size pianos, safes, large mirrors, garden statuary, workshop machinery, wine. Each of those needs declaring in advance so the right equipment and crew travel with the job.
The other disciplines
Next step
Does this describe your move?
Tell us the address, the scale and anything unusual. We will arrange a survey and set out a plan rather than a bare number.