REMOVALS · LONDON BOROUGH OF HILLINGDON
Hillingdon is London’s western edge: the second largest borough in the capital, and really two boroughs wearing one name. In the north, the Metropolitan line suburbs: Ruislip, Eastcote, Ickenham and Northwood, all semis, driveways and village cores. In the south, a different world altogether: Hayes, Harlington and West Drayton under the Heathrow flight paths, shaped by the airport as much as by the housing. Uxbridge sits between them as the civic and commercial centre. Vano Removals works across all of it, and this page is the starting point: our published hourly rates, how parking works with Hillingdon Council, and where each Hillingdon service is planned in detail.
Every move is confirmed in a written, itemised quote before you book, with the crew size, the vehicle and the scope in writing. Our hours are Monday to Friday 7am–8pm, Saturday 8am–6pm and Sunday 9am–4pm. If you are comparing removal companies in Hillingdon, compare the specifics: the rates below, the council’s actual waiver charge on this page, and whether a quote has asked which half of the borough you are moving in, because the plan for a Ruislip semi and a West Drayton flat share almost nothing but the postcode’s first letter.
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Hire a van for the day, carry everything yourself and drive it yourself. It wins on cash when the load is small, but Hillingdon tests it harder than most boroughs: it is London’s second largest borough, so a self-drive day can mean long runs between Ruislip and Hayes on the A40 and the A4020, and where the hire van has to stand on a restricted street, the council’s parking waiver is £24.30 per vehicle per day even for a day’s hire.
A booked crew does the carrying, the driving and the placing. On our published card a typical Hillingdon two-bed move totals £340 to £510, most houses in the borough load straight from their own driveway with nothing needed from the council, and the long runs between the borough’s two halves are timed inside the quoted hours rather than added to them.
Send both postcodes and a room-by-room list and the quote comes back in writing, valid for 7 days, with the crew, the vehicle and the hours settled before you commit. In Hillingdon the two addresses decide almost everything: a driveway semi in Ruislip and a managed flat in West Drayton share little but the borough, and the quote stage is where that difference, and the parking route for each street, gets settled honestly.
Quick answer
Removals in Hillingdon run on our published hourly card: Driver Help £70, 2 Men £85 and 3 Men £100 an hour, two-hour minimum, so a typical two-bed move totals £340 to £510 including loading, unloading and carrying. No deposit to book, and free cancellation up to 24 hours before the move. The Hillingdon difference is distance and driveways: most houses load from their own drive with nothing needed from the council, and where the van must stand on a restricted street the council’s parking waiver costs £24.30 per day per vehicle, with the route for your street confirmed in your written quote.
The borough
The A40 cuts Hillingdon in half, and the two sides of it move house in different ways. This is the split that shapes every quote we write here:
The north
Ruislip, Ruislip Manor, Eastcote, Ickenham and Hillingdon village in the middle of the borough; Northwood, Northwood Hills and Moor Park at its top. The housing is the classic Metroland stock: 1930s semis and detached houses with driveways and garages, older village cores around Ruislip and Ickenham high streets, and Northwood’s larger houses on wider, quieter roads. Moves here are house moves in the settled sense: lofts and garages full, loading from the drive, and the carry decided by the front path and the stairs rather than by the street. West Ruislip and the roads off the A40 are the link south.
The south
Hayes, Harlington and West Drayton live with the airport: the flight paths overhead, the Bath Road hotel strip along the A4, the offices at Stockley Park, and households whose moves follow shift patterns, postings and short lets as often as property chains. The houses, terraces and semis off the Uxbridge Road (A4020) and in Yiewsley, load much like the north. The difference is the fast-growing belt of new flats around West Drayton and Hayes stations on the Elizabeth line: managed buildings, booked lifts and set loading bays, planned like a town centre rather than a suburb.
Uxbridge itself belongs to both: the borough’s main town, with its pedestrianised High Street, the university at Cowley, flats in the centre and semis spreading out along the A40, and it is the end of the Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines. A move can start in one world and finish in the other without leaving the borough, which is exactly why the two addresses matter more than the borough name.
What we do
Whole-house moves are the borough’s core job: two and three-man crews, a Luton van with a tail lift, furniture protected in transit, and dismantling and reassembly where your quote agrees it. Our house removals in the Uxbridge area page plans them in detail: the suburbs, the driveways, and the lofts and garages that decide the hours. The service across the whole borough is set out on our house removals in Hillingdon page.
For flat moves, single items, part-moves and storage runs, the hourly man and van service is usually the right size of help: Driver Help, or a two or three-man crew, on the same published card. See man and van in the Uxbridge area for how the service fits the borough’s smaller moves.
Full or part packing, agreed and itemised in your written quote, with materials at published prices. A Northwood house with several floors of rooms, or a short-let household in Hayes being packed against a fixed end date, are the usual Hillingdon reasons to book it. See packing services in the Uxbridge area.
Completion dates that do not line up, a posting that starts before the new home is ready, or a downsize out of a larger northern house: storage bridges the gap. You book a unit in your own name at the storage operator of your choice, and we provide the transport: collecting, loading, stacking the unit, and delivering to the new address when it is ready, with the runs set out in the same written quote as the move. See storage solutions in the Uxbridge area for what to confirm before you book.
The borough’s flats have their own dedicated planning on our flat removals in the Uxbridge area page. Flats across the rest of the borough are covered by our flat removals in Hillingdon page. Offices (Uxbridge town centre, Stockley Park and the Bath Road corridor) run as a separate service on our office removals in the Uxbridge area page, priced per job in a written quote.
Flats and managed buildings
A growing share of Hillingdon moves do not load from a driveway at all. The Elizabeth line has brought new apartment blocks to West Drayton and Hayes, Uxbridge town centre has its own flats above and behind the High Street, and Brunel’s students keep Cowley’s shared houses turning over. Those moves run on the building’s rules, not the street’s:
Our published rates
1 man + van
£70per hour
Charged per hour, 2-hour minimum booking
Most popular
£85per hour
Charged per hour, 2-hour minimum booking
For bigger moves
£100per hour
Charged per hour, 2-hour minimum booking
These hourly rates are for house-to-house removals within London: every hour is charged at the same published rate, £85 an hour for a two-man Luton crew, the same rate from the first hour to the last. Office and commercial moves are priced in a written quote.
Your exact price is confirmed in a written quote once we know the access at both addresses.
Hillingdon’s mix runs from one-bed flats in the West Drayton and Hayes blocks to four and five-bed houses in Northwood and Moor Park, so every row of this table earns its place here. Where in the range a total lands is decided by the volume beyond the rooms (the lofts, garages and garden stores of the suburbs) and by the runs between the borough’s two halves.
| Property size | Typical crew and hours | Typical total |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | Driver Help, 2 hours (the minimum booking) | from £140 |
| 1-bed home | 2 Men, 2 to 3 hours | £170 to £255 |
| 2-bed home | 2 Men, 4 to 6 hours | £340 to £510 |
| 3-bed home | 3 Men, 5 to 7 hours | £500 to £700 |
| 4-bed and larger | 3 Men, 6 to 8 hours | £600 to £800 |
Basis: the published hourly card (Driver Help £70, 2 Men £85, 3 Men £100 an hour, two-hour minimum), checked October 2026. Totals are illustrations from the stated crew hours; your written quote confirms the total for your move.
Parking and access
Start with the driveway, because in Hillingdon it settles most moves. The borough’s semis and detached houses mostly load from their own drives, and a move like that never troubles the council. The addresses that need paperwork are the ones where the van has to stand on a restricted street: Uxbridge town centre and its one-way system, roads around the stations, and flats without a loading bay of their own.
The waiver is the usual route. Hillingdon Council deals with removals through its parking waiver (its own list of waiver activities includes house removals) and publishes the charge at £24.30 per day, for each vehicle. You apply to the council and pay the council directly, so the charge never sits inside your removals quote. We supply the vehicle registrations and tell you how many vehicles the day needs before you apply.
Where a bay has to be suspended instead. Some streets need a parking bay suspension rather than a waiver, applied for through the council on its suspension form. The borough does not publish a suspension tariff alongside that form, so the council confirms the charge for your road as part of the application. We will never quote you a figure the council has not published. Which route your street takes, if either, is checked address by address when you enquire and written into your quote.
No deposit to book. Your quote is valid for 7 days, and you can cancel without charge up to 24 hours before the move; cancellation within 24 hours may incur a charge of up to 25% of the quoted price. Payment is taken at the time of service. If the move runs beyond the quoted hours, the extra time is charged at your crew’s hourly rate as shown at booking. Loading, unloading and carrying are included, plus dismantling and reassembly where booked in advance. Packing and packing materials are not included unless booked and listed on your quote. Council parking charges, where a suspension or dispensation is needed, are the council’s: you apply and pay the council directly.
Content updated October 2026. Official sources for this page: Hillingdon Council (parking waivers: the published charge of £24.30 per day per vehicle, with house removals listed among the activities a waiver can cover; parking bay suspensions, for which the council publishes no tariff and confirms the charge within the application) and Transport for London (the A40, A4 and A4020 corridor roads). Council charges checked against the council’s published pages in October 2026.
Near the station
Twelve of the borough’s Metropolitan and Piccadilly line stations have their own dedicated pages, with the local streets, property types and access worked through in detail. The four most used:
The end of the Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines: the town-centre flats, Park Road semis and Cowley houses, with the High Street’s parking rules planned in. Removals near Uxbridge station
The Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines at Ruislip itself, and the Central line at West Ruislip and Ruislip Gardens, serve the borough’s biggest suburb: terraces by the high street, semis and detached houses beyond. Removals near Ruislip station
The Metropolitan line stop for Northwood’s larger houses and the streets running up towards Moor Park and Northwood Hills. Removals near Northwood station
The Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines between Ruislip Manor and Rayners Lane: village-core streets and 1930s semis on the borough’s eastern edge. Removals near Eastcote station
The rest of the line, east to west: Moor Park, Northwood Hills, Ruislip Manor, Ruislip Gardens, South Ruislip, West Ruislip, Ickenham and Hillingdon. West Drayton and Hayes & Harlington are Elizabeth line stations rather than Tube stations, so moves there are planned through the Uxbridge area pages above: start with house removals in the Uxbridge area.
The comparison
| Point of comparison | The typical way | With Vano Removals |
|---|---|---|
| Who carries | You do, with a self-loading service; a platform sends whichever team it assigns | Our own crew carries, loads and places everything |
| Deposit to book | Common: a deposit or the first hour taken upfront | None; nothing is paid until the service is done |
| Free cancellation | 48 hours ahead at the largest services | Up to 24 hours before the move |
| Price confirmed before the day | An hourly rate, with the total left to the day itself | A written quote with the total, valid for 7 days |
| Who turns up | The driver or team the platform assigns | The firm you booked and spoke to |
Basis: the published terms of the large London services and booking platforms, checked October 2026, against our own published card and booking terms. The full four-way comparison is on our compare page.
Plan your move
House moves charged by the hour: £85 an hour for two men, £100 for three, and in Hillingdon the first question is which half of the borough you are moving in. Get a written quote or call 07459 180023. Compare the dedicated pages for house removals in the Uxbridge area and man and van in the Uxbridge area first, and check what fits with our van size checker. Moving to a neighbouring borough instead? See removals in Harrow and removals in Hounslow. Keeping the cost down? Read our page on cheap removals in Hillingdon.
The borough in pictures
The property types, carries and street conditions that shape a move in Hillingdon, from the first wrapped item to the last room placed.
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Questions and answers
Crews are charged by the hour on our published card: Driver Help £70 an hour; 2 Men £85 an hour; 3 Men £100 an hour, with a two-hour minimum booking, plus £5 for each floor where the carry is by stairs. Worked totals on that card: a small job at the two-hour minimum starts at £140, a typical two-bed move comes to £340 to £510, and a three-bed to £500 to £700. Most Hillingdon family houses book the two or three-man crew. Office and commercial moves are priced per job in a written quote. Council parking charges, where a waiver or suspension is needed, are on top at cost: you apply and pay Hillingdon Council directly. Your exact price is confirmed in a written quote once we know the volume and the access at both addresses.
Often, no. A large share of Hillingdon homes give the van a driveway to load from, and those moves need nothing from the council. Where the van has to stand on a restricted street, Hillingdon Council deals with removals through its parking waiver: the council lists house removals among the activities a waiver can cover and publishes it at £24.30 per day for each vehicle. Where a marked bay needs suspending instead, the council confirms the charge as part of the application, as it does not publish a suspension tariff. You apply and pay the council directly; tell us the street when you enquire and we will confirm which route your address needs, if either.
The whole borough: Uxbridge and Cowley, Hillingdon and Ickenham, the Ruislip and Eastcote suburbs, Northwood and Moor Park in the north, and Hayes, Harlington and West Drayton in the south, plus moves into and out of Hillingdon, elsewhere in London and further afield. What shapes the quote is the two real addresses: a driveway semi in Ruislip and a managed flat in West Drayton are planned very differently, which is why we ask for both postcodes when you enquire.
Because the north and the south genuinely work differently. The north (Ruislip, Eastcote, Ickenham, Northwood) is settled Metropolitan line suburbia: 1930s semis, detached houses, driveways and garages, and moves that run like classic suburban house moves. The south (Hayes, Harlington, West Drayton) sits under Heathrow’s flight paths, with airport-linked households, the Bath Road hotel strip, Stockley Park offices and a fast-growing belt of new flats around the Elizabeth line stations. The planning questions are different at each end, so tell us which half you are moving from, and to.
The move itself works the same way, but the households often do not: airport and airline work brings shift patterns, short lets ending at odd times of the month, and moves tied to postings rather than property chains. In Hayes, Harlington and along the Bath Road, tell us the date the tenancy or posting actually ends and any hours the building allows moves, and the plan is built around them. Houses in the south load much like the north; it is the flats and the timetable that need the closer look.
Three things: whether the lift has to be booked for moves, whether the building sets move windows or needs the management company’s permission, and where the van can stand, as newer developments often load from a designated bay or a podium rather than the street. The same applies to town-centre flats in Uxbridge. Give us the building and its rules when you enquire; a lift slot missed is a move rescheduled, so it is never left to the day.
Yes, and the arrangement is a simple one. You book a storage unit in your own name at the operator of your choice, and we provide the transport: collecting from your old address, loading and stacking the unit properly, and collecting and delivering to the new address when it is ready. A gap between addresses is a common shape of a Hillingdon move, whether it is a chain in Ruislip or a tenancy in Hayes that ends before a purchase completes, and storage also suits the borough’s posting-led moves. Tell us roughly what needs storing and for how long when you enquire, and the transport at both ends is set out in the same written quote as the move.
Yes: a full pack of the whole home, or a part pack of the kitchen and fragile contents, agreed and itemised in your written quote. Materials are charged at published prices: boxes £5 each, wrap £15, tape £10 a roll. In the Met-line suburbs the packing list usually runs beyond the rooms, with the loft, garage and garden store packed as their own groups so tools and stored items stay together.
Yes. Beds and flat-pack furniture can be dismantled and rebuilt when that is agreed in your written quote. Mention the pieces that need it when you enquire (wardrobes and bed frames are the usual ones) and the time is built into the quote rather than improvised on the day.
Insurance is as stated in your written quote: ask us to confirm in writing.
There is no deposit to book, and payment is taken at the time of service. Your quote is valid for 7 days from the date it is issued. You can cancel without charge up to 24 hours before the move; cancellation within 24 hours may incur a charge of up to 25% of the quoted price.
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