A house move is bought by the hour, so a cheap one is a well-run one: the right crew, a house decluttered before the day, and a total worked in writing from a published card, from £170.
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Cheap house removals with us start at £170: a studio or 1-bed flat with 2 Men over 2 to 3 hours, on a published card of Driver Help £70 per hour, 2 Men £85 and 3 Men £100, with a 2-hour minimum. A 2-bed house is usually £340 to £425 and a 3-bed £400 to £600. The full house removals service runs on the same card and terms; this page is about keeping the total down: declutter first, right-size the crew, pack yourself, and hold the written quote before you book. No deposit; free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
Totals for the house sizes people actually move, worked from the published card. Where your house lands in each range depends on access, packing and how much you declutter first.
| Job | Crew | Time | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio or 1-bed flat | 2 Men | 2 to 3 hours | £170 to £255 |
| 2-bed house | 2 Men | 4 to 5 hours | £340 to £425 |
| 2-bed house with heavy stairs | 3 Men | 3 to 4 hours | £300 to £400 |
| 3-bed house | 3 Men | 4 to 6 hours | £400 to £600 |
| 4-bed house | 3 Men | 6 to 8 hours | £600 to £800 |
| A few rooms only (part-load) | Driver Help or 2 Men | 2 to 3 hours | £140 to £255 |
Worked from our published hourly card (Driver Help £70, 2 Men £85, 3 Men £100 per hour, 2-hour minimum). The part-load range runs from Driver Help at the 2-hour minimum (£140) to 2 Men over 3 hours (£255). Your written quote confirms the total for your house before you book. Included beside every price: the Luton van with a tail lift, loading, unloading and carrying at both ends, blankets, wrap and straps, dismantling and reassembly where booked, fuel and mileage within London, and placement in the right rooms. Add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs (lift-served floors are not charged): tell us the floors at both addresses when you ask for a quote and the charge is in the quote, not a surprise on the day.
A house move has no mysterious line items. Five things decide the total, and four of them can be influenced before the day, which is what makes a house move cheap or dear on the same published card.
Almost everything on a house move is bought by the hour, so the honest way to read any total is rate times hours. Shorten the hours and the total follows: that single fact is behind every saving on this page.
Stairs are charged at £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs, and lift-served floors are not charged. Access decides more than the charge: a long carry from door to van, a tight turn, or a top-floor flat stretches every trip the crew makes.
A house packed and labelled before we arrive loads in a fraction of the time of one packed as we go. Packing by the crew is a booked extra; materials are priced in the open at boxes £5, wrap £15 and tape £10 per roll.
Fuel and mileage within London are included in the card. What distance really costs on an in-town move is time on the road between the two houses, which is part of the hours the job takes and is allowed for in the written quote.
Where the van cannot legally stand for loading, a borough suspension or dispensation may be needed. The fee is the borough’s, it is costed by the borough, and where one applies to your move it is confirmed in your written quote before the day.
Hours are the bill. Everything else on this page, declutter, packing, crew size, measuring, is a way of buying fewer of them.
No discount code will ever save what a proper clear-out saves. Crew hours are the bill, and every room cleared before the day is hours not bought: on a 2-bed house with 2 Men at £85 an hour, one hour less is £85 less, and a thorough declutter of a family house can take two hours off the job.
Work room by room in the weeks before the move, and sort everything four ways. Decide the destinations before moving day, so nothing undecided gets wrapped, carried and paid for twice.
What is genuinely coming with you, packed and labelled room by room. Everything in this pile earns its place in the van, because you are paying by the hour to carry it.
Furniture and household items a charity you name has agreed to accept. We can deliver them on the day or in the same run; upholstered furniture needs its fire label intact for a charity to resell it.
Things you are undecided about, kept out of the moving load: left with family, or carried to a storage unit you have rented in your own name. We provide the transport; the unit and its rent are yours.
Council bulky collection or a registered waste carrier you appoint. We are not a licensed waste carrier, so disposal never travels in our van: book that route before moving day so nothing undecided is carried twice.
Start with the rooms that hide the most: the loft, the spare room, the cupboard under the stairs. If it has not been used in a year, it is a candidate for every pile except the first one.
The instinct is to book the cheapest hour. The maths says book the cheapest total. Take a 2-bed house with heavy stairs: 2 Men at £85 per hour who take 5 hours cost £425. The same house with 3 Men at £100 per hour, done in 3 hours, costs £300. The dearer hour is £135 cheaper, because the third mover keeps heavy pieces moving on the stairs and halves the waiting at the van.
The same logic runs the other way. A small flat with easy access gains almost nothing from a third mover, and a part-load of light rooms can be a Driver Help job. The crew is right-sized from your list, your floors and your access, and where two options are realistic, the written quote shows you both totals.
Driver Help’s honest limits, stated plainly: one mover cannot carry a sofa bed down two flights alone, and should not try. Heavy pieces, tight stairs and full houses are 2 Men or 3 Men work, and we will say so from your details rather than sell you the £70 hour and struggle on the day.
| Same 2-bed house, heavy stairs | Total |
|---|---|
| 2 Men at £85/hr, taking 5 hours | £425 |
| 3 Men at £100/hr, finishing in 3 hours | £300 |
Both totals are the rate times the hours, from the same published card. Stair charges, where they apply, are £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs and are confirmed in the written quote.
Four steps, and two of them are yours: that is rather the point of a cheap move.
Rooms, postcodes, floors and lifts at both houses, and what the access is really like. The cheaper quotes are the accurate ones: a crew sized from the real job never has to grow on the day.
The quote comes back in writing with the crew size, the hours the move should take and the total, worked as the rate times the hours. It is valid for 7 days, and booking takes no deposit.
Sort each room four ways, pack and label what is moving, and stage it so the crew loads without hunting. Every hour of this you do is an hour you do not buy.
The crew loads, drives, and places everything in the right rooms, rebuilding where booked, then checks the house off with you. Payment is at the time of service.
One measuring note, because it saves real money: measure the sofa and the wardrobes against the doors and stairs at both houses before the day. A piece planned dismantled is minutes; a piece discovered stuck is clock time.
| Point of comparison | The typical way | With Vano Removals |
|---|---|---|
| The price | A day rate quoted for a house the firm has never asked about, with the real total settled once the van is loaded | A published hourly card, totals worked by house size on this page, and your total confirmed in a written quote before the day |
| Crew size | The smallest crew that keeps the hourly rate looking low, however long the day runs | The crew that gives the lowest total: on heavy stairs, 3 Men finishing in 3 hours at £300 beat 2 Men taking 5 hours at £425 |
| Who carries and packs | Self-loading rates at the budget end, and packing discovered as an extra on the morning itself | Our crew loads, unloads and carries at every tier; packing is yours, or a booked extra priced in the open (£5, £15, £10 for materials) |
| Stairs and access | Stair charges appearing per item or per trip once the crew sees the house | A flat £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs, lift-served floors not charged, stated in the written quote |
| Deposit and cancellation | A deposit to book is common, and cancellation windows vary widely at the budget end | No deposit to book; free cancellation up to 24 hours before; quotes valid 7 days; payment at the time of service |
Based on the published prices and terms of London removal and man and van offers, checked November 2026. The full comparison of every way of moving is on our compare page.
Content updated November 2026. Prices from our published hourly card, checked November 2026. Road charge figures are from Transport for London: the Congestion Charge is £18 per day from 2 January 2026 and the ULEZ charge is £12.50 per day for vehicles that do not meet the standard; any road charges that apply to your move are confirmed in your written quote. Parking suspension fees and notice periods are set by the borough for each address. Waste carrier status can be checked free on the Environment Agency public register before you appoint a carrier.
Send both postcodes, the rooms that are moving, and the floors and access at each house. The quote comes back in writing with the crew, the hours and the total. No deposit, and free cancellation up to 24 hours before the move.
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Common questions about cheap house removals, cost first. If you do not see yours, call us. We are happy to help.
Published rates, a written quote, and no deposit. The fastest way to price a house move is to send both postcodes and your room list.
07459 180023From £170 on our published card: Driver Help £70 per hour, 2 Men £85 per hour and 3 Men £100 per hour, with a 2-hour minimum on every booking. A studio or 1-bed flat is usually £170 to £255 with 2 Men over 2 to 3 hours. A 2-bed house is usually £340 to £425, a 3-bed house £400 to £600 with 3 Men, and a 4-bed house £600 to £800. Every total is the rate times the hours. Stairs add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs, lift-served floors are not charged, and your written quote confirms the total before you book. No deposit.
Declutter first, then right-size the crew. A 2-bed house cleared of everything that is not moving can come down an hour or more, and an hour saved at £85 is £85 saved. If your 2-bed has heavy stairs, compare the crew maths on this page: 3 Men finishing in 3 hours cost £300, where 2 Men taking 5 hours cost £425. Pack yourself if you can, keep some flexibility on the day of the week for availability and parking, and measure the sofa and wardrobes first so the load goes in one run. The card never changes: the total is what you work on.
Yes, because you pay for a total, not for an hourly rate in isolation. Take a 2-bed house with heavy stairs: 2 Men at £85 per hour taking 5 hours cost £425, while 3 Men at £100 per hour finishing the same job in 3 hours cost £300. The third mover shortens every carry, keeps heavy pieces moving on the stairs instead of resting on landings, and cuts the loading time at both ends. It does not work for every job: a small, easy-access flat gains little from a third mover. Your written quote is worked from your load and your access, and we will show you the comparison when both options are realistic.
The rate is the same seven days a week: Driver Help £70 per hour, 2 Men £85 and 3 Men £100 on a Saturday as on a Tuesday, with the same 2-hour minimum. Weekday flexibility still helps a cheap move in other ways: crews and preferred start times are easier to secure, streets and loading areas are often simpler to work in, and a parking suspension, where one is needed, is a borough arrangement made in advance. What changes the total is the hours the job takes, not the day it falls on.
More than any other single thing on this page, because crew hours are the bill. Every room cleared before the day is time the crew does not spend carrying, wrapping and loading things you did not want. On a 2-bed house at £85 per hour with 2 Men, bringing the job down from 5 hours to 4 saves £85; on a bigger house the saving grows with the rate. Sort each room four ways before we arrive: move it, pass it to a charity you name, set it aside, or book its disposal through your council’s bulky collection or a registered carrier you appoint.
Yes. Crew time is the bill, and a house that is packed, labelled and staged when we arrive loads faster than one we pack as we go. If you need materials, ours are priced in the open: boxes £5 each, protective wrap £15, tape £10 per roll, and you only buy what you use. One caveat: fragile and valuable items deserve proper packing, and a badly packed box of glassware saves nothing if it costs you the contents. If you would rather we packed the fragile pieces, say so when you book and that time is allowed for in the written quote as a booked extra.
£5 per floor where the carry is by stairs, counted at each address where the crew carries by stairs, and stated in your written quote before the day. Lift-served floors are not charged: if the lift takes the load, there is no stair charge for those floors. The charge is per floor, not per item and not per trip, so a second-floor flat with no lift adds £10 at that end however many pieces come down. Tell us the floors and lifts at both addresses when you ask for the quote, and the figure is in the total from the start.
Usually 4 to 6 hours with a 3 Men crew, which is £400 to £600 on the published card. Where your move falls in that range depends on the things that always decide it: how much is packed and ready when we arrive, the access at both houses (stairs, distance from the door to the van, parking), how much furniture is dismantled and rebuilt where booked, and the drive between the two addresses. A decluttered, fully packed 3-bed with easy access sits at the bottom of the range; the written quote for your house is worked from your details, not from the average.
Not for disposal. We are not a licensed waste carrier, so we cannot take household items away to be disposed of or recycled. What we can do on the day is carry pieces to a charity you name, if it has agreed to accept them, or to a storage unit you have booked in your own name. Anything for disposal goes through your council’s bulky item collection or a registered waste carrier you appoint, and you can check any carrier free on the Environment Agency public register before you appoint one.
There is no deposit to book. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the move; inside 24 hours, a cancellation charge of up to 25 percent of the quoted price applies. Every quote is given in writing and is valid for 7 days. Payment is at the time of service. The terms are the same at every crew size and on every page of this site, and they are restated in your written quote.
Insurance is as stated in your written quote: ask us to confirm in writing.
Moving somewhere specific? Send both postcodes with your quote request and the route is confirmed in writing.
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