Cheap Man and Van in London

On our published card: Driver Help £70 per hour, 2 Men £85 per hour, 3 Men £100 per hour, with a 2-hour minimum on every booking. That puts the cheapest honest starting point at £140 for Driver Help or £170 for 2 Men. Stairs add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs, and lift-served floors are not charged. Packing extras, if you want them, are boxes £5 each, protective wrap £15 and tape £10 per roll. No deposit, and your written quote confirms the total before you book.

Driver Help at £70 per hour is the cheapest hour when one mover with the van can safely do the carrying in good time: light boxes, a single light item, a straightforward collection. 2 Men at £85 per hour works out cheaper in total whenever a second mover saves real time or makes a heavy carry safe. A heavy item with stairs is the classic example: Driver Help taking 3 hours is £200, while 2 Men finishing in 2 hours is £170. Tell us what is moving and where the stairs are, and the quote will recommend the cheaper total, not the cheaper hour.

No, at every tier. The crew does all the carrying, loading and unloading, including on Driver Help, where the one mover is ours. You are welcome to help with light boxes if you want to keep the clock down, but it is allowed, never required. If an item genuinely needs two people to carry it safely, we will plan it as a 2 Men job from the start rather than rely on you at the door.

The van is a Luton with a tail lift. In practical terms it takes a room of kit and boxes, a small flat load, or several large items in one run: for example a sofa, a wardrobe dismantled, a bed, a dining set and boxes packed around them. What decides whether your job is one load is the bulkiest item and the route out of the building, not just volume. Send the list and the biggest measurements with your quote request and we will confirm one load or plan honestly for more.

Yes. Two stops on one run are everyday work: collect from a seller and deliver to your flat, pick up from two addresses, or drop part of the load at a storage unit on the way. The unit for a storage drop is rented by you, in your own name; we provide the transport and stack the load in the unit properly. Both stops are priced inside the same hourly booking, so give us both postcodes and both access details when you ask for the quote and the time allowed covers the full run.

No. The cab seats are for the crew, so passengers cannot travel in the van. At booking we agree the order of arrival, the destination address and a phone contact, so the crew and your load are expected when they arrive and you can meet them there by your own route.

Yes. Marketplace and private seller collections are a large part of this service. What we need is the collection address, a contact who can release the item, a collection window the seller agrees to, and the item dimensions and weight if you know them. Have the seller ready inside that window: time spent waiting at a door is time on the same clock. The item is wrapped or blanketed by us on the van and delivered into the room you name at your end.

Short notice is often possible, and the honest answer is that availability depends on the day and the crew size you need. Send the date, both postcodes and the list as early as you can, and if the slot exists we will confirm it in the written quote, which is valid for 7 days. For a seller collection with a fixed window, or a building where a lift has to be booked, more notice makes the job cheaper and calmer because the run can be planned around those fixed points.

Stairs add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs, at either end of the job, and the charge is stated in your written quote. Floors served by a lift are not charged. Tell us the floor and whether there is a lift at both addresses when you enquire, so the stair charge is in the total before you book and never a surprise on the day. For heavy items up several flights, a bigger crew can still be the cheaper total because it shortens the job.

There is no deposit to book. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the move; within 24 hours, a cancellation charge of up to 25 percent of the quoted price applies. Your written quote is valid for 7 days, and payment is at the time of service. The quote sets out the crew, the time allowed, any stair charges and any road charges that apply to your job, confirmed in your written quote before you book.

Insurance is as stated in your written quote: ask us to confirm in writing.