Student moves from £140 on a published hourly card. One room out of halls, a whole shared house on one shared booking, or a summer storage run. No deposit, and the total is confirmed in a written quote before you book.
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A cheap student move in London starts at £140: one room on the 2-hour minimum, on a published card of Driver Help £70 per hour, 2 Men £85 and 3 Men £100. The biggest saving is sharing: one booking across a house of four costs £255 to £340 in total, which is £67.50 to £85 each. Summer storage is transport only, to a unit you rent in your own name. No deposit; free cancellation up to 24 hours before. For the full student service rather than the budget route, see student moves.
Real totals for term-time jobs, worked from the published card. Read the shared rows twice: one booking split across a house undercuts four separate minimums every time, because the 2-hour minimum is paid once, not once per person.
| Job | Crew | Time | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| One room out of halls | Driver Help | 2 hours (minimum) | £140 |
| One room in a shared house | 2 Men | 2 hours (minimum) | £170 |
| Two housemates sharing one booking | 2 Men | 2 to 3 hours | £170 to £255 (£85 to £135 each) |
| Studio flat | 2 Men | 2 to 3 hours | £170 to £255 |
| A house of four at end of term, one booking | 2 Men | 3 to 4 hours | £255 to £340 (£67.50 to £85 each) |
| Summer storage run (transport only) | Driver Help | 2 hours (minimum) | £140 |
Basis: worked from our published hourly card (Driver Help £70, 2 Men £85, 3 Men £100 per hour, 2-hour minimum), and your written quote confirms the total for your job before you book. Included beside every price: 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 room. 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. The storage row prices the transport only: the unit is rented by you, in your own name, and its rent is your own contract with the operator.
Four students booking separately pay four 2-hour minimums. The same four students on one booking pay one minimum and a few shared hours: £255 to £340 for the house, which is £67.50 to £85 each, against £140 or more each on their own. Nothing about the service changes. It is the same van, the same crew and the same card, with the minimum paid once.
One booking needs a little staging to work. Each person’s kit is packed and labelled with their name, and everything is staged in the hall or one front room before we arrive, in the order it will be dropped off. The van is loaded once, the clock runs once, and the drops happen in one run wherever the new addresses allow it. Where housemates are going to different addresses, send all the postcodes with the quote request and the run is planned and priced in writing before anyone commits.
One named contact runs the booking, and payment is at the time of service. How the total is divided between you is your own arrangement: split it evenly, or by how much each person is moving. The quote shows one honest total, and the arithmetic of sharing it is the easy part.
The summer problem is simple: the tenancy ends in June, the next one starts in September, and a room of belongings has to live somewhere in between. The honest shape of the bill has two separate halves, and this page keeps them separate so you can check both.
The first half is the unit, and it is not ours. You rent a storage unit in your own name with the operator you choose, at the size you choose, for the weeks you need. Its rent, access and terms are your contract with the operator, and you keep your own access all summer.
The second half is transport, and that is our part: a run into the unit at the start of the summer, and a run back out when the new term starts. Each run is on the published card, £140 with Driver Help on the 2-hour minimum for a typical room. Two runs, priced openly, instead of one bundled figure where neither half can be checked.
A packed student room, boxes stacked and the desk dismantled where booked, takes less space than most people rent. Stack to the ceiling, keep a list of what went in, and photograph the unit before the door closes.
The June run is booked when the tenancy end is set. The September run can be quoted at the same time, so the whole summer is priced before the first box is taped.
Two or three housemates storing in the same facility can share one transport run the same way they share a move: one van, one clock, one minimum between them.
Student houses duplicate everything. Four people means four kettles, four sets of pans nobody uses, and a kitchen box nobody needs to move twice. Before anyone packs, walk the shared rooms once: agree whose kitchen kit travels, whose stays or goes, and do not pay crew hours to move duplicates to a new house that already has them. The same goes for the textbook pile and the clothes rail: what is genuinely not coming is decided before the day, not discovered during it.
Pack once means pack properly the first time: boxes closed and labelled by person and by room, bags tied and named, the desk emptied rather than carried full. A room packed before we arrive is a room moved inside the minimum. A room still being packed while the clock runs is how a £140 job becomes a three-hour one, and no crew size fixes that.
The boxes maths, at the published extras prices: boxes are £5 each, protective wrap is £15 and tape is £10 per roll. A typical room takes five to eight boxes, so £25 to £40 of boxes, one wrap for the monitor and the mirror, and a roll of tape between a house. Order what the list says, not a bundle built for a family house, and if you would rather use your own bags and borrowed boxes, that is fine too: what matters is that everything is packed, labelled and staged before the clock starts.
Two things students ask about most, stated plainly. Bikes and instruments travel with standard care: a bike strapped in the van, an instrument wrapped and secured, in its hard case where you have one. List them when you enquire, with anything else fragile or valuable, like a monitor or a turntable, so each one is planned into the load rather than squeezed in at the door. And a parent can book and pay on a student’s behalf: the booking just needs one named contact for the day.
| Point of comparison | The typical way | With Vano Removals |
|---|---|---|
| The price | A per-person price, or a quote that quietly assumes every student in the house books and pays separately | A published hourly card and one written total for the booking, however many housemates share it |
| The minimum | A minimum charge applied per person or per room, so a house of four pays it four times | One 2-hour minimum per booking: a house of four pays it once and splits the total |
| Who carries | At the cheap end, you do: self-loading rates mean students carry and the driver drives | Our crew loads, unloads and carries at every tier, including Driver Help |
| Summer storage | Transport and storage bundled into one figure, so neither the rent nor the runs can be checked | The two halves kept separate: you rent the unit in your own name, and each transport run is priced on the card |
| Stairs in halls | Stairs surfacing as an extra on the day, once the crew sees the floor you are on | £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs, stated in the written quote; lift-served floors are not charged |
| Deposit and cancellation | A deposit to book is common at the budget end, and end-of-term dates are hard to change | No deposit to book; free cancellation up to 24 hours before |
Based on the published prices and terms of London student moving offers, checked November 2026. The full four-way comparison of every way of moving is on our compare page.
Content updated November 2026. Prices from our published hourly card, checked November 2026. The Congestion Charge figure (£18 per day from 2 January 2026) and the ULEZ figure (£12.50 per day) are from Transport for London; any road charges that apply to your job are confirmed in your written quote. Waste carrier status can be checked on the Environment Agency public register. Hall move-out windows, lift bookings and storage unit terms are your own arrangements, confirmed with the provider and reflected in your written quote.
Send both postcodes, how many of you are moving, and the floors at each end. The quote comes back in writing with the crew, the time and the total. No deposit, and free cancellation up to 24 hours before the move.
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Published rates, a written quote, and no deposit. The fastest way to price a student move is to send both postcodes and how many of you are moving.
07459 180023On 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. One room out of halls on the minimum is £140 with Driver Help. One room in a shared house with 2 Men on the minimum is £170. A studio flat with 2 Men for 2 to 3 hours is £170 to £255. Stairs add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs, and lift-served floors are not charged. No deposit, and your written quote confirms the total before you book.
Yes, and it is the single biggest saving on this page. A shared booking is one van, one clock and one 2-hour minimum, quoted as one total: two housemates sharing a 2 Men booking for 2 to 3 hours pay £170 to £255 between them, which is £85 to £135 each, and a house of four at the end of term pays £255 to £340 between them, which is £67.50 to £85 each. How you divide the total between you is up to you: the booking just needs one named contact, and payment is at the time of service.
Book Driver Help on the 2-hour minimum, £140, and make sure the two hours are spent moving, not packing. Be fully packed before we arrive, stage your boxes and bags by the door, and check the lift and loading rules with the hall in advance so nobody is waiting on a key or a fob. One room, packed and staged, is a one-load job for most students. If your room is up several flights with no lift, or you have heavy furniture, we will say honestly if 2 Men at £170 for the minimum is the cheaper finish, because the cheapest hour is not always the cheapest move.
Yes, as transport. You rent a storage unit in your own name with the operator you choose; we collect your things, load and stack them in the unit, and bring them back out at the other end of the summer. Each run is charged on the hourly card: a summer storage run with Driver Help on the 2-hour minimum is £140 each way. The unit’s rent, access and terms stay between you and the operator. We do not hold belongings ourselves, so your things sit in a unit under your own contract, with your own access.
For a student room, comfortably: a typical room is five to eight boxes, two or three bags, a desk and chair, a bike, and the small furniture around them, and that goes in one Luton load with room to spare. A studio flat is also usually one load. The load only becomes a problem when a whole house moves without staging: four people’s kit, packed and labelled by person and staged in the hall, is planned as one load wherever it can be. Send your list with the quote request and we will tell you from the list, in writing, if a second run is likely.
As soon as you know your date. End-of-term dates cluster across London’s halls and shared houses, and the cheapest slots, weekday and daytime windows, go first. Quotes are valid for 7 days and there is no deposit to book, so asking early costs nothing and locks the plan in. If your hall sets a move-out window or a lift booking, tell us the window when you ask for the quote and the booking is built around it.
Yes. A parent can make the booking and pay: payment is at the time of service, and the booking just needs one named contact who we can reach on the day. The written quote goes to whoever asks for it, with the total confirmed before the move, so the person paying sees exactly the same price the person moving does. Tell us who the named contact is when you book, especially if the parent is booking from outside London and the student is the one meeting the crew.
Yes. Bikes travel strapped in the van, and instruments travel wrapped and secured, in their hard cases where you have them. List anything fragile, valuable or awkward when you enquire, a bike, a guitar, a keyboard, a monitor, so its protection and its place in the load are planned before the day rather than improvised at the door. Standard care is taken with every item on the van: blankets, wrap and straps are included as standard.
Stairs add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs: a second-floor room with no lift adds £10 at that end. Lift-served floors are not charged, so a room on the fifth floor with a working lift costs no more in stairs charges than a ground-floor room. The charge is stated in your written quote: tell us the floor, and whether there is a lift, when you ask for the quote and there is nothing extra to work out on the day.
No deposit to book. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the move; inside 24 hours, a cancellation charge of up to 25 percent of the quoted price applies. Quotes are valid for 7 days. Payment is at the time of service. The terms are stated on your written quote, alongside the crew, the time and the total.
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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