Offices, shops, warehouses, clinics and workshops, moved around your working week. Small business moves are priced on our published hourly card, from £140, and every job is confirmed in an itemised written quote before you book.
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A commercial move with us is your business premises moved around your working week: offices, shops, warehouses, clinics and workshops. Small jobs are priced on our published hourly card, and a small office move typically runs £340 to £510 of crew time. Larger jobs are priced per job in an itemised written quote after a survey or inventory. Moves run out of hours or in phases, so the business keeps trading.
A commercial move is any move of business premises: the business changes address, expands, contracts or reorganises, and its desks, stock, equipment and files move with it. If the premises trades, stores, treats, makes or works, moving it is commercial work, and it is planned around the buildings and the working week rather than around the van.
It takes four shapes. A whole premises move, one address to another. One department or one floor moving while the rest of the business stays put. An internal move inside a single building, floor to floor. And a business load into or out of storage, usually between leases. Most business moves combine two of them.
Three kinds of business move have their own pages, because each has its own depth. An office move in depth, with desk counts and floor plans, is office relocations. Where the IT itself is the job, servers, comms rooms and sequencing, see IT equipment moves. And stock, racking and industrial premises belong to warehouse moves. This page covers the ground all of them share: what it costs, how it is bought, and how the buildings decide the programme.
Two price bases, stated plainly. Jobs that fit the hourly model are priced on the published card below. Everything larger is priced as an itemised written quote, built from a survey or a detailed inventory and itemised by line: crew time at the same published card, packing and materials, out-of-hours or phased working, any storage gap, and any road charges. Our office move calculator gives a first volume estimate, and our guide to how much removals cost covers the wider picture.
| Commercial job | Crew | Typical time | Typical total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Internal move: one department, floor to floor in the same building | 2 Men | 2 to 3 hours | £170 to £255 |
| A few desks and equipment to a nearby office (up to about 5 desks) | 2 Men | 4 to 6 hours | £340 to £510 |
| Small office move, about 6 to 10 desks, one long day | 3 Men | 6 to 8 hours | £600 to £800 |
| Shop or retail unit contents, stock and fixtures | 2 Men | 3 to 5 hours | £255 to £425 |
| A business load into storage (or back out of it) | Driver Help | 2 hours (minimum) | £140 |
| Weekend office move, about 10 to 15 desks, one long day | 3 Men | 8 to 10 hours | £800 to £1,000 |
Typical totals from our published hourly card (Driver Help £70, 2 Men £85, 3 Men £100 per hour, 2-hour minimum), checked October 2026. Jobs beyond this scale are priced as itemised written quotes after a survey or inventory; the crew lines in those quotes are built from the same card. Your written quote confirms the total for your job before you book.
Add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs. 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.
Packing, where booked, is crew time at the booked crew’s rate, plus materials at the card (boxes £5 each, protective wrap £15, tape £10 per roll). Our packing services and the packing materials calculator cover the detail.
Six things decide where a larger job’s written quote lands. Each one is something you can act on before the survey, not just something that happens to you.
The number of workstations, monitors, phones and printers sets the packing, the labelling and the crew size. A 12-desk office and a 120-desk floor are priced from the same list; the quantities are what change. Walk the premises before the survey and mark what is not coming: a declutter first is the cheapest line you will ever take off a quote.
Goods lifts, loading bays and out-of-hours-only buildings shape the whole programme. If a building allows a four-hour loading window, the crew and vehicles are planned around four hours, not a full day. The earlier both buildings’ rules are on the table, the fewer surprises the quote has to price.
Most London offices move between Friday evening and Monday morning so staff lose no working time. Concentrating the move into that window takes more crew in parallel than spreading it over weekdays. If your lease allows any flexibility on the window, tell us: an evening start or a split weekend can take real pressure off the plan.
Who disconnects, transports, reconnects and tests each system changes both price and risk. Servers and comms cabinets are sequenced, never just unplugged. Decide the IT responsibilities early, device by device: it is the decision that most changes both the quote and the first morning back.
Leases usually require the old space returned empty. Moving surplus furniture and old IT out, to your other premises, into storage or to a named recipient, is quoted as its own lines so the handback deadline is not left to chance. Agree those lines at quote stage, not in handback week, when every option costs more.
When the new lease starts after the old one ends, furniture and files may need days or weeks of storage in between. Say so at quote stage: the storage runs are priced with the move, and the load is packed in the order the new premises will need it back.
Insurance is as stated in your written quote: ask us to confirm in writing.
Six shapes cover most commercial moves in London. Each is quoted from what is actually moving, not from a category guess.
Small offices from the card; larger floors as written quotes
Desks, chairs, files and IT, moved to a plan and placed to the new floor layout. A handful of desks prices straight from the hourly card; a whole floor is surveyed and quoted line by line.
Office relocations in depthStock, fixtures and fittings, around trading hours
Stock boxed and moved in trading order, fixtures and fittings dismantled and carried, and the work timed for evenings or closed days so the shop loses as little trading time as possible.
Shop and retail movesStock, racking and heavy items
Racking sections, palletised stock, benches and machinery, moved bay by bay or in phases so part of the operation keeps running while the rest moves.
Warehouse movesPriced from the card, by the hour
Floor to floor or department to department inside one building: expansions, contractions and refurbishments handled in stages, without a change of address. The same 2-hour minimum applies.
Fitted equipment and opening hours
Treatment-room and waiting-room furniture, café counters and kitchen kit, studio equipment and stock: fitted premises moved around appointment books and opening hours, with the heavy and awkward pieces planned first.
Transport to a facility arranged in your name
A load into storage between leases, or back out when the new premises are ready. The unit is arranged by you in your business name; we handle the transport and stack the load properly at the unit.
Business storageThe first fear in a business move is not the price. It is a Monday morning that does not work. These are the three patterns that prevent it.
Out on Friday evening, set up by Monday morning: the pattern most London offices choose. It works when the programme is tied to both buildings’ permissions and booked slots from the start. We state it as a pattern to plan for, never as an unconditional promise: whether one weekend is enough depends on the size of the move and the buildings, and the quote says so.
For businesses that cannot close at all: department by department or floor by floor, critical kit moved first or last by agreement, the rest of the business trading around the move. The agreed sequence is written into the quote, so every team knows which day is theirs.
Retail and hospitality trade in the day, so their moves run before opening or after closing: stock and fixtures moved in the quiet hours, the shop ready to open as usual. The same pattern suits clinics working to an appointment book.
In managed buildings, the goods lift, the loading bay and the service yard are booked through building management, often only outside business hours, and driver and vehicle details may have to be lodged in advance. The customer usually makes the building bookings, because their facilities team holds the relationship; we supply the vehicle, crew and timing details the building asks for, and the agreed arrangements are written into the quote. Where a building will not release a slot, the move window moves: we would rather say that here than promise around it.
Where the van must stand on a residents’ bay, a meter bay or yellow lines beyond the loading allowance, a borough suspension or dispensation is needed. Westminster asks for 10 working days’ notice, with a £20 short-notice fee, and Day 1 at £51 in Zones A, C and D or £55 in Zones B, E, F and G, per 5 metre space; a Luton needs about two spaces. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea asks for 10 working days for permit bays and 2 days for pay-by-phone bays, at £82 per space per day for days 1 to 5. Who applies and pays is stated in the written quote.
The Congestion Charge is £18 per day from 2 January 2026 (£21 if paid by the third day), charged 07:00 to 18:00 Monday to Friday and 12:00 to 18:00 at weekends and on bank holidays. A move finished on a Saturday morning, a Sunday before noon or a weekday evening after 18:00 falls outside the charging hours, which is one more reason the out-of-hours pattern suits commercial work. ULEZ is £12.50 per day, payable only by vehicles that do not meet the standard, operating 24 hours a day across all boroughs except Christmas Day. Any road charges that apply to your job are confirmed in your written quote before you book.
Building bookings, goods lift, loading bay, service yard and estate security, are usually made by you or your facilities team, with our vehicle, crew and timing details supplied for the booking. Suspensions are applied for as stated in the written quote. Everything agreed is written into the quote, so the day runs on bookings that already exist.
Staff do not travel in the van: the cab seats are for the crew. We agree the arrival order and a named contact at both ends when you book, so your team, the keys and the load arrive in the right sequence and nobody waits in a corridor.
Hardware is wrapped and moved with care, and sequenced: the systems the business needs first travel last and are placed first. What we do not do is blur the technical line. Disconnection, reconnection and testing are agreed device by device in the written quote, and the honest position is that most customers have their own IT provider handle live systems while we move the hardware. Nothing about that is left vague, because the first morning back depends on it.
Files and records move in sealed, labelled containers, loaded and unloaded against your own list, so a box that leaves a cabinet at the old office can be found in the right room at the new one. If records need a dedicated run or a specific sequence, that is agreed at quote stage.
Where the equipment is the job, servers and comms rooms, asset lists and disconnection responsibilities, that depth lives on our IT equipment moves page.
Leases usually require the old space returned empty, and the handback deadline does not move because a move ran long. Surplus furniture and old equipment are therefore planned as their own line in the quote, agreed at survey stage, so the deadline is not left to chance in the final week.
What we can do with the things you are not taking: move them to a person, a charity or storage you name, as a line in the quote. What we cannot do is disposal. We are a removals service, not a licensed waste carrier, so we do not take items away for disposal and cannot take loads to the tip. For disposal, the council’s bulky waste collection or a registered waste carrier is the legal route, any carrier can be checked free on the Environment Agency public register, and the duty of care stays with the business.
Contents that are neither moving nor being stored still have to go somewhere lawful: a person, a charity or storage you name receives them on the moving side, and anything being disposed of follows the council or registered carrier route above.
Five steps, in the order they actually happen. Our planning guide for warehouse and commercial moves walks through the preparation in more detail.
In person for larger premises, or from your lists, counts and photos for smaller ones. Desk and IT counts, access at both ends and both buildings’ rules are established before anything is priced.
Crew, timing, building bookings and responsibilities stated line by line, valid 7 days. No deposit to book. You can see what you are paying for and drop or change a line before you commit.
Building bookings confirmed, packing and labelling done by us or by your team as agreed, and IT responsibilities confirmed per device. The agreed sequence is written down, not left to the day.
Run in the agreed window: out of hours, over a weekend, or phased department by department while the business keeps trading. The crew loads, carries and places to the plan at both premises.
Furniture and equipment placed to the plan at the new premises, a walk-round against the agreed scope, and the old premises left as the handback requires. Payment is at the time of service.
| Point of comparison | The typical way | With Vano Removals |
|---|---|---|
| The quote | A verbal estimate, or a project price that appears after a survey with its basis unstated | Small jobs priced from a published hourly card; larger jobs as an itemised written quote you can check line by line before you commit |
| Deposit | A deposit or staged payments are common on commercial projects | No deposit to book |
| Cancellation | Windows vary; project contracts often tie cancellation to the programme | Free cancellation up to 24 hours before |
| Out-of-hours working | Frequently priced at a premium (guides put weekend working at roughly 15 to 25 percent more), or unavailable at the small end | Evenings, weekends and phased working agreed in the written quote, priced from the same published card |
| Who carries and places | Varies: at the cheap end the customer’s own staff end up carrying | Our crew loads, carries and places at both premises, to the agreed plan |
| The building work | Often left to the customer to discover: lift bookings, bay bookings, paperwork | Building bookings and access are worked through at quote stage and written into the plan |
Based on the published prices, terms and guides of London commercial and office removals firms, checked October 2026. The full four-way comparison of every way of moving is on our compare page.
We quote commercial work across London, from the commercial districts covered above to ordinary business addresses: the office above a shop, the workshop on an industrial estate, the clinic on a high street. Every quote is built from both postcodes, because the buildings at both ends decide how the move runs.
Moves out of London are quoted individually, on the same itemised basis. Send both postcodes with the enquiry and the quote will say plainly whether and how the job would run.
The questions businesses ask before they book, cost first. If you do not see yours, call us.
Published rates for small jobs, an itemised written quote for larger ones, and no deposit. Send both postcodes and the desk count to start.
07459 180023It depends which of the two price bases your job fits. Small jobs are priced on our published hourly card: Driver Help £70 per hour, 2 Men £85, 3 Men £100, with a 2-hour minimum. A few desks over 4 to 6 hours with 2 Men runs £340 to £510 of crew time; an internal department move is typically £170 to £255. Larger jobs are priced as itemised written quotes after a survey or inventory, with the crew lines built from the same card. Stairs add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs. No deposit, and the written quote confirms the total before you book.
From a survey, in person for larger premises, or a detailed inventory of lists, counts and photos. Access at both premises and both buildings’ rules are established first. The quote then itemises its lines: crew time at the published card, packing and materials, out-of-hours or phased working, any storage runs, and any road charges, so you can check each line and drop or change one before committing. Quotes are valid for 7 days, and there is no deposit to book.
Yes. Out on Friday evening and set up by Monday morning is the pattern most London offices choose. Whether one weekend is enough depends on the size of the move, both buildings’ permissions and booked lift and loading-bay slots, and the IT scope. Book early: the building slots go before crew availability does.
Yes, with a phased move: department by department or floor by floor, with critical kit moved first or last by agreement, and the sequence written into the quote. Businesses that trade in the day often use evenings and early mornings instead. Either way the programme is agreed before the day, not improvised during it.
Small jobs can often be booked days ahead. The binding constraints are building slots and council suspensions, which can ask for up to 10 working days, so a larger or weekend move needs more lead time. Weekend slots are the first to go, so ask with your date even if the details are still being settled.
Building facilities are usually booked by you or your facilities team, because you hold the relationship with building management; we supply the vehicle, crew and timing details the building asks for. Parking suspensions are applied for as stated in the written quote. The arrangements are confirmed before the day, not discovered on it.
We wrap, move and place the hardware with care, sequenced so the systems you need first travel last and are placed first. Disconnection, reconnection and testing are agreed device by device in the written quote, and most customers have their own IT provider handle live systems while we move the hardware. Our IT equipment moves page covers equipment-led jobs in depth.
In sealed, labelled containers, loaded and unloaded against your own list. Tell us at quote stage if records need a dedicated run or a specific sequence, and it is planned that way. We claim no compliance certifications; the handling is practical: sealed, labelled, sequenced and checked against your list at both ends.
We do not hire out crates. Packing is available as a service, charged as crew time at the booked crew’s rate plus materials at the card (boxes £5 each, protective wrap £15, tape £10 per roll). If your building or your IT setup specifies crates, crate hire is widely available in London, and we will pack into crates you have hired and work to their delivery and collection dates.
Unwanted items can be moved to a person, a charity or storage you name, as a line in the quote, which is often what a lease handback needs. Disposal itself is different: we are a removals service, not a licensed waste carrier, so we do not take items away for disposal and cannot take loads to the tip. For disposal, the council’s bulky waste collection or a registered waste carrier is the legal route, any carrier can be checked free on the Environment Agency public register, and the duty of care stays with the business.
Yes, as transport: we move the load into a facility you arrange in your own business name, and back out when the new premises are ready. We do not run a storage facility or set storage prices. Our business storage and storage solutions pages explain how the two halves of that arrangement work.
No. The cab seats are for the crew, so staff travel separately. When you book, we agree the arrival order and a named contact at both ends, so your team and the load arrive in the right sequence.
The Congestion Charge is £18 per day from 2 January 2026, charged in set hours, and ULEZ is £12.50 per day, payable only by vehicles that do not meet the standard. Any road charges that apply to your job are confirmed in your written quote before you book. Out-of-hours timing often falls outside Congestion Charge hours altogether, which is one more reason the weekend pattern suits commercial work.
Insurance is as stated in your written quote: ask us to confirm in writing.
Yes. Internal moves and restacks, floor to floor or department to department, are priced from the published card by the hour, with the same 2-hour minimum. It is a common way to handle expansions, contractions and refurbishments in phases, without a change of address.
Send both postcodes, what is moving (desk and item counts are the useful measure), access and building rules at both ends, and your preferred window. Larger jobs get a survey before the quote. No deposit; free cancellation up to 24 hours before the move; quotes valid 7 days; payment at the time of service.
Content updated October 2026. Official sources: TfL, for the Congestion Charge and ULEZ rules and charges; Westminster City Council and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, for the parking suspension fees and notice periods.
Send both postcodes, the desk and item counts, and your preferred window. Small jobs price straight from the card; larger jobs get a survey and an itemised written quote. No deposit, and free cancellation up to 24 hours before the move.
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