In a flat, the building decides how the move goes: the lift, the booking, the concierge, the window, the parking. This page is about all of that, handled properly. From £170 on the published hourly card.
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Flat moves are priced from the published card of Driver Help £70 per hour, 2 Men £85 and 3 Men £100, with a 2-hour minimum, so most flat moves run from £170 to about £500 depending on the building. The building facts drive the total: floor, lift, the booked goods-lift slot, the moving window and parking. Send those with your enquiry and the written quote prices the move you actually have. No deposit, free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
Worked illustrations from the published card, organised by access rather than size, because access is what moves the number. For the volume side of your move, read the size page that matches your flat: studio, 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom and up.
| Flat move | Crew | Typical time | Typical total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio or 1-bedroom flat, goods lift booked, loading bay | 2 Men | 2 to 3 hours | £170 to £255 |
| 2-bedroom flat in a new-build, goods-lift slot, short carry | 2 Men | 3 to 4 hours | £255 to £340 |
| 2-bedroom mansion block flat, porter, stairs for the big pieces | 2 Men | 4 hours | £340 |
| 3-bedroom flat, long corridor, lift at the far end | 3 Men | 5 hours | £500 |
Illustrations, worked from our published hourly card (Driver Help £70, 2 Men £85, 3 Men £100 per hour, 2-hour minimum), checked October 2026. Your written quote confirms the total for your buildings before you book. Included beside every price: loading, unloading and carrying at both ends, blankets and straps, dismantling and reassembly where booked, fuel and mileage within London, and placement room by room. Add £5 per floor where a carry is by stairs; lift-served floors are not charged.
Two identical flats can be completely different moves. One sits behind a concierge with a goods lift booked for the morning and a loading bay outside the door. The other is up four flights of a converted house, with a hallway shared by three other households and parking two streets away. The contents are the same. The day is not. That is why this page exists separately from the size pages: they price the volume; this one prices the building.
The good news is that buildings are knowable in advance. Every rule that can stop a flat move, the lift that was never booked, the window nobody read, the loading bay that turns out to be camera-enforced, is written down somewhere before the day: in the welcome pack, the lease, the concierge’s notice board, the management company’s moving form. The job of this page is to get those facts into your quote, so the move runs inside the building’s rules instead of against them.
Most London flats fall into one of these four. Each has its own access logic, and its own way of punishing a crew that did not ask first.
Goods lift, concierge, strict windows
The most rule-bound buildings in London: a goods lift booked for a timed slot, a move-in form and deposit lodged with the management company, a loading bay with its own time limit, and a concierge who enforces all of it. Handled properly, they are the smoothest moves in the city; unbooked, they are the ones that stop at the desk.
Porters, small lifts, generous stairs
Edwardian and interwar blocks with a porter, a lift built for people rather than sofas, communal gardens and house rules that often ban Sunday moves. The porter is the first call: his goodwill and his notice period shape the day more than the floor plan does.
No lift, narrow stairs, street parking
Victorian and Georgian houses split into flats: no lift at all, stairs that turn tightly, hallways shared with neighbours who still live there, and parking on the street under the borough’s rules. The work here is staircraft, neighbour courtesy, and a suspension booked in time.
Big lofts, freight doors, awkward goods access
Loft-style flats in converted industrial buildings: oversized rooms and furniture, service entrances around the back, freight lifts on some floors and long carries on others. The pieces are bigger than standard flats, so the route out matters as much as the route in.
Buildings release lift bookings to residents, not to removal firms, so the booking is yours to make: the date, our company name, sometimes a form and a refundable deposit. What we do with it is the planning: the load order is built around your slot, so the sofa, the wardrobes and the white goods ride while the lift is held, and the boxes, which can wait for the passenger lift or the stairs, fill the gaps. Book the slot as early as the building allows; popular Saturday slots go first.
Move-in and move-out windows are the rule that catches people out: weekday-only moves, no moves after a set hour, notice periods measured in weeks, a named contact who must be told. None of it is unreasonable, and all of it is avoidable as a problem: ask for the building’s moving rules the day you set your date, and send them to us with the enquiry. We work inside the window the building gives, and the quote says so.
The hall, the stairwell and the lift belong to everyone in the building, and the management company’s deposit is held against their condition. Furniture is wrapped before it travels the communal route, corners and doorways get care rather than speed, and nothing is dragged. Where a building specifies floor protection or lift padding as a condition of its moving window, tell us in advance and we arrive with the materials the rule asks for.
The options, in order: the development’s loading bay, a visitor bay by arrangement with the concierge, or the street outside, which may need a parking suspension from the borough (notice periods run from 2 to 10 working days depending on the borough, and the fee lands in your written quote). What does not work is arriving and seeing: camera-enforced private roads issue tickets to waiting vans as a matter of routine.
Six facts turn a flat-move quote from a guess into a plan. Most are one call to the concierge or one page of the welcome pack away.
Do not have them yet? Send the enquiry anyway and tell us what is still unknown; the quote will name what it assumes, and the facts can be confirmed as the building answers. What stalls moves is discovering the rules on the day. Long carries deserve the same honesty: if the van stops 100 metres from your door, say so, and the estimate covers the real route. Our guide to parking for removals in London covers the street side of the same problem.
This page prices the building. These pages price what is inside it: volumes, Luton loads, packing quantities and worked totals by home size.
Four steps, with both buildings read before the day begins.
Two postcodes, your date, and the building facts for both ends: floors, lifts, slots, windows, parking. The quote is built from the buildings as much as from the contents.
The quote comes back with the crew, the hours, the access plan for each building and the total, valid for 7 days. Booking takes no deposit. You book the goods lifts in parallel, while the slots are still free.
The crew works to the building’s clock: big pieces on the booked lift slot, communal routes protected, concierge kept informed, and the loading finished inside the window.
Furniture lands in the right rooms at the new flat, booked furniture is rebuilt, and everything is checked off with you before we leave. Payment is at the time of service.
| Point of comparison | The typical way | With Vano Removals |
|---|---|---|
| The price | A flat-rate “per flat size” figure that assumes a lift, a short carry and a building with no rules | A published hourly card, and a written quote built from the building facts you send: floor, lift, slot, window, parking |
| The lift | Nobody books it; the crew and the concierge negotiate in the foyer while the clock runs | You book the slot (buildings release it to residents only), we plan the load order around it and work inside it |
| Communal areas | Speed first; scuffs in the hall become a deposit argument afterwards | Furniture wrapped before the communal route, doorways and lift interiors treated as part of the job |
| Deposit and cancellation | Deposit-taking is common, and cancellation terms vary widely | No deposit to book; free cancellation up to 24 hours before |
| The building’s clock | The crew arrives when it arrives; the moving window is discovered when it closes | The window is read at quote stage and the day is planned inside it, at both ends |
Based on the published prices and terms of London removals offers, checked October 2026. The full four-way comparison of every way of moving is on our compare page.
Content updated October 2026. Prices from our published hourly card, checked October 2026. Building rules, lift bookings and moving windows are set by each building’s management; parking suspension arrangements are your borough’s. Both are confirmed at quote stage and reflected in your written quote.
Send your two postcodes, your date, and the building facts for both ends: floors, lifts, the booked slot, the window, the parking. The quote comes back in writing with the crew, the hours, the access plan and the total. No deposit, and free cancellation up to 24 hours before the move.
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Common questions about flat and apartment moves, cost first. If you do not see yours, call us. We are happy to help.
Published rates, building facts read in advance, and no deposit. The fastest way to price a flat move is to send the building facts with the two postcodes.
07459 180023Flat moves are priced from the published card: Driver Help £70 per hour, 2 Men £85, 3 Men £100, with a 2-hour minimum. What drives the total is the building, not just the home: a lift-served studio or 1-bedroom flat is usually £170 to £255, a 2-bedroom mansion block move with stairs runs about £340, and a 3-bedroom flat with a long corridor can reach £500. Parking or a suspension at the building can add a council fee. Your written quote confirms the total for your buildings before you book.
Yes. High-rise and tall-block moves are a normal part of our week across London, from mansion blocks to new towers. The honest limits are the building’s, not the crew’s: if the lift is too small for a sofa, the choices are the stairs, a careful hoist arrangement where the building allows it, or the piece leaves via a different route. Tell us the floor, the lift size and the stairs, and the quote plans the route before the day, so nothing is decided in the foyer with a sofa on its end.
You, or your building contact, because buildings release lift bookings to residents only. Most developments ask for the moving date, our company name, and sometimes a certificate or a small damage deposit, and they hand out a timed slot. Book it as soon as your date is set, tell us the slot, and we plan the load order around it: the big pieces ride first while the lift is yours.
It varies by building: some concierges book the goods lift for a form returned the same week, others require a move-in or move-out notice, a moving form and a refundable deposit days or weeks ahead, and some only allow moves in set windows on weekdays. Ask the management company or concierge as soon as you have a date, and send us whatever they give you: the slot, the rules and the contact.
Yes. Furniture is wrapped before it travels, and communal routes are treated as part of the job: care at doorways and corners, lift interiors respected, and nothing dragged across a finished floor. Where a building requires specific floor protection or lift padding as a rule of its moving window, tell us in advance so we arrive with the right materials on the day.
Where the building allows: a loading bay where one exists, a visitor bay by arrangement, or the street outside, which may need a parking suspension from the borough. Developments increasingly enforce their own rules with cameras, so the parking plan is settled with the building before the day, and any council fee is confirmed in your written quote rather than landing as a surprise.
Then the stairs are the job, and they are planned, not endured. Add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs. The crew is sized for the climb (2 Men is the practical minimum for a full flat, 3 Men when the pieces are heavy), the order of pieces is sequenced so the hardest carries happen first, and the quote reflects the real time a stair carry takes.
It changes the time, and time is the price on an hourly card. Long internal corridors, a lift at the far end of the building, or a carry from a distant loading bay each add minutes to every trip, and a flat move is dozens of trips. Send the honest access picture with your enquiry and the estimate covers it; hiding the carry is the surest way to an overrun.
Our hours are Monday to Friday 7:00 to 20:00, Saturday 8:00 to 18:00 and Sunday 9:00 to 16:00. Buildings are the tighter constraint: many management companies ban Sunday moves, noisy works or lift bookings outside weekday windows entirely. Check the building’s rules before picking the day, and we will work the move inside whichever window the building allows.
This page covers the building. For the contents, the size pages carry the volumes, packing quantities and worked totals: studio flat removals for a one-room home, 1-bedroom removals for the first proper flat, then the 2-bedroom, 3-bedroom and 4-bedroom pages as homes grow. Enquire from either page: the quote reads both the contents and the building, and the total reflects both.
Insurance is as stated in your written quote: ask us to confirm in writing.
Send both postcodes, your date, and the building facts: floors, lifts, the booked lift slot, the parking arrangement and any management rules. The quote comes back in writing, valid for 7 days, with no deposit to book. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the move. Loading, unloading and carrying are included at both ends, and payment is at the time of service.
Moving somewhere specific? Send both postcodes and both buildings’ access facts with your quote request.
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