Assembly is the skilled hour inside removals work, and a bookable visit of its own. Booked into a move, we dismantle and rebuild your beds, wardrobes and tables. Booked on its own, a crew comes to your address and builds the flat-pack you have bought, from £170 on a published hourly card.
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Furniture assembly with us works two ways. Inside a move, dismantling and reassembly are booked as part of the job and priced inside the move’s crew time. As its own visit, a crew assembles flat-pack and furniture you have bought, at your address, on the published card: Driver Help £70 per hour, 2 Men £85, 3 Men £100, 2-hour minimum. A wardrobe is £170 at the minimum; a bed, wardrobe and drawers set is usually £255; a whole flat-pack room usually £340. The total is confirmed in a written quote before you book. No deposit; free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
Real totals for the assembly jobs people actually book, worked from the published card. The furniture itself moving between addresses is furniture removals.
| Assembly job | Crew | Typical time | Typical total |
|---|---|---|---|
| One three-door wardrobe, built and levelled | 2 Men | 2 hours (minimum) | £170 |
| One flat-pack double bed frame | 2 Men | 2 hours (minimum) | £170 |
| Bed, wardrobe and chest of drawers: a bedroom set | 2 Men | 3 hours | £255 |
| A whole flat-pack room: bed, wardrobe, drawers and desk | 2 Men | 4 hours | £340 |
| Small pieces (desk, bookcase) with you lending a hand | Driver Help | 2 hours (minimum) | £140 |
| Wardrobe and bed dismantled and rebuilt inside a move | 2 Men (the move crew) | About 1 extra hour of the move | £85 of the move’s time |
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 list before you book. Included beside every price: the crew’s tools, the manufacturer’s fixings used as designed, packs checked against the parts list with you, pieces positioned and levelled, and packaging left neat for your recycling. Assembly inside a move is not a second charge: it is crew time inside the move’s own hours, allowed for in the move’s written quote when you tell us which pieces need it.
Assembly is not a trade we sell in isolation, and this page does not pretend otherwise. It is the skilled add-on inside removals work, done by the same crew that carries the furniture, plus a bookable visit for the furniture you have bought and have not yet built. Two ways in, one card, one standard of work:
When you book a house removal or furniture removal, dismantling and reassembly are part of the job where booked: wardrobes, beds and tables are taken apart so they travel safely and pass through doors, fixings are bagged and kept with the piece, and everything is rebuilt in the right room at the other end. It is in our published terms, and the time sits inside the move’s crew hours, in the move’s written quote.
Tell us which pieces need it when you ask for the move quote. A wardrobe and bed set typically add about an hour of crew time to a move; a house full of flat-pack adds more, and it is better in the quote than discovered on the day.
Bought the furniture and facing the boxes? A crew comes to your address and assembles the flat-pack and furniture you have bought: flat-pack from any retailer, high-street and online ranges, second-hand pieces that need rebuilding. We name them generically because that is the honest position: we are not any retailer’s assembly partner, and nobody endorses us. You buy it; we build it.
The visit is priced on the same hourly card as everything else we do, with the same 2-hour minimum and the same written quote first. Send product names or instruction links, and the time is quoted from the actual pieces.
Six situations cover most assembly bookings in London. Each is quoted from your list of pieces, not from a guess.
Usually 2 Men, about 4 hours, £340
The delivery landed on Tuesday and the boxes are still stacked against the wall: bed, wardrobe, drawers, desk. One visit works through the pile in the order the room needs it, and the room is usable the same evening.
Usually 2 Men, 2 hours, £170
A three-door wardrobe is the piece households most often abandon halfway: tall panels, two pairs of hands needed just to stand it up safely, and a page of cam locks. We build it, level it, and fix it to the wall where you confirm the wall type.
Part of the move’s crew time
Beds, wardrobes and tables taken apart at the old address so they travel safely, fixings bagged and kept with each piece, then rebuilt in the right rooms at the new one. Booked as part of the move, not bolted on at the door.
Usually 2 Men, 2 to 3 hours
Ottoman and divan bases, bunk beds, cabin beds and the slatted frames that never sit level on the first attempt. Heavy lids and sprung mechanisms are two-person work, and the room is left ready to sleep in.
Driver Help or 2 Men, 2 hours
Corner desks, drawer units and bookcases for the room that has to work on Monday. Cable tidies and monitor stands are furniture and we build them; wiring itself is yours or your electrician’s, and we say so below.
Priced from your list, one visit
A new tenancy or a refurnished rental: bedroom first so someone can sleep, then the living room, then the rest. The list is worked in the order you set, and the quote covers the whole visit in writing.
Assembly runs on the clock, so the cheapest preparation is yours. Have the packs in the room the furniture will live in, opened or unopened as you prefer: we open them with you and check the contents against the parts list either way. Keep the instruction booklet with the pack; if it is missing, the product name gets us the same booklet online in most cases. Clear enough floor space to lay a wardrobe flat: roughly the piece’s own footprint, plus a person’s width around it. That is all. Tools are ours, fixings are the pack’s.
And one safety point, stated plainly: wardrobes and anything tall are two-person work. A three-door carcass has to be held square and stood upright while it is fixed, and that cannot be done safely with one pair of hands. It is why assembly is quoted as a 2 Men visit, and why the lone-assembler price elsewhere is not one we will match by sending one person to do a two-person lift.
About 1.5 to 2.5 hours
Two people throughout: panels are held square and upright while they are fixed, and the carcass is levelled before the doors hang.
About 45 to 90 minutes
Slatted bases and ottoman mechanisms sit at the top of the range; a simple slatted frame at the bottom.
About 45 to 75 minutes
Carcass first, then runners aligned drawer by drawer so nothing sticks by Friday.
About 45 to 60 minutes
Corner and sit-stand frames take longer than a straight desk; drawer pedestals add their own time.
About 30 to 45 minutes
Plus wall fixing where you confirm the wall type and consent to it.
About 30 to 45 minutes
Legs and leaves; extending mechanisms are checked open and closed before we leave.
The boundaries are part of the service. Knowing what a visit does not cover, before you book, is worth more than a long list of what it does.
We assemble furniture, including kitchen-style flat-pack carcasses standing alone. Fitting a kitchen (units fixed to walls and worktops, plumbing, electrics, gas) is a separate trade with its own qualifications, and it is not in an assembly visit.
A TV stand or media unit, built gladly. Drilling the television itself onto the wall as an AV installation is not something we sell, and we will not dress it up as part of the visit.
Nothing in an assembly visit connects water, waste or mains electricity. If a piece needs a wired feed or a plumbed connection, that part belongs to your plumber or electrician, before or after we build the furniture around it.
Tall wardrobes and bookcases often should be secured with the anti-tip straps supplied. We fix them where you confirm the wall type (plasterboard, brick or stud) and consent to the drilling. Unknown wall, or no consent: the piece is positioned, the straps are handed to you, and we tell you plainly what it needs.
Missing parts get the same plain treatment. The fixings a piece is built with are the ones in the manufacturer’s pack. If the pack is short (it happens, usually one bag of cams or a hinge plate), we tell you at the check, you order the part from the retailer, and the pieces that are complete still get built in the same visit. What we will not do is fabricate a fixing or force a near-enough part into a joint it was not made for: the piece would carry the weakness for years, and you would find it at the worst moment.
Flat-pack produces a small mountain of cardboard, film and polystyrene, and our position on it is short: we leave the packaging neat and tidy at your property, stacked in one place, and it goes out with your own household recycling. We do not remove it and we do not recycle it for you.
One practical reason to keep it a few days even so: if a piece turns out to be wrong, damaged in a way nobody saw at the check, or simply not what you ordered, a return is far easier in its own packaging. Keep it until you are sure you are keeping the item, then recycle it with the household collection.
New furniture usually means old furniture going somewhere. That side follows the same four destinations as every furniture job we run, and it is transport we can book alongside the assembly visit or inside the move the new pieces are part of:
Pieces carried to your new address or another room, like any other furniture job.
Delivery to a charity you name, if it accepts them. Upholstered pieces need their fire label intact for a charity to resell them.
Pieces held back while you decide: left in place, or carried to a storage unit you have booked.
Council bulky collection or a registered carrier you appoint. We are not a licensed waste carrier, so disposal is never part of our visit.
The fire-label point is worth checking before a donation run is planned: charities can only resell upholstered furniture (sofas, armchairs, padded chairs) if its fire label is intact. No label usually means the charity cannot accept the piece, however good it looks, and it belongs to the disposal route instead.
Four steps, planned from your list of pieces rather than from hope.
Product names or links to the instructions, the room each piece goes in, and whether the visit stands alone or sits inside a move. Booklets and boxes stay as they are until we arrive.
The quote comes back in writing with the crew, the time the list should take and the total. It is valid for 7 days, and booking takes no deposit.
Packs are opened with you and checked against the parts list first, so a short pack is found in the first ten minutes, not the last. Pieces are built in the order the room needs them and positioned as they are finished.
Doors and drawers are opened and closed with you, tall pieces are checked for level, and the packaging is stacked neatly in one place for your recycling. Payment is at the time of service.
| Point of comparison | The typical way | With Vano Removals |
|---|---|---|
| The price | Per-item assembly fees that quietly assume one person and ideal conditions, or a handyman’s day rate for a two-hour list | A published hourly card, a 2-hour minimum stated with the price, a two-person crew where the piece needs one, and a worked total in writing |
| The crew | One assembler, whoever the platform sends, working alone on pieces designed for two | The removals crew who build furniture every week, two pairs of hands on wardrobes and anything tall, as a matter of safety |
| Inside a move | Dismantling refused, or charged as a surprise extra when the wardrobe will not fit through the door | Dismantling and reassembly booked as part of the move and sitting inside the move’s crew time, in the written quote |
| Missing parts | Discovered an hour in, with the visit written off and the half-built piece left standing | Packs checked against the parts list with you in the first ten minutes; complete pieces still built; nothing fabricated to fill a gap |
| The packaging | Left where it fell, or taken away with nothing said about where it goes | Left neat and tidy in one place for your own household recycling, with the returns point made before we leave |
| Deposit and cancellation | Upfront payment through an app before anyone has seen the list | No deposit to book; free cancellation up to 24 hours before; payment at the time of service |
Based on the published prices and terms of retailer assembly offers and task-platform handyman services in London, 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. Assembly timings are our own crew’s working estimates for the pieces listed. Waste carrier status can be checked on the Environment Agency public register. Retailer parts, returns and instruction booklets remain each retailer’s own arrangements.
Send your list of pieces, product names or instruction links, the rooms they go in, and whether the visit stands alone or sits inside a move. 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 visit.
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Published rates, a written quote, and no deposit. The fastest way to price an assembly list is to send the pieces and their product names.
07459 180023Assembly is priced as crew time 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. A wardrobe assembled by 2 Men is £170 at the minimum. A bed, wardrobe and chest of drawers set is usually £255 over about 3 hours, and a whole flat-pack room is usually £340 over about 4 hours. Small pieces can be Driver Help at £140 for the minimum. Your written quote confirms the total before you book, and there is no deposit.
Both, and they are priced the same honest way. Inside a move, dismantling and reassembly are booked as part of the job: beds, wardrobes and tables are taken apart so they travel safely and rebuilt in the right rooms at the new address, and that time is simply part of the move’s crew hours, allowed for in the move’s written quote. As its own visit, a crew comes to your address to assemble flat-pack and furniture you have bought, priced on the same hourly card with the same 2-hour minimum.
Flat-pack and self-assembly furniture from any retailer: the big flat-pack ranges, high-street and online furniture stores, and supermarket home ranges. We are a removals firm, not an agent or partner of any retailer, and no retailer endorses or books us: you buy the furniture, we build it. Send the product name or a link to the instructions when you enquire, so the time and crew are quoted from the actual piece rather than a guess.
No. The crew brings the standard tools for flat-pack work. The fixings are the ones in the manufacturer’s pack: cams, dowels, screws and brackets supplied with the furniture are what the piece is designed to be built with, and those are what we use. If a product needs a specific fitting that is not in the pack, tell us when you book and we will confirm whether it is something standard we carry or something to order with the furniture.
We open the packs with you at the start of the visit and check the contents against the parts list in the instructions. If the pack is short, or a panel is damaged, we will tell you straight away rather than improvise: we do not fabricate fixings or force a substitute part into a piece it was not made for. The usual route is that you order the missing part from the retailer, and any pieces that are complete can still be built in the same visit. A return visit to finish the piece is a new booking on the same card.
No. We leave the packaging neat and tidy at your property, and it goes out with your own household recycling. If you might return an item, keep its packaging until you are sure you are keeping it.
Where you confirm the wall type and give consent, yes: tall wardrobes and bookcases often should be secured with the anti-tip straps supplied, and fixing them is part of doing the job safely. Tell us what the wall is (plasterboard, brick, stud) when you book. Where the wall type is unknown or you would rather not have holes drilled, we will leave the piece positioned, hand you the straps, and tell you plainly what it needs. The boundary: we assemble furniture. We do not fit kitchens, mount televisions as an AV service, plumb or wire anything.
Realistic timings for two people working steadily: a three-door wardrobe about 1.5 to 2.5 hours; a double bed frame about 45 to 90 minutes; a chest of drawers about 45 to 75 minutes; a desk about 45 to 60 minutes; a bookcase about 30 to 45 minutes; a dining table about 30 to 45 minutes. Wardrobes and anything tall are two-person work for safety: panels have to be held square and upright while they are fixed, and that is why assembly is quoted as a 2 Men visit rather than one pair of hands.
Yes. That is where this page began: dismantling and reassembly, booked as part of a house removal or furniture removal. Beds, wardrobes, dining tables and flat-pack pieces are taken apart so they pass through doors and travel safely, fixings are bagged and kept with the piece, and everything is rebuilt in the right room at the other end. Tell us which pieces need it when you ask for the move quote, so the time is in the total rather than added on the day.
It follows the same four destinations as any furniture job. Pieces you are keeping are carried to another address or into a storage unit you have booked. Pieces in good condition can be delivered to a charity you name, if it accepts them: upholstered furniture needs its fire label intact for a charity to resell it. Anything for disposal goes through your council’s bulky item collection or a registered waste carrier you appoint. We are a removals firm, not a licensed waste carrier, so disposal itself is never part of an assembly visit.
Insurance is as stated in your written quote: ask us to confirm in writing.
Ask for a quote with your postcode, the list of pieces (product names or instruction links help), the room they are going in, and whether the visit stands alone or sits inside a move. The quote comes back in writing and is valid for 7 days. There is no deposit to book. Changing your date is free up to 24 hours before the visit; inside 24 hours, a cancellation charge of up to 25 percent of the quoted price applies. Payment is at the time of service.
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