Halls, house shares and end-of-term moves, run on a published hourly card from £140. One room or a whole shared house, loaded inside your check-out window, with one van your housemates can split and a written quote before the day.
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A student move with us costs from £140: a single room in halls on the 2-hour minimum, on a published card of Driver Help £70 per hour, 2 Men £85 and 3 Men £100. A whole house share moving out together usually totals £255 to £340, split between housemates on one booking. No deposit, free cancellation up to 24 hours before, and the total confirmed in a written quote before you book.
Real totals for the moves students actually book, worked from the published card. Bigger homes are covered by our guide to how much removals cost.
| Student move | Crew | Typical time | Typical total |
|---|---|---|---|
| One room in halls, lift or ground floor, light boxes carried with the crew | Driver Help | 2 hours (minimum) | £140 |
| One room in halls, heavy bed and wardrobe, stairs at one end | 2 Men | 2 hours (minimum) | £170 |
| One room plus end-of-term extras: bike, mini fridge, a term’s worth of boxes | 2 Men | 2 to 3 hours | £170 to £255 |
| Halls to halls across the city, two check-in windows to hit | 2 Men | 2 to 3 hours | £170 to £255 |
| Whole house share moving out together, four rooms, one clock | 2 Men | 3 to 4 hours | £255 to £340 |
| House share with the full shared furniture: sofas, table, white goods | 3 Men | 3 to 4 hours | £300 to £400 |
| Summer storage, out in June: one room’s load to a unit you have booked | Driver Help | 2 hours (minimum) | £140 |
| Summer storage, back in September: unit to the new house share | Driver Help | 2 hours (minimum) | £140 |
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 job 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 in the right rooms. Add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs (a third-floor room with no lift adds £15 at that end): 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 rows price the transport only: the unit is rented by you, in your own name, and its rent is your own contract with the operator.
The load is small: one room, or one room each from a houseful of people. What makes a student move its own job is that the date is not yours to choose. A halls contract ends on a fixed morning, a tenancy ends on a fixed Friday, and the new place opens its doors on its own schedule, not yours. Everything on this page is built around that: the booking is planned backwards from your check-out window, not forwards from a convenient start.
The other difference is who is moving. A house share is not one customer but four or five, each with their own room, their own new address and their own view of what the split should be. We load room by room, keep each person’s things separate, and put one total on one written quote, so the money conversation happens once, in writing, before the day.
Where your move sits on the map of our services: one room with everything you live with is also a small removal, and a single item on its own is man and van. The card, the crew and the terms are the same on all three; this page exists because the dates, the buildings and the splitting are student problems, and they deserve student answers.
Six situations cover most student moves in London. Each is quoted from your list and your dates, not from a guess.
Usually Driver Help or 2 Men, 2 hours
Everything from one room: bed, desk, boxes, bike. Loaded inside your check-out window, with the key return and the lift booking (or the stairs) planned into the slot rather than discovered on the day.
Usually 2 Men, 2 to 3 hours
Out of one halls block and into another across the city, planned around two buildings’ windows: check-out and key return at one end, a check-in slot at the other, and the drive timed between them.
Usually 2 Men, 3 to 4 hours, split between you
The end-of-tenancy move most students actually face. Room by room, each person’s things labelled and kept separate, one clock for the whole house, delivered to one new address or to several on the same run.
Usually 2 Men, 2 to 3 hours
The last-week run: everything you are keeping goes to the new place, to a housemate’s, or into storage, in one planned trip instead of six bus rides with bags. Anything you are not keeping needs sorting by you before we arrive.
Two runs, each from £140 with Driver Help
Out in June to a unit you have booked in your own name, stacked properly with next term’s essentials near the door, and back in September to the new house. You hold the storage contract; we run the transport at both ends of the summer.
London runs on the card; further afield by written quote
A room’s worth of belongings run to the family home, or brought back up in September. London addresses price by the hour like any move; longer runs price on the distance, in a written quote.
The practical layer that decides how a student move actually goes: building rules, stairs, and the dates everyone in London seems to share.
Halls run move-out like an airport: an allocated slot, a lift to book or a staircase to share with two hundred other people, a key to hand back and a room to be inspected. Send us your slot when you ask for the quote and the crew is timed to it, arriving early enough to load inside the window rather than against it. The same applies in reverse at check-in, where the new building may want the van gone by a set hour.
Plenty of halls and most converted house shares have no lift, and the room is rarely on the ground floor. Stairs are priced, not feared: £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs, stated in the written quote, and lift-served floors are not charged. Tell us the floor at both ends and we will tell you honestly whether Driver Help is enough or whether the second pair of hands earns its money on your staircase.
Every halls contract and half the tenancies in London end on the same two weekends, so the last Friday and Saturday of term are the busiest days of the student year. Book two to three weeks ahead for those dates; the quote is valid for 7 days, and booking takes no deposit, so there is no reason to leave it. Our dedicated page on end-of-term moves covers the final week in detail.
A mid-term move, swapping halls in November, leaving a house share in February, is a quieter, easier job: buildings are calm, slots are free, and a few days’ notice is often enough. The summer is different again: it is storage season and the start-of-term run back, and September’s first weekends fill almost like June’s last ones. Tell us which kind of move yours is and it is planned accordingly.
Parking, briefly: halls loading bays and unrestricted streets need nothing, but if the van has to stand on a residents’ bay or yellow lines beyond the loading allowance, a borough suspension or dispensation is needed, and boroughs ask for 2 to 10 working days’ notice. Any road charges that apply to your job (the Congestion Charge is £18 per day from 2 January 2026) are confirmed in your written quote. Planning the end of term itself? Our end-of-term moves page walks through the last week.
The summer gap is the one part of student moving that is not really a move. Your tenancy ends in June, the new one starts in September, and you are going home in between. Your belongings need somewhere to sit for ten weeks, and that somewhere is a storage unit you book yourself, in your own name, with an operator you choose.
Our part is the transport, at both ends. In June we collect from your room or house share, load, and stack the unit properly: heavy things low, boxes squared away, and anything you will want first in September near the door. In September we run it back to the new address. Each run is charged on the hourly card, from £140 with Driver Help at the 2-hour minimum.
Why it works this way: the unit is your contract, so access is yours all summer, the rent and the terms are between you and the operator, and nothing of yours sits in anyone else’s hands. Work out the size you need with the storage calculator, and see our storage solutions page for how the two halves of that bill fit together.
One honest note on the pile that is not moving. The end of a tenancy produces things nobody is keeping: the broken bookcase, the mattress past saving, a year of accumulated clutter. We move belongings to a new address, into storage, or to a person or charity you name. We are a removals service, not a licensed waste carrier, so we do not take items away for disposal. For disposal, your 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 for the waste stays with the householder.
Four steps, planned backwards from the date your building wants you out.
Two postcodes, the day you have to be out, and a rough list: furniture, boxes, the bike, anything awkward. At the end of term the date matters as much as the list, so send both together.
The quote comes back in writing with the crew size, the time the job should take and the total. It is valid for 7 days, and booking takes no deposit.
The crew arrives inside your check-out or check-in window, loads in an order that suits the new place, and protects everything with blankets and straps on the way.
Everything is placed in the right rooms, beds and wardrobes rebuilt where booked, and the load checked off with you before we leave. Payment is at the time of service.
Almost everything a student owns. A typical room is a bed and mattress, a desk and chair, drawers or a small wardrobe, a bookcase, a bike, and 10 to 15 boxes or strong bags. That sits in the Luton with room to spare. A full house share, four or five rooms plus the shared sofa, table and kitchen extras, also travels in one load; it just takes longer at both ends, which is why the house totals run to 3 or 4 hours rather than 2.
The things that change the plan are not volume but weight and shape: a solid wardrobe that will not bend round a staircase, a sofa that came through a window, a fridge freezer shared by five people. Name them in the quote request and the crew, the time and the total all allow for them. If a load genuinely needs two runs, we will tell you from your list before the day, not at the doorstep with the meter running.
| Point of comparison | The typical way | With Vano Removals |
|---|---|---|
| The price | A “from” price or a day rate quoted for a job that takes two hours, with the minimum discovered later | A published hourly card, a 2-hour minimum stated with the price, and a worked total in writing before the day |
| Who carries | At the cheap end, you do: self-loading man and van rates mean the customer carries and the driver drives | Our crew loads, unloads and carries at every tier, including Driver Help |
| Splitting the cost | Each housemate books separately, or one person pays a driver in cash and chases the rest afterwards | One booking for the house, one clock, one written total, split however you agree between you |
| Summer storage | Bundled offers where your belongings are held by the mover, on their terms, with access arranged through them | Your own unit, in your own name, with your own access; we run the transport at both ends of the summer |
| Deposit and cancellation | A deposit to book is common, and cancellation windows vary widely at the budget end | No deposit to book; free cancellation up to 24 hours before |
| Term dates | A move booked like any other, arriving when it arrives, against a check-out slot that will not move | Booked backwards from your check-out or check-in window, with end-of-term dates treated as the peak they are |
Based on the published prices and terms of London man and van and student storage offers, checked October 2026. The full four-way comparison of every way of moving is on our compare page.
Bloomsbury, Mile End, South Kensington, the Strand, Greenwich: the halls clusters and the house-share streets around them are where student moves happen, and they are all in our working area. The list is the shape of it, not a limit.
Arriving from outside London for your first term? Our international students page covers moves from airports, hotels and family addresses into halls, and our university moves page covers the term cycle in full.
Every booking has one named contact: the person the quote is addressed to and the person we call on the day. In a house share that is usually whoever organised the move. It keeps the split simple: one total, in writing, divided between you however you agree.
A good share of student moves are paid for by a parent, and that needs no special arrangement: tell us who the booking contact is and whose name goes on the written quote, and payment is at the time of service, as with every booking. The quote lists the scope, the price basis and the total, so the person paying sees exactly what they are paying for.
Someone needs to be at each address to open up, hand over keys and check the load off with the crew. If that cannot be you at one end (an exam, a train to catch), name who it will be when you book and we will plan around them, including key handovers with halls reception or an outgoing housemate.
Content updated October 2026. Prices from our published hourly card, checked October 2026. The Congestion Charge figure is from Transport for London. Halls check-out arrangements, tenancy dates and storage unit terms are your own arrangements, confirmed with the provider and reflected in your written quote.
Send your two postcodes, the date you have to be out, and a rough list of what is moving. 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 your list and your dates.
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. A single room in halls on the minimum is £140 with Driver Help or £170 with 2 Men. A room with heavy furniture and stairs, or a halls to halls move, is usually £170 to £255. A whole house share moving out together is usually £255 to £340 in total, split between you. Stairs add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs. No deposit, and your written quote confirms the total before you book.
Yes, and it is how most shared houses move cheapest. One booking covers the house: we load room by room, each person’s things labelled and kept separate, and deliver to one new address or to several addresses on the same run. The clock runs once for the whole job, so a four-bedroom share moving together usually works out at £255 to £340 in total, split however you agree between you. Settle the split before the day and tell us who the booking contact is, so the written quote names one person and one total.
At the end of term, book two to three weeks ahead if you can. The last Friday and Saturday of term are the busiest days of the student year, because halls contracts and tenancies across London end on them. Mid-term moves and the start of term are quieter, and a few days’ notice is often enough. Short notice is sometimes possible; ask with your date. One thing cannot be hurried: if a parking suspension is needed at either address, the borough needs 2 to 10 working days to arrange it.
Book a storage unit in your own name with the operator you choose. We collect your belongings, load and stack them in the unit, and redeliver them to your new address at the start of next term. The transport runs are charged on the hourly card; the unit’s rent, access and terms stay between you and the operator. We do not hold belongings ourselves, so your things spend the summer in a unit under your own contract, with your own access.
Yes. Halls to halls is a standard student move, planned around both buildings: your check-out window and key return at the old halls, and your check-in slot at the new one. Tell us the floor at each end and whether each building has a lift, so the time is planned around the carries. Most halls moves sit inside the 2-hour minimum or just past it.
A typical student room fits easily: a bed and mattress, a desk and chair, drawers or a small wardrobe, a bookcase, a bike, and 10 to 15 boxes or strong bags, with room to spare in the Luton van. A full house share, four or five rooms plus the shared furniture, can also travel in one load; it simply takes longer to load and unload. If your list looks bigger than that, send it with the quote request and we will tell you honestly whether it is one load or two.
No. Our crew loads, unloads and carries at every tier, including Driver Help. Driver Help is one mover with the van, and students often lend a hand with the light boxes to keep the job inside the minimum, but you are never required to carry anything. Heavy or awkward pieces (beds, wardrobes, a sofa up three flights) are the crew’s work, not yours.
Yes. Bikes travel strapped and padded. Guitars, keyboards, monitors and games consoles should be listed when you ask for the quote, so the right protection travels on the van; instruments in hard cases travel as they are, and loose items get wrapped. Tell us about anything particularly valuable in advance so it is planned for, and keep documents, chargers, medication and small valuables with you on the day.
If your parents’ address is in London, yes: the run is quoted like any other London move, by the time it takes. If home is outside London, those runs are priced as one written quote built from the crew time plus the distance. The same applies in reverse in September, and the start-of-term weekends fill the same way the end-of-term ones do, so book that run early.
Tell us as soon as you know. Changing your date is free of charge up to 24 hours before the move. Inside 24 hours, a cancellation charge of up to 25 percent of the quoted price applies, per the booking terms. At the very end of term, replacement slots are scarce, so the earlier you tell us, the better the chance of landing the day you need.
No. Passengers cannot travel in the van, so please make your own way to the new address. If you cannot be there at either end, name who will be when you book and we will plan the handovers around them.
Insurance is as stated in your written quote: ask us to confirm in writing.
Ask for a quote with your two postcodes, your date and a rough list of what is moving. The quote comes back in writing and is valid for 7 days. There is no deposit to book, and payment is at the time of service. If a parent is paying, that is fine: tell us who the booking contact is and whose name goes on the quote, and the arrangement is confirmed in writing before the day.
Moving somewhere specific? Send both postcodes with your quote request and the route is confirmed in writing.
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