One-room homes, moved in one load on a published hourly card from £140. A studio is the smallest move we run, and it is planned like one: the whole room on one van, loaded in the order the new room has to be built in.
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A studio move with us costs from £140: a light studio on the 2-hour minimum, on a published card of Driver Help £70 per hour, 2 Men £85 and 3 Men £100. Most studios are 2 Men work and total £170 to £255, and the whole room travels in one load. No deposit, free cancellation up to 24 hours before, and the total confirmed in a written quote before you book.
A studio is the only home where the bedroom, the living room, the kitchen and, increasingly, the office are the same four walls. That makes the move small and, at the same time, oddly unforgiving: there is no spare room to stack things in while you decide where they go, at either end. The new room has to be built in the right order or you spend the first night climbing over your own life.
So a studio move is planned backwards from the room plan. The wardrobe and the storage furniture go where they will live, the bed is rebuilt before anything decorative comes off the van, and the boxes are stacked in the one corner that is not tonight’s floor space. The load order on the van follows the same logic in reverse.
Where a studio sits among our services: it is the smallest small removal we run, and the step up from it is a one-bedroom move. The card, the crew and the terms are the same on all three; this page exists because one-room living has its own problems, and they deserve their own answers.
Real totals for the studio moves people actually book, worked from the published card. Bigger homes are covered by our guide to how much removals cost.
| Studio move | Crew | Typical time | Typical total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light studio, lift or ground floor, bed, rail of clothes and boxes | Driver Help | 2 hours (minimum) | £140 |
| Typical studio: bed, wardrobe, desk and kitchen boxes | 2 Men | 2 hours (minimum) | £170 |
| Work-from-home studio with a full desk setup and shelving | 2 Men | 2 to 3 hours | £170 to £255 |
| Studio up several flights in a conversion, sofa bed and wardrobe by stairs | 2 Men | 2 to 3 hours | £170 to £255 |
| Studio to one-bedroom step up, across town, furniture placed room by room | 2 Men | 3 hours | £255 |
| Furnished studio handover: dismantling, rebuilding and a full room of furniture | 2 Men | 3 to 4 hours | £255 to £340 |
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 new room. Add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs (a third-floor studio 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.
Five shapes cover most one-room moves in London. Each is quoted from your list and your buildings, not from a guess.
Usually 2 Men, 2 to 3 hours
The standard one-room move: bed or sofa bed, wardrobe, desk, kitchen boxes, out of one studio and into another. Loaded in an order that lets the new room be assembled in the right sequence, bed first, storage furniture where it will live.
Usually Driver Help, 2 hours
Out of a room in a house share and into a one-room home of your own. The load is a room’s worth, but the destination needs a furniture plan the old room never did: the studio has to hold your whole life, not just your sleeping half of it.
Usually 2 Men, 2 to 3 hours
A studio that is also an office: a real desk, a proper chair, monitors, a printer, shelving. The desk setup is packed and carried as a unit of its own, and it is rebuilt early at the new address so the working day survives the move.
Usually Driver Help or 2 Men, 2 hours
Moving out of a furnished studio, or into one: only your belongings travel, and the landlord’s furniture stays exactly where the inventory says it stays. The quote is built from your list, with photographs where the line between yours and theirs needs to be unambiguous.
Usually 2 Men, 2 to 3 hours
Top-floor studios in converted houses, with narrow stairs and no lift: the sofa bed and the wardrobe decide the crew. Measured against the stair turn before the day, carried by two, with the floor charge stated in the quote rather than argued about on the landing.
A studio move rarely fails on volume. It fails on three smaller things, and all three are settled before the day.
A studio’s contents surprise people: the furniture of three rooms compressed into one, plus the storage furniture bought to cope with having no cupboards. Count the boxes honestly (15 to 25 is typical, and a work-from-home studio runs higher) and name the storage pieces. Density, not floor area, is what the quote is built on.
Studios sit in conversions and small blocks where doors are narrow and lifts are smaller than the furniture. The sofa bed that arrived when the room was empty still has to leave through the same door, sometimes in pieces. Send the largest pieces’ measurements, or photographs against the door, and dismantling is planned into the time rather than improvised on the landing.
There is nowhere to put things down. So the load is sequenced: storage furniture and boxes travel so they come off first and go straight to their walls, the bed is rebuilt before the soft furnishings land, and the kettle box is findable. The first evening in a one-room home is the test the whole plan is built around.
Parking, briefly: 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. If your flat sits in a block with a lift to book or a concierge to satisfy, our flat and apartment moves page covers the building side of the move in full.
Everything, normally twice over. A typical studio is a bed or sofa bed, a small wardrobe or clothes rail, a desk and chair, a small table, a television, and 15 to 25 boxes once the kitchen is counted honestly. That is roughly half a Luton load. Packing quantities follow the same scale: 15 to 25 boxes, two or three rolls of tape, and wrap for the screen and anything fragile, at £5 a box, £15 for wrap and £10 a roll if you book materials from us.
Because the volume is small, a studio move is priced on time and access, not on space: the meter runs on the carries, the stairs and the door test, not on the van filling up. If your studio has quietly become a storage unit with a bed in it, say so in the quote request and the plan will allow for it honestly rather than discovering it at the door.
One honest note on the pile that is not moving. Leaving a studio usually produces a small pile nobody is keeping: a broken chair, a 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, and the duty of care for the waste stays with the householder.
Four steps, planned backwards from the room you have to sleep in on the first night.
Two postcodes, the floor at each end, the lift position, and a rough list: bed, wardrobe, desk, boxes, anything that barely fitted through the door when it arrived. Studio lists are short, so photographs cover most of it.
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 loads so the new room can be built in sequence: storage furniture and boxes first on, bed and essentials last on and first off. Everything travels protected with blankets and straps.
Furniture goes where it will live, the bed is rebuilt where booked, and the load 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 “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 |
| The one-room problem | Everything tipped into the new room in van order, and the first night spent excavating the bed | Loaded and unloaded in the order the room is built: storage first, bed rebuilt, essentials findable |
| 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 |
| Small jobs | The smallest homes get the least planning: a van, a driver, and your staircase discovered on arrival | Floors, lift and the largest pieces are settled at quote stage, with the floor charge in the quote |
Based on the published prices and terms of London man and van offers, checked October 2026. The full four-way comparison of every way of moving is on our compare page.
Studios sit at the meeting point of three of our pages. They all run on the same card and the same terms; the difference is which problem the page is written around.
This page. Your whole home is one room, whether you are leaving it, arriving in it, or swapping one for another.
You are here: studio flat removalsA separate bedroom changes the load and the unpacking: two rooms to furnish, usually two people’s belongings. That is a one-bedroom move.
1-bedroom removalsA partial move, a few rooms’ worth, or a small home that is not one room: our small removals page covers moving home at small scale in general.
Small removalsContent updated October 2026. Prices from our published hourly card, checked October 2026. The Congestion Charge figure is from Transport for London. Parking suspension arrangements and building rules are your borough’s and your building’s, confirmed at quote stage and reflected in your written quote.
Send your two postcodes, the floors at both ends, and a rough list or a few photographs of the room. 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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Common questions about studio moves, cost first. If you do not see yours, call us. We are happy to help.
Published rates, a written quote, and no deposit. The fastest way to price a studio move is to send your list and your floors.
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 light studio at the minimum is £140 with Driver Help. Most studios, with a bed or sofa bed, a wardrobe and a desk setup, are 2 Men work and total £170 to £255. Stairs add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs, and floors served by a lift are not charged. No deposit, and your written quote confirms the total before you book.
Usually 2 to 3 hours, door to door inside London. A studio is one room, so the load itself is quick; what decides the time is the density of the room (a studio that is also a home office carries more than one that is mostly a bed) and the access: floor, lift, and the walk from the door to where the van can stand. Send both addresses and the floor at each end and the quote is built on the real job.
Almost always, with room to spare. A typical studio is a bed or sofa bed, a small wardrobe or clothes rail, a desk and chair, a small table, a television, white goods where they are yours, and 15 to 25 boxes: roughly half a Luton load. The exception is the studio that has absorbed a second life: a full work-from-home setup, a bike or two, and storage furniture stacked to the ceiling. Name the big pieces in the quote request and we will confirm the load plan in writing.
This one, or our small removals page: a room’s worth of belongings going into a one-room home is the smallest move we run, and it prices the same way, from £140 at the 2-hour minimum with Driver Help. The studio page is written for the destination as much as the load: a one-room home has to be unpacked in an order that leaves you able to sleep, cook and work in the same space, and the load is sequenced so the bed and the essentials come off first.
Yes, where booked. Dismantling and reassembly are part of the booking terms for furniture that needs it: beds, wardrobes and flat-pack pieces are taken apart for the carry and rebuilt at the new address. In a studio this matters more than anywhere, because the bed is often the piece everything else is stacked around. List the pieces that need it when you ask for the quote so the time is allowed for.
No. Packing can be booked as part of the move, charged as crew time on the same hourly card, and materials are charged per item used: boxes £5 each, protective wrap £15, tape £10 per roll. A studio usually needs 15 to 25 boxes. Many studio movers pack the clothes, books and kitchen themselves and book the crew to pack the fragile and awkward pieces; either way, tell us which way you want it when you enquire so the quote shows it.
It changes the time and sometimes the crew, and there is a floor charge: £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs, at either address, stated in the written quote. Floors served by a lift carry no floor charge. A tiny lift is a planning fact rather than a charge: a sofa bed or wardrobe that will not fit it has to come down the stairs, which is 2 Men work and slower. Send the floor, the lift position and the largest pieces and we will tell you honestly which crew your building needs.
Yes, and it is a common studio job, because so many studios are rented furnished. Send a short list of what is yours and what stays, ideally with photographs, and the crew works to that list on the day. It is worth doing the same at the new address if you are moving into another furnished studio: the quote then covers exactly your belongings, not the furniture that comes with the room.
Book a storage unit in your own name with an operator you choose, and we run the transport at both ends: out of the old studio and into the unit, then out of the unit and into the new home when your tenancy starts. Each run is charged on the hourly card. The unit’s rent, access and terms stay between you and the operator; we do not hold belongings ourselves. A studio’s contents usually fit the smallest units, which keeps the gap cheap.
Insurance is as stated in your written quote: ask us to confirm in writing. If you are moving high-value, fragile or specialist items, tell us about them when you enquire.
Ask for a quote with your two postcodes, your date, the floors at both ends 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, cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the move (inside 24 hours, up to 25 percent of the quoted price), and payment is at the time of service.
Moving somewhere specific? Send both postcodes with your quote request and the route is confirmed in writing.
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