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Flat removals in Edgware

In a flat, the way out of the building is the job. The packing, the drive and the unload are all downstream of whether the wardrobe can get to the pavement.

Three kinds of Edgware flat

Above the parades

The high street, Burnt Oak Broadway, the Queensbury shops

The way out

Stairs only, through a shared street door

A separate entrance between two shopfronts, a straight run of stairs and a turn at the top. The turn is what decides whether a sofa leaves in one piece. These are also the addresses where loading has to be quick, because there is rarely anywhere legal to stand for long on a shop parade.

Purpose-built blocks

Around the station and along the main roads

The way out

A passenger lift, usually sized for people rather than furniture

Interwar and post-war blocks with a lift that takes a mattress standing up and very little else. We take the internal dimensions at survey and work out what fits, what comes apart and what goes down the stairs — before the day rather than in front of your neighbours.

Converted houses and new build

The residential streets, and the newer developments

The way out

Stairs in a conversion; a booked lift in new build

A conversion flat is a Victorian or interwar house with a modern layout dropped into it, so nothing is where the original builder intended. New-build blocks are the opposite problem: everything fits, but the concierge runs a booking system and the loading bay has to be reserved in advance.

The four measurements that decide it

Take these at the survey and almost nothing about the day is a surprise. Skip them and the day becomes improvisation.

The narrowest doorway on the route
Usually the flat door or the street door, not the room door. It is the one that stops a sofa.
The stairwell turn
Width at the turn, and whether there is a handrail in the way. A straight flight is rarely a problem; a turn nearly always is.
Lift internal dimensions
Depth, width and height, plus whether the doors stay open. A lift that fits a wardrobe lying down is a different lift from one that fits it standing up.
Where a vehicle can stand
Distance from the door, and whether the road is controlled. On a long carry the crew size changes, which is better decided at the survey than at the kerb.

Flat removals — common questions

My flat is on the second floor with no lift. Is that a problem?

It is a normal Edgware job. It changes the crew size and the time on site, both of which come out of the survey — which is exactly why we ask which floor you are on before quoting rather than after.

Will the sofa come down the stairs?

Sometimes not, and it is far better to know at the survey. Where it will not, either it comes apart, or it goes out through a window with a crew trained for it, or it stays. All three are workable; being surprised by it on the morning is not.

The block wants the lift booked. Can you work with that?

That is the normal case in new build. We speak to the concierge or managing agent, book the lift and the bay for a window, fit any protection the building requires, and plan the load order around that window.

Do you need the building's insurance requirements in advance?

Send them as early as you can. Some blocks will not admit a removals crew without seeing cover details first, and the morning of the move is the worst possible time to find that out.

I only want one room moved out of a shared flat.

That is usually better as a man-and-van job — same wrapping standard, smaller vehicle, priced by the job.

Moving flat in Edgware?

Tell us the floor, whether there is a lift, and anything the building asks for. That is most of the survey done already.

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