Packing, Loading and Unloading Services

Packing is where a move is won. The materials are not interchangeable, and using the wrong one is how things break.

• Cartons carry books, kitchenware, clothing and small goods. They are filled to be firm, not heavy, and closed so the top can take a stack.
• Bubble and foam wrap protect surfaces that mark: glass, polished wood, screens, mirrors.
• Stretch film binds and dust-proofs wrapped furniture. It protects against rubbing, not against impact.
• Quilted protection goes on mattresses, sofas and large upholstered pieces.
• Corrugated sheeting and timber protect edges and, for genuinely heavy or awkward items, form a crate.
• Labels and tape are part of the material, not an afterthought. An unlabelled carton costs time at both ends.

We bring what the job needs rather than what happens to be on the vehicle, and the material is agreed in advance so it does not become an extra on the day.

The kitchen holds the highest concentration of breakable things and the most awkward shapes, so it is worth describing properly.

Crockery and glass

Plates are wrapped individually and stood on edge, not stacked flat. A plate carries load through its rim and fails through its face, so a flat stack is a column of pressure on the weakest axis. Glasses are wrapped, padded inside where thin-walled, and packed upright with dividers.

Appliances and loose parts

Small appliances go back into their own boxes where you still have them, otherwise they are padded on every face. Mixer jars, blades and glass lids are separated and wrapped individually rather than travelling inside the appliance, where they become a hammer over a long journey.

Mirrors, screens and glass tops

These travel on edge, protected on both faces, and never flat beneath other goods, where a single shifted carton is enough to crack them.

What is better not packed

Cooking oil, liquids, half-used bottles and gas cylinders are best moved by you or disposed of. Tell us if you want them handled and we will advise honestly.

Not every job needs a full move. If you have transport arranged, or only want the heavy work done, these are normal bookings.

How a load is built

Heavy and rigid items go in low and first. Furniture is stood and braced rather than laid flat where it can slide. Cartons stack sturdiest at the bottom, fragile on top. Gaps are filled so nothing travels loose, because a load that can shift will shift, and a hundred small movements over a journey do more harm than one heavy brake.

Almost never on the road. It happens on staircases, in doorways, and in the last few metres before the vehicle, and it usually comes down to three causes.

1. 1Too few people. An item needing three hands carried by two gets tilted, and a tilted wardrobe catches a banister. Sizing the crew to the harder end of the job is the cheapest damage prevention there is.
2. 2Rushing the sequence. When furniture is dismantled late, the room is already full of cartons and large items have to be manoeuvred through a crowded floor.
3. 3Loading without a plan. Covered above, and the most avoidable of the three.

Doorframes, banister turns and lift interiors are protected where the route is tight. If something is marked despite all of it, we would rather tell you immediately than have you find it while unpacking.

Packing work supports every other service we run, from house shifting to warehouse and heavy item moving.