Gravesend · DA11 · DA12
It is a stranger question than the one most removals firms ask, and it predicts the job far better. Two homes merging is not a bigger version of one home moving, and one home dividing is not a smaller one. Different crew, different order, different paperwork.
Free survey across DA11, DA12 and the villages. Nothing quoted before somebody has counted both kitchens.
Six shapes
Every service on this site sits under one of six arithmetic shapes. It is a more honest sort than by-service, because what actually changes the work is the number of homes and the number of destinations.
Same household, new address. The straight move.
Two homes merging, and everything duplicated in the process.
One home dividing, with two destinations and a record to keep.
Somebody joining a household that is staying put.
The arithmetic is not final yet, so goods wait rather than guess.
Out of the borough entirely, across the UK or into Europe.
The duplicate problem
When two homes become one, the lifting is the straightforward half. This is the other half, and it is the part that turns an ordinary Saturday into an argument if nobody has looked at it beforehand.
One goes. Decide which before the day.
The single biggest item in both households and almost never a case for keeping both. Measure the new sitting room first; frequently neither of them is right for it, which is worth knowing before either is carried up a stair.
One goes, and the other may not fit.
Appliance spaces in a fitted kitchen are unforgiving. Measure the gap and the appliance, in that order. The spare goes to a family member, a sale or a licensed disposal route rather than into a garage indefinitely.
Merge into one, from the better set.
Pans, crockery, utensils, small appliances. It sounds trivial and it fills more cartons than the bedroom furniture does. Pack the set you are keeping and deal with the other before the vehicle arrives, not after.
One mower. One of everything else.
Sheds merge worse than houses do. Two mowers, two strimmers, two sets of tools and four half-used bags of compost, none of which can travel with fuel in it.
Usually one, sometimes neither.
Wardrobes are the piece most likely to be wrong for the new room. If one set is fitted it stays with the property anyway, which quietly solves the problem.
Keep both. Store what will not fit.
The one category where the arithmetic should not apply. Nobody should be pressured out of a thing that matters in the week they are merging households; that is exactly what listed storage is for.
The one category this should not touch is the sentimental one. Nothing that matters to somebody should be lost to a room measurement in the week two lives are merging — that is what listed storage is for.
Two destinations
Usually a separation, sometimes an adult child setting up, occasionally a family spreading into a second property. It is one of the commonest shapes of move and one of the least well handled, so here is exactly how we run it.
We are movers, not arbitrators. What goes to which address is settled between you, or between your solicitors, before the day. Where it is not settled we will hold the disputed items rather than make a judgement call in somebody's hallway.
A split move is the one domestic job where a written inventory matters as much as it does on an estate. Both destinations get a list of what went there. It costs us an hour and it has settled more than one argument months later.
The load is built in reverse order of delivery so nothing is unpacked twice. Where the two destinations are far apart, or one of them is not ready, part of the load goes into store rather than being carried around all day.
Separation moves are not ordinary working days for the people in them. Our crews are told that before they arrive. No commentary, no opinions, no standing about — in, listed, loaded, gone.
If you would rather not be in the house while it happens, that is arranged with keys and a named contact. It is a common request and there is nothing unusual about making it — see how a split move works.
Out of the country
Four routes with their own pages, each carrying the road out, the regions we deliver into, and a document list divided between what you obtain and what we obtain. We are a road firm — anything needing sea or air freight goes to a specialist rather than being quoted here.
The shortest crossing in the country, and the one on our doorstep.
Route, customs and questions →Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges and the Flemish coast.
Route, customs and questions →Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and the Randstad.
Route, customs and questions →Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense and the Jutland towns.
Route, customs and questions →The arithmetic still applies at a border. Relief on a household move attaches to a person changing residence, so a merge across two countries or a split with half the furniture going abroad has to be described accurately — how the European side works.
Asked most often
Because it predicts the job better than the number of bedrooms does. Two homes merging into one is a different exercise from one home moving intact, and one home dividing into two is different again — different crew, different sequence, different paperwork.
Measure the room the sofa is going in, and the appliance gaps in the kitchen. Those two measurements resolve most of the duplicate question before anybody argues about whose furniture is nicer.
Yes, and on a split that is the normal arrangement. The load is built in reverse delivery order and both destinations get a written list of what arrived there.
Yes, and our crews are briefed before they arrive. In, listed, loaded, gone — no commentary and no standing about. Anything in dispute is held rather than delivered on somebody's say-so.
It goes into listed storage while you decide, or out through a sale, a family member or a licensed disposal route. What it should not do is sit in a garage for two years because the decision was made on a bad afternoon.
All of them — DA11, DA12, the Ebbsfleet and Springhead new-build, Istead Rise, Meopham, Higham and Shorne. Gravesend is the middle of the patch rather than its edge.
More on the questions page — merges and the kitchen problem, splits and the written division, somebody joining the household, and what the Crossing does to a long day.
Every address involved, and how many households go into how many. That one sentence tells us more than a room count ever does.