One plus one · 1 + 1
When somebody joins the household
Nothing leaves the address on this shape of move. Somebody arrives, and the house has to make room for them — which means a downsize happening at one end and a clear-out at the other, with no completion date forcing either of them.
The absence of a deadline is the advantage here. Use it, rather than treating the spare room as a countdown.
What this shape involves
Start at their house, not yours
The room becoming available at your end is the easy half. The hard half is a household being reduced to one room's worth of belongings, and that is a downsize with every difficulty a downsize has — plus the fact that the person doing it may not have chosen the timing.
So the pace is set by their end. We survey their house properly, not as an afterthought to yours.
Do not decide for somebody else
This is the single most common thing that goes wrong on this shape of move. Well-meaning families dispose of things in a rush because there is obviously no room, and the person whose things they were finds out afterwards.
Storage exists precisely for this. Hold what will not fit, listed, and let them decide in their own time. It costs something and it prevents an entirely avoidable kind of hurt.
Stages work better than a single day
Bring the essentials first — the bed, the chair they actually sit in, the things that make a room theirs. Live with it for a while. Then bring the rest, or decide against it, with the space in front of you rather than imagined.
Without a completion date forcing a single day, there is no reason to compress this, and every reason not to.
Making the room
At your end the job is usually a clearance: a box room, a loft and a garage that have absorbed a decade of things nobody has looked at. Those can go into storage, on to a family member or out through a sale.
Where licensed disposal is needed, that goes to somebody who holds the permission for it. We will tell you that plainly rather than folding it into a quotation.
A household that is growing
Questions about a household that is growing
- 01
Where do we start?
With the dimensions of the room they are moving into, and then with a proper look at their house. Deciding what fits is a measuring exercise before it is an emotional one.
- 02
Can you store their furniture rather than dispose of it?
Yes, and on this shape of move we usually recommend it. Held and listed, released whenever they say — the point is that the decision stays theirs.
- 03
Can you do it in more than one visit?
Yes, and it generally goes better. Essentials first, the rest once the room has been lived in and the gaps are obvious rather than guessed at.
- 04
What about clearing our loft to make space?
We will move it to storage, to a relative or to a sale. Licensed disposal is routed to somebody who holds that permission, and we say so rather than quietly arranging it.
- 05
Is there a rush?
Rarely, and that is the useful thing about this shape. There is no chain and no completion hour, so the timetable can suit the person moving rather than a solicitor.
- 06
Do you handle sheltered or care-home moves?
We move households into them, yes, and the same principles apply — measure first, stage it, store rather than dispose. Ask and we will tell you honestly what we can and cannot help with.
How many homes, and how many addresses?
Every address involved, and how many households go into how many. That one sentence tells us more than a room count ever does.