Man and van across Sussex and Surrey for the jobs that do not need a lorry and four people. Same uniformed crews, same pad-wrap, same insurance as a full removal — just sized to the work.
A man and van booking is a Luton van and one or two crew, priced for a job that would be absurd to quote as a full house removal. A single room out of a shared house. A part-move where most of it has already gone. A sofa that will not fit in the car. A student going home for the summer.
What it is not is a cheaper, rougher version of a removal. The crew is uniformed and directly employed, the furniture is pad-wrapped, and the cover is the same. The only thing that shrinks is the vehicle and the headcount.
Being honest about this saves everybody a wasted day. A Luton van holds roughly 500 cubic feet, which is about a small one-bedroom flat. If you are moving a furnished two-bedroom house, two man-and-van trips will cost more and take longer than one properly sized removal, and the second load always turns out to be the heavy one.
The test we use on the phone: if you need more than one trip, you need a removal. Use the volume calculator if you want to check before you ring, or read our Eastbourne man and van page for how a typical job runs.
Each of these has its own page covering local parking, access and the property types we meet most there.
Not on the list? We still cover you — see areas covered for the full map.
By the job, quoted in writing, not by the hour. What moves the number is the volume, the access at both ends (stairs, lifts, parking distance) and the mileage between them. Materials are charged only if we supply them.
Full pricing is on the pricing page. If the load needs somewhere to go rather than somewhere to be, collection and storage prices the room by the week.
If you want the fragile things packed properly first, fragile-only packing is the tier that suits most man-and-van jobs, and you can buy materials if you would rather pack yourself.
Directly employed crews, not casual labour hired for the day. That is the practical difference between us and the cheapest listing you will find online, and it is why we are BAR members and BS 8564 accredited on a job this size as much as on a container to Australia.
Read what customers say, see everything else we do in the UK, or get a price.
About 500 cubic feet, which is roughly a small one-bedroom flat, or a bedroom plus a sofa and a few boxes. If you are not sure, the volume calculator converts a room list into cubic feet.
Usually two. One driver alone cannot safely carry a wardrobe down a flight of stairs, and most jobs have at least one item that needs two pairs of hands. We will tell you at quote which it is.
Sometimes, depending on where the vans are. Ring rather than email for a same-day job — the phone gets an answer in minutes and the inbox might not.
Yes, beds and flat-pack as standard. Be aware that cam-lock flat-pack often does not survive a second build, whoever takes it apart — we will say so before we start rather than after.
Yes, the same cover as a full removal. Cover is against a declared value, so tell us if something is worth more than it looks.
Not as part of a man and van booking, but house clearance is a separate service that does exactly that.