Door-to-door removals from the UK to Belgium, run by road from our Lower Dicker and Croydon depots. Our shortest continental route and our cheapest per cubic metre — shared loads from £92 per m³, dedicated vehicles from £2,450, typically 5–8 days door to door.
Removals to Belgium from the UK are the shortest continental run we make, and the cheapest per cubic metre of any route on our rate card. Brussels is closer to our depots than Edinburgh. That proximity is why a Belgian move suits a shared load so well — the crossing is short, the motorway leg is straightforward, and you pay for the space you occupy rather than a whole lorry.
Brussels dominates our Belgian work, and for an obvious reason: the European institutions, NATO and the enormous professional-services industry around them generate a steady flow of British households on fixed-term postings. Those moves often arrive with a relocation package and need an itemised valued inventory, which we produce as standard.
Antwerp is the diamond trade, the port and a design-led city with a large international community. Ghent and Leuven are university cities, so the households tend to be academic and the timing tied to the academic year. Bruges is smaller, older and the most access-constrained place we deliver in Belgium. Liège and Wallonia are French-speaking, which changes nothing operationally but does change which language your paperwork should be in.
Bruges and central Ghent are the awkward ones. Both have protected medieval cores with narrow cobbled streets, limited vehicle access and timed delivery windows, so a shuttle from a permitted parking point is normal rather than exceptional. Brussels is mostly apartment delivery, and the older townhouses in Ixelles and Saint-Gilles have the same narrow-stairwell problem as their Dutch and Parisian equivalents — an external furniture lift is sometimes the only way a sofa gets to the third floor.
We survey for all of it. If a shuttle vehicle or a lift is needed it is priced into the quote from the start rather than added on the day.
Belgium is in the EU and the UK is not, so a Belgian move is a formal import. Used household effects can normally come in free of duty and import VAT when you are transferring your normal residence, on the familiar conditions: residence outside the EU beforehand, ownership and use of the goods for a qualifying period, and import within a set window of establishing residence.
What Belgian customs want is a proper itemised inventory with values, evidence of your Belgian address and proof you are genuinely relocating. Registering with your commune is part of establishing that residence, and the timing of it against your shipment is worth planning before you book. Alcohol, tobacco and vehicles fall outside the standard relief. We prepare the file with you before the vehicle leaves the depot.
We are a family-run Sussex firm, established in 2017, working from two depots — Lower Dicker in East Sussex and Croydon — and European road removals are core work rather than a sideline. Our crews pad-wrap every piece in your home using our white-glove method, build custom crates for anything fragile, and produce the valued inventory a customs entry depends on. We are a member of the British Association of Removers Overseas Group and work to the BS 8564 standard.
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These are the rates we quote from, not a teaser figure with the extras stripped out. A shared load to Belgium starts at £92 per cubic metre with a 3 m³ minimum, and a dedicated vehicle — yours alone, no transhipment — starts at £2,450. Typical transit is 5–8 days.
| Your home | Typical volume | From |
|---|---|---|
| Studio or single room | 10 m³ | £920 |
| One-bedroom flat | 18 m³ | £1,655 |
| Two-bedroom house | 30 m³ | £2,760 |
| Three-bedroom house | 45 m³ | £4,140 |
| Four-bedroom house | 62 m³ | £5,705 |
| Five-bedroom house or larger | 85 m³ | £7,820 |
These are the prices you pay. International removals are zero-rated for UK VAT, so unlike a domestic house move there is nothing to add on top. Import duty or VAT levied by the destination country, where your goods do not qualify for transfer-of-residence relief, is separate and is payable there rather than to us.
Above roughly 55 m³ a dedicated vehicle usually beats the shared-load rate. We will tell you when that crossover applies to your move rather than let you overpay for groupage. Volumes above are typical rather than measured; the survey sets the real figure and the quote is then fixed in writing. Our free volume calculator gives you a cubic-feet number in a couple of minutes without needing to speak to anyone.
Included as standard
Priced separately
| Service | Price from | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Full export packing | £38 per m³ | All materials included. Typically £1,100–£1,400 for a three-bed house. |
| Fragile-only packing | £22 per m³ | China, glass, pictures and electronics. You do the rest. |
| Unpacking at destination | £18 per m³ | Boxes emptied, contents placed, cartons removed. |
| Transit insurance | 2.5% of value | £75 minimum. All-risks cover on a valued inventory. |
| Storage in transit | £4.50 per m³ per week | £25 weekly minimum. Individual steel rooms, 24-hour CCTV. |
| Upright piano | £395 | Skid trolley, crating and specialist straps. |
| Grand piano | £695 | Legs removed, side-crated and blanket-boxed. |
| Custom timber crating | £185 per crate | Art, marble, mirrors and antiques. ISPM-15 compliant timber. |
| Shuttle vehicle | £280 | Where the lorry cannot reach the door — common in Italian ZTL zones and Swiss old towns. |
| Long carry over 20 m | £95 | Per property, per move. |
| Second delivery address | £180 | Within 25 km of the primary address. |
| Vehicle shipping | On application | Cars, motorcycles and trailers via our specialist partner. |
For the full eight-route comparison across France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and the Benelux, see our European removals rate card.
Shared loads start at £92 per cubic metre with a 3 m³ minimum — our lowest European rate, because Belgium is the shortest continental run we make. A one-bedroom flat of about 18 m³ is roughly £1,660 and a three-bedroom house of about 45 m³ roughly £4,140. A dedicated vehicle starts at £2,450. There is no UK VAT to add; international removals are zero-rated.
Typically 5–8 days door to door. The crossing is short and the motorway run from Calais or Dunkirk is straightforward. A dedicated vehicle travels direct and sits at the fast end; a shared load waits for the scheduled departure, which is what keeps the price down.
Yes, and we plan for it. Both have protected medieval centres with narrow cobbled streets, restricted vehicle access and timed delivery windows, so a shuttle from a permitted parking point is normal rather than exceptional. We establish it at survey and price the shuttle into the quote rather than adding it on the day.
Regularly. The European institutions, NATO and the professional-services industry around them generate a steady flow of fixed-term postings, and those moves usually need an itemised valued inventory, a delivery window agreed in advance and invoicing to an employer or relocation management company. We are set up for all three.
Normally not. Used household effects can usually be imported free of duty and import VAT when you are transferring your normal residence, subject to the usual conditions on prior residence outside the EU, ownership and use of the goods, and importing within the qualifying window. Alcohol, tobacco and vehicles sit outside the relief. We prepare the documentation with you before departure.
Call us for a free, no-obligation quote, or use our online form. Whether it is a shared part-load or a whole house, we have handled the route before and we will handle yours with care.