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If your move is boxes, bags and the odd small item, a shuttle at £199 to £409 usually wins. If it includes beds, sofas and wardrobes, a removal firm earns its quote. The honest line is the furniture.
Price: you pay for space on a van that was coming anyway, not a dedicated vehicle and crew for a day. Certainty: fixed days and a fixed price online, no survey, no quote dance. Flexibility: each direction and each week stands alone.
Whole-house volume, large furniture, packing services, single-day door-to-door timing. Our limit is 50 pieces and 6 bikes and furniture items per booking, deliberately: beyond that you want a van with your name on it.
Plenty of customers do both: shuttle the 30 boxes the week before for £409 or so, then a small removal van handles just the furniture. Two right tools beat one stretched one.