Surveyed, then priced
A free survey before any number is given — video call, or in person where a larger house or a period building warrants it.
Period and interwar houses on the roads above the station, detached property towards Moor Park, apartments and mansion flats around Northwood Hills, and the family homes running out to the Eastcote and Ruislip edges.
The move itself is straightforward. What takes judgement is everything around it.
A free survey before any number is given — video call, or in person where a larger house or a period building warrants it.
Framed work, mirrors, marble, veneer and instruments travel in cases. Blankets are for what blankets suit.
Protection fitted first, one point of contact, and a crew that leaves the house as it found it apart from the furniture.
Six things we ask about before giving a number. None of them are about the size of the house, and all of them change the day.
Drives, gates, private roads and width restrictions decide more here than the building does. Where a vehicle cannot reach the door, the carry length sets the crew size — and that is measured and priced rather than absorbed and rushed.
Lofts, garages, garden rooms, summer houses and workshops. In a district of larger houses these are frequently a vehicle between them, and none of them appear on a floor plan.
Framed work, mirrors, marble and glass tops, veneer and instruments travel crated. Blankets are for what blankets suit, and the difference is settled at survey rather than in the van.
Original staircases, timber floors and narrow doorways mean protection goes on first and the carry is deliberate. We crew and price for that rather than hurrying it.
A porter to notify, a lift to protect, sometimes a permitted window. Straightforward a fortnight out; awkward on the Thursday before.
Extensions, rewires and refurbishments are normal here, and furniture does not belong in a house full of dust. Storage is part of the plan rather than an emergency.
Generous plots, real drives, and the substantial houses towards Moor Park.
Read moreOriginal stairs and floors, protected first and carried deliberately.
Read moreBlocks with porters and lift bookings, and converted houses with original stairs.
Read moreA room, a study, a few pieces, an auction collection — same protection.
Read moreContainerised, and usually part of the plan rather than a contingency.
Read moreNorthwood to France, Spain, Italy and Portugal, route-pair framed.
Read moreHA6 in full, with Rickmansworth, Watford, Pinner and Ruislip on the edges. We name the edge rather than claim it.
More than one Northwood firm appears on this network.
northwood-removals.co.uk works the same district with its own crews and a quite different approach. If you have already had a survey from them, take their quote — a second opinion from a sister firm is not a second opinion. Where a neighbouring town has its own site we will point you there rather than quote across a boundary, and a genuinely London-wide move belongs with our pan-London sister sites.
Who covers whatFour destinations. On a household of this size the inventory is most of the work, and the declaration is only as good as the inventory — so it is built at survey.
Mostly larger houses: interwar and period detached and semi-detached property, the family homes above the station, apartments and mansion flats around Northwood Hills, and the substantial houses towards Moor Park.
Rarely. Drives, turning space and mature streets — the district was laid out generously. What needs checking is the length of some approaches, a few private roads, and gates narrower than the vehicle.
Private roads, long drives, gates and in places a covenant or an estate office to notify. None of it is difficult; all of it wants arranging in advance rather than at the gate.
Framed work, mirrors, marble and glass tops, veneer and instruments travel in cases and crates rather than under blankets. They are identified at survey and declared where the value warrants it.
Yes — northwood-removals.co.uk works the same district with its own crews and a quite different approach. We would rather say so than have you find out from a coincidence.
Both addresses, what is coming, and your dates. We survey, check the access at both ends and set the quote out in writing.