Business moves
Commercial removals, judged on Monday.
An office move has exactly one success criterion: whether people can work the next morning. Everything else — the crates, the vans, the carrying — exists to serve that.
Commercial moves are less about strength than about sequence. The physical work is usually straightforward; what is not straightforward is coordinating a landlord, a managing agent, an IT provider and forty people's desks into one weekend.
What we handle
- Desks, pedestals, chairs, storage and meeting furniture
- Reusable crates delivered ahead of the date for staff to pack
- IT hardware moved and protected, with reconnection coordinated rather than assumed
- Server and comms equipment once your provider has decommissioned it
- Archive, filing and confidential material
- Studio, workshop and treatment-room equipment
- Dismantle and reassembly of desking and partitioning
- Clearance of what is not going to the new premises
The building sets the schedule
In managed buildings, moves happen when the building permits them. Evening and weekend windows are normal. Goods lifts are shared and booked. Loading bays have time limits. Some buildings will not allow a move at all during business hours.
None of that is an obstacle if it is established early. It becomes one when a date is agreed with a landlord before anybody has asked the managing agent what is actually possible.
Labelling by destination, not origin
The single biggest predictor of a smooth first morning. A crate marked "Accounts" is almost useless in a building where nobody yet knows where Accounts sits. A crate marked with a destination desk or zone number goes straight there and gets unpacked by the person who owns it.
We supply the labelling system. What we need from you is a floor plan of the new premises with positions numbered, ideally a week ahead of the move.
Small businesses
A lot of our commercial work is well short of a corporate relocation — a six-person studio, a treatment room, a workshop, a small agency. Those move much like a household with more cable and more paperwork, and they do not need phased apparatus. We will tell you which yours is rather than selling the larger version.
Moving home instead? House removals. Relocating the business a long way? Long-distance removals.
Commercial move questions
Can you move us out of hours?
Usually we have to. Most managed office buildings restrict moves to evenings or weekends, and most businesses would rather not lose a working day. The building's permitted window generally sets the schedule more than our diary does.
What do you need from the building?
Goods lift booking, loading bay access, out-of-hours permission, and often evidence of insurance lodged with the managing agent. Start it early — in larger buildings this takes longer than people expect, and it is the most common reason an office move gets postponed.
Who handles the IT?
We move and protect the hardware. Decommissioning, cabling and reconnection are your IT provider's work, and it goes best when both of us are in the same conversation before the date rather than discovering the gap on the night.
Do you supply crates?
Yes — reusable crates rather than cardboard, delivered ahead of the date so staff pack their own desks. They stack better, they survive repeated moves, and they are quicker to load than an assortment of boxes.
Can the move be phased?
Often sensible beyond a small office — one department at a time, or archive and storage first with desks last, so the business keeps running. We will talk through what phasing actually buys you rather than assuming it is always right.
Moving premises?
Tell us roughly how many people, the building, and what the landlord has said about access windows. That is where the plan starts.