Suburban house removals in Hampshire

Why these are the easy ones

Interwar and postwar housing was designed around furniture that is still roughly the size furniture is now. Halls are generous, stairs are a straight run, and landings are square. Almost nothing gets stuck.

Outside is equally kind: most properties have a drive, many have side access to the rear, and the roads were laid out with room. Loading is rarely the constraint.

The consequence is that these surveys are quick and these quotes are accurate. There is genuinely less to go wrong.

Except for the garage

And the loft, and the shed. Twentieth-century Hampshire housing came with storage, and forty or sixty years later most of it is full of things nobody has looked at recently.

That matters because the quote is built from volume, and an uncounted garage is the commonest reason a quoted figure and a final invoice end up different. We open every door at survey for exactly that reason.

If you intend to clear half of it before the move, say so and we will quote what is actually going rather than what is currently there.

Parking, which has changed

Postwar estates were laid out when households had one car or none. They now have two or three, and the generous roads are considerably less generous through the day.

It is still much easier than the city terraces, but it is worth telling us if your road fills up — on a narrow estate road a badly placed vehicle inconveniences a lot of people and slows the job.

If the chain slips

Hampshire chains can run long, particularly where a country purchase is involved. Goods can be collected on whichever date is fixed, listed, and held until the other side is real. Worth raising at survey even if you expect not to need it — see storage.