House removals
A complete household from anywhere in the county: hall houses and oasts, Medway bay-fronts, Canterbury conversions, and the estates growing out of Ashford and Kings Hill.
More on house removalsKent, county-wide
Removals across Kent,
handled with care.
House moves from one end of Kent to the other — a Medway terrace out to a Wealden village, a Canterbury flat to a new estate by Ashford — and the long runs that start or finish here. Every job is surveyed before it is priced, so the vehicle, the crew and the day are chosen for the house you actually live in.
Surveyed firstSomebody sees the house before a number exists
County-wideDartford to Dungeness, and beyond the county line
One crewThe people who pack it are the people who deliver it
The county firm
Moving house in Kent, county-wide
A firm that works one town learns one set of streets. Working the whole county means knowing that a Weald lane and a Medway hill want different vehicles, and that a great many Kent family moves are dated by a school admissions deadline rather than by the house.
How we work- One
Houses from six different centuries
On a single Kent survey round we might see a hall house with a jettied upper floor near Smarden, a bay-fronted villa in Gravesend, a converted chapel on the Downs and a three-storey town house on an Ashford estate. They share a county and nothing else. One wants a small crew working slowly with a great deal of dismantling; another wants a big vehicle and a fast load. Seeing the house first is how we tell which.
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Motorways for the long leg, lanes for the last mile
The M20, M2 and A2 carry a load across the county without fuss. The trouble lives at the ends: sunken lanes on the Greensand Ridge, the Rochester one-way loop, a seafront at Deal where the wind gets a vote. Route planners show none of that, so the survey records it and the quote is built around it.
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Where the crossings are, and why it cuts both ways
The Channel Tunnel terminal and the port of Dover are both in Kent, so the M20 and A20 can back up for reasons that have nothing to do with anyone moving house. The same geography puts our Folkestone address a short drive from the tunnel, which is why our European work begins here. We time county moves around the first fact and lean on the second.
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Wrapping chosen for the building
Old houses mark the furniture; new houses get marked by it. In a cottage the risk is a beam, a twisting stair and an oak dresser that has never been out of the room. In a new build it is soft plasterboard corners and painted spindles. The blankets and cartons do not change. The order of work and the time we allow do.
What we do
Removal services across Kent, and into Europe
Family moves
Kent selects at eleven, so plenty of family moves here are dated by a school address deadline. We plan the move from that deadline backwards.
More on family movesLong-distance moves
Out to Devon, Yorkshire, the Lowlands or Pembrokeshire, and inbound from London and the Home Counties. The crew that loads is the crew that unloads.
More on long-distance movesMan and van
Two people and a van for a bedsit, a piece of furniture, or a lot from a Kent auction house or reclamation yard that has to be collected by the seller's deadline.
More on man and vanPacking & storage
Packing at whatever level suits you, and inventoried storage for when one completion has happened and the other has not.
More on packing & storageInternational removals
Household moves from Kent to four European countries, with the export inventory and customs documents prepared here. Our Folkestone address sits by the Channel Tunnel terminal; the documents, not the drive, still decide when the vehicle leaves.
Removals to Europe from KentWhere we work
Kent coverage, district by district
Eight parts of the county, each with its own housing and its own access quirks. Moves that cross from one to another are the core of what we do, and so are the runs out of Kent altogether.
Maidstone and the Medway valley
The county town, the river villages from Aylesford down to Yalding, and the Greensand villages towards Lenham. Kentish ragstone cottages with low lintels, and a town-centre gyratory that decides where a long vehicle can wait.
Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Strood
Victorian and Edwardian terraces stacked up the slopes above the river, narrow front halls, and kerbside parking so tight that where the vehicle stands is settled before anything else is.
Canterbury and the Stour villages
Flats and student houses inside and just outside the city walls, where vehicle access is restricted, plus Sturry, Bridge, Chartham and Wickhambreaux, where lanes narrow quickly.
Ashford and the M20 corridor
Fast-growing estates such as Finberry and Repton Park beside older Ashford terraces, with the motorway close enough that this is where many of our longer runs leave from.
Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and West Kent
Substantial period houses with gravel drives, heavy antique furniture and grammar-school catchments, alongside commuter roads that are full at both ends of the working day.
Dartford, Gravesend and the Thames side
Riverside flats, inter-war semis and the Ebbsfleet developments. The nearest part of the county to the M25 and the Dartford Crossing, and the usual landing point for households coming out of London.
The High Weald and Low Weald
Cranbrook, Hawkhurst, Headcorn, Biddenden and Tenterden. Timber-framed houses with floors that slope, beams at forehead height, and lanes where we decide at survey whether a full-size vehicle is wise.
Deal, Sandwich, Hythe and Romney Marsh
Seafront flats reached by outside stairs, fishermen's streets in Deal's conservation area, and Marsh villages that are a long way from everywhere else in the county. Wind decides whether an upper-window lift goes ahead.
Moving within one town?
A handful of Kent towns have their own dedicated removals firms, and for a move that starts and ends inside one of them they are the better call. Anything that crosses the county — a Tankerton bungalow to a Biddenden farmhouse, a Cheriton semi to Swanscombe — is ours. Our coverage page names those towns and describes every district in more detail.
Before you book anyone
Before you book a Kent removal
Get the house seen before you fix a date
Volume decides the vehicle, the size of the crew and the length of the day, and almost everyone guesses it low. A free survey, at the house or by video call, replaces the guess with a written scope.
Start a surveyMatch the job to the right service
An entire home, however modest, is a house removal. A bedsit, a single wardrobe or a saleroom lot is man and van. Book the smaller service for a whole flat and the van ends up shuttling back and forth; describe the job and we will steer you.
Compare the servicesMention a wobbly chain early
Plenty of Kent chains run back into London and on through several sales. If yours might not complete on the day, storage can be written into the quote now, which is far calmer than finding a store with a loaded vehicle outside.
How storage worksThe European arm
Removals from Kent to France, Spain, Italy and Portugal
Most road freight to the Continent crosses from Kent, through the tunnel at Folkestone or the port at Dover, and our own address is on the Folkestone side of the tunnel terminal. That shortens the first leg of the drive. It does nothing for the customs file, which still sets the date a European move can leave.
Kent to France
From the tunnel straight onto the French motorway network: Paris apartments, Normandy farmhouses, the Dordogne and the Var.
Kent to Spain
Down the Atlantic side of France and in at Irún or La Jonquera, for Madrid, Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia and Andalucía.
Kent to Italy
Through the Alpine tunnels for Lombardy and Piedmont, or along the Riviera for Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio.
Kent to Portugal
The longest road job of the four, entering at Vilar Formoso for Porto, the centre, Lisbon and the Algarve.
Questions
Kent removals: five first questions
What most people want settled before they book a survey. The full list lives on the questions page.
Which parts of Kent do you work in?
All of it, from the Thames-side towns down to Romney Marsh and from the Sussex border across to Sandwich. Where a town has its own specialist local mover and your whole move stays inside it, we will suggest you ring them instead. Anything crossing the county, or leaving it, we take on.
How is a removal priced?
After somebody has seen what is moving, either at the house or on a video call. You then get a written quote describing the scope: what is included, what would alter it, and how a change of date is handled. We do not give figures from a bedroom count over the phone, because they are rarely right.
Is there a phone number I can ring?
Yes. The number is in the header of every page and on the contact page, alongside our email address. Ringing is often best when something has just changed, such as a completion that has moved; email is better for lists, photographs and detail you want on record.
Can you move us abroad as well as within Kent?
To four countries only: France, Spain, Italy and Portugal. The vehicle reaches the Channel crossing quickly from anywhere in the county, but the customs paperwork is what decides when a European move can leave, and it needs starting well before the packing.
Do you store furniture between moves?
Yes. Goods are listed on an inventory as they are loaded, held, and brought back when you have the keys to the next house. It means a chain that slips costs you a delivery date rather than a second move.
Both addresses and a rough date are enough to begin.
From there we arrange a free survey, at the house or by video, and send a written quote that sets out the scope. Uncertain dates are fine; say they are uncertain.