About
We measure the staircase
A removals firm working SW15, organised around the level you live on rather than around service names, because in a postcode made almost entirely of converted houses the staircase is the job.
No awards we have not won, no membership badges we do not hold, and no invented totals for moves completed.
The measurement that matters
Ask most removals firms for a quote and they will ask how many bedrooms you have. In Putney that is close to useless. A three-bedroom garden flat reached down a light well, and a three-bedroom flat at the top of a converted terrace, contain the same furniture and require opposite plans.
So the first thing we establish is the level, and the second is the turn at the top of your flight — the clear diagonal available where the staircase changes direction. That single number answers most of the questions people have about their own furniture, and it takes two minutes to take.
Why this postcode in particular
Because SW15 is overwhelmingly Victorian and Edwardian houses divided into flats, and dividing a house does something specific to it. The original staircase was designed to serve one household moving in once. It now serves three or four households moving in and out on a rolling basis, and it was never widened.
The mansion blocks around the Heath are the exception and behave completely differently — a lift, a porter, a managing agent, and a set of rules. Roehampton is different again. But the conversion is the defining Putney building, and a firm that does not understand its geometry will keep discovering the same problem on landings.
Other people's hallways
The other half of working here is that most of a Putney move happens in shared space. The front door, the hall and the staircase belong to everyone in the building, and the communal decoration is usually the freeholder's responsibility and the leaseholders' collective bill.
That is why runners go down as standard, why we keep to one side of a hall, and why we will suggest you tell the managing agent a week beforehand. Marks on a communal staircase are the commonest dispute after a move here and are very largely preventable.
How we quote
We survey, then we write a figure down. A phone call cannot see the turn at the top of your stairs, and that is the feature which decides more about the day than anything you could describe in words.
There are no prices on this site and no transit times on the overseas pages. Both would be guesses presented as information. What you get is a written quote against a stated inventory.
What we will say plainly
That your sofa is not coming down that flight, and what the three options are. That a wardrobe assembled in the room is going to have to come apart in it. That flat-pack already moved once may not survive a second dismantling. That the new flat will not take everything this one holds, and that storing the remainder beats deciding in a hurry. And that a small job entirely inside Barnes or Fulham is often better placed with a firm from there.
Saying those things loses us the occasional booking. It loses us considerably less than the alternative.
Which floor, at both ends?
That and the two addresses. If you can also measure the clear diagonal at the turn in your staircase, we can usually answer the furniture question straight away.