Office removals in London

This is for offices that one van, or a few, can move: a start-up leaving a serviced office, a practice moving down the road, a small team going up a floor.

It is not for a relocation of hundreds of desks. City2City is a marketplace of independent drivers with vans, not a commercial removals firm with crates, project managers and IT engineers. For whole floors of a building, book a commercial removals firm.

• Desks, desk pedestals and office chairs
• Filing cabinets, emptied, with the files in boxes
• Bookcases, shelving and storage cupboards
• Computers, monitors and printers, packed in boxes
• Meeting-room tables, and screens once they are off the wall
• The kitchen: fridge, microwave and the boxes of mugs

Most drivers carry tools and will take a desk apart and rebuild it, but it is up to the driver, and it is time on the clock. Ask on live chat before you book if you need it.

Most offices would rather not lose a working day to a move. You can pick a start time from 6am to 9pm, any day of the week. Drivers set their own working days, and those can include weekends.

• Fewer drivers work late, so an evening search can show fewer prices. Try more than one start time, or a weekend daytime.
• A driver can charge more for a very early or late start. If they do, it is already in the price they show you.
• Check your building's rules. Many office blocks only allow loading at set hours, and the goods lift may need booking.

A small office often fits in one van, as the worked example below shows. These three sizes suit office work.

If the load is more than a Luton can take, one van can make two trips, which means more hours. Or several drivers can work the same slot, one van each. For more than one van, send a business enquiry and City2City will match you with drivers who can do it.

Each driver sets their own price and City2City adds its booking fee to it. You compare several drivers' prices for the same job before picking one, and those prices, like the example below, already include the fee. There is no fixed office-move price, so here is how one example adds up.

Take a six-desk office moving ground floor to ground floor, a short drive apart. The minutes are the handling times the van size calculator uses.

Using the Large Long Wheel Base rate on our pricing page, £171.95 for the first two hours and then £85.97 an hour, that is £171.95 + 2 × £85.97 = £343.89 for 4 hours: what you would pay, booking fee included.

That is an example, not a quote. Another driver with the same van may charge more or less, and stairs, a long carry or a tight loading bay add time. The Congestion Charge and ULEZ are included. Most drivers set a two-hour minimum, then charge by the hour or half hour, and any overrun is at the hourly rate you saw before booking.

• List what is going: desks, chairs, cabinets, screens and boxes. It is what drivers price on.
• Book the goods lift and loading bay at both buildings, and check the permitted loading hours.
• If there is nowhere legal to stop, ask the council about suspending a bay. Ask early, as notice periods vary by borough.
• Empty filing cabinets and pedestals and box the files. A full cabinet is too heavy to carry safely.
• Photograph the cables behind each desk, then bag them and label the bag with the desk number.
• Label boxes with the room or desk they are going to, not where they came from.
• Keep laptops, keys and confidential papers with your staff, not in the van.
• Name one person at each end to answer the driver's questions.

Hammersmith, Ealing, Hounslow, Kensington and Uxbridge are all outside the Congestion Charge zone, and ULEZ covers all of London. Both are in the price either way. What changes a west London office move is loading.

Moving elsewhere in London? See every area we cover.