About
We survey the road before we quote the load
A Kent removals firm organised round the last stretch to your door, because in this county that stretch varies more than the houses at the end of it do.
No memberships we do not hold, no awards we have not won, and no total of moves completed invented for a home page.
Why the road and not the house
Because Kent is unusual. Inside an hour’s drive the county runs from motorway-fed estates at Ashford to Victorian terraces stacked above the Medway, single-track lanes on the Downs, unmade farm tracks in the fruit belt, exposed seafronts at Deal, and marsh roads where there is frequently no second way in.
Two identical three-bedroom houses, one on a new estate and one at the end of a farm track, are the same load and completely different days. Sorting work by bedroom count tells you almost nothing here. Sorting it by the last road tells you the vehicle, the crew, the kit and the hour.
What the survey actually looks at
The gap between your gateposts at its narrowest. The narrowest point of the lane and where a vehicle can turn round. Weight and height limits on the approach. What the surface does in rain rather than what it looks like in June. And what is overhead, which is the measurement nobody takes and the one obstacle that cannot be worked around.
Those six are on the home page in full, with how to take each one. You can do all of them in about ten minutes, and if you send them with an enquiry you will get a much better answer than anyone working from a postcode.
Then the loft
Once the access is settled, the volume decides everything else — and on the easy half of the county it is the volume that goes wrong. A boarded loft in a postwar semi holds roughly as much again as the rooms below it and is invisible from all of them. So the loft is opened at survey, along with the garage, the shed and, on a smallholding, every outbuilding.
What we will say plainly
That your lane will not take a full-size vehicle, if it will not. That the ground in your yard will not carry a loaded lorry in February whatever it does in August. That a shuttle will make the day longer, and roughly how much longer. And that we would rather hold your goods in store than deliver them into a house with the floors still up.
None of that is difficult to say at the survey and all of it is difficult to say at eight in the morning with a vehicle blocking a lane.
Where we work
The whole county, from the Dartford edge to Deal and from the Hoo peninsula to Romney Marsh — set out by road type on the coverage page rather than by town, because that is how the work actually divides.
We also move out of Kent across the UK, and into Europe by road. The moving abroad pages are written round the same subject: what the last road looks like at the far end.
The names on this site
Towns, roads, motorways, crossings, councils and the county council appear here as geography and as operating context. No relationship with any of them is claimed and none endorses this firm.
What is the last road like?
Both addresses, roughly what is going, and whatever you know about the final stretch at each end. A photograph of a gateway from the road beats any description of it.