Man and Van in Whitstable

A good many of the cottages sit on alleys and passages that no van will follow, which means the vehicle stops on the nearest road that will hold it and everything walks from there. The length of that walk, not the size of the house, is what sets the time and the crew.

We would rather establish that before quoting than discover it on the day. Tell us how close a car can get to your door and whether there is a passage involved, and we will size the job to the walk instead of guessing from the number of bedrooms.

From about May the town fills, and the streets nearest the water fill first. On a warm weekend the seafront and Tankerton slopes take every space there is, and a loaded van circling for somewhere to stop is burning your money rather than ours.

In the busy months we push seafront moves towards weekday mornings, which are noticeably easier than any weekend between May and September. Out of season it hardly matters and a Saturday is as good as any other day.

The town has a lot of independent, antique and secondhand sellers, and a fair share of our Whitstable work is one item bought locally that needs getting home, sometimes to an address well outside the town. Those are proper jobs with proper handling, not an afterthought.

We wrap and strap a single piece the same way we would a houseful, because a dresser that shifts once in an empty van is a dresser that arrives damaged. Give us the collection address and the delivery address and we will price the pair of them together.