Victorian terraces off King Street, mansion flats around Brook Green, riverside apartments on the Mall, conversion flats in Brackenbury and family houses by Ravenscourt Park — plus the small jobs and the moves that end in Europe.
Six things that decide a W6 moving day. None of them show on a floor plan, all of them are settled at survey, and every one of them is why we measure rather than guess.
A W6 terrace is narrow-fronted and three or four storeys once the loft conversion and the cellar are counted, with a stair that turns twice. The load is rarely the problem — the distance between the front door and the top floor is, and it is a crew-size question.
The red-brick blocks around Brook Green have generous rooms and a wide communal stair, plus a lift fitted decades after the building. The question is never whether there is a lift. It is whether a wardrobe fits in it.
A terrace cut into flats keeps the original stair, its half-landing and the newel post everything has to swing around. Lovely buildings, unforgiving geometry. We measure the tightest point before we price.
Along the Mall, "where does the van go" has three answers and only one is simple — a gated forecourt with a width limit, a carry from legal standing, or a shuttle vehicle for the last stretch.
Controlled parking covers nearly all of W6, so a bay suspension or dispensation is part of the job rather than an extra. The council wants notice, and that notice period is the commonest reason a moving day starts badly.
The Apollo fills the roads around the Broadway and the bridge approach on show nights. The A4 and the flyover are busy at predictable hours. Both are reasons to choose the loading window at survey rather than accept the morning.
A Hammersmith move has a lot of moving parts — the survey, the permit, the managing agent, the packing, the protection, the vehicle. They belong in one written quote rather than arriving as a series of small surprises.
Both addresses, the floor at each end, and roughly what is coming. Seven fields on the quote form.
Video call for most W6 addresses; in person for mansion flats, riverside blocks and difficult stairs. Free, no obligation.
Volume, access, packing and distance. It holds unless what is coming changes.
The permit application, and the managing-agent correspondence where the building needs the move booked.
Protection on before anything moves, labelled unloading, materials away when we go.
Terraces off King Street, family houses at Ravenscourt Park and Brackenbury.
Read more →Brook Green mansion blocks, terrace conversions, newer stock at the Broadway.
Read more →The Mall, Furnivall Gardens and the managed blocks along the water.
Read more →A room, a studio, a unit cleared, one heavy thing. Booked by the job.
Read more →Full, part or fragile-only packing; containerised storage between completions.
Read more →Hammersmith to France, Spain, Italy and Portugal, route-pair framed.
Read more →W6 in full, with the Shepherd's Bush, Chiswick and Fulham edges either side.
There is a second Hammersmith domain on our network — the hyphenated hammersmith-removals.uk — working the same district with its own crews. If you have already had a survey from them, take their quote; two proposals from the same family of firms tells you nothing. Fulham has its own coverage, and for a genuinely London-wide move our pan-London sister sites are the better fit.
Who covers what →Out on the A4 to the M4, or round the M25 to the Kent crossings. Four destinations, with the customs file built from the same survey that priced the move.
Controlled almost everywhere in W6, so a bay suspension or a dispensation is usually part of the job rather than an extra. We arrange it once the date is fixed, because the council needs notice and the notice period is the part people leave too late.
Victorian and Edwardian terraces, red-brick mansion flats, conversion flats carved out of those terraces, riverside apartment blocks along the Mall, and newer development around the Broadway. Five quite different kinds of moving day.
On gig nights, yes — the roads around the Broadway and the bridge approach get busy and stay busy. We check what is on before fixing a loading window rather than discovering it at five in the afternoon.
Usually, with planning. Some blocks along the Mall and near Furnivall Gardens have limited vehicle access, gated forecourts or a walk from the nearest standing point, and all three change the crew size rather than the price list.
Constantly. A terrace cut into flats keeps the original stair, which was built for a household rather than for two sofas and a wardrobe. We measure the turn before we price.
Both addresses, the floor at each end, and roughly what is coming. We will survey, check the access and come back with a written quote.