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The Amber Moves Difference
What makes one removal company differ from another? Essentially we all have removal men and vans and charge for our service to move your home.
The difference is in the level of service and the staff we employ. We pride ourselves on not using casual labour – all our staff have been with [...]
We are currently working on a project with Save the Children to set up a stock collection system as part of the removal service. We are hoping to extend this to all reputable removal companies across the country via a new web service.
The Charity relies on stock for their shops. They estimate that one sack [...]
The moving market is surprisingly bouyant as home movers try to complete and be settled in time for Christmas. We have had a big upsurge in bookings for December and expect to be working right up to Xmas Eve. It is predominantly large family homes in the London area although we have seen a trend [...]
I’ve just found some great videos on how to pack for your move on You Tube.
A removal company in Vancouver has produced videos on:
How to pack books
How to pack lampshades
How to pack clothing
How to pack glass
How to pack pictures and mirrors
Follow this link,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NBmUxX58_w
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Post your feedback, we’d love to hear what you think of them. Even [...]
I always tell our clients, “no matter how awful it seems, you will be settled in the new house in a few weeks, and all the stress will be a distant memory”.
The truth is that it is the run-up to the move that is stressful, not the actual removal day. The key, like everything else [...]
We work with a number of partners to offer additional services and benefits to both our home moving and office move clients. One of the most frequent requests is for a cleaning service.
We recommend Evaclean, a company who has the same values and high level of service we have. They have kindly provided their details [...]
Our exciting project, a storybook about moving home to colour in, is really coming together. We have produced a beautiful, heart-warming story about moving home, for children to colour in. We’re hoping to publish the book and sell it through Amazon and the Save the Children shops amongst others.
All the profits will be donated to [...]
Tradtionally the month of August, and especially the Bank Holiday weekend have alwasy been the busiest time of the year for people moving house. Moving in and around London can often prove difficult especially if the job is in the vicinity of the Nottinghill Carnival. Families and couples will take advantage of the long weekend [...]
Another side of our business that we don’t often boast about. On my most removals, there is always items to get rid of as the family moving home, takes the opportunity to have a good clear out.
Andrew collects everything up and once a month does a charity boot fair. Mainly because it’s his hobby and he [...]
There is nothing nicer than unsolicited positive feedback and the card below sums it up. No matter the size of the removal we always offer a high level of service, great flexibility and absolute peace of mind.
The build up to moving home can be so fraught that most people are actually surprised when the removal day [...]
Every time we conduct a removal, we ask our clients to fill in a feedback questionnaire. These are then sent directly to the National Guild of Removers and Storers. If at least 98% have rated our service excellent, we then receive an Excellence Award.
We’ve done it again and are proud to show off our award [...]
We aim to make our site appealable to a wider audience and more fun and with this in mind, we’re asking for guest bloggers. If you or your company offer a service that may be relevant to anyone moving house or organising a London office move, we’d be delighted to hear from you.
Drop us a [...]
When last did you come across a removal company running a regular competition with a fab prize? As part of our strategy to give back to our clients, we hope every newsletter reader will enter our simple competition, with a chance of winning of course!
Don’t forget to enter our on-line competition. The prize is £50 [...]
The headlines in The Times, 31 July say “Unthinkable, but true, house prices rise yet again”.
How quickly the tide turns only 4-5 months ago, they were saying the market would take at least a year to recover. This was the worst recession in history, negative equity would exceed the peeks reached in the early 90’s [...]
As part of our plan to revolutionise the moving industry we are putting together a survey, asking anyone who has moved, or is planning a move, their thoughts and experiences on the moving process.
Use this area of the blog to post your suggestions for our survey.
With ever increasing frequency we are getting requests from clients for “the works”. It may that it is time and work constraints, being out of the country and unable to orchestrate the move or just weariness from having had to move home too often.
These clients want us to collect keys, pack up everything (right from [...]
PFM, the Premises and Facilites magazine, has published the results of the 2009 Moving Trends Survey. The results of the survey were first presented in Brussels at the BAR conference. Despite tough economic conditions, the survey shows that right now there is a window of opportunity for the commercial relocation contractor. Many of the respondents [...]
We were very excited to launch the inaugural issue of Amber News, our quarterly newsletter. Filled with stories on moves we have done, projects we have coming up and a fantastic competition.
The newsletter has been mailed out to 1500 clients and will continue to go out to all our new contacts. The competition is an [...]
Yesterday we offered our service to help transport donations from the Grazia office to Westfields shopping centre. Amber Moves supports the campaign which is in aid of Save the Children and aims to tranform the face of charity shopping. The idea is don’t dump – donate! No more dropping off bin liners full of clothes [...]
A recent article in FM World reports:
Prime rents in London will fall by a quarter this year, faster than anywhere else in Western Europe, if the latest forecasts prove correct.
The Investment Property Forum’s European Consensus Forecast anticipates a fall of 26.6 per cent in West End rents and 22.7 per cent in the City of [...]
Lets hope so, that way the housing market can get moving again. All the signs are there to show that there are definately green shoots in the market. Removal enquiries are on the up which I believe is a sign that everyone believes house prices have bottomed out and now the only way is up.Â
Clients [...]
We are working on a new page for our website to celebrate everyone who has recommended us. On trawling through the diary, it almost became like the game “6 degrees of seperation”. It turns out there are groups of friends who have recommended us to all their freinds and so on and so on. The [...]
Hi, I am working on a BBC pilot TV show called ‘Moving Day’. The show documents the process of moving house, focusing on individuals and groups of people as they move from one home to another. We are looking to get in touch with people that are scheduled to move in the next few weeks [...]
There’s nothing like good news and here it is …. the housing market is picking up. May has brought record numbers of home move enquiries. We had 19 enquiries on one particular day.
The general trend seems to be that people have got “bored” with the recession and decided to move. One of our clients told [...]
As the quiet patch that is easter and half term draws to a close we have noticed a decided upturn in removal enquiries – especially for those moving house. We already have a number of large house moves booked in for May and the enquiries are coming in at the same rate they used to [...]
At Amber Moves, we have noticed a trend in office moves and it seems more offices are moving into prime areas such as Canary Wharf, The City and the West End. A report by NB Real Estate and Oncor International have confirmed why this is such – the City of London is no longer in [...]
Amber Moves of London are proud to announce that we have been awarded the Annual Certification of Excellence Award by the National Guild of Removers and Storers for the 4th successive year. This is based on on Quality Questionnaire returns during the period January to December 2008, all rating our service as Excellent.
Customer satisfaction is [...]
Surprise, surprise the country is officially in recession. No doubt this news will bring forth a new set of predictions for the housing market. Here at Amber Moves, we try to look at the positive and the positive is that people will always need to move house and many moves are not mortage related.
The main [...]
We just completed a very large office move in London at short notice and were so pleased to receive this feedback from our client:
Also, many thanks for all your teams help, they did a great job and very flexible on the move. Would certainly use or recommend you again, and I think the [...]
January 2009 has seen another busy month for office moves in London. It is a combination of companies downsizing equally matched with companies expanding and moving to bigger and better premises in spite of the recession. This is very uplifting as it serves to remind that it is not all doom and gloom out there [...]
