Boxes are a fundamental part of moving home. You have to be able to pack all your small things into a container that will keep them safe and make it easy to stack up.
When potential customers are making enquiries regarding the costs involved in removals, we always ask whether or not they have boxes. Most [...]
One of the most important issues to address when conducting a removal is the access to to the properties. When you have men loading up a whole van of your belongings, you want to reduce the distance from the entrance to the van as much as possible. You don’t want them to have to dodge [...]
When moving office, there are many things to consider, but one thing we could absolutely not do without is the good old crate. So here is the info you need to better understand the requirements for your office when relocating.
LC3 crates are used to transport paperwork and other miscellaneous items such as stationery and personal [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Who better to ask than those that have moved house. Tell us about your moving experiences good or bad? Any funny stories, the things you forgot to do, tips and advice for those that are due to move, especially mums with small children and how everyone coped.
We continually strive to improve the service we offer [...]
Today I received the loveliest letter from one of our clients.  We are moving her elderly parents and the letter went as follows:
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I really appreciate the way Andrew put them at ease, and the helpful way you have dealt with my enquiries. They have not been in good health and the last time they moved [...]
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 [...]
What will 2009 bring? If you read the newspapers, it is all doom and gloom with companies going out of business every day and the jobless total rising. Will house prices continue to fall? When will the economy start to pick up? No one managed to accurately predict the scale and speed of the recessions [...]
As Christmas approaches at a rate of knots, we find we are doing more and more office moves through December and stretching into the New Year. Despite the credit crunch London will always remain a buoyant market for commercial relocations. Whilst the domestic housing market stagnates and purse strings are pulled even tighter, having constant [...]
Ask anyone who has organised an office move and they will say that crate hire is the bane of their life. At the end of every move, invariably crates will go missing and or employees won’t get around to unpacking their crates.
The problem with crates is that staff often don’t realise the cost of hiring [...]
It’s such a daunting prospect and there are some many things to consider when moving home. If you are one of the very priviliged few there are companies that will do everything from sourcing the property, changing your address, packing and unpacking, cleaning, decorating, pet sitting and so on. However for most of us, we [...]
Amber Moves are riding out the credit crunch and the bulk of the work we have been doing is office removals. This is due to a combination of factors – companies downsizing, regular churning work or companies moving to new premises because of rent rises.
Regardless of the credit crunch the world will continue to turn [...]
As we are all being accused of living champagne lifestyles on Babycham budgets, we have to look at our spending and cut back on life’s little luxuries. Is hiring a removal company to move you a luxury or a necessity?
It really depends on the size of the property you have to move and your lifestyle. [...]
It seems that not a day goes by without another report of a company going bust, unemployment rising and general bad news on the economy.
Everyone booking a holiday must now be thinking – what if I book and the airline or holiday company goes out of business? The same should apply to your removal and [...]
It is often said that moving home can be one of the most stressful life experiences – throw into the mix, the complications and stresses of moving home with small children and this is almost a guarantee.
I moved home in March of this year with my 22 month old daughter. Now it should be easy [...]
A very gloomy title for a blog but apparantly the only 3 reasons why anyone should be moving according to an estate agent quoted in the Sunday Times.
These are also probably the three most stressful life experiences so couple it with moving house and you may have meltdown.
As a removals company we can’t help tackle [...]
Today we are totally in shock following a comparative quote a potential customer showed us. The job in question was a larger than average 3 bedroom flat on the 2nd floor, without a lift, plus a basement full of stuff. The couple in question admitted they were hoarders.
We did a full survey and, based on [...]
This is the question that is on everyone’s lips at the moment. Now there is talk of the Chancellor removing stamp duty so anyone considering buying or selling is going to sit tight and wait and see, bringing the housing market to even more of a halt, if that is at all possible in this [...]
Moving home in London is never easy but there is almost always one certainty – that you will get a parking ticket. Often these are issued even when the van in question has been given dispensation to park. As everyone knows it is often a case of the traffic warden trying to reach his quota [...]
We are often asked what makes us different from any removal company. A good analogy would be that we are to the removals industry what boutique hotels are to the hotel industry.
We are an independent firm with no preconceptions about how removals should be done and neither do we have the old guys saying, “but [...]
Today’s blog is all about the positives of moving. Instead of focussing on the doom and gloom of the housing market, the cost of moving house and the stress involved, we’ve taken a light hearted look at moving home.
How often do you have fit, good looking young men in your house and at your beck [...]
Too often we are asked why are we more expensive than another company that has quoted on a house removal? I explain that removal companies are like supermarkets – they all sell food but each offer’s a different shopping experience and level of quality. In a nutshell – we’re Waitrose!
Look at the value of the [...]
Not a day goes by without another article in the media saying how the credit crunch is affecting families and the cost of living. Thoughts will turn to cutting costs and saving money. If a family is moving home, no doubt, the idea of doing the removal themselves will crop up.
A good deal of our [...]
