Home & office relocation
Cedar Studio plans the move before the truck arrives: a walkthrough, a written quote, a packing list, and one move lead who stays with the job from the first carton to the final walk-through.
Move types
Every move is quoted per job rather than from a fixed list, because access, volume and timing change the crew size far more than the distance does. Start with the lane that sounds like yours.
The standard job: one address to another, packed either by you or by our crew the day before. We carry wardrobe cartons on the truck so hanging clothes travel upright, and beds, dining tables and flat-pack desks are taken apart and rebuilt in the new room.
Planned around your downtime rather than ours. Desks are labelled by seat, cables are bagged to their machine, and the server or studio kit moves in a separate protected run. We work evenings and weekends when the building allows it.
For the gap between completion dates. We load, hold your goods in a wrapped, inventoried container and deliver on the day you confirm. You get the inventory list before the container is sealed, so you know what is where.
A marble table, a safe, a treadmill, a wardrobe that will not turn the stair corner. We measure the route first and tell you honestly whether it goes through the door, up the stairwell, or needs to be dismantled.
How a move runs
Most of the stress in a move comes from not knowing what happens next. This is the sequence we follow on every job, and the part that stays with you.
A room-by-room look, in person or over a video call, so the quote is based on what is actually there.
Materials are dropped off and the plan is confirmed. You decide how much packing you want to hand over.
The crew protects the route first, then works room by room so nothing is left to a last-minute sweep.
Boxes go to the room on the label, furniture is rebuilt, and we do not leave until you have walked the place.
What's covered
A quote is only useful if it holds on the day. Here is what every Cedar Studio quote already contains, and the handful of things we price separately so they never arrive as a surprise line.
Materials & handling
Useful if you are packing yourself. These are the materials we drop off in prep week and how each one is meant to be filled.
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Six answers are enough for a first figure. If the job needs a closer look, we will suggest a walkthrough — video is fine — before anything is confirmed.
Before you book
By the crew hours the job realistically takes, adjusted for volume, access and timing. Stairs, long carries from the parking bay and a tight lift add hours; a ground-floor flat with a loading bay takes fewer. That is why we quote per job rather than publishing a rate card that would be wrong for half of you.
Three to four weeks for a weekend or a month-end date, which are the two busiest windows. Midweek moves can often be fitted in within a week. If your dates are still moving, tell us the range and we will hold a provisional slot.
Empty anything with glass, anything that slides open, and any drawer heavy enough to change how the piece lifts. Light clothing can usually stay in a solid chest of drawers. Hanging clothes do not need packing at all — they go straight into our wardrobe cartons on the day.
We keep working. Upholstery and mattresses are already covered, cartons are shrink-wrapped on the trolley, and extra runners go down on both ends to keep the floors clean. We only reschedule when conditions make the carry genuinely unsafe, and that call is made with you the morning of.
We can disconnect and refit a plug-in washing machine, dryer or fridge, and we fit transit bolts where the machine came with them. Anything hardwired or on a gas line has to be done by a licensed trade before we arrive — tell us in the notes and we will remind you in prep week.
Fuel, gas cylinders, paint, fireworks and other flammables cannot travel on the truck. Pets, house plants and anything you would be devastated to lose — passports, jewellery, medication, hard drives — are best in your own car. Pianos, safes and large aquariums are moved, but only after a specialist assessment at quote stage.
You do, because most buildings will only accept the booking from a resident or tenant. We send you the exact list after the walkthrough: which forms the management office wants, the insurance details they usually ask for, and how long to reserve the service lift for the volume you have.
That is what the storage shuttle is for. We load on your original date, hold everything wrapped and inventoried, and deliver when you confirm the new address. The first two weeks of holding are already in the quote, so a short delay costs you nothing extra.