International · from London
Moving abroad from London
An international move does not suspend the London end. The bay still has to be suspended, the building still has to agree, the managing agent still wants the certificate, and the chain still releases when it releases. The border adds a document set on top of all of that.
Four routes have their own pages. Anywhere else in western and central Europe is a question we answer straight.
The four routes with their own pages
Czechia, Luxembourg, Finland and Hungary — four destinations with real London demand behind them and almost nothing useful published about the actual move. Each page carries the road out, the regions we deliver into, and a document list divided between the rows you obtain and the rows we obtain.
Removals from London to Czechia
A Prague old-town address and a London mansion block have more in common than either has with a suburb.
- Prague — Staré Město and Malá Strana
- Prague — Vinohrady, Žižkov, Karlín
- Prague — the newer districts
- Brno and Moravia
Removals from London to Luxembourg
The journey is short. The housing market is not forgiving, and that is what dictates the plan.
- Luxembourg City centre and Gare
- Kirchberg
- Limpertsberg and Belair
- Esch-sur-Alzette and the south
Removals from London to Finland
Two crossings, a northern winter, and a country where saunas come with the flat and light fittings frequently do not.
- Helsinki city and Kallio
- Espoo and Vantaa
- Tampere
- Turku and the south-west
Removals from London to Hungary
Budapest courtyard buildings are beautiful and they were not designed around a three-seat sofa.
- Budapest — District V, VI and VII
- Budapest — Buda side
- Budapest — the outer districts
- Győr and the north-west
How a European job runs from London
It opens exactly like a move to Balham: a survey, a measured volume, a written inventory, a bay suspension application and a conversation with the building. What changes is the standing of that inventory, which stops being our working list and becomes a document a border official may read line by line.
The vehicle then takes the M25 to the M20 and crosses on the Folkestone shuttle. Beyond Calais the routes separate: east through Belgium and Germany for Czechia and Hungary, south-east for Luxembourg, and a long run north with a Baltic sailing for Finland.
The same buildings, in another language
The recurring surprise on these routes is how familiar the far end feels. A Prague apartment block, a Budapest courtyard building and a central London mansion flat pose the same three problems: a stone staircase, a retrofitted lift that will not take a wardrobe, and a street a full-size vehicle cannot enter.
The answers are the same too — measure the lift car and the door opening separately, send photographs at the viewing stage, and expect a shuttle or an external lift arranged in advance.
Collecting beyond London
A vehicle heading for a Kent crossing passes most of south and east London on the way, so second pickups are straightforward. Where a continental run is already in the diary we will take consignments from London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bristol onto the same vehicle. Say where yours starts and we will tell you plainly whether we are the right firm for it.
Two things we will not put in writing
A transit time before the route, the load and the vehicle arrangement are settled — the honest spread is far too wide for one figure, so the quotation carries an estimated window for your own consignment. And a duty outcome, which turns on residence status and documents, so we set out the conditions rather than imply a result we do not control.
International
Questions about moving abroad
- 01
Which countries do you run to?
Czechia, Luxembourg, Finland and Hungary have pages of their own here. The same vehicles reach France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Poland, Italy, Spain and Portugal on established routes, so ask. Where a destination is not routine for us we will say so rather than treat your move as practice.
- 02
Do you ship outside Europe?
No. We are a road firm, and a container to Sydney is a different trade with different insurance behind it. We will point you at somebody who does it properly rather than take the booking and hand it on.
- 03
Does the London end get easier because we are emigrating?
Not in the slightest, and this is the point most international pages miss. The suspension, the building booking and the agent's certificate are all still required. If anything the London end matters more, because a vehicle with a booked crossing cannot wait indefinitely on a chain.
- 04
Should we collect before completion?
On an international move, very often. Collecting a few days early and holding the goods uncouples the crossing from the completion hour, and it is the single most useful thing we suggest on these jobs.
- 05
Dedicated vehicle or a shared load?
A dedicated vehicle carries your goods alone and departs when you say. A shared load travels with other consignments going the same way: less to pay, leaving when the route fills. Fixed start dates argue for dedicated.
- 06
Who assembles the paperwork?
We do, from the inventory taken at your London property and working with an agent at the destination. The rows we cannot obtain are the ones attached to you as a person — a tax number, an address card, a personal identity code. Each country page separates the two.
Where is it going?
The country, the kind of building at the London end, and whether the far end has a confirmed address. Those three decide the vehicle, the route and the file.