Moving van with its tail lift down at the kerb of a terraced street, blankets and straps visible inside

What we do

Household moves

Loading, driving, unloading, and every box in the right room.

In short

A house move is a day on which three things have to line up at once: the van stands in the right place, the crew matches the volume, and the house empties in an order that can still be unloaded at the other end. That last part is what separates a crew from a group of people carrying things. Stack at random and you finish with a van that has to be opened twice.

We survey the volume beforehand, in half an hour, at your home or by video call. That produces a list in cubic metres, and that list is the basis of the price. You keep it, even if you hire someone else: with that figure you can check every quote you receive, including ours.

On the day we work top to bottom and small to large. Boxes first, then loose furniture, then wardrobes and beds. What goes in last comes out first, and with us that is always the bed: anyone who has to sleep at seven in the evening does not want it coming out from under the sofa.

Want to hold someone else’s quote against this?

Send it along. What we take from it is which items are missing, and you get to hear that even if you hire them.

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Where it gets stuck

What is included as standard

Blankets, straps, furniture covers and a sack truck. Protecting door frames and banisters at both addresses is part of the job and never a separate line: preventing damage costs less than paying for it.

What moves the price

Where the van can stand, the floor you live on, and how much is loose rather than boxed. Fifty metres of extra walking is ten seconds a box and an hour across sixty of them. A third floor without a lift means a ladder lift, and that is the largest separate item on the whole quote.

When two vans cost less

From about fifty cubic metres, or when the two addresses are far apart. A second van costs half a day, but it saves a second round trip of an hour and a half plus the crew standing idle. We work that out at the survey, including when the answer is that one van is enough.

Amounts per type of home

What it costs

The rates for this part of the work, VAT included.

Four types of home, with the band two published sources give for each. All amounts include VAT, without a ladder lift and without packing.
Type of home	Amount, VAT included	Where the spread comes from
Studio or small flat	€ 350 to € 750	Half a day with one or two movers. This is the one line where the two sources part company: one starts at 350 euro, the other puts the smallest self-contained move at 650.
Two or three room flat	€ 500 to € 900	Add the ladder lift as soon as the flat is above the second floor or the building lift is small. In the blocks of northern Hoofddorp that is nearly always the case.
Terraced house	€ 700 to € 1.200	The housing type most quotes in this municipality rest on. A full attic or a shed of garden furniture pushes the outcome to the top of the band.
Detached house	€ 1.200 to € 2.500	Two vans or two runs, and almost always dismantling wardrobes and beds. Above two thousand euro a survey should have happened first, not a phone call.

On a wide screen the note per row sits in the third column. In short: the low end is half a day with two movers, the high end a full day with dismantling and a second run.

What is not included

Ladder lift, packing, dismantling and reassembly, boxes and storage. They stand with their rate in the item list above, and they are why two quotes with the same total promise different things.

What the survey changes

Half an hour, free of charge, and it produces the cubic-metre list. With that figure you can check any quote, ours included, and the list is and remains your property, whoever ends up doing the move.

Background

A move within the Haarlemmermeer municipality is rarely a long drive: most moves in Hoofddorp, Nieuw-Vennep and Badhoevedorp stay inside ten kilometres. That means driving time barely counts and the price is almost entirely hours spent at the door. Which is precisely why the parking spot decides the bill here, not the distance.

The four housing types in this area differ sharply on that. A ribbon house on Aalsmeerderweg with its own driveway is the easiest move we do; a gallery flat at Graan voor Visch with a long walkway and a small lift is the heaviest. Between those two sits half a day, on exactly the same household.

Date already fixed?

Then the survey is the fastest next step. It takes half an hour and produces the cubic-metre list any quote can be checked against.

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Questions

Questions about household moves

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Do I have to help on moving day?

No. With a fixed price or with movers by the hour we do the carrying. It does help to have someone present who can say where things go: a box in the right room saves you an hour of searching the next day.

What happens if the keys arrive late?

We wait, and that waiting time appears on the quote as work billed afterwards: with the hourly rate attached and no total set in advance. A handover at the notary that overruns cannot be estimated, and a quote that names an amount for it anyway has hidden it somewhere else.

Can you move on a Saturday?

Yes. In the high season, May to September, Saturdays fill first. If you want one, plan four weeks ahead; on weekdays that lead time is shorter.