Straight residential street in Hoofddorp with trees in the verge and a wide pavement

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Movers in Hoofddorp

Municipality of Haarlemmermeer. The survey happens here within 2 working days, at your home or by video call.

In short

Hoofddorp in short

Gallery flats and traffic-calmed courts: both extremes sit inside one town.

Hoofddorp is the largest town in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer and at the same time the place where differences within a move are largest. The north has gallery flats from the 1960s and 1970s along Graan voor Visch and Bornholm, with long walkways and a building lift narrow enough to refuse a double mattress. The south and west have Floriande, Toolenburg and Overbos: generous homes, wide stairs and a storage room inside the house.

Each asks something different. In the flats a ladder lift pays for itself fastest: anything that can go through the window never touches the gallery. In the newer districts the house is not the problem, the street is, because a traffic-calmed court is full of bollards and humps and the nearest place a twelve metre van can turn is sometimes two streets away.

What both halves share is the polder around them: straight roads, wide verges and short distances. A move within Hoofddorp is rarely a drive of more than fifteen minutes, which means the bill consists almost entirely of hours at the door rather than kilometres.

What matters here

What matters in Hoofddorp

  • Gallery flats at Graan voor Visch and Bornholm, long internal routes and a small building lift
  • Floriande, Toolenburg and Overbos: generous homes on courts with bollards and humps
  • Parking bays around Marktplein and Concourslaan that must be kept free early
  • Short distances inside the town, so effectively no kilometre item on the quote

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Where the van can stand

Where the van can stand in Hoofddorp

At the flats along Graan voor Visch and Bornholm there is parking enough and a ladder lift can nearly always be set up, but the route inside is long. In Floriande and Toolenburg it is the other way round: the house is generous, but the van reaches the entrance of the court and no further. Around Marktplein and Concourslaan two parking bays have to be kept free, which only works early in the day.

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.

Amounts per type of home

Roughly what a move in Hoofddorp 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 homeAmount, VAT included
Studio or small flat€ 350 to € 750
Two or three room flat€ 500 to € 900
Terraced house€ 700 to € 1.200
Detached house€ 1.200 to € 2.500

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.

Questions

Questions from Hoofddorp

Question not here? Call or send a message.

Can the van park at the door in Floriande?

Usually not entirely. The courts are deliberately laid out to keep through traffic out, and that includes a moving van. At the survey we establish the nearest place it can stand and price the walking distance in, rather than discovering it on the day.

Is a ladder lift needed at a flat on Graan voor Visch?

From the second floor almost always, and sometimes sooner. The building lift is narrow and slow and belongs to the neighbours all day too. A ladder lift costs 60 to 120 euro per hour and pays for itself past three large items.

How quickly can the survey happen in Hoofddorp?

Within two working days, at your home or by video call. For a home in the same town a video call is often enough: a walk through the house and a look at the street settles both the volume and the parking spot.

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