Packing is the part that eats the week before a move. Hand it over. We bring everything, work room by room, label every box by where it goes — and the unpacking on the other side is far easier because of it.
We pack the day before the move, not the same morning. Packing and carrying on one day is how both get rushed, and the boxes that get rushed are the ones that arrive rattling.
We work room by room and finish a room before opening the next. Every box is labelled with the room it goes to in the new place, not the room it came from — that one difference is what stops forty boxes ending up in the hallway.
Fragile items are wrapped individually, plates travel on their edge rather than stacked flat, and glasses go in a divided box. Books go into small boxes on purpose: a large box of books weighs more than a person should carry down four flights.
We bring everything — boxes, tape, paper, bubble wrap, wardrobe boxes with a rail so your hanging clothes travel upright. Leftover materials go back with us and you are not charged for what was not used.
A studio is two to three hours for two people, around twenty to twenty-five boxes. A one-bedroom is half a day. A two-bedroom with a full kitchen is usually a whole day, and a family home with children's rooms is a day and a half.
The kitchen is always the slowest room and always the one people underestimate. It is not the volume, it is that almost every item needs wrapping individually.
Wardrobes go faster than anyone expects, because hanging clothes go straight into wardrobe boxes on the rail. Drawers, oddly, take longer.