Man and Van Edinburgh
Man and van across Edinburgh from £35 an hour, covering the tenement stairs of the Old and New Town, the student turnover through Marchmont and Newington, the waterfront conversions at Leith, and the easier driveways of Corstorphine and Morningside out to Livingston. Bookings are matched to whichever registered operator is nearest, with drivers who know which streets sit inside New Town's controlled parking zone and which Old Town closes a van simply cannot enter. No membership, no call-out charge, and the app confirms the exact price before a driver is dispatched.
Man and van in Edinburgh runs from £35 an hour, with the total set before the job gets under way. The service is pay-per-use across every EH postcode, with no subscription and no priority tiers. Tenement stairs, New Town parking suspensions and the August Festival's road closures all shape how a job gets planned, so crews check access before setting off rather than on arrival. The app displays live pricing up front, with the driver trackable on the map from confirmation through to the doorstep.
Covering all Edinburgh postcodes. No postcode surcharge. No membership required.
Services in Edinburgh
Fixed upfront prices. No membership fees. Live operator tracking across every postcode in Edinburgh.
Small Van
Fits a studio or single tenement room in Old Town or Marchmont without a second trip. Two-hour minimum, first 15 miles included.
Medium Van
The standard choice for a New Town or Newington two-bedroom flat. Driver included, tenement stair carries priced into the hourly rate.
Luton Van with Tail Lift
Tail lift as standard, built for Corstorphine and Morningside house moves and for long runs to any UK city beyond the Lothians.
Extra Helper
Worth adding for a tenement flat with no lift, or an Old Town close where everything has to be carried rather than driven to the door.
Man and Van in Edinburgh - What You Need to Know
Tenement stairs are the whole job
Edinburgh's tenements define what a move here actually involves: four or five storeys, a single common stair, no lift, and stone steps that turn tightly at every landing. A two-bedroom flat on a third-floor tenement is a fundamentally different job from the same flat with a lift and level access, and it is exactly the kind of job where a second helper pays for itself several times over rather than being an optional extra.
New Town cobbles and controlled parking
The New Town combines granite setts, listed-building restrictions and one of the strictest controlled parking regimes anywhere in the UK, so a van cannot simply pull up outside a Georgian address on the day. A bay suspension applied for with the council in advance is often the only reliable way to get close to the door, and that application needs real notice rather than being sorted the morning of the move.
Marchmont and Newington's student cycle
The university areas around Marchmont and Newington turn over sharply in September and late June, with flats above shops and tenement stairs throughout, so a huge share of Edinburgh's single-item and one-bedroom moves land in those same few weeks. Slots across that period are the hardest in the whole Edinburgh calendar to book at short notice, which is worth knowing if a move date happens to fall right in the middle of it.
Festival August road closures
During the Festival Fringe, central Edinburgh becomes close to impassable for a loaded van, with road closures, pedestrianisation and permit-only access spreading across large parts of the Old Town and city centre for the whole month. A move booked into August needs planning around the closures rather than through them, and a route that works in June can simply not exist by the second week of August.
The Old Town's closes and wynds
Addresses off the Royal Mile are reached through narrow closes and wynds that no van, regardless of size, can physically enter, so loading happens from the nearest accessible street instead with a genuinely long carry down a close. That is why these jobs are quoted with an extra pair of hands rather than a bigger vehicle, since the constraint is entirely about the walk, not the volume being moved.
Corstorphine and Morningside's easier suburbs
The outer suburbs around Corstorphine and Morningside have driveways, rear access and noticeably wider roads than the tenement core, which makes them some of the most straightforward moves in the whole city. The usual complication is not the property itself but a mature tree line, a narrow gate or a hedge that a Luton simply cannot clear, so the crew sometimes ends up carrying further than the driveway alone would suggest.
Leith and the waterfront conversions
The Shore and the wider Leith waterfront developments have underground parking with height barriers and service lifts that vary hugely in size from one building to the next, so whether a specific block actually has a working goods lift is the single biggest factor in how long the job takes. A crew confirms that detail with the building before the move rather than assuming every waterfront address works the same way.
Leith Walk and the tram corridor
Leith Walk carried years of roadworks during the tram extension down to Newhaven, and although the line is now running, the corridor still sees more disruption and diversions than a typical Edinburgh main road. A job starting or finishing near Leith Walk is worth checking against current road layouts rather than an older route, since a street that was open last month can be closed for tram maintenance this one.
Scottish entry dates
Scottish property transactions settle on entry dates that cluster around traditional quarter days and month end rather than spreading evenly through the month the way English tenancies do, which concentrates Edinburgh's moving demand into much sharper spikes than the raw number of transactions alone would suggest. Booking ahead of one of those dates matters more here than in a city where completions land more evenly across the calendar.
Edinburgh postcodes we cover
Same fixed price across every area. No postcode surcharge.
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You keep 90 percent
Ten percent platform fee in year one. No weekly subscription, no lead fees, no bidding against other drivers for the same job.
Work when you want
Accept or decline every job. No shift rotas, no minimum hours, no penalty for turning work down.
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Congestion charge, skates, extra passengers and heavy loads are all priced into the job, not absorbed by you.
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Everything about pricing, coverage and response times in Edinburgh.
Last updated August 2026.
Man and Van in Edinburgh - What You Need to Know
Fixed price. Fast arrival. 24/7 across all Edinburgh postcodes. No membership required.
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The fixed price is shown before you confirm, not after the work. Card, Apple Pay and Google Pay are handled in-app, so no cash changes hands at the kerb.
Track the driver
Once a job is accepted you see the driver's name, vehicle and live position on the map, with an arrival time that updates as they travel.
Every operator is DBS checked, insured for hire and reward, and rated after each job. Prices are fixed before dispatch, never quoted as a range.
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