House Removals Greenwich
Full house removals across Greenwich SE10, the SE3 Blackheath edge and the SE18 Woolwich border: Georgian townhouses, Victorian terraces and Peninsula apartments packed, dismantled, moved and rebuilt by DBS-checked crews.
A house removal in Greenwich is charged by the hour: small van £35, medium van £45, Luton van £60, with a two-hour minimum and a second helper at £12/hr. Packing costs £25/hr per packer and dismantling is £30 per item. The first 15 miles are included, and your price is locked in the app before booking.
Parking bay suspensions applied for in advance, 7am starts on conservation streets, concierge lift slots booked on the Peninsula, A2 Kent and Blackwall Tunnel crossings timed away from peak. Goods-in-transit cover from £10,000 and public liability on every crew.
Services in Greenwich
Fixed upfront prices. No membership fees. Live operator tracking across every postcode in Greenwich.
Apartment Removal
Medium van and DBS-checked crew for one and two-bed apartments on Greenwich Peninsula and North Greenwich and conversions off Trafalgar Road. Service-lift slot booked with the concierge before the day. Usually three to five hours.
House Removal
Luton van for full houses: Crooms Hill and Ashburnham Triangle townhouses, East Greenwich terraces and large SE3 Blackheath period homes. Helper £12/hr, third person as an additional helper, dismantle and reassemble £30 per item.
Removals in Greenwich - What You Need to Know
Removals or man and van in Greenwich, and how many hours the move actually takes
The dividing line is volume and packing, not distance. If you are moving a studio or a one-bed and you have already boxed everything, an hourly van and driver will finish it. Once you are emptying a whole house - beds to dismantle, a wardrobe that will not clear the turn on the stairs, a kitchen nobody has touched - you want a full removals crew: a Luton van at £60/hr with at least one helper at £12/hr, and a third person added as an additional helper on bigger jobs. As a planning guide for Greenwich, a one-bed Peninsula apartment with a booked lift runs three to four hours door to door, a two-bed conversion off Trafalgar Road four to five, a three-bed Victorian terrace five to seven, and a four or five-bed Blackheath period house a full eight-hour day or a two-van booking. Add roughly two to three hours if the crew is packing for you at £25/hr per packer, plus £30 per item for beds, wardrobes and dining tables that come apart and go back together. The in-app clock is visible to both sides and rounds up to the nearest 15 minutes, so the estimate you plan around is the bill you get.
Three kinds of Greenwich home, three completely different moving days
Greenwich has a split personality and it shows on the tailboard. The World Heritage centre and West Greenwich - Crooms Hill, Royal Hill and the streets of the Ashburnham Triangle - are Georgian and early Victorian townhouses inside conservation areas: tall and narrow, three or four storeys of original staircase, sash windows, and hallways never sized for a modern corner sofa. Those jobs are slow at the property and quick on the road. East Greenwich, the grid of Victorian terraces and flat conversions behind Trafalgar Road, is the everyday two and three-bed removal: a Luton can usually get close, and the day is straightforward once beds and wardrobes come apart. South toward the heath, SE3 Blackheath is family-house territory - large period homes with cellars, lofts, garden furniture and twenty years of accumulation - and these are the eight-hour days that justify a second and third helper. Then there is Greenwich Peninsula and North Greenwich, thousands of new-build apartments with lifts, level thresholds and no stairs at all, where the whole job hinges on the loading bay and the concierge rather than the doorway. One borough, four loading plans.
Getting a full household out of a conservation street
For a single item you can park at the end of the road and walk it. For a full house you cannot: the load is dozens of boxes plus furniture, and every extra metre of carry multiplies across the whole day. In the historic centre, the approaches to Greenwich Market, College Approach, King William Walk and Greenwich Church Street combine historic paving, pedestrian priority and conservation-area vehicle limits, so a Greenwich removal is planned around where a Luton can legally stand for hours rather than minutes. Three things do that work. First, a suspended parking bay: the Royal Borough of Greenwich handles bay suspensions and they have to be applied for in advance, not arranged on the morning. Second, an early start, because crews book 7am to 8am slots in the town centre before visitor footfall and delivery traffic build. Third, a shuttle, where a small van ferries loads out to a larger vehicle standing legally nearby when the Luton genuinely cannot reach. On the Peninsula the same logic runs in reverse: a full household occupies the service lift for hours, not minutes, so the concierge booking is made when you book us rather than on the day.
Where Greenwich households go, and what the mileage costs
Three corridors account for most full-house moves out of SE10. The first is south east on the A2 into Kent: families trading a Greenwich terrace for a garden in Bexley, Dartford, Gravesend or further out toward the Medway towns, typically a Luton and two helpers on a weekday. The second is local and short, SE10 to SE3, SE7, SE9 or SE18, the upsizing move that stays inside the borough and its edges. The Elizabeth line has quietly reshaped that pattern: with fast services from Woolwich and Abbey Wood, households who once felt they had to live within walking distance of Greenwich station now buy more house a few miles east and commute from there instead. The third is northbound across the river through the Blackwall Tunnel on the A102, for Docklands, east London and Essex, which is a timing decision as much as a routing one because the tunnel queues hard at peak. Mileage is simple: the first 15 miles are included and anything beyond is charged at a per-mile rate shown in the app before you confirm. Weekend and evening slots run at 1.3x, so a midweek move out to Kent is the cheapest version of the same job.
Greenwich postcodes we cover
Same fixed price across every area. No postcode surcharge.
Reviews from Greenwich
“Four floors of Georgian staircase and a wardrobe that had not moved since the nineties. The crew started at 7am, took the wardrobe and both beds apart, and had us unloaded in Blackheath by mid-afternoon. Not a mark on the banister or the plaster.”
“Five-bed house, twenty years of accumulation, two helpers and a full day. They packed the kitchen and the fragiles the afternoon before, which made moving day itself completely calm. Out on the A2 by lunchtime, beds rebuilt by six.”
“Whole two-bed apartment. They had the service lift booked with the concierge days before, met us at the right bay, and every box came off labelled by room. Final price was exactly what the app locked in when we started.”
“Three-bed terrace with a loft full of boxes nobody had opened in years. Luton and two lads, seven hours including reassembling the beds and the dining table. Told us upfront what the dismantling cost per item, so there were no surprises at the end.”
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Last updated August 2026.
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Book a House Removal in Greenwich
Fixed price locked before the crew starts. Packing, dismantling and reassembly available. Conservation-street bay suspensions and Peninsula lift slots arranged in advance.
Medium van £45/hr · Luton £60/hr · Helper £12/hr · Packing £25/hr per packer · 2-hour minimum · No membership