What is a Removals Company?
A Removals Company or Moving Company or Relocation Company is a company that helps people and businesses perform a relocation of their goods and personal belongings from one place to another.
There is evidence that removal services exist since 1800 with some pictures and paintings showing the early movers using carriage with horses.
A removals company usually has all necessary equipment for a complete removal, including a fleet of trucks, tail lifts, and telescopic furniture lifts for multiple floors and storage spaces for saving people’s goods until they get shipped.
Benefits from using a moving company
As we already described a removals company that provide professional moving services, usually owns all the professional tools and experience needed help you move your personal belongings to the new destination. Although a removal does not sound like something really difficult, only if you try to involve into it, you will realize how difficult and time consuming it might be.
There is no way someone not professional to perform a smooth removal. If you try to do a removal on your own, you might end up spending more time and more money than if you had a professional company do it for you. Nonprofessional people need more time to pack and transfer, and they usually end up with damages on their personal belongings.
Depending on the scale of the move and space you are doing it, you might need all or some of the following:
• Packaging boxes and fragile packaging boxes. A professional moving company already has the required packing boxes and the experience to pack things in such a way that each box will fit more and they will not break easily during transfer.
• Heavy machinery including high telescopic lifts or tail lifts. Depending on the building you are moving from or to, you might need high lifts to take your heavy furniture down. Such machines usually cover buildings up to ten floors.
• Big covered trucks. Moving expensive furniture, electronics or valuable equipment, needs the maximum of safety. One important aspect to ensure safety is big, covered trucks that will ensure that your personal belongings will not get wet from rain, or damaged from other external factors during transportation.
• A place to store your belongings. Although this is rarer, sometimes you might need a place to store your stuff until the proper circumstances allow you to move them to your new place. A professional company will have a safe place where they will keep everything for you.
• Knowledge and experience. If you haven’t got the experience, you will most probably find a huge amount of technical problems. Depending on the type of removal, sometimes a removal company might need to stop traffic of a road for a while, or other things that need knowledge of the laws and experience to do.
In conclusion, professionalism is something necessary in removals. If you want to save your valuable time, if you want to save money and if you want to have peace of mind, then for sure you will call a professional removals company to do it for you.