Professional Packing Services in the
West Midlands

Victorian and Edwardian homes across Moseley, Harborne, Leamington Spa and Kings Heath have deep alcove cupboards, cellar heads and loft hatches that hold far more than people estimate — cellars in particular routinely add ten to fifteen cartons that were never in the plan. We survey those spaces before quoting so the packing day does not overrun into move day.

In drylined new-builds around Dickens Heath, Monkspath and the Coventry fringe the issue is the opposite: less storage, more integrated furniture, and tight first-floor landings. Those pack fast, but need careful wall protection while cartons are carried down.

Most breakages happen through vibration over distance, not a dropped box. Anything travelling on the M6, M5 or M42 needs vertically stacked plates, tissue between every piece and no void left in the carton — that single detail causes more damage than rough handling ever does.

For high-value items we use the same standard as our European export packing: double-walled cartons, corner protection and a shrink-wrapped pallet base. Pictures, mirrors and TVs go in purpose-made cases rather than blanket-wrapped against the van wall.

Packing needs a vehicle at the kerb for hours, not minutes, and that is a different permission from a removal slot. Birmingham, Sandwell, Coventry and Wolverhampton councils all want three to ten working days' notice for a suspended bay, and on Middleway red routes there is no waiting at all — the van waits on a side street and cartons are barrowed.

In the Jewellery Quarter and Digbeth, where flats sit above workshops with shared goods lifts, we book the lift slot with the building manager at the same time as your packing date. Black Country terraces with rear blue-brick entries usually pack out through the front, so we protect the hall carpet rather than fight the entry.

Demand here is seasonal in two distinct ways. Student packing spikes hard in the last ten days of June and again in mid-September around Selly Oak, Edgbaston, Earlsdon and Coventry city centre, when whole streets change hands in the same week.

Family packing follows completions instead, clustering on the last Friday of each month. If your chain is likely to complete on that Friday, we book the pack for the Wednesday — packing on completion morning is how people end up loading unlabelled bin bags at four in the afternoon.

Aerosols, paint, petrol, gas bottles and open alcohol do not travel, and we will flag them at survey rather than at the van door. Garden chemicals and half-used decorating tins are the two we find in almost every West Midlands garage, and both go to a Household Recycling Centre — Tyseley, Lifford Lane, Oldbury or Whitley depending on your side of the region.

Some things need a specialist rather than a packer: upright pianos, snooker tables, aquariums with live stock, and safes over about 120kg. We arrange those separately so they are not discovered on the morning when the crew is already loaded.