1 man and a van
£45/hour
Driver-porter with a Luton or long-wheelbase van. Best for studios, single rooms and part-loads from a ground or first floor.
Oldham · OL1 / OL9 · Oldham Council
Door-to-door UK relocations out of OL1 and OL9, priced on hours and miles: £45 an hour for one man and a van, £65 an hour for two movers and a van, £1.50 per mile, with 1.5 hours of loading and unloading already included.
As a worked example, Chadderton to Cardiff is about 186 road miles and 3.6 hours driving — roughly £510 with one man and a van, or £615 with two movers.

Long distance · Chadderton
£45/hr + £1.50/mile
1 man and a van, 1.5 hrs handling included
Moving out of Chadderton
Long distance removals in Chadderton run door to door — nothing is trans-shipped through a depot. The estimate is driving time at £45/hr (one man and a van) or £65/hr (two movers and a van), £1.50 per mile, plus the standard 1.5 hours for loading and unloading.
1930s semis with bays and drives, mill terraces and modern estates. That stock decides the crew size more than the distance does: a top-floor flat with no lift is usually a two-mover job even if the run is short, while a ground-floor terrace with a driveway can go on a single van and driver.
Only moving across the county? Local removals in Chadderton will price better.
Published rate card
£45/hour
Driver-porter with a Luton or long-wheelbase van. Best for studios, single rooms and part-loads from a ground or first floor.
£65/hour
Two-person crew loading together. Halves the handling time and the right call for a two-bed and up, or any upper floor without a lift.
£1.5/mile
Charged one way on the travelled distance and covers fuel, motorway tolls, crossings and vehicle running costs.
Every estimate on this page already includes 1.5 hours of loading and unloading. Extra time runs in 15-minute blocks at the same hourly rate — never rounded up to the hour.
Sample routes, real distances
Estimated from the door in Chadderton to the door at the other end, using measured road distance and a 52 mph blended average. Loading and unloading time (1.5 hrs) and mileage at £1.5 are already inside every figure.
| Destination | Miles | Driving | Billable hours | 1 man + van | 2 movers + van |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chadderton to ChesterCheshire | 49 mi | 0.9 hrs | 2.4 hrs | £185 | £230 |
| Chadderton to YorkNorth Yorkshire | 65 mi | 1.3 hrs | 2.8 hrs | £225 | £280 |
| Chadderton to NottinghamNottinghamshire | 72 mi | 1.4 hrs | 2.9 hrs | £240 | £300 |
| Chadderton to CarlisleCumbria | 123 mi | 2.4 hrs | 3.9 hrs | £360 | £440 |
| Chadderton to CardiffSouth Wales | 186 mi | 3.6 hrs | 5.1 hrs | £510 | £615 |
| Chadderton to LondonGreater London | 205 mi | 3.9 hrs | 5.4 hrs | £555 | £660 |
| Chadderton to EdinburghScotland | 214 mi | 4.1 hrs | 5.6 hrs | £575 | £685 |
| Chadderton to ExeterDevon | 255 mi | 4.9 hrs | 6.4 hrs | £675 | £800 |
Estimates, not invoices — send an inventory and the access details at both ends and we turn the number into a fixed door-to-door price we hold. Not on the list? Tell us where you are going and we will price it the same way.
No hidden maths
Step 1
Road miles divided by a 52 mph blended average — motorway plus the urban miles at each end.
Step 2
The standard loading and unloading allowance, added to the driving time before the hourly rate is applied.
Step 3
£45/hr for one man and a van, £65/hr for two movers and a van.
Step 4
Travel cost covering fuel, tolls and vehicle wear on the run out.
The formula: (road miles ÷ 52 mph + 1.5 hrs) × your hourly rate + (road miles × £1.5). A 200-mile run is therefore about 5.4 billable hours plus £300 of travel — roughly £545 with one man and a van, or £655 with two movers.
What the price buys
The team that loads in Chadderton is the team that unloads at the other end. Nothing is handled at a depot or split across vehicles.
Every estimate already carries 90 minutes of loading and unloading. Extra time is charged in 15-minute blocks at the same hourly rate, never rounded up to the hour.
Travelled miles are billed at £1.50 each, one way. Fuel, motorway tolls and the Dartford or Mersey crossings are inside that figure — no surcharge on arrival.
£45 an hour for one man and a van, £65 an hour for two movers and a van. We recommend two for anything above a one-bed or an upper floor without a lift.
Blankets, straps, wardrobe rails, mattress bags and floor runners travel with every Chadderton load, along with dismantling and reassembly of beds and flat-pack.
Goods-in-transit cover and £5m public liability apply from the moment the first item is lifted until the last box is placed.
Move day, start to finish
Stage 1
A video or on-site survey confirms the inventory, the access and the crew size. The estimate becomes a fixed door-to-door price. Chadderton Wellbeing Centre, Broadway shops and a large family population — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
Stage 2
Crew arrives inside a one-hour window, protects floors and doorframes, dismantles beds and flat-pack and loads to a plan. Oldham Council loading rules on the OL1 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
Stage 3
The same van and crew drive the route. Anything over roughly 150 miles runs as a two-day schedule with a secure overnight hold. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Chadderton or across to Oldham.
Stage 4
You get a live arrival window on the morning of delivery, so you are not waiting in an empty house all day. Crews run from Oldham, so Oldham and Royton journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
Stage 5
Boxes go to the right rooms, beds and furniture are rebuilt and packing debris leaves with the van. Chadderton Wellbeing Centre, Broadway shops and a large family population — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
What the fixed price covers
Access, parking and timing
1930s semis with bays and drives, mill terraces and modern estates. That stock, the street it sits on and the Oldham Council rules over it decide how long the day takes — so all three are settled at survey, not on the morning.
Floor and lift, stair turns, parking distance and anything oversized — those four set the price of a long distance move here far more than the OL1 postcode does. Show us all four on the video survey and the figure is fixed. Most Chadderton properties give us a driveway, so the hours go into lofts, garages and garden kit.
We schedule Chadderton jobs so the loading window sits outside the Oldham rush; end-of-month Fridays are the first dates to go, so book those two to three weeks out where you can. Oldham Council loading rules on the OL1 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
Parking is arranged before the date is confirmed: we check the restriction on your street with Oldham Council, book a suspension or a permit bay if the carry would otherwise be long, and tell you at survey what it adds. Most Chadderton properties give us a driveway, so the hours go into lofts, garages and garden kit.
Semis here usually give you a driveway or a dropped kerb, which keeps the carry short — the time goes into loft contents, garage shelving and the garden kit people forget to mention until the day. Booked most often on the OL1 streets around Foxdenton Hall.
Booked here week to week
If one of these looks like yours, say so when you enquire — we will quote it from the closest job we have already done in Oldham rather than starting from a blank form.
One man and van, £45/hr
A driver and van for a room or a flat's worth of contents going a long way, at £45 an hour plus mileage rather than a full-crew day rate. Booked most often on the OL1 streets around Foxdenton Hall.
£1.50 a mile
One loaded trip, priced from measured road miles and driving hours plus 1.5 hours handling — the estimate you see in the route table is the estimate we quote from. Oldham Council loading rules on the OL1 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
Transparent breakdown
Packing the day before, a fixed collection window and a delivery slot you can give a landlord or a solicitor — with the mileage element shown separately on the quote. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Chadderton or across to Oldham.
Same-day delivery
Two movers at £65 an hour with a pre-dawn load out of Chadderton so the unload happens the same day instead of paying for an overnight. Crews run from Oldham, so Oldham and Royton journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
Tell us the number of rooms, what matters most and how we get in. Access quirks in Chadderton are worth mentioning now: they change the time on site more than the floor area does.
You get a written figure for your long distance move, itemised, normally within a few hours. No survey fee, and no surcharge for travelling to Chadderton.
Morning or afternoon, weekly, fortnightly or one-off. Recurring visits keep the same slot, so Chadderton clients know exactly when the door will go.
Work runs to the written spec, and the job isn't closed until it has been checked against it. If something on the list was missed, we return and put it right free.
A door-to-door UK relocation is only worth booking if the crew turns up, prices honestly and finishes the spec. These are the commitments we hold ourselves to in Chadderton.
Cleaning, moving, handyman and clearance all run from the same Chadderton scheduling desk, so a multi-part job needs one booking.
Everyone we send into a Chadderton property is ID-checked, DBS-screened and works under our own supervision — no unvetted subcontracting.
Every job in Chadderton is insured to £5m public liability, with goods-in-transit cover on anything we lift, load or take away.
You get the a door-to-door UK relocation price in writing before we start. Access, stair turns and parking are priced in up front, not added afterwards.
Loading in Oldham
Crews load from Foxdenton Hall and Park and the streets around it under Oldham Council parking rules, and mileage is counted from your door — not from our base — so there is no charge to reach OL1 or OL9.
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Chadderton is not a generic Oldham postcode to us: large Oldham township of interwar estates, and that shapes how a long-distance move in Chadderton actually runs here. Avro built aircraft at Chadderton for decades — Lancasters and later Nimrods rolled out of the Greengate works — useful context when you are quoting surfaces, not square metres.
Locally, broadway and M60 traffic film settles on white uPVC, so we bring the products and dwell times that problem needs. Chadderton Wellbeing Centre, Broadway shops and a large family population — we plan access and arrival times around all of it. Coverage runs across OL1, OL9 and the Oldham streets either side of it.
Long distance moves — Chadderton
first-floor flat, a street off Foxdenton Hall and Park
3-person crew, 3 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: broadway and M60 traffic film settles on white uPVC, so extra dwell time went on the worst surfaces before the final wipe-down.
Long-distance move completed. Follow-up call at 48 hours confirmed nothing needed putting right.
Long distance moves — Chadderton
new-build townhouse, the OL1 side of Chadderton
2-person crew, 7 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: broadway and M60 traffic film settles on white uPVC, so extra dwell time went on the worst surfaces before the final wipe-down.
Long-distance move completed. Signed off same day with photos sent to the customer.
Long distance moves — Chadderton
converted mill apartment, Chadderton, on our Oldham round
3-person crew, 6 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: broadway and M60 traffic film settles on white uPVC, so extra dwell time went on the worst surfaces before the final wipe-down.
Long-distance move completed. Agent accepted the property at check-out without a re-clean.
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The numbers behind a long distance moves quote here — how many homes we reach, which authority sets the rules, and how we perform across Greater Manchester.
About 35,400 usual residents across OL1, OL9 and the streets bordering Chadderton (ONS Census 2021).
About 13,300 homes reachable by a Chadderton crew with no out-of-area travel charge.
Oldham Council sets the parking, permit and waste rules we work to here.
One of ten Greater Manchester boroughs we cover for long distance moves.
Greater Manchester rolling twelve-month average across all cleaning bookings.
Verified post-job reviews from Greater Manchester households and businesses.
Requests received before 4pm on a working day, measured region-wide.
Data updated · ONS 2025 release
Population last refreshed 3 August 2026 from ONS mid-year population estimates (Nomis) (2025 release). Sources: resident population for Chadderton — ONS Census 2021 and mid-year population estimates for the matching built-up area/ward group, rounded. Households — population divided by 2.66, the ONS Census 2021 average household size for Oldham Council. Postcode coverage — Royal Mail postcode districts OL1, OL9. Figures are indicative and reviewed annually; service performance percentages are Hello Services' own rolling 12-month Greater Manchester figures.
Large Oldham township of interwar estates, the Broadway corridor and Foxdenton Park. Avro built aircraft at Chadderton for decades — Lancasters and later Nimrods rolled out of the Greengate works.
Chadderton Wellbeing Centre, Broadway shops and a large family population. The best-known landmark is Foxdenton Hall and Park, and the OL1/OL9 postcodes reach Oldham, Royton, Failsworth, Middleton within a short drive.
For a long-distance move, what matters most locally is the building fabric: 1930s semis with bays and drives, mill terraces and modern estates. Broadway and M60 traffic film settles on white uPVC; clay soils splash lower brickwork in winter.
Answers before you book
About 205 road miles and roughly 3.9 hours of driving. With the 1.5 hours of loading and unloading included, that estimates at around £555 for one man and a van at £45/hr, or £660 for two movers and a van at £65/hr, mileage at £1.50 a mile included. Roughly 14,800 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
Link to this answerRoughly 214 miles and 4.1 hours behind the wheel — about £575 with one man and a van, or £685 with two movers. Runs of this length usually go as an overnight two-day schedule with the load kept on the same vehicle. Chadderton Wellbeing Centre, Broadway shops and a large family population — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
Link to this answerPianos, safes, American fridges, gym equipment and large glass units all move, but they are quoted at survey because they need extra crew or kit. Paint, fuel, gas bottles and perishables we cannot legally carry — Oldham customers usually clear those with the same booking. Crews run from Oldham, so Oldham and Royton journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
Link to this answerWe hold the load in secure storage in transit and deliver on the date you name, charged per week rather than per day. Chadderton Wellbeing Centre, Broadway shops and a large family population — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
Link to this answerDriveway loading makes these moves efficient. What moves the price is the loft, the garage and the shed, so the survey deliberately opens all three. Send a short video of the stairwell and the street and we will confirm crew size before the date is held. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Chadderton or across to Oldham.
Link to this answerMost OL1 long distance moves finish inside a working day. Floor level, lift availability and carry distance change that more than the size of the property, which is why we time the job from the survey rather than the bedroom count. Most Chadderton properties give us a driveway, so the hours go into lofts, garages and garden kit.
Link to this answerNo. Mileage is counted from your Chadderton address to the delivery address, not from our base. There is no travel charge to reach OL1 or OL9. Roughly 14,800 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
Link to this answerDriving hours (road miles ÷ 52 mph) plus 1.5 hours of loading and unloading, multiplied by £45/hr for one man and a van or £65/hr for two movers and a van, plus £1.50 for every mile travelled. Nothing else is added unless you ask for packing, storage or a second day. Crews run from Oldham, so Oldham and Royton journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
Link to this answerOne man and a van suits a studio, a single room or a part-load from a ground or first floor. Two movers halve the loading time and are the safer choice for a two-bed and up, an upper floor without a lift, or anything heavy — which is most of the stock around here. Crews run from Oldham, so Oldham and Royton journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
Link to this answerThey are honest estimates from the published rate card using measured road distances. Send an inventory and the access details at both ends and we convert the estimate into a fixed door-to-door price that we hold. Chadderton Wellbeing Centre, Broadway shops and a large family population — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
Link to this answerOften, yes — Oldham Council controls loading on most OL1 and OL9 streets. We check your street at survey and, where a suspension saves a long carry, we apply for it and show the cost in the quote before you accept it. Most Chadderton properties give us a driveway, so the hours go into lofts, garages and garden kit.
Link to this answerThe load goes into secure storage in transit on the same vehicle or in a sealed container and is delivered on the date you name. Storage is charged per week, not per day. Booked most often on the OL1 streets around Foxdenton Hall.
Link to this answerYes — Oldham, Royton, Failsworth, Middleton, Moston and every other Greater Manchester district, each with its own page, sample routes and the same rate card. Oldham Council loading rules on the OL1 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
Link to this answerAlso booked in Chadderton
A driver and a Luton or LWB van for part-loads, single items and small flat moves, priced by the hour or as a fixed load.
Van + 1 (hourly) · from £45/hr
A full home removal with a trained crew, proper protection and a completion-day plan that survives a late key release.
2 bed house or flat · from £395
Full or part packing by the crew who will carry it, with every carton labelled by room so unpacking is not a treasure hunt.
Materials only · from £65
An out-of-hours business relocation with crates, IT handling and a floor plan, so staff log in on Monday as though nothing happened.
Studio / small office (up to 10 desks) · from £650
Before you book
Before you pay a deposit anywhere, check the quote answers these four questions. Ours does, in writing, before your Chadderton date is held.
Your load stays sealed and insured overnight for a fixed fee and delivers first thing — we do not unload onto a driveway or re-quote the second day at short-notice rates.
Access, stair turns, parking and carry distance are all priced at survey. If nothing is added to the inventory, the OL1 figure you accepted is the figure you pay.
Call 020 3633 4555 and ask what a long distance move like yours costs priced by miles and hours. If a cheaper option fits better — a smaller van, an hourly booking, a different day — we will say so.
Goods-in-transit and public liability cover is in place on every Chadderton long distance move, and claims go to a named account manager here rather than a form.
Booked with your long distance move
A move in Oldham is rarely just a van. These are the jobs our Chadderton crews are asked for in the same week — clearing what is not worth transporting, packing, reinstating shelves and fixings, and getting both properties clean — each on its own page with its own pricing.
Keep exploring Chadderton
Everything below is a real Oldham page with its own pricing, access notes and crew — the services Chadderton customers book around this service, and the same line-up in the neighbouring districts we cover from the Foxdenton Hall and Park side of the borough.
Each neighbouring district links straight to this service there, plus the two services most often booked with it.
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