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.
Salford · M30 · Salford City Council
Door-to-door UK relocations out of M30, 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, Eccles to Reading is about 189 road miles and 3.6 hours driving — roughly £515 with one man and a van, or £615 with two movers.

Long distance · Eccles
£45/hr + £1.50/mile
1 man and a van, 1.5 hrs handling included
Moving out of Eccles
A long distance move from Eccles is priced on two things only: the hours the crew works and the miles the van covers. We charge £45 an hour for one man and a van, £65 an hour for two movers and a van, plus £1.50 per mile travelled — with 1.5 hours of loading and unloading already built into every estimate on this page.
Historic Salford town with a Metrolink terminus, the parish church and the cake that carries its name. We check the access at both ends before quoting — the floor, the stairwell, the parking and any Salford City Council loading restriction near St Mary's Church, Eccles and the Eccles cake bakeries — because that is what turns an estimate into a fixed price.
Only moving across the county? Local removals in Eccles 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 Eccles 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eccles to Stoke-on-TrentStaffordshire | 42 mi | 0.8 hrs | 2.3 hrs | £170 | £215 |
| Eccles to SheffieldSouth Yorkshire | 46 mi | 0.9 hrs | 2.4 hrs | £180 | £225 |
| Eccles to BirminghamWest Midlands | 89 mi | 1.7 hrs | 3.2 hrs | £280 | £345 |
| Eccles to Newcastle upon TyneTyne and Wear | 134 mi | 2.6 hrs | 4.1 hrs | £390 | £470 |
| Eccles to ReadingBerkshire | 189 mi | 3.6 hrs | 5.1 hrs | £515 | £615 |
| Eccles to LondonGreater London | 207 mi | 4 hrs | 5.5 hrs | £560 | £670 |
| Eccles to BrightonEast Sussex | 258 mi | 5 hrs | 6.5 hrs | £680 | £810 |
| Eccles to AberdeenScotland | 317 mi | 6.1 hrs | 7.6 hrs | £820 | £970 |
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 Eccles 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 Eccles 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. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Eccles or across to Swinton.
Stage 2
Crew arrives inside a one-hour window, protects floors and doorframes, dismantles beds and flat-pack and loads to a plan. Roughly 17,400 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
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. Most Eccles properties give us a driveway, so the hours go into lofts, garages and garden kit.
Stage 4
You get a live arrival window on the morning of delivery, so you are not waiting in an empty house all day. Roughly 17,400 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
Stage 5
Boxes go to the right rooms, beds and furniture are rebuilt and packing debris leaves with the van. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Eccles or across to Swinton.
What the fixed price covers
Access, parking and timing
Victorian terraces around Church Street, generously proportioned 1930s semis towards Monton and canal-side new-builds on the old sidings. That stock, the street it sits on and the Salford City Council rules over it decide how long the day takes — so all three are settled at survey, not on the morning.
Driveway loading makes these moves efficient. What moves the price is the loft, the garage and the shed, so the survey deliberately opens all three. Local context matters here: a saxon-founded parish that industrialised around the ship canal and trafford park employment, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
The crew should be carrying, not circling. We confirm the restriction type on the M30 end, arrange a suspension through Salford City Council where it is worth it, and plan the closest legal standing point to the door. Eccles Market, Monton's independent bars nearby and a strong commuter base — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
Start times here are set by the access, not the diary: where a lift, a bay or a school-run street is involved the crew starts early and finishes inside the day rather than paying for a second visit. Roughly 17,400 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
Tell us about the loft, the garage, the shed and anything that will not come apart. It is the unlisted items, not the address, that turn a comfortable day into an overtime one. Eccles Market, Monton's independent bars nearby and a strong commuter base — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
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 Salford rather than starting from a blank form.
Same-day delivery
Two movers at £65 an hour with a pre-dawn load out of Eccles so the unload happens the same day instead of paying for an overnight. Salford City Council loading rules on the M30 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. Roughly 17,400 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
£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. Local context matters here: a saxon-founded parish that industrialised around the ship canal and trafford park employment, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
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. Local context matters here: a saxon-founded parish that industrialised around the ship canal and trafford park employment, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
A few lines is enough to start: rooms, frequency and the Eccles street you're on. Anything unusual — a shared stairwell, a key-safe, a dog — is better said up front than discovered on the day.
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 Eccles.
Choose a morning or afternoon window. We plan around Eccles traffic and parking so the crew arrives inside it.
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 Eccles.
If anything on the a door-to-door UK relocation spec is missed, we come back and put it right at no extra cost — that is the whole guarantee.
Cleaning, moving, handyman and clearance all run from the same Eccles scheduling desk, so a multi-part job needs one booking.
Everyone we send into a Eccles property is ID-checked, DBS-screened and works under our own supervision — no unvetted subcontracting.
Every job in Eccles is insured to £5m public liability, with goods-in-transit cover on anything we lift, load or take away.
Loading in Salford
Crews load from St Mary's Church, Eccles and the Eccles cake bakeries and the streets around it under Salford City Council parking rules, and mileage is counted from your door — not from our base — so there is no charge to reach M30.
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St Mary's Church, Eccles and the Eccles cake bakeries anchors the round we run through Eccles, and every long-distance move in Eccles on that round starts from the same local checklist. The place looks the way it does for a reason: a Saxon-founded parish that industrialised around the Ship Canal and Trafford Park employment.
Our teams plan for one recurring Eccles issue: ship Canal and M602 corridor traffic leaves heavy road film on frontages near the motorway. Eccles Market, Monton's independent bars nearby and a strong commuter base — we plan access and arrival times around all of it. Coverage runs across M30 and the Salford streets either side of it.
Long distance moves — Eccles
new-build townhouse, a street off St Mary's Church, Eccles and the Eccles cake bakeries
2-person crew, 4 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: ship Canal and M602 corridor traffic leaves heavy road film on frontages near the motorway, so extra dwell time went on the worst surfaces before the final wipe-down.
Long-distance move completed. Customer moved straight to a repeat booking on the same round.
Long distance moves — Eccles
first-floor flat, the M30 side of Eccles
3-person crew, 5 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: ship Canal and M602 corridor traffic leaves heavy road film on frontages near the motorway, 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.
Long distance moves — Eccles
four-bed family home, Eccles, on our Salford round
2-person crew, 7 hours on site. The recurring local issue applied here too: ship Canal and M602 corridor traffic leaves heavy road film on frontages near the motorway, so extra dwell time went on the worst surfaces before the final wipe-down.
Long-distance move completed. Finished inside the quoted window with no extra charge.
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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 41,700 usual residents across M30 and the streets bordering Eccles (ONS Census 2021).
About 18,300 homes reachable by a Eccles crew with no out-of-area travel charge.
Salford City 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 Eccles — ONS Census 2021 and mid-year population estimates for the matching built-up area/ward group, rounded. Households — population divided by 2.28, the ONS Census 2021 average household size for Salford City Council. Postcode coverage — Royal Mail postcode districts M30. Figures are indicative and reviewed annually; service performance percentages are Hello Services' own rolling 12-month Greater Manchester figures.
Historic Salford town with a Metrolink terminus, the parish church and the cake that carries its name. A Saxon-founded parish that industrialised around the Ship Canal and Trafford Park employment.
Eccles Market, Monton's independent bars nearby and a strong commuter base. The best-known landmark is St Mary's Church, Eccles and the Eccles cake bakeries, and the M30 postcodes reach Swinton, Salford, Pendleton, Worsley within a short drive.
For a long-distance move, what matters most locally is the building fabric: victorian terraces around Church Street, generously proportioned 1930s semis towards Monton and canal-side new-builds on the old sidings. Ship Canal and M602 corridor traffic leaves heavy road film on frontages near the motorway.
Answers before you book
About 207 road miles and roughly 4 hours of driving. With the 1.5 hours of loading and unloading included, that estimates at around £560 for one man and a van at £45/hr, or £670 for two movers and a van at £65/hr, mileage at £1.50 a mile included. Roughly 17,400 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
Link to this answerRoughly 217 miles and 4.2 hours behind the wheel — about £585 with one man and a van, or £700 with two movers. Runs of this length usually go as an overnight two-day schedule with the load kept on the same vehicle. Most Eccles properties give us a driveway, so the hours go into lofts, garages and garden kit.
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. Local context matters here: a saxon-founded parish that industrialised around the ship canal and trafford park employment, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
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 — Swinton customers usually clear those with the same booking. Salford City Council loading rules on the M30 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
Link to this answerMost M30 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. Crews run from Salford, so Swinton and Salford journeys carry no out-of-area charge.
Link to this answerSemis 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. Send a short video of the stairwell and the street and we will confirm crew size before the date is held. Eccles Market, Monton's independent bars nearby and a strong commuter base — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
Link to this answerOften, yes — Salford City Council controls loading on most M30 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. Crews run from Salford, so Swinton and Salford 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. Priced the same whether you are moving inside Eccles or across to Swinton.
Link to this answerYes — Swinton, Salford, Pendleton, Worsley, Irlam and every other Greater Manchester district, each with its own page, sample routes and the same rate card. Eccles Market, Monton's independent bars nearby and a strong commuter base — worth telling us about if it closes your street on the day.
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. Salford City Council loading rules on the M30 end are checked before the slot is confirmed.
Link to this answerNo. Mileage is counted from your Eccles address to the delivery address, not from our base. There is no travel charge to reach M30. Roughly 17,400 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
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. Local context matters here: a saxon-founded parish that industrialised around the ship canal and trafford park employment, which is why the access varies so much between neighbouring streets.
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. Roughly 17,400 households sit inside these postcodes, so weekend dates here go early.
Link to this answerAlso booked in Eccles
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
Most complaints about removals in Salford come down to three things: the price changed, the crew was short, or nobody answered the phone. These are our commitments on all three.
Goods-in-transit and public liability cover is in place on every Eccles long distance move, and claims go to a named account manager here rather than a form.
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.
Access, stair turns, parking and carry distance are all priced at survey. If nothing is added to the inventory, the M30 figure you accepted is the figure you pay.
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.
Booked with your long distance move
A move in Salford is rarely just a van. These are the jobs our Eccles 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 Eccles
Everything below is a real Salford page with its own pricing, access notes and crew — the services Eccles customers book around this service, and the same line-up in the neighbouring districts we cover from the St Mary's Church, Eccles and the Eccles cake bakeries 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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