How much does a self-storage run cost in London?

Two to three hours at the hourly rate for a flat-sized load — from £65 an hour for two movers and a Luton van, with a two-hour minimum. Fixed prices are available for single items.

Do you need my storage access details in advance?

Yes: site address, unit number, floor, access hours and the goods lift booking if the site uses one. Missing lift bookings are the most common cause of an overrun on a storage job.

Can you collect from storage and deliver to my new flat?

Yes, on one booking with two stops. It costs less than booking a collection and a delivery separately because you only pay for the travel time once.

Will you help stack the unit?

Yes. The crew trolleys everything in and stacks it properly — heavy at the bottom, corridor down the middle, mattresses upright — so you can reach the back without emptying the front.

Man with a van guide · 7 min read · Liverpool Street EC2

Self-storage runs in London: what a van job looks like in Liverpool Street EC2

A typical London self-storage run is two to three hours at the hourly rate: load at the address, drive, trolley into the unit. The two things that decide the bill are the site's access hours and whether the goods lift is booked — an unbooked lift is the single most common reason a storage run overruns.

By The Hello Services moving team · Published 2026-08-20 · Updated 2026-08-20

Local read

What this means in Liverpool Street EC2

Same guide, local numbers. Here is how it reads for this postcode. Liverpool Street sits in City of London, covering EC2, and the local housing mix decides most of what a man with a van day actually costs.

Housing stock

98% of homes here are flats, so man with a van in Liverpool Street is usually a stairs-and-landings job: carry distance from the van to the door does more to the price than the mileage across London ever will.

How often people move

48.3% of Liverpool Street households rent privately, above the London average, so weekends and month-ends book out first and inventory checks matter as much as the lorry does.

Access, charges and parking

Liverpool Street sits inside or on the edge of the Congestion Charge zone and inside ULEZ. Both are quoted up front in the written price — never added afterwards — along with any suspension the EC2 bay needs.

Household figures: ONS Census 2021 for the Liverpool Street neighbourhood (E02000001), via Nomis.

The guide

Self-Storage Runs in London: What a Van Job Looks Like in full

How a storage run is priced

It is an ordinary hourly van job with a slightly different shape: one collection, one drive, and a carry that ends inside a unit rather than a home. Two to three hours covers most flat-sized loads with two movers.

The distance between your address and the site matters less than people expect. Loading and carrying is where the hours go, which is why an organised, boxed load is cheaper than a loose one regardless of postcode.

Access hours and goods lifts

Most London sites offer access from early morning to early evening, with 24-hour access on some accounts only. Book the lift where the site has one: shared goods lifts on a Saturday are a queue, and queuing is charged as time on an hourly job.

Tell us the unit number, the floor and the lift booking when you book the van. It sounds administrative; it is the difference between a two-hour job and a four-hour one.

Site name, address and your access code or account details
Unit number and floor
Goods lift booking, where the site requires one
Latest access time — some sites close the loading bay before reception

Packing for storage rather than for a journey

Storage rewards uniform boxes: they stack, they hold weight, and they let you use the height of the unit rather than just the floor. Bin bags do none of those things and tear when moved twice.

Leave a corridor down the middle of the unit so you can reach the back without unloading the front, and put anything you might need in the next three months nearest the door. Nothing perishable, nothing damp, and mattresses upright in a cover.

Want the hourly rate confirmed before you book?

Send us the item list, both addresses and the access at each end — a fixed hourly quote comes back the same day.

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Combining collection and delivery in one booking

If you are emptying a flat into storage and taking a few items to a new address, do it as one booking with two stops rather than two jobs. You pay one set of travel time instead of two.

The same applies coming out of storage. Give us the unit and the destination together and the crew plans the load order so the first thing off the van is the first thing you need in the new place.

Questions

Quick answers for Liverpool Street EC2

Yes. The prices, timings and terms in this guide are the ones we work to across City of London, including EC2. The local variables are access and parking, plus ULEZ and the Congestion Charge, and all of them are inside the written quote before you book.

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Hourly rates for London van jobs, in writing in Liverpool Street EC2

Both postcodes, what is moving, the floor at each end and your preferred slot — that is all we need.

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Who wrote this page

Reviewed by Sarbaz Hassan, Operations Director — 17 August 2026.

Prices, access notes and timings on this page come from jobs our own crews have run in Liverpool Street EC2 — not from a generic template. Tell us if anything here is out of date and we will correct it.

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