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Office removals guide · 10 min read · Hanwell W7

IT and server relocation in a London office move in Hanwell W7

IT decides whether an office move feels smooth or chaotic. Order circuits ten to twelve weeks out, have the destination cabling live and tested before move weekend, decommission the comms room last and rebuild it first, and label every desk position at both ends so screens, docks and phones land where the seating plan says. Budget a floorwalk on the first morning back — the snags are always small and always numerous.

By The Hello Services commercial moves team · Published 2026-08-27 · Updated 2026-08-27

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What this means in Hanwell W7

Everything below applies across London — these are the parts an office move here turns on. Hanwell sits in Ealing, covering W7, and the building type, the lift and the loading bay decide most of what an office move day here actually costs.

Businesses in Ealing
19,290
People employed in the borough
131,000
Daytime workers per resident
0.36×

Building stock here

Hanwell high street is high-street and above-shop office stock rather than a tower estate: small office suites above retail, dental and medical practices, solicitors and accountants, salons, clinics and studios in single-storey or first-floor units with no lift and no dedicated bin store. That decides crate counts, lift bookings and how many shifts the switchover needs — which is why we survey Hanwell W7 before quoting rather than pricing by desk count alone.

Who moves in Ealing

Ealing has 19,290 registered businesses and 131,000 employees on 2022 figures, with 89.6% of them micro firms under ten staff. Most moves booked around Hanwell are therefore ten to fifty desks over a weekend, not full-tower programmes — and that is the size we band our fixed project prices for.

Access, lifts and charges

A single street door with your own key, no concierge and no goods lift — the practical issues are stairs, bin day and where the van sits for twenty minutes. Hanwell is outside the Congestion Charge zone and inside ULEZ, so the access cost that matters here is a loading bay suspension with Ealing — around ten working days' notice.

Commercial figures: ONS UK Business Counts — local units by industry and employment size band, 2024 (Nomis NM_141_1) (2024) and ONS Business Register and Employment Survey, 2022 (Nomis NM_189_1) (2022), borough level — the smallest geography ONS publishes both series for. Resident population: ONS Census 2021.

The guide

IT and Server Relocation in a London Office Move in full

Lead times: the only part you cannot compress

A crew can strip and rebuild a 60-desk floor over a weekend. Nobody can install a leased line in the same window. Circuit delivery in central London routinely runs six to twelve weeks, and a wayleave in a multi-let building can add more, so the order goes in before the crates are even discussed.

Run the old and new connections in parallel for at least a fortnight. Paying two months of overlap is far cheaper than a Monday with no internet, and it lets you cut over in a controlled way rather than under pressure.

  • Order circuits and confirm wayleave permissions 10–12 weeks out
  • Book structured cabling and patching so the floor is live before move weekend
  • Keep the outgoing line running two weeks past the move date
  • Confirm number porting dates with your telecoms provider in writing

Decommissioning the comms room

Photograph the rack front and back before a single cable is pulled. Those photographs are what the rebuild is measured against, and they settle every argument about what was patched where.

Label both ends of every cable, bag and tag rack screws and shelf hardware, and shut down in the documented order — switches, then storage, then hosts — rather than by whichever plug is nearest. Anything in a rack travels bolted into purpose-built cases or a shock-mounted rack trolley, never on a flat trolley with a blanket over it.

Desks, docks and the seating plan

Every desk position at the destination gets a number that matches the floor plan, and every monitor arm, dock, keyboard and headset travels in a crate carrying that number. That is the whole trick: the crew is not deciding where anything goes, they are matching labels.

Staff pack their own pedestal and personal items into a numbered crate. IT handles anything with a cable. Splitting it that way avoids the classic Monday problem of a dock sitting in someone's pedestal on the other side of the floor.

  • Number every destination desk position and mirror it on the crate labels
  • IT strips and re-terminates all screens, docks and handsets
  • Photograph unusual setups — dual-arm mounts, sit-stand controllers, trading positions
  • Keep a small spares box: power leads, display cables, patch leads

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A free site survey of both buildings gives you one fixed, VAT-exclusive figure for the purchase order — plus the RAMS and insurance pack your building manager will ask for.

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Rebuild sequence and the Monday floorwalk

The comms room goes back first and is tested before the floor fills, because a desk you rebuild against a dead patch panel is a desk you rebuild twice. Once the network answers, the crew works the floor in plan order while IT follows behind logging in at each position.

Book a floorwalk for the first two hours of the first working morning. The list is always the same shape — a dead port, a missing dock, a printer that needs re-adding — and it is a thirty-minute job on the day rather than a week of tickets.

Questions

Quick answers for Hanwell W7

Yes. The prices, RAMS and switchover timings in this guide are the ones we work to across Ealing, including W7. What varies locally is building access — goods lift booking, loading bay and contractor induction — plus ULEZ, and all of them are inside the written project price before you book.

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Who wrote this page

Reviewed by Sarbaz Hassan, Operations Director — .

Prices, access notes and timings on this page come from jobs our own crews have run in Hanwell W7 — not from a generic template. Tell us if anything here is out of date and we will correct it.

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