Packing Services in Portsmouth
Professional packing, unpacking and materials supply. Vetted, insured crews across PO1, PO2, PO3, PO4, PO5, PO6 — with a fixed price agreed before we start, from £45/hr.
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Packing Services · Portsmouth
from £45/hr
Fixed price, quoted before we arrive
- Postcodes
- PO1, PO2, PO3, PO4, PO5, PO6
- Availability
- 7 days
- Cover
- £1m liability
- Licence
- CBDU300454
What we can show you for Portsmouth
Portsmouth access and housing notes
PO1, PO2, PO3, PO4, PO5, PO6 housing stock and loading reality, written for Portsmouth rather than the county.
Packing Services in Portsmouth: what actually matters here
A unitary city built mostly on Portsea Island, one of the most densely populated places in the United Kingdom, with long naval terraces, Victorian Southsea and a mainland northern edge at Cosham and Drayton.
The housing stock is Dense Victorian and Edwardian bylaw terraces through Fratton, Buckland, North End, Copnor and Milton, most of them without off-street parking; large Victorian villas and conversion flats across Southsea; naval and post-war housing at Paulsgrove and Wymering; and suburban semis with drives on the mainland at Cosham, Drayton and Farlington, which decides the tools, protection and crew size we bring to a packing services job.
Portsmouth is the hardest access in the county and it is not close. Portsea Island's terraced grid is almost entirely resident permit parking with narrow carriageways, no driveways and, in much of Southsea and Fratton, no legal place to leave a Luton for an hour. We plan a stopping point, a suspension where one is needed, or a smaller vehicle with a shuttle, and the carry goes in the written quote. Portsmouth City Council is a unitary authority running its own tip, parking scheme and bulky collections. It also operates a Class B Clean Air Zone, which charges non-compliant buses, coaches, taxis, private hire vehicles and HGVs — vans and cars are not charged, so nothing we bring to a domestic job attracts the fee.
A packing services booking in Portsmouth covers Southsea, Old Portsmouth and Fratton on the same fixed price as the town centre — the crew works the whole PO1, PO2 and PO3 footprint rather than a narrow postcode.
Portsmouth is one of the larger settlements in the county; the streets around The Historic Dockyard and Spinnaker Tower, with the M275 the single motorway approach onto the island are the ones where we most often check loading arrangements in advance.
What a packing services job includes
Packing is priced two ways so you only buy what you need: per packer per hour — £30 for one, £55 for two, with a two-hour minimum — or as a fixed price by property size, from £180 for a studio or one-bed, £280 for a two-bed and £420 for a three-bed. Materials are charged at cost, a two-bed materials pack starts at £68, and empty cartons are collected free after the move. Unpacking at the new address is charged the same hourly way, with boxes flattened and taken away.
Materials
- Double-wall cartons, tissue paper, bubble wrap and tape supplied and charged at cost
- Wardrobe cartons so hanging clothes travel on the rail
- Purpose-made cartons for pictures, mirrors, TVs and lamps
- Mattress bags and protective covers for soft furnishings
The pack
- Room-by-room packing with a numbered inventory as we go
- Every carton labelled with its room and its contents, not just a room name
- China, glass and stemware individually wrapped and packed on edge rather than stacked flat
- Electronics packed with their cables, and screens boxed upright
- A clearly marked essentials box kept back for the first night
Options
- Fragile-only pack for the kitchen and glassware, from £120, when you are doing the rest yourself
- Full pack the day before the move so loading starts on time
- Unpacking at the new address at £30 per hour, with cartons flattened and removed
- Free collection of empty cartons after you have finished unpacking
What changes the price on a packing services job
- Boxes you packed yourself are still covered for transit, but we cannot verify the contents or how they were wrapped; where a fragile item matters, let us pack it and it is documented on the inventory.
- Materials are at cost, not a profit line, so over-ordering costs you money for no benefit — we would rather bring a realistic quantity and top up than sell you a pallet of cartons.
- We do not pack fuel, aerosols under pressure, paint or gas bottles, and open food and plants are best moved by you in the car.
- Packing takes longer than people expect. A studio is typically four to six hours for one packer and a family home a full day for two, which is why the fixed prices are set by property size rather than by an optimistic hour count.
- The kitchen is the room that decides the timings — glassware, china and small appliances are slow, careful work, and it is the room most often left to the last hour by self-packers.
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Where we cover around Portsmouth
- SouthseaPO5
- Old PortsmouthPO1
- FrattonPO1
- BucklandPO1
- North EndPO2
- HilseaPO2
- CopnorPO3
- BaffinsPO3
- MiltonPO4
- EastneyPO4
- CoshamPO6
- DraytonPO6
- FarlingtonPO6
- PaulsgrovePO6
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Portsmouth questions, answered.
How quickly can you book packing services in Portsmouth?
Same-week slots are standard in Portsmouth, with next-day often available midweek. Month-end tenancy changeovers are the busiest window across Hampshire, so book those a week or two ahead.
Should I pay for packing or do it myself?
Do the wardrobes and the books yourself if you have the time; get the kitchen, the glassware and anything breakable packed properly. A fragile-only pack from £120 buys most of the protection for a fraction of the full-pack price.
How many boxes will I need?
We estimate from the survey and bring what the property size suggests — a two-bed materials pack starts at £68 — then top up if needed. Materials are charged at cost, so you pay for what you actually use.
Do you take the empty boxes away?
Yes. Empty cartons are collected free after the move, and if you book unpacking they are flattened and taken away on the same visit.