Removals in Grays
Full home and apartment removals with trained crews. Vetted, insured crews across RM16, RM17, RM20 — with a fixed price agreed before we start, from £45/hr.
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- Since 2019
Removals · Grays
from £45/hr
Fixed price, quoted before we arrive
- Postcodes
- RM16, RM17, RM20
- Availability
- 7 days
- Cover
- £1m liability
- Licence
- CBDU300454
What we can show you for Grays
Here is what our removals work around Grays looks like in practice.
Grays access and housing notes
RM16, RM17, RM20 housing stock and loading reality, written for Grays rather than the county.
Removals in Grays: what actually matters here
A Thames-side Thurrock town of Victorian terraces near the old quarry, riverside industry and large retail-led development around Lakeside.
The housing stock is Victorian and interwar terraces close to the station, with modern riverside apartments at West Thurrock, which decides the tools, protection and crew size we bring to a removals job.
This is the Essex edge of the London logistics belt: Dartford Crossing charges apply to jobs that cross the river, and riverside apartment blocks have loading bays booked through a concierge.
A removals in Grays is planned around the two ends of the day — access here and access wherever the load is going.
A removals booking in Grays covers Grays town centre, West Thurrock, Chafford Hundred and Little Thurrock on the same fixed price as the town centre — the crew works the whole RM16, RM17 and RM20 footprint rather than a narrow postcode.
Grays shares its round with basildon, brentwood and wickford. That local routing is what makes same-week removals slots normal here instead of an exception.
Grays is a mid-sized town; the streets around Grays Beach riverside park and the Lakeside shopping centre are the ones where we most often check loading arrangements in advance.
Further out, South Stifford, Purfleet, Stifford Clays and Belhus sit inside the same footprint — same crews, same fixed removals pricing.
If your removals job runs between Grays and southend-on-sea, it is still one booking and one price — we do not split a local job across two quotes.
When you enquire, the Grays postcode is the first thing we ask for — RM16 addresses differ enough street to street that we would rather check than assume.
We map Grays by area — Grays town centre (RM17), West Thurrock (RM20) and Chafford Hundred (RM16) — rather than treating the whole town as one drop.
We treat Grays as 12 separate approaches (Grays town centre through Orsett) on one removals price list.
A Grays booking is held with a named contact, and if timings slip at the basildon end of the round you hear about it before the slot, not after.
What a removals job includes
A house removal is a surveyed, fixed-price job, not an hourly booking: we look at the property, count the volume, work out the access at both ends and quote one number — from £340 for a studio or one-bed, from £520 for a two-bed, and from £780 for a three-bed with a crew of three for the day. Crews carry blankets, straps and trolleys as standard and dismantle and reassemble standard beds and tables as part of the price, with goods in transit cover of £10k per load and £1m public liability in place before anything is loaded.
Before moving day
- Video or in-person survey, then a fixed written price that does not move unless you add work
- Volume, crew size and van count planned from the survey rather than guessed on the day
- Access checked at both ends — parking, lift booking, floor level, stair width
- A written plan for what gets dismantled and what travels assembled
On the day
- Floors, banisters and door frames protected on the carry route
- Furniture blanket-wrapped, mattresses bagged, mirrors and glass carried between boards
- Standard beds, wardrobes and tables dismantled and rebuilt at the new address
- Boxes placed in the labelled room, not stacked in the hall
At the new address
- Large furniture positioned where you want it before the crew leaves
- Beds rebuilt so the first night does not happen on a mattress on the floor
- Blankets, boards and our own packaging taken away
- A signed job sheet recording condition and completion
What changes the price on a removals job
- Pianos, safes, large aquariums and full-size gym equipment are specialist lifts quoted separately, and we do not carry fuel, gas bottles or hazardous goods in a stacked load.
- Volume, not distance, sets a removal price. A cluttered two-bed with a full loft and garage can be a bigger job than a tidy three-bed, which is why we survey rather than price from bedroom count.
- Access is the second half. No lift above the third floor, a permit-only street, a long carry from the nearest legal stopping point or a lift that must be booked with a building manager all add crew hours — we would rather find that at survey than at 8am on moving day.
- Completion-day timing is outside anyone's control. Keys held up by a solicitor happen; we plan a realistic start, and the honest answer is that the crew can only load once you can hand over access.
- Parking, congestion charge and ULEZ where genuinely incurred are itemised at cost and never marked up. They are the only pass-through on a removal.
Grays pricing
Full national rates are on our prices page. Anything Grays-specific — permits, suspensions, long carries — is shown in your quote rather than added afterwards.
How booking works in Grays
Tell us the property
Size, floor level and your RM16 postcode — that is everything we need to price removals.
Get a fixed price
One figure for the whole job, in writing, before you commit. No hourly meter and no on-the-day additions.
We turn up and finish
A vetted Essex crew, £1m public liability cover, and the job signed off before we leave.
Removals and moving reviews across the UK
4.5 ★ from 3,131 Trustpilot reviewsMy daughter and her friend employed hello services to move the contents of their flat in Stevenage to their new flat in London. They arrived a little early to ensure they were ready to start at 9am The flat was at the top of the three story block of flats and the three of them… Read in full →
Really pleased with our house move. The guys came on time, loaded everything carefully like a huge jigsaw! Nothing got broken and even though they were working on an hourly rate they were really efficient, not to waste any time. Our only criticism is that we needed a few items disassembled to get on the… Read in full →
My movers were great! So fast and organised. Both of them were lovely so if I need to move again, I will definitely use the same guys. At one point my husband and I were nervous about all our stuff fitting in a Luton van, but Abdulla managed it all as well as keeping us… Read in full →
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Areas we cover in Grays
Same fixed prices across RM16, RM17, RM20 — no travel surcharge inside the district.
- Grays town centreRM17
- West ThurrockRM20
- Chafford HundredRM16
- Little ThurrockRM16
- South StiffordRM20
- PurfleetRM19
- Stifford ClaysRM16
- BelhusRM15
- LakesideRM20
- Socketts HeathRM16
- BlackshotsRM16
- OrsettRM16
About Grays
Grays is Thames-side Thurrock: Victorian and interwar terraces around the old quarry and the station, 1990s Chafford Hundred housing built into the chalk pits, and modern riverside apartments at West Thurrock and Purfleet. It is also the Essex edge of the London logistics belt, so the rental market moves quickly and end-of-tenancy work in RM16 and RM17 sits alongside a steady flow of flat-pack and small-repair jobs in the newer apartments.
The two access facts here are the crossing and the concierge. Jobs that cross the river incur the Dartford Charge, which we include in the fixed price and state on the quote rather than adding later, and the riverside blocks require a loading bay booked through building management with a lift booked to match. Terraced streets near the station have no dropped kerbs and permit-only kerbside, so we confirm the stopping point in advance. Grays crews also serve Tilbury, South Ockendon, Stanford-le-Hope and Corringham.
Other moving services in Grays
Grays questions, answered.
How much does removals cost in Grays?
Removals in Grays (RM16, RM17, RM20) starts from £45 per hour. The final figure is fixed before booking and reflects the size of the property, the floor level and the access — which in Grays usually means this is the Essex edge of the London logistics belt: Dartford Crossing charges apply to jobs that cross the river, and riverside apartment blocks have loading bays booked through a concierge.
Do you cover the whole of Grays?
Yes — every RM16 and RM17 and RM20 street, plus the surrounding Essex towns. Crews are routed within the county rather than dispatched from London, so short-notice slots are realistic.
Are you insured for removals work?
We carry £1m public liability cover and hold Environment Agency waste carrier licence CBDU300454. Certificates are available on request and the details are published on our trust and credentials page.
How quickly can you book removals in Grays?
Same-week slots are standard in Grays, with next-day often available midweek. Month-end tenancy changeovers are the busiest window across Essex, so book those a week or two ahead.
Why survey instead of just quoting by bedrooms?
Because bedroom count does not tell us volume or access, and those are what the day actually costs. A ten-minute video walk-round gives you a fixed price we stand behind rather than an estimate that moves once the van is half full.
Do you pack as well?
Packing is a separate service, priced per packer per hour or as a fixed price by property size, and it can be booked for the whole house, for the kitchen and fragiles only, or not at all. Keeping it separate means you are not paying for packing you intend to do yourself.
What is covered if something is damaged?
Goods in transit cover of £10k per load applies to everything in the van, with £1m public liability alongside it. Anything already damaged is noted with you before loading, and anything raised within 24 hours is put right rather than argued about.
Can the move run over two days?
Yes, and for larger homes it is often the sensible plan — pack and load non-essentials on day one, complete on day two. It is quoted as one job, with the overnight load staying secured in the van or in storage as agreed in writing.
Helpful guides
Practical reading before you book in Grays — costs, checklists and what a good job actually looks like.
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Book removals in Grays
Fixed price agreed before we start, £1m public liability cover, and a crew routed inside Essex rather than dispatched from London.
Removals and moving reviews across the UK
4.5 ★ from 3,131 Trustpilot reviewsMy daughter and her friend employed hello services to move the contents of their flat in Stevenage to their new flat in London. They arrived a little early to ensure they were ready to start at 9am The flat was at the top of the three story block of flats and the three of them… Read in full →
Really pleased with our house move. The guys came on time, loaded everything carefully like a huge jigsaw! Nothing got broken and even though they were working on an hourly rate they were really efficient, not to waste any time. Our only criticism is that we needed a few items disassembled to get on the… Read in full →
My movers were great! So fast and organised. Both of them were lovely so if I need to move again, I will definitely use the same guys. At one point my husband and I were nervous about all our stuff fitting in a Luton van, but Abdulla managed it all as well as keeping us… Read in full →
Read all 63 Removals and moving reviews across the UK →
Quoted verbatim from reviews customers left on our public Google and Trustpilot profiles. Nothing is edited, shortened beyond the link above, or written by us.