Removals in Thame
Full home and apartment removals with trained crews. Vetted, insured crews across OX9 — with a fixed price agreed before we start, from £45/hr.
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- Since 2019
Removals · Thame
from £45/hr
Fixed price, quoted before we arrive
- Postcodes
- OX9
- Availability
- 7 days
- Cover
- £1m liability
- Licence
- CBDU300454
What we can show you for Thame
Thame access and housing notes
OX9 housing stock and loading reality, written for Thame rather than the county.
Removals in Thame: what actually matters here
A South Oxfordshire market town with one of the widest historic market streets in the region and a largely conservation-area core.
The housing stock is Timber-framed, brick and rendered period property along the High Street and Cornmarket, much of it listed; post-war housing off Moreton Avenue and Chinnor Road; and modern estates on the southern and eastern edges, which decides the tools, protection and crew size we bring to a removals job.
The wide High Street is a genuine advantage most days — there is room to stop and load — but market day and event closures remove it entirely, so we check the date before quoting a town-centre job. The listed frontages behind it are the real constraint: narrow doors, tight turns on stairs and floors that need boarding. The outer estates are ordinary van-at-the-door work. South Oxfordshire District Council sets parking and bulky collections.
Thame Town Centre, Moreton Avenue, Lea Park and Towersey all sit inside the Thame round. Whichever of OX9 your address falls in, the removals quote is built the same way.
As a smaller town built around The broad High Street and Upper High Street, wide enough to have held the market for centuries, Thame has a mix of approach roads and loading points, so we confirm parking and carry distance when you book rather than assuming.
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
- 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.
- 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.
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Where we cover around Thame
- Thame Town CentreOX9
- Moreton AvenueOX9
- Lea ParkOX9
- TowerseyOX9
- TetsworthOX9
- Long CrendonOX9
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Thame questions, answered.
How quickly can you book removals in Thame?
Same-week slots are standard in Thame, with next-day often available midweek. Month-end tenancy changeovers are the busiest window across Oxfordshire, 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.