Office removals in Hammersmith & Chiswick.
W6 has a substantial commercial core behind the Broadway, and Chiswick has its own along the High Road and the business park. Office moves run on the building's rules, not yours.
An office move is judged on one thing: whether people can work on Monday. Everything else — the carrying, the crates, the van — is in service of that.
Which means the planning starts well before the vehicles do, and most of it is about other people's constraints: the building's permitted move window, the goods lift booking, the managing agent's insurance requirement, and your IT provider's availability.
What we handle
- Desks, pedestals, chairs, storage and meeting furniture
- Reusable crates delivered ahead of the date for staff to pack
- IT hardware — moved and protected, with reconnection coordinated rather than assumed
- Server and comms equipment, where your provider has decommissioned it
- Archive, filing and confidential material
- Studio and media equipment, which W6 has a lot of
- Dismantle and reassembly of desking and partitioning
- Clearance of what is not going to the new office
The building is the schedule
In the managed buildings around the Broadway and along the river, moves happen when the building says they happen. Evening and weekend windows are normal. Goods lifts are shared and booked. Loading bays have time limits. Some buildings will not permit a move at all during business hours.
None of that is an obstacle if it is established early. It becomes one when a date is agreed with a landlord before anybody has asked the managing agent.
Labelling, which is where offices go wrong
The single biggest predictor of a smooth Monday is whether everything was labelled by destination — not by origin. A crate marked "Sarah's desk" is useless in a building where nobody knows where Sarah now sits. A crate marked with a destination desk number goes straight there.
We supply the labelling system and the plan. What we need from you is a floor plan for the new office with positions numbered, ideally a week ahead.
Small offices and studios
Plenty of our commercial work is well short of a corporate relocation — a six-person studio, a treatment room, a small agency above a shop on King Street. Those move much like a household with more cable, and they do not need the full phased apparatus. We will say which yours is.
Moving home rather than an office? House removals and flat removals. Just a few items? Man and van.
Office move questions
Can you move us out of hours?
Usually necessary rather than optional. Most managed office buildings in W6 restrict moves to evenings or weekends, and most businesses would rather not lose a working day. We plan around the building's permitted window, which means the schedule is set by them as much as by us.
What do you need from the building?
Goods lift booking, loading bay access, out-of-hours permission, and frequently evidence of our insurance lodged with the managing agent. Start that early — in the bigger Hammersmith buildings it takes longer than people expect and it is the most common cause of a postponed office move.
How do you handle IT?
Carefully, and with a clear line about responsibility. We move and protect the hardware; decommissioning, cabling and reconnection are usually your IT provider's job, and it works best when both of us are in the same conversation before the date. Label everything by destination desk and the Monday morning is far less painful.
Do you provide crates?
Yes — reusable crates rather than cardboard for an office move, delivered ahead of the date so staff can pack their own desks. It is faster, it stacks better and it survives being moved repeatedly.
Can you do a phased move?
Often the sensible approach for anything beyond a small office — one department at a time, or non-essential storage first and desks last, so the business keeps running. We will talk through what phasing actually buys you rather than assuming it is always right.
Moving an office in W6?
Tell us the building, roughly how many people, and what the landlord has said about access windows. That is where the plan starts.