Tips for removers

I am in the SE and used to do removals (self employed though, not a large removals company.) I have never been tipped £50. I would say £20 per person, and that would be for the whole job, not per day! It would be shit to not be offered tea and biscuits. Some people would get in sandwiches, or takeaway pizzas, which was hugely appreciated. More appreciated than a tip. And please let them use the loo; not everyone does, especially at their new house.

I recently moved in the south east. I had a crew of 4 people over 3 days (2 days packing, 1 day move). 3 of the 4 people were different people across the days. On the last day I gave the boss of the crew £160 and asked him to distribute it between them. I was confident that he would, as I’d heard him on a phone call with some other colleague at one point saying “I owe you some tip money, will give it to you tomorrow”.

Absolutely not! I work in this industry and honestly crews are happy with unlimited cups of tea and a pack of biscuits. If you do want to tip I’d say no more than £20 each.

You don't need to tip anyone, they make a fair wage in the UK.

We bought ours butties from a local sandwich shop and kept the drinks coming. Then I recommended them and they've had 4 moves off that in the last 6 years.

With movers you don't tend to know how good a job they've done until they are gone. Paint chips, scratches etc

I wouldn't tip them anything. Maybe £50 at the end of the job to have a drink.

No tips from me.

1. Did AI tell you this?
2. How big is your house if it’s going to take 4 people a working week to get you packed? Two of us packed up a 4 bed in a day. Admittedly we weren’t going far so didn’t pristinely wrap every single glass but that seems a lot.

Best thing will be to ask the company director you are using. I did. He said that I shouldn’t and if we did, they should reject to take it. We offered biscuits and refreshments throughout the day. They underestimated the job, so had to bring extra movers to help end of day. We offered beers to be taken home but that was declined. Do you expect to receive £50 for each day you to work on top of your wage?

We had a recent 3-day pack and move with 4 movers.

We tipped £100 to share at the end of the job and we’d bought them fish & chips on the actual move day.

Well, we're clearly very mean! We didn't tip cash at all, but did keep them well supplied with food and drinks. And I sent the kids to tesco for ice-cream for everyone, as it was boiling.

Don’t put too much trust in AI, and remember a lot of advice and guidelines you find online are based on US culture, not UK (even if the AI summary has put a pound sign in).

i gave our movers £20 each and a case of beer that we bought for Christmas and didn’t use. They seemed happy with that.

Assuming that you’re in the UK, I wouldn’t worry too much, but I found this.

I’d give them £20 each! In total. We tipped our bathroom fitter £100 for five weeks work and he seemed delighted with that. He was supplied decent coffee, bottled water and M&S choccie biscuits, hob nobs, Mcvities digestives and real rich tea (we eat own brand lol) plus I bought him several Greggs lunches and a couple of Big Mac meals

just keep them well watered!

I'm in the south east. My removers were fast, efficient and helpful. The supervisor told me the men were on minimum wage, so the company did well but not the workers. I gave the supervisor £100 to share out.

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i'd give them plenty of brews and biscuits and a nice breakfast somewhere at the end of the job

£50 a person per day is just silly

we used a local company and tipped the guys £20 each. They did a fabulous job in really hot weather!

I think we gave 50 quid, maybe 100 to the lead guy and said "please split this and thank the team".... I don't think it would be expected, they are paid and honestly, a couple of ours weren't that great and they packed the cot on day 1 (after we'd said Leave the beds as we need to sleep in them tonight), apparently they didn't view a cot as a bed.... I digress, tip whatever you feel is fair, if they've gone above and beyond, if something is difficult or if you want to be nice, but don't feel obligated and definitely not 4 figures!!

We didn't tip the movers but we gave them the broken fancy fridge the sellers had left they were a bit a@@ey and they asked for it, we never told them it was broken. They were the worst movers ever!

Why do people feel they need to tip certain professions and not others.

People are paid a proper wage for their jobs in this country.

we don’t need to tip.

I gave them a tenner each because they helped put up beds etc in a very efficient way.

Our removal team worked like slaves. My dh gave the crew £60 at the end.

During the packing day I kept the sugary teas and coffees coming; I also had a big cooler of soft drinks (the tea and coffee was more popular) and a big box of Mars Bars, Twix, Yorkies etc. which I let them take at the end and yes we bought them some rounds of bacon butties for lunch .

It is incredibly hard physical labour and often the crews are booked back to back on jobs (sometimes with a long drive back late at night).

Why would you tip, a good review fair enough offer drinks? Or as pp a lunch round to be very nice. It's a job they have quoted accordingly

I probably wouldn’t tip, but if you have a nearby cafe I’m sure a round of coffee and bacon sandwiches (or similar) would probably be appreciated.