Relocate from London to Scotland, any removal co recommendation?

[graceandmercy]

Hi all, need advice and or sharing of your experience with regard to long distance removal. The journey takes more than 500 miles one way, excluding stops and break. Moving from 2 bed furnished rented to same 2 beds. Nothing to be dismantled as all furniture are landlords'. mainly kitchen stuff, clothes and miscellaneous. I have read through some old threads there and get quote with GB liners (£4k), while Anyvan is £1.7K, Shiply between £9xx to £2K. Any sharing most welcome☺️.

some quotes said can do the removal in one day but I read from old threads that usually do within 2 to 3 days. what's the common practice for this long distance removal?

thx all.

Can you drive? If you've not got furniture to move you'd be cheaper hiring a van on a one-way hire and doing it yourself.

Depending on where you're going you could try shore porters.

Pickfords regularly go between SW London and Aberdeen.

...and you get charged for the space your belongings take up only (part load)

We used Clarke & Rose

I can drive but dare not to drive a van, at least not now. too stressful for me🥲

Depending on where your new house is, it might be better to try to find a part-load space in a lorry going from your southern location to Glasgow or Edinburgh or perhaps Aberdeen.
After that, many - most - local Highlands courier companies have a yard or base in one of the three big cities. Goods can be offloaded there by other removal/couier companies then picked up by a local courier for delivery to you at a remote location, at a mutually convenient time.
For the west coast, I'd really recommend hebrideshaulage.co.uk Or, for a larger load, Argyll Removals www.argyllremovals.co.uk/

There are other companies, o course, but I've not had experience of them.

Thx for all useful tips! I asked for quotes from all those recommended and hopefully can sort out that soonest. @scottishnames I checked the Argyll website but my new property not fall within her serving area. This morning Shore porters did mention about part load and offload as you shared above. Waiting for quotes now.

I also tried to get quotes from Shiply and received lots of replies. The price is very attractive. They responded enquiries very fast. Any thoughts on that?

We used this frim they were absolutely amazing our date kept changing and they were so understanding the office staff were great and the men were fantastic (we had a packing it all up unpacking service we just gave them the keys and let them get on with it they were so quick) and when we got the bill they charged us less than they originally quoted for because it didn't take as long or cost as much as they thought and it was a share. Some wanted us to pay up front they didn't (I think). They cover the whole of the UK and Europe even though they are based in Dumfries. They were also mid priced amongst the quotes I cant recommend them enough.