Moving advice & tips

Choosing a removal company can be an intimidating experience - but if you're armed with the right knowledge, you can make the right choice for your moving needs. Here is a collection of information you might find helpful in preparing to move home. 

The bare necessities of moving home

Packing for your Removal

Packing for your Removal

Free guide to packing for your house move

Download our free guide to packing for your next home removal, and pack like the experts - helping your move go smoothly!

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International Moving Advice

International Moving Advice

Information and advice for a smooth move abroad

Even if you're only moving just across the Channel, an international move is both a stressful and exciting time. You need to prepare well in advance to ensure your international move goes smoothly.

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FAQs

FAQs

What do you need help with?

Can't find the answers you're looking for? We've compiled some of our most frequently asked questions to help you with your removal.

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Moving Home Videos

Moving Home Videos

Helpful videos full of top tips and advice for moving home

Our videos will (hopefully!) make you smile, show what we've done, and simply show who we are and what we're about at Britannia Bradshaw.

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Moving Home in Winter

Moving Home in Winter

Our tips can help you have a smooth removal in the winter

Britannia Bradshaw are used to performing removals in tough conditions such as the snowy mountains of Switzerland and France. Our experience will help you with your winter house removal in the UK or Europe.

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Moving Home With Children

Moving Home With Children

Moving with children doesn't have to be a stressful experience

Depending on your children’s age, you can involve them in the moving process, and by emphasising the exciting side of the move, you will help them embrace the adventure.

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Moving home with pets

Moving home with pets

Tips to help your pets have a smooth move

Moving house can be a stressful event for pets, and there are things you can do to help your pet's transition to your new home go smoothly and reduce the stress.

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Moving with flatpack furniture

Moving with flatpack furniture

No matter how you choose to move your flat pack furniture, we're on hand to help.

Most of us have at least one piece of flat pack furniture from IKEA or another company in our homes - our advice will help you have the best move with your flat pack furniture.

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Know Before You Go

Know Before You Go

Familiarise yourself with your new destination before moving

We are partners in the Government's Know Before You Go campaign, helping you to know your rights and responsibilities when moving and living abroad.

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How to Prevent Identity Theft

How to Prevent Identity Theft

If someone steals enough information about you, you need to know what to do

Fraudsters scour recycling and rubbish bins and other places to look for personal details to be used to obtain financial products in a name other than their own. Find out some basic tips to help prevent identity theft.

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Call Us:  Manchester: 0161 877 5555  Birmingham: 0121 504 0966 orLet Us Call You Back

Removal quote appointment booking service

Britannia Bradshaw can help your move go smoothly. Contact us for a free, no obligation quote, or by calling 0161 877 5555 (Manchester) or 0121 504 0966 (Birmingham & Coventry) and speak with one of our removals specialists.

How are our appointments carried out

In the current times you might prefer that we don't visit your house in person to carry out a survey. This is fully understandable and we can just as easily undertake the survey by video call, using whatever method you're comfortable with, usually FaceTime or WhatsApp.

See what our customers think of us...

They were just completely excellent

Why did you choose to get a quote from us and where did you get our contact details?  
Used Britannia before and so searched for local Britannia movers 

How would you rate the way we dealt with your initial enquiry? 
10/10 

How would you rate the survey that we carried out?  
10/10 

Why did you choose to move/store with us?  
Just so good and professional. I had lots of questions. Luke was really patient with me and answered them all, it felt like nothing was too much trouble 

How would you rate your move team? 
10/10 

Would you like to tell us anything about your move team? 
They were just completely excellent, every single one of them worked hard, was professional and polite, the whole move was done so quickly and simply. Everything was well packaged and labelled, there hasn’t been a single breakage. 

How would you rate our communication? 
10/10 

How can we improve our service?
I’m not sure. It was really excellent - the online portal where you book was a bit unintuitive on mobile and I had to do it over the phone with Luke in the end  

How likely are you to recommend us to your friends / family? 
10/10 

Is there anything else you would like to tell us about your move? 
It was amazing. 

James Purvis,

Friendly, approachable, knowledgeable and efficient

Why did you choose to get a quote from us and where did you get our contact details?
Personal recommendation

How would you rate the way we dealt with your initial enquiry?
10/10

How would you rate the survey that we carried out?
10/10

Why did you choose to move/store with us?
Heard only good comments

How would you rate your move team?
10/10

Would you like to tell us anything about your move team?
Friendly, approachable, knowledgeable  and efficient.  Extremely hardworking. Couldn't have asked for a better team of lads.

How would you rate our communication?
10/10

How can we improve our service?
Your service was excellent

How likely are you to recommend us to your friends / family?
10/10

Pam Gerrard

Very good communication from beginning to the end

Why did you choose to get a quote from us and where did you get our contact details?
One of the options for moving home

How would you rate the way we dealt with your initial enquiry?
10/10

How would you rate the survey that we carried out?
10/10

Why did you choose to move/store with us?
Good communication

How did our price compare with other quotes you may have received?
Similar

How would you rate your move team?
10/10

Would you like to tell us anything about your move team?
All lads excellent, couldn't ask for better

How would you rate our communication?
10/10

How can we improve our service?
Think you are very good as you are

How likely are you to recommend us to your friends / family?
10/10

Is there anything else you would like to tell us about your move?
There was very good communication from beginning to the end and excellent service from everyone we dealt with

Tony Stevens

The lads were fantastic

Why did you choose to get a quote from us and where did you get our contact details?
Due to pending house move, searched for multiple providers and obtained quotes via the internet / recommendations

How would you rate the way we dealt with your initial enquiry?
9/10

How would you rate the survey that we carried out?
9/10

Why did you choose to move/store with us?
Based on quote detail, and to some degree the price point that fell between a more expensive and a cheaper option

How would you rate your move team?
10/10

Would you like to tell us anything about your move team?
The lads were fantastic, efficient and a pleasure to be around on the day

How would you rate our communication?
9/10

How can we improve our service?
(subject to reform in the property sector which affects logistics) consideration to last minute changes and delays particularly with residential house moves due to a sale and multiple people within a chain

How likely are you to recommend us to your friends / family?
10/10

Is there anything else you would like to tell us about your move?
It was not straight forward, it cost more than it could and should due to circumstances outside of everyone's control but we got there in the end and the physical move of items was the easiest part in fairness.

Joey Eddison

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