Moving and thinking do you need one or two helpers?
Some people think to save money on their removal they ask for a price for one man then two, then opt for the one man price because its costing them less – I don’t work that way myself, if the job sounds as if its going to be pretty hard graft 3rd/4th floor to the same I usually always suggest two removals porters as well as the customer assisting if possible if it’s the man with a van service the want. I’ve found out far to often that a job can be even harder when your working with someone not used to climbing stairs or lifting goods or really just getting on with it or taking phone calls and chatting away during the move & putting unnecessary strain on the removals guy who’s also doing your share of the work.
If you agree a price assisting helping load the removal van -stick to it! I recently did a Edinburgh Removal from Bernard terrace/London street and it was a 1st floor to a 3rd floor the customer goods where no relation to what they informed me they had, supposedly 12 boxes and 5 suitcases actual item count around 95 items, I had to re-schedule work on that day. Being a difficult 3rd floor the customers ran out of steam 10 mins into the full hour, without a break, it took to get it up the stairs. Considering the job was priced for one man with customers help, luckily I had my removal porter with me but none the less it made things a bit of a strain the rest of the day, the customer was relieved when job was over but we still had work to do.
It’s really more than my business is worth to risk injury or potentially messing up days moving schedule due to the work not being done as quick as it should be. It’s false economy trying to do a difficult move on a cheap with less labour, it actually becomes harder.
Another problem that happens occasionally are people looking to move sofas assuming if it’s a 2 seat small sofa one man can lift it, some Edinburgh man with a vans might attempt this, but I don’t… why? Well you need safely to remove item out a property without damaging the walls doors or knocking things over etc, some might not bother; I actually do, as well as getting it safely into another property. A Recent issue I had when someone thought I could do all this myself, it was a white 2 seater, I wasn’t aware why the customer couldn’t help, it would have been easy for them to tell me – they insisted I could do it myself due to being easy ground level to ground level (Actually down a flight of steep steps at destination) … help was arranged & luckily so, as there was no way I could have done it without issues, narrow hall and 2 doors, trying to keep sofa clean without dragging it, why couldn’t the customer help but never said ?? they had one arm, I’m not sure what they would have said to me if id ripped the cover & soiled it due to dragging it out and in but that didn’t happen as ~Van Man
Moving and thinking do you need one or two helpers?
Some people think to save money on their removal they ask for a price for one man then two, then opt for the one man price because its costing them less – I don’t work that way myself, if the job sounds as if its going to be pretty hard graft 3rd/4th floor to the same I usually always suggest two removals porters as well as the customer assisting if possible if it’s the man with a van service the want. I’ve found out far to often that a job can be even harder when your working with someone not used to climbing stairs or lifting goods or really just getting on with it or taking phone calls and chatting away during the move & putting unnecessary strain on the removals guy who’s also doing your share of the work.
If you agree a price assisting helping load the removal van -stick to it! I recently did a Edinburgh Removal from Bernard terrace/London street and it was a 1st floor to a 3rd floor the customer goods where no relation to what they informed me they had, supposedly 12 boxes and 5 suitcases actual item count around 95 items, I had to re-schedule work on that day. Being a difficult 3rd floor the customers ran out of steam 10 mins into the full hour, without a break, it took to get it up the stairs. Considering the job was priced for one man with customers help, luckily I had my removal porter with me but none the less it made things a bit of a strain the rest of the day, the customer was relieved when job was over but we still had work to do.
It’s really more than my business is worth to risk injury or potentially messing up days moving schedule due to the work not being done as quick as it should be. It’s false economy trying to do a difficult move on a cheap with less labour, it actually becomes harder.
Another problem that happens occasionally are people looking to move sofas assuming if it’s a 2 seat small sofa one man can lift it, some Edinburgh man with a vans might attempt this, but I don’t… why? Well you need safely to remove item out a property without damaging the walls doors or knocking things over etc, some might not bother; I actually do, as well as getting it safely into another property. A Recent issue I had when someone thought I could do all this myself, it was a white 2 seater, I wasn’t aware why the customer couldn’t help, it would have been easy for them to tell me – they insisted I could do it myself due to being easy ground level to ground level (Actually down a flight of steep steps at destination) … help was arranged & luckily so, as there was no way I could have done it without issues, narrow hall and 2 doors, trying to keep sofa clean without dragging it, why couldn’t the customer help but never said ?? they had one arm, I’m not sure what they would have said to me if id ripped the cover & soiled it due to dragging it out and in but that didn’t happen as ~Van Man
