By how long
Grouped by years in the property rather than by van size, because tenure is what the volume follows — and because it decides how much of the job is carrying and how much of it is deciding.
Not sure which band you are in? Count the years, then look in the loft. The loft settles it.
A year or two. The inventory matters more than the volume.
Rentals, sharers, students
A tenancy, a room, a short posting. Everything you own still fits in what you arrived with, roughly, and the constraint is almost never volume — it is the check-out inventory and the hour the agent wants the keys back.
What it involves →Five to twenty years. Where the loft and the garage start to count.
A full house, no surprises
Long enough to have furnished the place properly and filled the cupboards, not long enough for the loft to have become archaeology. The most predictable move there is, and the one most firms quote well.
What it involves →Where the loft starts
Children have arrived or grown, the garage has been converted into storage, and the loft is boarded. The rooms look the same as a five-year household. The volume is not the same at all.
What it involves →Twenty years and up. Accumulation, decisions and a slower pace.
A house, and everything under it
The hardest ordinary move there is. Two or three decades of accumulation, some of it inherited from other people's clear-outs, and a household who last moved when removals worked differently.
What it involves →A downsize, done in stages
A long tenure ending in a smaller place. Two jobs wearing one date: a removal, which is simple, and a very large number of decisions, which is not. We separate the two deliberately.
What it involves →The gap between one address and the next, whatever the years say.
Listed and kept
Goods collected, listed and held. On a short let it is the gap between tenancies. On a long tenure it is everything you are not ready to decide about, which is a legitimate category rather than a failure.
What it involves →Four things, and the number of bedrooms is not one of them. The measured volume, taken with a tape rather than inferred. The access at both ends. How much packing you want done. And whether anything is being held.
On a long tenure there is a fifth, and we state it rather than hiding it: how much of the job is decision-making. A house with three decades in it needs more time and more patience than a house of the same measured volume somewhere else, and a quotation that pretends otherwise runs out of day and starts pushing you.
No price, rate card or transit time appears anywhere on this site, because none of them is knowable before a survey. Start on the quote form, or read the questions page.
Both addresses and the number of years in the one you are leaving. That second answer tells us more about the job than anything else you could send.