Alfred Chow - Maker of ThingsMar 5

I have a question about our 'moving house' plans, and I would welcome some thoughts about it.

We have a lot of stuff to get rid of, but also a lot of stuff, (furniture, workshop machines, steel and timber stock, heavy equipment, etc.) that will need to move with us.

My thoughts were to somehow find a local place that has shipping container storage, move it all there while clearing the house, and then move the shipping container when we know where we have moved to.

I don't know if there is such an option locally, at both ends.

I'd appreciate any ideas as to how to do this, or if you have companies that you are aware of that would work like this.

We are in the Greater Manchester are of the UK and moving to rural Wales.

Thank you.

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Show threadHilary

@Maker_of_Things

There are loads of self-storage facilities around, where you can rent containers of various sizes. I'm sure there'll be at least one in the Manchester area. They'll probably also sell boxes/crates for packing up smaller items.

But the usual method is to use a van or truck to move stuff into and out of self-storage. I've never heard of a shipping container being moved as part of a household removal.

Mar 5 at 9:00amWeb
Show threadAlfred Chow - Maker of ThingsMar 5

@regordane
Yes, that's one of the things I was finding a lack of.

Having loaded and unloaded containers for a job once, I don't fancy doing that too many times, hence pondering only loading and unloading once.

It is also a 4+ hour drive to where we want to move to and that could be a lot of car/van journeys to move that much stuff.