A Glasgow removals company, not a booking service
We move homes and businesses across Glasgow with our own crew. When you call, you reach the people who will actually be carrying your sofa down the stair.
Who we are
Glasgow Moving is a removals company working across the city and the towns around it. We move one bed flats and four bed family houses, shop units and warehouses, single sofas and whole offices, and we do it with our own people rather than passing the work along to somebody else.
That last part is most of the reason the company exists in the shape it does. A good deal of what comes back when you search for movers in Glasgow is not a removals company at all. It is a broker collecting enquiries and selling them on, which is why you give your details once and then spend an evening explaining your move to three firms you never contacted, none of whom has seen your stair or has any particular reason to care about your completion date.
We are the other kind. The quote comes from us, the crew is ours, and if something needs sorting there is one number to call rather than a chain of people pointing at each other. If you are working out timings, our guide to when to book a removal company in Scotland sets out the detail.
The people who turn up
Every move is run by a named coordinator who stays with it from the first phone call to the last box put down in the right room. You are never re-explaining your situation to somebody new, and on the day there is a person who already knows about the tight turn at the top of your close.
The crew who arrive are employed by us rather than found that morning. That matters less for the carrying, which most people can do, than for everything around it: protecting a shared close so the neighbours stay friendly, knowing when a wardrobe has to come apart on the landing rather than be forced round a corner, and being straight with you when something will not go where you want it.
The name on the quote is the name on the van.
How we work
Five stages, and they are the same whether you are moving a studio flat or a warehouse. The detail changes; the sequence does not.
You tell us what is moving
A list, a photograph, both postcodes and the floor at each end. That is enough to start. For anything larger than a small flat we will want to see it, in person or over video, because volume and access are what a real quote rests on.
We look before we price
Surveys are free and take about fifteen minutes. They exist so the number we give you is the number you pay, and so we send a crew sized to your stair rather than to our optimism.
You get a fixed written price
In writing, before anything is held, with what is included set out plainly. If there is a way to trim the job, moving midweek instead of a Friday or packing your own non-fragile boxes, we will point it out rather than wait to be asked.
We plan the details in advance
Parking suspensions where the street needs one, lift bookings in managed buildings, dismantling, the running order for the day. Almost everything that goes wrong on moving day was fixable a fortnight earlier.
On the day, and when it slips
The crew protects the property, wraps what needs wrapping and puts things where you want them rather than inside the front door. And when something slips, a late key release or a delayed completion, you phone your coordinator directly and the plan changes.
Why trust us
Trust in this trade is mostly about whether the company is who it says it is. Here is what we can state plainly, and what still needs adding to this page.
Insured work
Goods in transit and public liability cover apply to every job, and the limits are set out in your written quote before you book.
Our own crew
Employed by us and never brokered out. The people who survey your move are part of the team that carries it.
One coordinator
A named contact with a direct number, from the first quote through to the last box.
Nine services, one company
House, office, commercial, furniture, storage, packing, man and van, piano and international removals, all run by the same team.
The rest is easy to check for yourself. Every service we offer has its own page setting out what it involves and what it does not, from house removals through to office relocation. Where we think another service or another company suits your job better, those pages say so.
Where we work
We cover Glasgow and the towns around it. The West End and Partick, Hyndland and Broomhill, Finnieston and Yorkhill. The Southside through Shawlands, Pollokshields and Strathbungo, and out to Giffnock and Newton Mearns. The city centre and Merchant City, Dennistoun and the East End. North and west through Bearsden, Milngavie and Clydebank, and south and east through Cambuslang, Rutherglen, Paisley, Renfrew, East Kilbride and Hamilton.
We also run moves out of the city and back into it. Glasgow to Edinburgh is the route we do most often, and we cover the rest of Scotland and the wider UK with the same crew door to door rather than handing your belongings to somebody else halfway.
A note on the local knowledge
Most of what makes a Glasgow move difficult is specific to Glasgow: the diagonal across a tenement half landing, permit-controlled streets across the West End and the inner Southside, the Low Emission Zone in the centre, and buildings where the service lift has to be booked days ahead. None of it is hard once it is planned for. All of it is expensive when it is discovered on the morning.
What we will not do
Worth saying out loud, because these are the four things that most often go wrong when people book a mover.
We will not quote a house move blind
For anything above a small flat, a price given without seeing the property is a guess, and guesses get corrected upwards on the day. We would rather spend fifteen minutes looking first.
We will not sell your enquiry
Your details go to us and stay with us. You will not get calls from three companies you have never heard of because you filled in one form.
We will not tell you it fits when we doubt it
If we think a sofa will not make the turn at the top of your close, we will say so before you book rather than discover it together on the landing.
We will not take a job we cannot staff properly
If the date is not workable with a crew the right size, we will tell you that instead of accepting the booking and hoping.
Tell us about your move
Send us the basics and we will come back within one working day with a fixed written price. If you would rather talk it through first, call 0141 000 0000.