Office moves

An office move is a logistics job with furniture in it. The difference between a good one and a bad one is the fortnight before: a floor plan with every desk numbered, crates delivered and labelled to those numbers, a crate count, a lift booked at both ends, and someone from us on the floor who has the plan on a clipboard. The lifting is the easy part.

Sioned runs the office moves. A site visit at both ends, a floor plan with desk numbers, a fixed-price quote for the whole job (most companies prefer it to the hourly rate), crates delivered the week before with labels and a packing note for staff, and a timetable: IT down at five on Friday, desks dismantled and loaded that evening, unloaded and rebuilt on Saturday, IT back on Sunday, a walk-round with you at four. Monday morning everyone sits down.

We move the furniture, the crates, the files and the plants. IT disconnection and reconnection is done by your IT people or by the contractor we use, quoted separately. Unwanted furniture goes to a charity we work with or to the recycling centre with a waste transfer note. Weekend and evening rates are the same as weekday, because that is when offices move.

What is included

• A project lead and a site visit at both ends
• Floor plan, desk numbers, crate labels, a crate count
• Crates at £3 a week, delivered and collected
• Desks dismantled and rebuilt; IT by your people or ours
• Friday night and weekend moves at weekday rates
• Unwanted furniture to charity or recycled with a transfer note

What it costs

7.5-tonne lorry with three crew £110 an hour, or quoted as a fixed price for the job after a site visit. Crates £3 a week each, delivered and collected. Weekend and evening rates the same as weekday. Including VAT, fuel within 30 miles and £10,000 of cover. The vans page has the four sizes and what each holds; the estimate page turns bedrooms into a figure.