Removals in Exeter

Moving in or out of Exeter

Exeter moves are a good part of our week — students and staff around the university, families moving between the city and the coast, and people leaving Devon entirely. We cover the city and the villages around it.

Areas we cover around Exeter

In and around the city: the city centre, St Leonards, Heavitree, St Thomas, Pinhoe, Whipton, Alphington, Countess Wear, Topsham and Exminster.

Along the coast and the Teign: Exmouth, Dawlish, Teignmouth and Newton Abbot.

Further out — Cullompton, Tiverton, Honiton and Ottery St Mary are beyond Exeter and a fair way from our Plymouth base, so those are priced as longer runs rather than local jobs. Still very much something we do; just be aware the travel is a real part of the cost, and the calculator will show you exactly what it comes to.

What we do here

• House and flat removals, including upper-floor flats with no lift
• Student and single-room moves — cheaper on a man-and-van basis
• Office and shop relocations
• Clearance under our waste licence
• Exeter to anywhere — see long distance

Plymouth to Exeter and back

Moves between the two cities are one of the most common jobs we do. It is roughly 45 miles, comfortably a single-day move for most properties.

Exeter housing, and what each type means for the day

Exeter has a wider spread of property types than anywhere else we work, and they make for genuinely different jobs:

• The Victorian and Edwardian terraces — St Leonards, Heavitree, Mount Pleasant, the streets off Magdalen Road. Handsome, tall, and often three storeys with a turning staircase and residents' parking. The same considerations as central Plymouth: the access decides the day, so tell us about the street.
• Converted flats — a lot of the larger Victorian houses are now two or three flats. Upper floors, no lift, shared hallways you cannot block. Say which floor you are on when you get a price; it makes a real difference.
• Student houses — around Pennsylvania, Mount Pleasant and St James. Almost always part-loads rather than full removals, and almost always at the same few dates in the year.
• The new estates — Cranbrook, Newcourt, Monkerton, Alphington's newer streets. Driveways, wide doors, straight stairs. The easiest moves in the city, and the ones where an itemised price is most worth doing, because these are family houses and volume is what decides the number.
• Topsham and the estuary villages — narrow, historic, and parking is genuinely difficult. Treat it like Totnes rather than like Exeter.

The city-centre problem

Inside the old walls — Fore Street, South Street, the Cathedral quarter — loading is restricted and there is often nowhere legal to stop near the door. If that is you, tell us the address early. It is not a reason we cannot do the job; it is a reason we need to plan it rather than turn up and improvise.

Term dates dominate the calendar

Exeter is a university city and it shows in our diary. The start and end of terms, and the end of the month generally, are the busiest dates by a distance. If your move falls in one of those windows, book further ahead than you otherwise would — those slots go first, and there is no amount of goodwill that creates another van on a Saturday in late September.

Coming from Plymouth, or going the other way

Both directions are routine. If you are moving out of Devon altogether, that is a long-distance job and we do those in one run wherever we can rather than splitting them over two days.