Removals in Fulham, from Bishops Park to Sands End
Most of the Fulham moves we price fall into three groups. The first is a two-storey red-brick terrace on one of the long straight streets between Fulham Palace Road and the river, often with a loft room added since it was built. The second is a flat made out of one of those same houses. The third is a flat in the newer blocks along the river at Sands End, where a power station, a gasworks and riverside industry used to be. The street outside matters as much as the stairs: Fulham is divided into lettered parking zones that keep different hours, and the zones round Craven Cottage change their rules when Fulham FC are at home. Ring 020 3983 5199 with the address and the date you have in mind and we will check both before we give you a price.
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Fulham removals for terraces, loft rooms and riverside flats
Hammersmith and Fulham Council has published character profiles for many of its conservation areas, and the Fulham ones describe the houses we spend most of our time in here. North of Bishops Park, the four streets that run between Fulham Palace Road and Stevenage Road were built between 1897 and 1901 by several contractors, apparently working from pattern books: red-brick terraces with bays, pediments and short front gardens behind low walls. Round South Park, Settrington Road and Clancarty Road are late Victorian two-storey terraces with bay windows to the first floor. In Sands End, the streets north-west of Townmead Road and Carnwath Road are two-storey terraces put up between 1870 and 1910. The profiles keep returning to how consistent these streets are, and from a removals point of view that is useful: once we have been inside one house on a street, we know the hall, the stair and the landing of the rest.
What changes from house to house is what has been added. The Bishops Park profile notes a considerable number of rear and roof extensions on those streets. A loft room turns a two-storey house into a three-storey one, and the stair up to it is usually the steepest and narrowest in the building, often with a turn at the top under the slope of the roof. Beds and wardrobes in a loft room were mostly carried up in pieces, so they come down in pieces. When we price a house move in Fulham we ask what is in the loft room, how it was got up there and whether the rear extension has put the kitchen at the back of a long through-route from the front door.
Plenty of these houses are now two flats, an upper and a lower, and some are three. The Hurlingham profile describes most of the houses round South Park as single family homes, with some converted to self-contained flats. An upper flat in a converted terrace usually means a shared front door, a flight of stairs that was the original house stair, and sometimes a second, tighter stair inside the flat itself. A lower flat may have its own door at the side or down steps at the front. For flat moves in SW6 we ask for the width of the narrowest door and the headroom where the stair turns, because a sofa that fits through the front door can still stick on the landing. Our guide to measuring furniture before a flat move shows which measurements to send.
Sands End is the other Fulham. The council’s Sands End profile records that the riverside was a fully developed industrial area by 1916, with Fulham Power Station and a gasworks fed with coal by river, and that it stayed industrial until the 1980s, when the clearance and rebuilding began. The flats built on the old industrial sites are a different job from a terrace. There is usually a managing agent or a concierge, a lift that has to be booked, a set time window for moves and a loading area or basement entrance that the van has to fit. We ask for the building’s move rules when you book, and our page on moving in and out of a managed block lists what to ask the agent.
The river also decides the route. Hammersmith Bridge has been closed to motor vehicles since 2019, and Wandsworth Council said in a July 2026 statement on the bridge that the closure has shifted traffic onto Putney Bridge. So a Fulham move going south of the river crosses at Putney Bridge, at the bottom of Fulham High Street, or at Wandsworth Bridge, the 1939 crossing at the end of Wandsworth Bridge Road. For a morning move to Barnes, Putney or anywhere beyond, we load early and plan the crossing before the rush rather than in it.
Call 020 3983 5199 or use the form for a fixed price on your Fulham move.
Guide prices for a Fulham move
These are guide figures. A loft room up a narrow stair, or a long carry from the nearest bay, puts a job towards the top of its band:
| Property size | Typical duration | Guide price |
|---|---|---|
| Studio / 1-bed flat | Half day | £300 – £480 |
| 2-bedroom home | Half–full day | £450 – £700 |
| 3-bedroom house | Full day | £650 – £1,000 |
| 4–5 bedroom house | Full day + | £950 – £1,800 |
| Man & van | Per hour, min. 2 hrs | from £45 / hr |
Your fixed quote replaces the guide once we know the stairs, the bay and the date.
Around Fulham
The places that border SW6 on the north bank, and Putney across the bridge:
Services for Fulham homes and businesses
House Removals
House removals Fulham-wide, from Bishops Park terraces to Sands End, with the loft room and the rear extension counted when we quote.
Learn moreFlat Removals
Upper and lower flats in converted terraces, and lift-served flats by the river, with the narrowest door measured first.
Learn moreOffice & Business Removals
Office removals in Fulham done in the evening or at the weekend, with the longer bay notice built into the plan.
Learn moreIT Relocation
Screens, PCs and network kit for SW6 offices and studios, labelled by desk and reconnected at the new address.
Learn moreSchool Removals & Relocations
Classrooms, offices and stores for SW6 schools moved during the summer holiday or a half-term week.
Learn moreMan & Van
A chest of drawers down from a loft room or a sofa across SW6: two people and a van, paid by the hour.
Learn moreFurniture Collection
Shop or auction pieces collected and carried in, with the stair turn checked before anything is bought.
Learn moreStudent Moves
Students leaving a Fulham family home for halls or a shared flat, with summer storage if the dates do not meet.
Learn morePacking & Unpacking
Packing done the day before, so on a short-stay bay the crew spends moving day carrying, not taping boxes.
Learn morePackers & Movers
One crew packs, takes the loft furniture apart, loads and rebuilds it at the other end.
Learn moreSecure Storage
Room for your things while a loft conversion or rear extension is built, or between two completion dates.
Learn moreEuropean & International
Moves abroad from SW6 packed for shipping, with the inventory for customs written up before collection.
Learn morePiano & Specialist Items
Uprights out of front rooms over the front steps and the garden wall, and the odd one down from a first-floor flat.
Learn moreHow a Fulham move is planned
Send the street and the stairs
Give us both addresses, the floor, and what is in the loft room. A photo of the top of the stairs saves a lot of guessing.
We check the zone and the fixtures
We read the zone letter and its controlled hours, check the Craven Cottage fixture list, and apply for the bay at least eight days ahead.
One price in writing
Crew, van, materials and the council fee for each chargeable day in a single figure, with the stairs already priced.
Moving day
Loft room first, then down through the house, loaded in the order you want things to come off at the other end.
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Moving in Fulham: parking, access and what to expect
Bay suspensions: eight days’ notice, weekends included
Hammersmith and Fulham Council sets its notice period by the size of the job. On its suspensions page it asks for at least eight days’ notice to suspend up to six bays, which is 30 metres of kerb, for up to three days. That covers almost every house and flat move in Fulham. The council counts Saturdays and Sundays as notice days, and the application and the payment both have to reach it by midday on the first day of the notice period. Its own example: for a suspension starting on 17 April, the request and payment are due by midday on 9 April. If that first day falls on a weekend, the deadline moves back to midday on the Friday before.
The fee is charged per five-metre space per chargeable day. At the time of writing it is £48 for each of the first five chargeable days and £74 a day from the sixth to the 31st. A Luton van with room to drop its tail-lift needs two spaces, so a one-day move costs £96 in suspension fees. The council invoices you, and if payment has not arrived by the deadline the application is declined, so we deal with the paperwork and put the fee in your quote as a separate line.
Changing a suspension once it is booked costs £40 for each amendment or cancellation. A change of date has to be made in writing at least eight days before the new date, and a cancellation needs at least two working days’ notice or there is no refund. In a chain that is still settling, that is a good reason to wait until the date is firm before applying. Our article on what to do when completion moves at the last minute covers the removals side of a late change.
Which hours your zone keeps
A chargeable day is any day the parking controls would normally apply in the suspended bays. Fulham’s zones do not all keep the same hours. On the council’s table some zones are controlled Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm, some Monday to Saturday, and some every day into the evening. So the same two-day move from Friday to Saturday can cost two days’ fees in one zone and one day’s in the next. The zone letter is shown on the parking signs in your street; send us a photo of one and we can price the bay exactly.
Outside the controlled hours parking in the bays is free, which also means anyone can use them. On a Sunday in a zone that is only controlled on weekdays there is no fee to suspend for, and we plan instead to arrive early enough to find room for the van and to keep the carry short.
Craven Cottage event days
Craven Cottage stands by the river at the end of Finlay Street, beside Bishops Park, and the council’s event-day parking rules for the ground can catch a Fulham move out. An event day is any day with a match or other event at Craven Cottage. On those days zones T, X and Y extend their controls to shared permit bays, pay-and-display bays and single yellow lines, from 9am to 10pm in zone T and from 9am to 9:30pm in zones X and Y, Sundays and bank holidays included. Pay-and-display stays are cut to two hours in zone T and one hour in X and Y. Normally zone T is controlled Monday to Friday and zones X and Y Monday to Saturday, from 9am to 5pm.
For a removal in those zones that means two things. A Saturday or Sunday that would usually be quiet, or free, becomes a full controlled day, and a single yellow line that a van could use in the evening is no longer available. The council publishes the season’s fixture list and runs email and text alerts, and it warns that fixture dates change. We check the list before we agree a date, and again when the suspension goes in.
Bigger jobs: offices and long suspensions
The notice period goes up with the length of kerb and the number of days. Up to six bays for more than three days, or between six and 12 bays for up to a week, needs two weeks’ notice. More than 12 bays, which is 60 metres, or any suspension for more than a week, needs four weeks. For a large suspension running more than a week the council asks you to phone it first, and depending on the size of the job you may have to tell the people affected in writing and show that you have. Commercial removals in Fulham that need the bays for more than three days, or a longer stretch of kerb, land in the two-week band or above, so we fix the date earlier. Our office moves page and the office move planning timetable set out the rest of the lead-in.
ULEZ and the Congestion Charge
Fulham is outside the Congestion Charge zone, and the ULEZ covers it as it covers all of Greater London. Our vans meet the ULEZ standard, so neither charge appears on a Fulham quote; our note on how ULEZ and the Congestion Charge affect a removal van explains when the Congestion Charge does apply, for instance on a move into central London.
When to book
Work back from the suspension. Eight days’ notice, counted with the weekend, plus the time it takes to confirm your date with the other side of the chain, means two to three weeks is a comfortable lead time for most Fulham moves, and longer for a Saturday in summer or a date that might clash with a home fixture. Our guide for people moving to Fulham goes through the mews streets, the mansion blocks and the settling-in side of a Fulham move.
Questions about moving in Fulham
How much do removals in Fulham cost?
How much notice does Hammersmith and Fulham need to suspend a parking bay?
Fulham FC are at home on the Saturday we want. Does that matter?
Can you get furniture down from a loft conversion?
Can you move us to Barnes or Putney now that Hammersmith Bridge is closed?
Do you move offices and shops in Fulham?
Can you store our things while the loft or extension is built?
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Send us the Fulham address, the floor and the date. We will check the zone, the fixtures and the stairs, and come back with one fixed price.
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