Removals in West Drayton UB7

House removals West Drayton: a village green with a railway suburb round it

The Victoria County History account of West Drayton, written in the late 1950s, describes an ancient parish of 878 acres in the far west of Middlesex, its western side running along the Colne, which is also the county boundary with Iver. As late as 1826 it was still a lightly populated farming parish with the village grouped round the Green. The Grand Junction Canal was cut across its northern edge in 1798 and the Great Western Railway opened West Drayton station in 1838; the station moved to its present site, east of Station Road beside the old canal wharf, between 1878 and 1881. From then on the place grew north towards the trains rather than outwards from the Green, and that order of building is still the most useful map we have when we price a move here. The age of a street usually tells us the age and shape of the house on it.

The oldest suburban roads are just south of the station. Bellclose, Brandville, Warwick and Furzeham Roads and the Parade were laid out between 1894 and 1912. In 1927 the vicar summed up the new parishioners as labourers, artisans, and commercial, railway and bank clerks. Houses of that age often have a narrow hall, a staircase that turns at the top, and a back addition added later, so our house removals crews measure the stair and the front door against the largest pieces before the day. A sofa that came in through a bay window may have to go out the same way, and that is a two-person job worth knowing about in advance. Our guide to getting a sofa or wardrobe through a tight doorway explains the options.

Between 1912 and 1935 building spread south to Church Road and over it, with West Drayton Park Avenue, Porter’s Way and Napier Road, now Thornton Avenue. East of Swan Road, Ferrers Avenue was built on the 22-acre Drayton House estate, which had been laid out for building by 1924; the walls along Ferrers Avenue are on Hillingdon’s local list. The Bagley Garden estate, between Station Road, Swan Road and Church Road, produced Drayton Gardens and Bagley Close, and south of the Green came St Martin’s Road and Close. Off Sipson Road a private estate of 300 houses was finished by 1936. These interwar houses are where the volume is. When one family has lived in a house for decades there is usually a boarded loft, a garage or side passage full of tools and bikes, and a shed at the end of the garden, and we count all of it before choosing the van.

Much of the old open field went to council housing. Slum clearance orders in 1935 led the urban district council to lay out the Bell Farm estate, and a second estate of 82 acres off Wise Lane was bought in 1937, though building there only started in 1953. By 1958 the two estates held about 1,800 homes. A move out of one of them can be a house with a garden on one road and a flat with a shared stair on the next, so we ask for the floor, the entrance and whether there is a lift before we send a crew. If you are moving out of a flat, our flat removals team plans the stair and the carry to the van first.

Removals and storage West Drayton: when the dates do not meet

Most house sales are part of a chain, and chains slip. If you have to be out of your West Drayton house before the next one is ready, we load once, keep everything in secure storage for as long as the gap lasts, and deliver it to the new address when the keys are released. It is priced as one job, with the storage period stated, so you are not paying for two removals. Our article on what to do when completion moves at the last minute covers the conversations to have with your solicitor and with us, and the note on what storage between two houses actually costs gives a sense of the sums involved.

Storage also suits people who are clearing a parent’s house in West Drayton before a sale, or renovating before moving in. We can take the furniture that is staying in the family, put it into storage room by room, and leave the rest for a clearance firm. If packing is the part you are dreading, our packing team can do the kitchen and the loft in the days before.

Ring 020 3983 5199 with your UB7 road, the move date and whether you need storage in between. We will come back with the crew size, the van and one fixed figure.

West Drayton removals price guide

Starting points for UB7, confirmed once we know the loft, the garage and any storage period:

Indicative only. A Hillingdon bay suspension, a storage period or a second van for a full garage appears as a fixed line in your quote.

Places around West Drayton

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