In Excess Removals
bullitt:
Two arm chairs wrapped in blankets each side of the luton backs facing out wards, TV (when they were big oblong things!!) in between, settee rolled over the top, upside down feet up with the back on to the front wall to the luton, again wrapped in blankets. Then add assorted clutter and light, leggy bits etc and when full square off with a single mattress. Job done, luton full… next tier.Blankets layed on the floor, stand double and single bed bases and mattress
s on end across the vehicle side on to the front. Square of with wardrobes, chest of drawers (wrapped) and in between the mattresss insert any large mirrors, glass table tops and the like wrapped again in blankets. If the tops of the mattress`s are smooth and fairly level and you have the roof height you could now lose the dining table face down on top, well wrapped and maybe with a cardboard layer between the surfaces for added protection. Dining chairs and awkward bits again will fit in here suitably wrapped in blankets. Dressing tables with the upright arms that support a mirror can be rolled upside down as well at this stage and placed on top of chest of drawers etc to "square off the tier. Top off with various odds and sods, light leggey stuff, dining chairs etc, again all wrapped, to the roof. When this tier is complete, start again!!!
If in doubt, wrap it up!!
Repeat and repeat until…
A. the house is empty and there is still space on the vehicle.
B. The house is empty and the vehicle is chocker.
C. The house IS NOT empty, the vehicle has run out of space and you look a bit of a (zb)!!!To avoid scenario C the golden rule is pack EVERY tier high and tight regardless.
Last things to be loaded on should be contents of garage ,shed, and garden so if you are full, you can leave these behind without to much inconvenience and go back and pick it up!!. I would imagine tailboard loads are a NO-NO now with regard to H&S!!
Apart from that, be prepared to sweat your nuts off, lose body weight, put up with some truly obnoxious members of the public and walk a lot of miles per day, every day!
Never walk OUT of the house empty handed when loading…and never walk INTO the house empty handed when unloading. Doing any one of these will result in a severe bollocking (and my boot up your arse) from the foreman (me) and (possible) loss or reduction of any beer money forth coming at the end of the job!!
The ability to be able to construct in your mind a 3 dimensional jigsaw from what you first see on your initial walk around the house helps too!!
ENJOY!!!
Pretty much the same here. Bulky awkward stuff (3-piece, dining chairs and table legs (and the whole table if you couldn’t get the top off) but no mixing metal legged stuff with lots of wooden chairs in the luton unless it’s well wrapped and won’t move. With the luton filled, beds up the front with big mirrors, glass table tops and big pictures between, any sofas you couldn’t get upstairs went on their end in one corner with back and bottom facing you and soft stuff wedged inside. Some people had a habit of building a wall of boxes which was fine if there were plenty to stow away, but I liked to keep some back to help fill gaps or level out a rank, or on some jobs I would build ‘cubes’ so I could get lighter awkward stuff on top. Fridges, freezers and washing machines as near the end of the job (and the back of the wagon) as possible depending on the amount of cack in the garage or shed/ garden. Wedge a folded up newspaper or some cardboard into the fridge door then tape it shut so the fridge doesn’t stink by the time you get the other end. Times have probably changed but I never put the trolley in from the back of the fridge unles I was sure we weren’t going to bend the element or snap pipes, or unless there was no way it would go through doorways side-on.
thelongdrag:
Carl Williams:
A clean well presented van, to enhance a company’s image!An example by the country’s largest removal contractors for smaller operators to emulate. NOT
Yes and it does’nt look to have been washed for quite some time,can’t look after the van,you’re not looking after my goods,scruffy van,scruffy operatives.
Yep. A wagon is the company’s best mobile advert and two types stick in the minds most people - really smart ones or really scruffy, filthy ones. Same goes for the inside - at the end of the job the wagon gets swept out, all the ties are put back in their place and blankets/ protectors neatly folded up and stowed, trolleys ■■■■■■■ and any kit that needed repair either fixed or set aside. It’s a hard enough job as it is without having t otidy up someone else’s mess or working with broken equipment.
Carl Williams:
Moving grand piano?
“Grand piano” my ringpiece.
An old one from Bishops
Sat nav gone wrong ? { ‘I told you this wasn’t the M1’}
Carl Williams:
Nice Artic from Ables
Has he got his arm stuck ?
A sample from Fergusons
Some craicin pics there Carl,whatever it is coming out of the window looks like its going on the tailboard,or have they left the shutter down for a publicity shot? 
A tight squeeze for Compass
Carl that’s not a tight squeeze .
Here are Bullit, this will jog your memory . I had to park with my little 6t truck and walk it up the bloody hill, if you look your see the sold sign . 
this is the view from the garden looking down to the back of the house , that door leads to the first floor of the house .
and to get to the garden you have to walk up the hill pass the entrance to the house ,and behind the neighbours house is a alley which leads to the garden with a four foot gap under a there house to carry items including wardrobes ,because they wont go up the first stairs. ,I got home at 8pm .