By Pamela Smith
Updated: Apr 13, 2026
6 min read
Reviewed by Martin Pаnауоtоv
Hiring a removal company to move your entire home is a big deal.
We’ve researched over 1200 removal companies, cross-referencing customer reviews, and ensuring that they are legally registered businesses to find you the best long distance removing companies in the industry.
If you’re moving a 1 bedroom home worth of stuff or more, these are the best full service removal companies based on our research.
"Worse choice we made with our house move, the price seemed good but alas we found out why. Full of promise and keen to show us all insurances in pl..."
"Awful pallet service! No replies at all despite several emails and phone calls! Booked a pallet through Palletways, all went smoothly until the pa..."
"We moved house, got the keys late and they charged us an extra £250. We then moved out again to put our belongings into storage while the house wa..."
"DO NOT USE MONKEY 38 - AWFUL AND UNPROFESSIONAL!! Furniture damaged during removals, fridge dented, lampshades broken, upholstery torn and damaged..."
"We used ‘west london removals‘ two times and last time we have rented a storage with them for some furniture and few boxes with personal stuff. Aft..."
"The person in charge is Richard. I agreed with him to pack my stuff and make the removal initially to a storage and then to the new property. This ..."
"Did a great job overall, quite expensive at £1,400 for a medium van load (owner packed) but I wanted to support local business here in Cumbria. On..."
"Choosing a removal company can be a stressful experience in itself, but Thomis Reed really helped us through this part of the process, the lady who..."
"Paid a lot of money for this service and they damaged small items in the process. They did not take any responsibility for damaging these items and..."
"Im so upset this company the company is not only rude but for weeks I be asking for a receipt for what I paid out I paid 290 for removals and the c..."
"Our friend organised & paid for these guys to pick up our sofas as they were having them. They were clearly rushing to get the sofas out & wrecked..."
"Found this company through a Google search. They never saw fit to do a proper survey, all done online. On move day truck was too small to take all ..."
"We used Daddy Removals to move house recently which was a big mistake. The two men turned up an hour late, with a 2004 van which was far from t..."
"Never had such a bad experience..We moved from France to England hence 2 partial loads by AFS removals Boxes were missing. Boxes were squashed. ..."
"Where do I start? Initially appeared to be good. Agreed on a fair price over the phone. Specified exactly how many items we had. Was sent boxes to ..."
"Paid them over £1000 to ship item to Bahrain and they didn’t pay the shipping company. Blocked our number and blocked emails from us so we couldn’t..."
"I procured a fully itemised & invoiced "door to door shipping & insurance service" which included: Door-to-door pickup/delivery; insurance; shipp..."
"This company informed is with only 15 hours notice that they could not do our agreed move from Dorset to Staffordshire. Did not offer an apology o..."
"I cannot stress how awful the service was. The mover turned up 40 minutes early, claiming he had another job to get to and I had to hurry. This is..."
"This is a company who comes across as customer oriented but it’s actually Money oriented. They imposed additional charges on us without consulting ..."
"What should have been a straight forward move (we were moving only 2 miles away)turned into one of the most stressful days of our lives, thanks to ..."
"Please be aware - very opportunistic company that will try to come up with excuses for additional charges. Our experience was shocking - the compan..."
"Poorly planned - avoid. We booked to move on the 13th December. We gave an inventory and asked for a viewing to ensure the quote was correct. No o..."
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