Office Removals in Salford
Covering Salford, Salford Quays, Ordsall, Broughton, Pendleton, Swinton, Worsley and Irlam.
Moving because you have outgrown somewhere is a different job from moving because a lease ended.
The only move where you arrive with gaps
Most office moves are about fitting what you have into somewhere new. A growth move is the opposite. The new space is bigger than what you own, so you arrive with room left over.
That sounds like a good problem and mostly it is. But it changes the job in ways worth planning for.
Storage that suited a corner, a table that seated the whole company when the whole company was six. Some of it will look small in the new space, and some of it simply will not scale.
New things arriving from suppliers, old things arriving from you, often in the same week and rarely on the same day.
Not only the ones you have now. That is the whole reason for the move, and it is the thing most often left out of the plan.
Decide where things go before the day, not on it
This matters more on an expansion than on any other kind of move.
In an ordinary move, everything has an obvious destination, because it goes roughly where the equivalent thing was before. In a bigger space nothing does. There is more room than furniture, several arrangements would work, and none of them is the default.
Which means that without a plan, the day becomes a series of conversations in the middle of a room while people stand holding a desk.
It does not need to be elaborate. A rough sketch of which team sits where, and where the shared things go, is enough. What matters is that the decision has been made by somebody in advance rather than being made collectively on a Saturday.
Tell us the plan and things land where they belong the first time. That is the single biggest difference between a long day and a short one.
Growing in stages is normal
Very few businesses fill a new space on day one, and there is no reason to pretend otherwise.
It is common and sensible to move what you have, work in the space for a few weeks, then buy what turns out to be missing. You learn more about a room by working in it than by planning it.
A half-furnished bigger office is not a failure. It is a normal stage, and it is usually cheaper than guessing everything up front and replacing the wrong guesses later.
It also means a growth move is the natural moment to leave behind the things you had already outgrown, rather than paying to move them into a space where they will look worse.
The timing is usually driven by people
Worth flagging because it catches businesses out.
Ordinary office moves are scheduled around a lease. Expansion moves are usually scheduled around hiring, which behaves differently: a start date arrives whether or not the space is ready, and it tends to be fixed by somebody else.
So if there are people joining on a particular Monday, that date is the real deadline rather than the lease date, and it is the one worth telling us about. It is much easier to work backwards from a start date than to discover one halfway through.
If both ends are already committed and the gap is tight, say so early. Tight is usually workable. Tight and unmentioned is not.
Where the standard options stop
We have standard services and for most office moves one of them is the simplest way to book.
Some need shaping. Moving into a space while it is still being fitted out. Collecting from your old office and from a supplier on the same run. Holding part of a load for a few weeks until a second room is ready. Moving a team in ahead of everybody else because their start date will not wait.
Say so and we will tell you what can be arranged around it.
If either address is a managed building, mention it, since access and lifts are usually arranged by the building rather than by you.
The quickest route is the form. Give us the outline and we will come back to you.
Get a price for your Salford office move
Tell us the size of the office, where things are coming from, and roughly where they need to end up.
Where we cover
- Salford
- Salford Quays
- Ordsall
- Broughton
- Pendleton
- Pendlebury
- Swinton
- Worsley
- Walkden
- Irlam
Salford sits directly across the Irwell from our base at Swan Street, so most of it is a couple of miles rather than a journey. Office relocation services further out are arranged too.
Questions people ask
We are moving into a space bigger than we can fill. Does that matter?
Not for the move. Tell us roughly what is coming and where it should go, and the empty space takes care of itself.
New furniture is being delivered the same week. Can that be coordinated?
Tell us the dates you already know and it gets planned around. It is one of the most common features of a growth move.
Can you move us before the fit-out is finished?
Often, depending on what is finished. Describe what will and will not be ready and we will tell you what is sensible.
Some of the team start after we move. Should we wait?
Usually not. Moving before people arrive is easier than moving around them. Tell us the start dates and it can be planned to suit.
Can part of it go into storage until the second room is ready?
Mention it at quote stage and it can be looked at as one job rather than two arrangements.
Get a price
Tell us the size of the office, where things are coming from, and roughly where they need to end up.
RCM Removals
20 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JW
Telephone: 0161 768 2056
Email: info@removalscompanymanchester.co.uk