CT16 · CT17 — and out through the port
Removals in Dover, and across the Channel.
A Dover firm doing two things properly: ordinary house, flat and man-and-van moves around the town and the CT villages, and cross-channel moves that go out through the port to France and onwards. The second one is not a sideline here — it is where we live.
Dover moves — local, and across the Channel.
Every removals firm in the country will tell you they do international moves. Most of them mean they drive to Kent first. We are already here — the port is at the bottom of the hill, and a load leaving a house in Tower Hamlets or Buckland is on a ferry without a day of motorway in front of it.
That shapes how we work. We pack to a crossing standard when the crossing is coming. We start the customs paperwork early because it is the thing that actually delays people, not the sailing. And we know what the far end usually looks like, because we send loads there most weeks.
The rest of the time we are doing exactly what any town firm does: a three-bed in Whitfield, a flat above a shop on Castle Street, a student's worth of boxes to Canterbury. Both halves get the same crew and the same survey.
House removals
Whole-home moves across Dover and the CT villages — terraces, hillside properties, estates and the seafront.
Read more →Flat removals
Conversions and apartments, including the top-floor ones with a narrow stairwell and no lift. Crewed for the stairs.
Read more →Man and van
A room, a part load, a single heavy item, a student move. The most-asked-for thing we do.
Read more →Cross-channel removals
Out through the port to France, Spain, Italy and Portugal. Export wrapping and the customs paperwork handled.
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CT16 · CT17
Dover town
Victorian terraces, hillside streets above the harbour, the town centre and the Buckland and Tower Hamlets estates.
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Deal & Walmer
Seafront townhouses, conservation streets and lanes barely wide enough for a van. A different kind of job from Dover.
Villages
The CT villages
St Margaret's-at-Cliffe, Whitfield, Aylesham, Capel-le-Ferne, River, Temple Ewell, Kearsney and Sandwich.
Full coverage →Across the Channel
Four countries, route-pair planned from Dover. France is the one we send most — the crossing is on our doorstep — but the rest of the continent goes from here too.
Questions people ask us
- Do you do ordinary local moves, or only cross-channel?
- Both, and most of our work is local. House moves, flats, man-and-van jobs around Dover, Deal, Whitfield, Aylesham and the villages. The cross-channel side is unusually big for a town firm because of where we are, but it is not the whole business.
- Which ferry route would our things go on?
- Usually Dover to Calais, sometimes Dover to Dunkirk depending on the operator and the onward route. The advantage of starting here is obvious: the port is minutes away rather than a day of motorway first. For destinations deep into southern Europe the load may travel overland from a consolidation point instead.
- What does the customs side actually involve now?
- A UK export declaration and an import entry at the other end, plus a proper room-by-room inventory. If you are moving your home rather than furnishing a holiday place, there is relief available but it has to be applied for with evidence. We prepare the paperwork with you. A vague inventory is what causes delays, not the crossing.
- Can you get a lorry into the town centre and the seafront?
- With planning. Dover town has narrow Victorian streets, a lot of on-street parking and some genuinely steep hillside roads where a big vehicle has nowhere to stop. We check the street before the day and arrange a suspension where one is needed rather than circling.
- Do you cover Folkestone?
- Our patch is Dover and the CT16/CT17 area out to Deal, Sandwich, St Margaret's, Whitfield, Aylesham and Capel-le-Ferne. Folkestone is served by a separate firm in the network that knows the tunnel side of things properly, so ask us and we will point you there rather than pretend.
Tell us about the move
Two addresses and a rough idea of what is going is enough to start. If it is heading out through the port, say where it is landing.