Appliance Delivery in Halifax

Cellar kitchens and hill streets: getting a Halifax appliance in

A new machine might start at a retailer or a trade counter and finish in a terrace in Pellon, Boothtown or King Cross. The van stops as near the front door as the street allows, and the appliance comes out of the back doors onto a sack trolley, strapped at the top and middle. On the steeper banks the trolley is walked down at an angle to the hill, because a fridge freezer on a trolley pulls hard downhill.

Inside, the question is where it lives. A cellar kitchen needs head height at the top of the stairs and width at the turn, so a photo of both saves a wasted trip. Upstairs utility rooms in the bigger Savile Park and Skircoat Green houses are the opposite problem: a long straight flight and a landing. A range cooker is heavy for its size, so send photos of it and the way in when you ask for a price. Cellar or utility room, tall and American-style fridge freezers are not moved.

Before a washer or fridge freezer arrives at a Halifax address

• If the old washer is moving too, unplug and drain it the day before, and put the transit bolts back in if you still have them
• Defrost a freezer for a full day, because meltwater on a sloping Pellon or Boothtown pavement makes the trolley slide
• Measure the cellar head height and the kitchen doorway, not just the gap the machine is going into
• The machine is carried in and stood in its space, not connected: the hook-up is for you or a plumber, and anything gas needs a Gas Safe engineer
• For a flat above a Gibbet Street or King Cross Road shop, the machine goes up one straight flight from the van, so say which floor and how tight the door at the top is

Halifax kitchens where the appliance carry changes

• King Cross and Pellonterraces where the washer may be heading down to a cellar rather than into a back kitchen
• Boothtownsteep streets above the centre, so say if the van will be standing on a slope outside
• Savile Park and Skircoat Greenlarger houses with utility rooms and long hallways, easy on width but long on distance
• Mixenden and Illingworthpost-war estates on the high ground, with the kitchen at the back of the house
• Flats above town-centre shopsan upper floor reached by one staircase, which decides how the machine goes up

Typical appliance journeys in and around Halifax

• Bradford retailer to a Halifax kitchen8 miles via the A6036 through Shelf and Northowram, 20 to 30 minutes
• Halifax seller to a new home in Brighousealong the A58 to Hipperholme, then down the A644
• Ovenden to Sowerby Bridgea machine following a tenant up the Calder Valley

What sets the price of a Halifax appliance delivery

The access at each end sets the price: the carry from the van, any cellar or upstairs flight, and whether it is one machine or a whole kitchen's worth. There is no travel surcharge for Halifax. See how we quote for the full breakdown.

Appliance Delivery in Halifax: your questions