The garage and the loft are where a downsize stalls

The steady work here is people leaving the larger interwar and post-war semis west and east of the centre for the newer apartments at the Lidgett Lane end. Those houses come with a deep loft, a garage that has been a workshop for thirty years and a shed behind it. The furniture is the easy part. What eats the days is the glassware, the framed pictures, the boxed paperwork and everything that went into the loft to be dealt with later.

Apartments at the receiving end change the box sizes. A lift, a communal corridor and noticeably less storage than the house being left behind mean the load needs to be split into pieces one person can carry and stack. We label by the room a box is going to rather than the room it came from, which sounds obvious and saves an hour of standing in a hallway on the day working out where everything goes.

What Garforth packing service usually involves

Packing starts with the loft, the garage and the shed, because those are the parts that overrun on an estate house
Main Street has time-limited and loading-only bays with constant kerbside activity, so flats above the parade are loaded early
The Main Street and station car parks fill with commuters from early morning on weekdays, so we plan the start around that
Closes off Ninelands Lane and Barley Hill Road have small turning heads and cars both sides, so boxes are carried from where the van can turn
Boxes heading into an apartment are labelled by their destination room, not the room they were packed in

Where in Garforth we work

Lidgett Lanemodern apartments at the receiving end of most downsizes in the town
Ninelands and Barley Hillcommuter estates of narrow cul-de-sacs with cars parked both sides
Church Garfortholder brick and stone terraces and former miners' cottages, tighter staircases and smaller boxes
West Garforth and East Garforthlarge interwar and post-war semis with lofts and garages, the full-day packs
Main Streetloading-only bays and constant kerbside activity above the shopping parade
Kippax and Micklefieldneighbouring villages we cover on the same run at the same price

If your street isn't listed it's almost certainly still covered, Garforth and the surrounding LS25 postcodes are all inside our normal working area.

Common Garforth runs

Garforth → Bradfordeighteen miles by the A63, M1 and M62, with no surcharge for the distance
Estate house → Lidgett Lane apartmentthe standard local downsize, packed over a full day beforehand
Garforth → Colton or Leedsshort runs down the A63, usually a single packed load

What it costs

The price depends on how many rooms, lofts and garages are in the pack, not on the miles down the M1. There's no travel surcharge for coming to Garforth from Bradford, and you get the price before we set off, not after. See how we quote for the full breakdown.

Frequently asked questions: packing service in Garforth

We are downsizing. What should you pack first?

The loft, the garage and the shed. They have been filling up for decades and they are the ones people leave until the last night. Once those are boxed and labelled, the rest of the house runs to time and the fragile work, the glassware, china, mirrors and pictures, gets the attention it actually needs.

Will it all fit in the new apartment?

Worth deciding before we pack rather than after. We label by the room a box is going to, and anything that will not fit can be boxed separately and moved to a relative's house or a storage unit on the same run. Give us the second address when you book and we price the whole thing as one job.

Can you pack around a working week?

Yes. We are out seven days, eight in the morning to eight at night, so a weekend pack with a weekday move suits Garforth well, given the station and Main Street car parks are full of commuters from early on. For a small flat an evening pack is possible too.