Cellars, attics and the King Cross carry

The gritstone terraces through King Cross, Pellon and Boothtown were built tall on a slope, so a house described as two bedrooms can easily hold four floors of belongings. The cellar has the tools, the jars and the shelf of tins; the attic has everything that went up there in 2016 and stayed. We count both when we work out how many boxes your home needs, because that is where a half-day pack quietly becomes a full one.

Getting it out is the other half. Back-to-backs on those streets have no rear vehicle access at all, only ginnels, so every box is carried through the front door onto a through road, and the van is parked wherever the camber lets it sit safely with the chocks in. A half-full open box does not survive that walk down a setted hill, so everything is taped top and bottom and packed tight enough that nothing shifts.

What Halifax packing service usually involves

Cellar and loft contents are counted at the quote stage, since they routinely add more boxes than the bedrooms do
King Cross, Pellon and Ovenden terraces have ginnel-only rear access, so the pack is built around one front door and one staircase
On the steeply cambered setted streets the van is chocked and stays put, and boxes are taped both ways so nothing opens on the carry
Dean Clough apartments mean long internal corridors and a lift, so boxes go out labelled by room and stacked in barrow loads
Savile Park and Skircoat Green villas hold far more glass, mirrors and framed pictures than the terraces, which is where fragile-only packs earn their keep

Where in Halifax we work

King Cross and Pellonback-to-backs with a cellar, an attic and a single door onto a busy road
Boothtownterraces stacked up the valley side where the carry is always uphill or down
Savile Park and Skircoat GreenVictorian villas with the china, glassware and mirrors that need individual wrapping
Dean Clough Millsconverted mill flats with corridors and a lift instead of a doorstep
Ovenden and Illingworthpost-war estates on the high ground, usually with somewhere to put the van
Northowramthe semi at the top of the trade-up move, and the end of a lot of King Cross packs

If your street isn't listed it's almost certainly still covered, Halifax and the surrounding HX1-HX3 postcodes are all inside our normal working area.

Common Halifax runs

Halifax → Bradfordnine miles over Stump Cross, Shelf and Odsal on the A6036, easy to pack one day and load the next
King Cross → Savile Parkthe classic local trade-up, terrace to villa, and a big jump in fragile items
Halifax → Brighouse or Hipperholmedown the A641 side, short enough that a same-morning pack works for a flat

What it costs

Halifax packs are priced on the number of rooms including the cellar and the loft, and on how much fragile crockery and glass there is. There's no travel surcharge for coming to Halifax 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 Halifax

Does the cellar count as a room for packing?

It does, and it usually holds more than a bedroom. Tools, paint, jars, garden bits and boxes that were put down there years ago all have to be packed and carried up a cellar stair, so we price the cellar and the loft in rather than discovering them on the day.

How do you protect fragile things on a steep Halifax street?

Crockery and glassware are wrapped individually in paper, packed upright in a small double-walled box with the gaps filled, and the box is taped top and bottom. On a setted hill it is the empty space inside a box that does the damage, not the walking.

Can you pack a Dean Clough flat if the lift is shared?

Yes. We pack the day before so that on moving day everything is already by the door and the lift is only carrying full loads. Tell us which floor and whether there is a service entrance and we will work out the barrow runs in advance.