Top of the house down: how a Heckmondwike packing day is ordered

The pack starts where nobody needs anything: the attic room and the spare bedroom, then books, ornaments and pictures. In the older through-terraces off High Street the attic is often a proper room reached by a steep final flight, so boxes up there are kept small and light for the trip down. On a typical house the aim is to have the upper floor sealed and labelled by around lunchtime, and the household still has beds, a bathroom and a working kitchen.

The kitchen goes last because it is in use until the end. Plates are wrapped and stood on edge, glasses are wrapped one by one and packed upright, and the kettle, mugs, a towel and phone chargers go in one box marked to open first. In the newer houses round the edges of town the garage or shed may need its own hour for tools and garden things. Because one person packs and then loads, box sizes are chosen to stack tidily in the van.

What a booked pack covers in a Heckmondwike home

Materials come with the booking: boxes in mixed sizes, packing paper, bubble wrap, tape and wardrobe boxes
In a terrace off Westgate or High Street, say whether the cellar is full, since odds and ends coming up stone steps go in small boxes
An attic room up a steep last flight is packed in light boxes one person can carry down safely
Keep one drawer or bag for passports, jewellery and medication, and it is left untouched
Boxes are labelled with the room at the new address rather than a list of what is inside
Unpacking at the other end can be added as extra time

Heckmondwike houses and where the packing time goes

Through-terraces off High Streeta steep flight to the attic room, so small, light boxes up there
Westgatea cellar under the kitchen with heavy odds and ends, boxed small to come up the stone steps
Infill houses with a garage or shedtools and garden things that take their own slot on the day
Semis on the main roads out of towna dining room of china and glass to wrap piece by piece
Flats above Market Place shopsa quicker pack, kept to boxes one person can carry down one flight

Heckmondwike moves that are easier with the packing done

Westgate terrace to a semi in Liversedgethe step up without going far, packed one day and moved the next
Heckmondwike to the far end of the countryhours on the motorway, so tightly filled, taped boxes that cannot shift
Heckmondwike to Leeds or Bradfordwith the packing done the day before, loading starts the moment the van arrives

How long a Heckmondwike pack takes, and what that means for the price

The rooms, what is in the attic, cellar and garage, and how much china and glass needs wrapping decide the hours, and the hours set the fixed price with materials included. See how we quote for the full breakdown.