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Not by how many bedrooms. Two identical houses, one on a new Ashford estate and one at the end of a farm track, are the same load and completely different days — and the road is what tells them apart.
Six kinds, in four classes. Yours is one of them.
A made road to the door. The question is only where the vehicle stands.
Estates, suburbs and newer housing
The straightforward majority of Kent. A made road, a dropped kerb and somewhere to put a vehicle within a few steps of the door. Here the day is decided by what is in the loft rather than by how we reach it.
What this involves →Town terraces and seaside streets
Dense terraced housing in the Medway towns, Gravesend, Folkestone and along the coast. No off-street parking anywhere, frequently a gradient, and a vehicle that has to stand somewhere it is allowed to.
What this involves →Lanes and tracks, where the vehicle size is decided before anything else.
Downland and Wealden villages
Single-track lanes with hedges on both sides, blind bends and a passing place every so often. Width is only half the question; the other half is whether a vehicle can turn round at the end of it.
What this involves →Farms, oasts and smallholdings
Unmade surfaces, a gateway measured for a cart, and a yard that may or may not take the weight after rain. Kent has more of these addresses than any county in the south-east and they are surveyed, never assumed.
What this involves →Seafront and marsh, where the weather is an operational input.
Promenades, cliff tops and the marsh
Thanet, Deal, Hythe and the Romney Marsh edge. Promenade restrictions, seasonal traffic, wind that genuinely affects what can be carried on an exposed frontage, and salt on everything.
What this involves →The far end is not reachable, or not ready. Held rather than forced.
Held until the far end exists
Goods collected, listed at the property and held. Sometimes because the two dates do not meet, and sometimes because the road at the far end is not passable yet — a building site, a flooded track, a winter lane.
What this involves →Four things, in this order. What the last road is at each end. Where a vehicle can legally and safely stand, and how far that is from the door. What is actually going, loft and outbuildings included. And whether the day needs a shuttle, a suspension, a permit or a second crew.
The first of those is the one other firms leave until the morning, and it is the single commonest cause of a Kent move going badly. A vehicle sized for an estate and sent down a Wealden lane is not a bad day for the crew alone — it is a bad day for everybody behind them in the lane.
No price, rate card or transit time appears anywhere on this site, because none of them is knowable before the road is. Start on the quote form, or read the questions page.
Both addresses, roughly what is going, and whatever you know about the final stretch at each end. A photograph of a gateway from the road beats any description of it.