Has anyone else had this?
So far I've had four shippers come to quote (Pickfords, Robinsons, PSS and Abel) and had three different sizes of containers suggested.
We're taking the contents of a small 3-bed house which is being used as one bed, one home office (for a techie with way too many computers), and one study (with about 1000 books). We're also taking a 1968 Beetle car and a Yamaha motorbike.
Pickfords (who physically measured everything except the car, which wasn't here) tell me that it wont all fit in a standard 40ft container and we'd need a 40ft 'high cube' container.
Robinsons (measured only the bike) say that the household goods themselves would be slightly more than a 20ft container and so, with the car and biek we'd need a standard 40ft container and it would not be quite full.
PSS (measured nothing but want bike & car measurements) said that the household contents PLUS the bike should be slightly more than a 20ft container so we could have a 40ft or have a 20ft (if we were able to reduce the contents very slightly) and send the car separately as it might be cheaper.
Abels (measured nothing, want bike measurements) say a 40ft container will be adequate for it all. They were the only ones (so far) to say that they didn't need the car measurements as they could look it up.
I've have Crown and Sterling still to see, and have just realised that I didn't arrange for Anglo Pacific to quote (thought I had).
So were Pickfords being over cautious? Are the others wrong? I'm sure I've read on here that people have got rid of stuff and then found that there was room in the container after all, or that stuff didn't get into container.
Has anyone used Abels? I thought I must have heard of them on here but can't find any mention of them. Now see that they were one of the five I contacted online via www.intlmovers.com
One of the others - Movecorp - emailed an estimate without bothering to come out and the others Removal Group, The Euro Group and F + N Worldwide Moving didn't bother to get back to me at all.