About us
About Metro City Moves — the founder, the method and the proof
Metro City Moves is a small London removals firm run by its founder, Daniel. Your enquiry is handled by him personally. Every job is surveyed before it is priced, every quote comes in writing, and the council fees we publish carry the date we read them.
Daniel, the founder
Every London postcode
A survey, every time
Any hour of the day
The founder
Daniel, founder
One name on the guides, on the quotes and on your enquiry. Here is who that is, and what he does with the job before a van is ever booked.
Removals is a strange thing to buy. You hand nearly everything you own to people you met that morning. So the least a removals firm owes you is a name, a face, and a way of working you can check for yourself.
Daniel founded Metro City Moves and runs it day to day. Enquiries come to him personally rather than into a queue, so the person who reads what you sent is the person who owns the answer.
He also writes the access guides here. When a guide quotes a council’s parking fee, that figure was read on the council’s own page, and the date it was read is printed beside it. When two council pages contradict each other, we print both figures and say which page said what.
You will not find a biography padded with years and badges. What you can check is already on the site: the guides carry his name, the fees carry the dates they were read, and the reviews sit on Google under the names of the people who wrote them.
What that means on your move
- A survey before any price
- The quote in writing
- Guides under his name
- One person to ask
How we work
Survey, quote, then the van
The same order on every job. Each step exists so the next one cannot go wrong quietly.
Survey first
No price is given before someone has looked at the job. A video call or a visit, usually about ten minutes, covering the stairs, the doorways and where the van can stand.
The quote, in writing
Itemised, with what is not included spelled out, so the comparison you make against other quotes is a fair one. Nothing is added afterwards that was not in it.
Access, checked before the day
Stairs, lifts, turns and where the van can legally stand. If a bay needs suspending, each council’s process, fee and notice period is in the guides.
Moving-day guides on parking and accessFacts, dated
A council fee on this site carries the date it was read on the council’s own page. Where a council contradicts itself, we print both figures and say which page said what.
The quiet part
What we do not claim
Removals sites are covered in stars, badges and big round numbers. This one is quieter on purpose. The rule is simple: if there is no document behind a claim, the claim does not go on this site.
Our reviews are real and they live on Google. We link to them rather than quote a figure, because a figure printed here would go stale the day the next review arrived. Read them at the source, under the names of the people who wrote them.
House rules for this website
- Council and TfL fees appear with the date we read them
- Reviews are linked at the source, never turned into a number
- No stars we awarded ourselves, no counts we cannot show you
- Anything we cannot prove stays off the site
Where we work
Five sides of London, one method
Every London postcode is covered. Each region page lists its postcodes and boroughs, and the access problems we actually plan for there.
Central London
Where the hard problem is rarely the stairs. It is where the van is allowed to stand, and for how long.
North London
Terrace conversions and real hills, from Barnsbury out to the Finchley semis.
East London
The widest mix we cover, from Walthamstow terraces to towers in the Royal Docks.
South London
Our largest patch, where the river crossing decides how the day is planned.
West London
Stucco terraces with basement steps, out through Ealing to the Heathrow corridor.
All of London
Not sure which side you are on? Start from the full list and find your postcode.
Get a price
Tell us the two postcodes and we will price it properly
A survey first, then the number in writing. Most surveys are a ten-minute video call.
- No price given before someone has looked at the job
- The quote in writing, itemised, with what is not included spelled out
- Answered at any hour, including nights and weekends
- Handled by Daniel, the founder, not passed round a queue
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