Why we don't charge more at weekends
Most removals firms run a peak rate on the days people can actually move. We charge the same seven days a week, and here is the thinking behind it.
Most people cannot move house on a Wednesday. They have jobs. The children are at school. The whole point of a Saturday is that it is the day the rest of life pauses long enough to shift a household.
Which is exactly why most removals firms charge more for one.
We do not. Our pricing is the same whatever day you move — Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays included — and we are open 6am to 10pm, seven days a week.
The argument for a peak rate, and why we don't buy it
The case for charging more at weekends is straightforward: demand is higher, supply is the same, so the price goes up. That is not unreasonable economics.
The problem is what it actually means in practice. It means the surcharge lands on the people with the least flexibility — someone who cannot take a day off, or whose completion date was chosen by a chain they have no control over. A peak rate is a charge for not being able to choose, and we would rather not build a business on that.
The simpler version: a Saturday move costs us the same to run as a Tuesday one. The same crew, the same van, the same fuel, the same hours. So it costs you the same.
What this actually changes
Weekends book up fast. This is the honest consequence, and it is worth planning around. Because there is no premium, our Saturday and bank holiday slots are the first to go. If your move has to be a weekend, book as early as you can — two weeks is our preferred minimum, and further out is better.
Early starts cost nothing extra. A 6am start is often the best way to get a move done comfortably inside a day, particularly in summer or on a long-distance job. It is not an out-of-hours rate; it is just an early start.
Late finishes are possible. Working until ten in the evening means a late key release does not automatically become a next-day problem. On a fixed-price booking, those hours are what let us wait rather than run out of time.
Office moves get easier. Commercial customers usually want the move to happen between one working day and the next. Doing that at no premium is the difference between an office move costing a weekend and an office move costing a trading day.
One thing this is not
It is not a discount, and it is not an offer that runs out. There is no "weekend rate" on our price list because there is no weekday rate either — there is one rate, and it applies on the day you want to move.
If a firm quotes you a weekday price and then a different number for a Saturday, that is worth knowing before you compare it to ours.