Office Removals in Denton
Covering Denton, Audenshaw, Haughton Green, Dukinfield, Reddish and Gorton.
A move is the only time a business finds out what it actually owns.
The list is worth making anyway
Most offices have never been counted.
Equipment arrives, gets used, gets replaced, and the old one goes in a cupboard. People join and leave and their kit goes wherever there was space. Somewhere there may be a spreadsheet, and it is usually several years behind.
A move is the moment all of that becomes visible, and it is worth using rather than enduring.
Write down what is there before anything is packed. Not in detail, not room by room with photographs. A list of the things that matter: equipment, anything with a serial number, anything you would have to buy again if it did not arrive.
It takes an hour or two. What you get is a way of knowing, at the far end, that everything is there. Without it, the honest answer when somebody asks whether it all arrived is usually a hopeful one.
Two things the list usually reveals
- Things on the books that no longer exist. Equipment written down as an asset that went years ago and was never taken off the record. Whoever handles your accounts will be glad to know, and a move is the only realistic time anybody looks.
- Things that exist and are on nobody record. Usually equipment bought quickly to solve a problem, or something inherited from a previous occupant.
Neither is unusual. Both are easier to correct with the office half empty than at any other time.
What to do with it on the day
Keep it simple, or it will not get used.
- One copy, held by one person, and not on a laptop that is in a box. Paper works.
- Tick things off at the receiving end, not the sending end. Counting what leaves tells you very little. Counting what arrives tells you everything.
- Do it as things come off the van, not at the end of the day. By six in the evening nobody is checking anything properly.
If something is genuinely missing, it is far easier to sort out on the day than a fortnight later.
When equipment and furniture do not travel together
We have standard services and for most office moves one of them is the simplest way to book.
Some need arranging. Equipment going to a different address from the furniture. Part of a move happening on a separate date. Something held for a while rather than delivered straight away.
Say so and we will tell you what can be arranged around it. The quickest route is the form. Give us the outline and we will come back to you.
Where we cover
- Denton
- Audenshaw
- Haughton Green
- Dane Bank
- Dukinfield
- Reddish
- Gorton
Across M34 and the surrounding area. We are based at Swan Street in Manchester city centre, so Denton is a short run rather than a journey. Office relocation services further out are arranged too.
Questions people ask
Do we need an inventory?
Nobody requires one. It is simply the only reliable way to know at the far end that everything arrived.
How detailed should it be?
Equipment and anything with a serial number. Chairs and boxes do not need listing individually.
Who should hold it on the day?
One named person, on paper, standing at the receiving end. Not on a device that is in transit.
Get a price for your Denton office move
Tell us the size of the office, roughly what equipment is involved, and the access at both ends.
Get a price
Tell us the size of the office, roughly what equipment is involved, and the access at both ends.
RCM Removals
20 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JW
Telephone: 0161 768 2056
Email: info@removalscompanymanchester.co.uk