Office Removals in Leigh
Covering Leigh, Atherton, Tyldesley, Astley, Lowton, Golborne and the surrounding area.
Moving somewhere smaller is not the same as moving less.
A smaller office is not a smaller move
This is the thing that surprises people, and it is worth knowing before you ask anyone for a price.
The reduction happens at the far end. The old office still has to be emptied completely, and that half of the job is exactly the same size as it always was. Every desk, every cupboard, every box in the store comes out whether or not it is going into the new place.
So a downsizing move is not automatically a cheap one. It is a normal move with a different destination, plus some decisions about what happens to the difference.
Knowing that early saves a certain amount of disappointment later, and it makes the quote easier to understand when it arrives.
Moving somewhere smaller is not what it used to mean
Worth saying plainly, because there is still an assumption attached to it.
Downsizing an office once suggested a business having a difficult time. Now it very often means the opposite: the business worked out how much space it actually uses. A team that comes in three days a week does not need a desk each, and a room that is two thirds empty most of the time is an expensive thing to keep heated.
If that is your reason, it is an ordinary one and a common one. Nothing about the move needs to be treated differently.
Fewer desks does not mean less of everything
The most useful thing on this page.
Desk space scales with people. Almost nothing else does.
- The filing does not shrink. The same records exist whether twenty people or twelve are looking at them.
- The kitchen does not shrink. One fridge, one microwave, the same cupboard of mugs.
- The equipment does not shrink. The printer is the same printer.
- The stationery and supplies do not shrink, and neither does whatever is in the store cupboard.
Which means halving the desks does not halve the load. It usually reduces it by rather less than people expect, and the parts that do not shrink are the awkward parts rather than the easy ones.
So when you describe the job to us, describing it by headcount is misleading. Twelve desks plus everything that used to serve twenty is a different job from twelve desks in a business that has always had twelve.
In a tight space, the order matters
In a roomy office you can put something down and work out where it lives afterwards. There is always a spare corner.
In a smaller one there is not, and that changes the day. What goes in first decides whether the rest fits, because once a room is two thirds full there is nowhere to stand while you reconsider.
It does not need a detailed plan. It needs a decision about which things are fixed and which are flexible. The large items that only work in one place should go in first, and everything else arranges itself around them. Doing it the other way round means moving the big things twice.
Tell us which items are the fixed ones and they go in first.
What tends to get squeezed
Worth checking against the new space before the day, because these are the things that quietly have nowhere to go.
Often the first thing lost, and the thing missed soonest.
In a bigger office anywhere will do. In a smaller one, parcels end up in a doorway.
A corridor, an alcove, the space behind a door. Small offices rarely have the equivalent.
Genuinely, this is the one that catches people out.
If some of it has nowhere to go yet, that is normal and does not have to be solved before the move. Things can be held elsewhere while you settle in, and there is more on how storage works here.
If the new space is the constraint
We have standard services and for most office moves one of them is the simplest way to book.
Some need arranging. A move where part of the load goes to the new office and the rest goes elsewhere. Furniture leaving on a different day from everything else. A move into a space that is not quite ready, with the remainder following. Two offices combining into one smaller one.
Say so and we will tell you what can be arranged around it.
If either building is managed, mention it, since access and lifts are usually arranged by the building rather than by you.
The quickest route is the form. Give us the outline and we will come back to you.
Get a price for your Leigh office move
Tell us the size of both offices, roughly what is coming, and the access at each end.
Where we cover
- Leigh
- Atherton
- Tyldesley
- Astley
- Lowton
- Golborne
- Bedford
- Pennington
Across WN7, M29 and M46. We are based at Swan Street in Manchester city centre, so Leigh is a straightforward run. Office relocation services further out are arranged too.
Questions people ask
We are moving somewhere half the size. Is the move half the price?
Not usually, because the old office still has to be emptied completely. Tell us what is coming and what is not and we will price it properly.
How should we describe the job?
By what is actually there rather than by headcount. A twelve-desk office that used to hold twenty has more in it than the number suggests.
Not everything will fit. What do we do about the rest?
Tell us what you are thinking. It can go elsewhere, be held for a while, or be dealt with separately, and it is easier to plan at quote stage than later.
Can some of it be held while we settle in?
Yes, and it is a common arrangement when a space is tight. Mention it early so it is quoted as one job.
Can the furniture go on a different day from everything else?
Often. Give us both dates when you get in touch.
Get a price
Tell us the size of both offices, roughly what is coming, and the access at each end.
RCM Removals
20 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JW
Telephone: 0161 768 2056
Email: info@removalscompanymanchester.co.uk