Office Removals in Oldham
Covering Oldham, Chadderton, Royton, Shaw, Lees, Failsworth, Uppermill and Saddleworth.
The new office gets all the planning. The old one gets whatever is left over.
An office empties in the wrong order
Watch any office move and the same thing happens.
The useful things go first, because they are the things people care about and the things somebody has claimed. Desks, screens, the good chairs, anything with a name on it.
What is left at the end is everything nobody claimed. The heavy cupboard, the box of cables, whatever was behind the door, the thing in the corner that has been there longer than anyone currently employed.
So the last hour is the hardest hour, and it is the one nobody plans for. Most offices budget their time for the first load and discover the problem at four in the afternoon.
The fix is not complicated. Decide early what the difficult items are, and deal with them first rather than last. Anything heavy, anything awkward, anything nobody has claimed. If those leave early, the end of the day becomes the easy part instead of the hard one.
Do not hand the keys back the same afternoon
A small piece of scheduling that saves a great deal of grief.
People routinely arrange the final load and the handover for the same day, often a few hours apart. It works right up until anything runs late, and something usually does.
Leave a day if you can, or at least a morning. It gives you time to walk through an empty office and notice what is still in it, which is a completely different experience from walking through a full one.
If the dates genuinely cannot move, say so when you book. A move with a hard finish time is a different job from one without, and it is much better planned in advance than discovered on the day.
The walk round nobody does until it is too late
Once the office is empty, go through it properly. It takes twenty minutes and it is the difference between finished and nearly finished.
The things most often found still in place:
- Anything above head height. The top of cupboards, high shelves, whatever is on top of the units in the kitchen.
- Anything behind a door. Coat hooks, a bin, a small cupboard that only opens when the door is shut.
- Anything fixed to a wall. Boards, screens, signage, brackets. These are easy to see and easy to forget because they do not look like things that move.
- The cupboard with the equipment in it. Usually the last place anyone looks and frequently not empty.
- Anything outside. A bin store, a shed, a parking bay with something in it, signage at the entrance.
- The fridge. Always the fridge.
If the walk round turns up more than expected, tell us before the last load rather than after. Coming back is a separate job; taking it on the day is not.
The parts that are not furniture
Easy to overlook because they are nobody’s obvious responsibility.
On the day you actually leave, not the day the paperwork says.
Including the ones held by people who no longer work there. This is the item most often outstanding at the end.
Which takes longer to arrange than most people expect.
Deliveries, water, cleaning, waste collection.
None of it is difficult. All of it is easier a fortnight early than on the Friday.
If the exit is the complicated part
We have standard services and for most office moves one of them is the simplest way to book.
Some are shaped by the leaving rather than the arriving. A hard finish time because the keys go back that afternoon. Heavy items that need to leave well before the rest. A final load days after the main move once the office has been emptied properly. Two premises closing into one address.
Say so and we will tell you what can be arranged around it.
If the 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 Oldham office move
Tell us the size of the office, when you have to be out, and what the access is like at both ends.
Where we cover
- Oldham town centre
- Chadderton
- Royton
- Shaw
- Lees
- Failsworth
- Uppermill
- Saddleworth
Across the OL postcodes. We are based at Swan Street in Manchester city centre, so Oldham is a straightforward run. Office relocation services further out are arranged too.
Questions people ask
We have to be out by a fixed time. Is that a problem?
No, but tell us at the first conversation. A hard finish changes how the day is planned rather than whether it works.
Can the heavy things go earlier in the week?
Often, and it usually makes the main day considerably shorter. Mention it at quote stage.
We found more than we expected once it was empty. Can you come back?
Tell us as early as you can. A second visit can be arranged, and it is easier to plan than to squeeze in.
Can you do the old office and the new one on different days?
Yes, and plenty of businesses do. Give us both dates when you get in touch.
We are closing two offices into one. Does that work?
It is a common arrangement. Tell us both addresses and roughly what is coming from each.
Get a price
Tell us the size of the office, when you have to be out, and what the access is like at both ends.
RCM Removals
20 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JW
Telephone: 0161 768 2056
Email: info@removalscompanymanchester.co.uk