Man and Van in North Watford

Almost nothing here has a driveway, so the van stands on the road and the carry starts at the kerb. In the permit sections that means finding a legal spot within a sensible distance rather than outside the door, and on the narrower streets it means picking a moment that does not block the traffic both ways while we unload.

The saving grace is that the carry itself is short and flat once you are in. A terraced hallway is narrow but level, and most of these houses are two floors rather than three, which is why a North Watford move usually runs quicker than the same amount of furniture on the Cassiobury side.

A lot of the stock up here is let by the room, which means our most common job in North Watford is one person's belongings out of a house four other people still live in. That has its own etiquette: not blocking the hall, not propping the front door, and getting in and out inside an hour or two.

We are used to it, and we price a room move as the small job it is rather than as a fraction of a house removal. Tell us which floor the room is on and whether there is anything bigger than a double bed in it.