Man and Van in South Oxhey

A maisonette is two floors of your own reached by a stair you share with the flat below, and that stair is usually the tightest part of the job. It is narrow, it turns, and it opens onto a communal walkway rather than the street. Furniture that walks straight out of a house has to be angled through it.

That is ordinary work and we come equipped for it, with the pieces wrapped before they leave the flat so nothing marks the shared walls on the way down. Tell us whether you are the upper or lower flat and we will know what we are dealing with.

Much of the estate parks in rear courts reached through a gap between the blocks, which are handy for residents and awkward for a long van. The roads out front, on the other hand, are wide and rarely full, so more often than not the sensible answer is to load from the front and keep the van where it can leave freely.

We decide which before the day, based on where your entrance actually faces. Either way the carry here tends to be shorter than in the older parts of Watford, and the quote reflects that.