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We move here every week — so we plan around the streets, parking and building types you actually have, not a generic checklist.
Crouch End is at the bottom of something in nearly every direction. The Broadway and its clock tower sit in a dip where the old routes meet, and the ground rises away from that junction in most directions — Crouch End Hill climbs to the ridge, Crouch Hill climbs the other way, and the residential streets hang off one slope or another. A great many of the houses we are asked to empty in N8 stand somewhere on one of them, and the gradient turns out to decide more about the day than the front door does. The houses themselves are what you would expect of a Victorian and Edwardian suburb that filled up quickly: bay-fronted terraces and semis behind low walls and front gardens, with a good many of the larger ones long since divided into flats. Handsome, familiar, and none of it the hard part.
What a slope really does to a removal is change the method rather than the route. On a flat street the trips are saved by wheels — a sack truck, a dolly, a set of skates under something heavy — and a crew that can wheel a load spends less of itself on the walking. On a road with a real fall in it, a wheeled load wants to travel on its own, which means it is not going on wheels at all: it is carried, by hand, by more people, in shorter stages. The van has a smaller version of the same problem. A ramp or a tail lift meets a sloping road at an angle, and a few metres along the kerb is often the difference between a workable loading position and an awkward one, so we look for the flattest stretch within reach of the door rather than the closest gap to it. Which way the slope runs counts too. Carrying loaded downhill and walking back up empty is a very different morning from doing it the other way round, and it is worth knowing early which of the two your street hands us.
Outside the house, the thing people notice about N8 is what it has never had. There is no Underground station in Crouch End — Hornsey and Crouch Hill sit out at the edges, and the buses take the same converging roads as everybody else — so cars stay on these streets through the middle of the day instead of clearing at nine, and a great many of the residential roads run parked along both sides. Tottenham Lane is narrow where it passes the centre and the Broadway is busy with buses and deliveries, so neither is anywhere to stand a loaded van; the work happens on the streets behind them. N8 carries on past Crouch End into Hornsey and over towards the Harringay side, and the ground keeps moving the whole way. Wherever in it you are, we would rather hear about the hill before we take the date than meet it on the morning.
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Yes — the streets off the Broadway, up Crouch Hill and Crouch End Hill, out along Tottenham Lane, and on into Hornsey and towards the Harringay side, which is N8 as well. What varies between two jobs here is rarely which part of it you are in. It is how steeply your street runs, and where on it a van can sensibly stand.
The method more than the route. Wheels are how a crew saves itself on level ground, and on a real gradient a wheeled load is more trouble than it is worth, so the heavy things travel by hand in shorter stages and we send the extra pair of hands that makes that reasonable. Say roughly how steep it is and the plan is built for it from the start.
On the flattest few metres we can find within reach of your door, which is not always the closest space to it. A ramp or a tail lift meets a slope at an angle, and everything coming off the van has to be controlled on that angle, so a slightly longer walk on the level is usually the better trade. Which few metres those are depends entirely on the road, which is why we would rather hear the address while the date is still being fixed.
It does, and it is the sort of thing you only notice once you have done it. Carrying loaded downhill and walking back up empty is one kind of morning; walking up loaded and back down empty is another, and the second is slower and harder on a crew. Where the street gives us a choice we take the first, and where it does not, we crew for the second.
They stack, and that is the honest answer. The climb from the van to your front door happens before the staircase inside does, so an upper flat on a steep road asks for two efforts on every trip instead of one. Tell us both — the floor you are on and what the street does outside — because together they set how many people we send.
Usually near enough, and it is worth planning rather than hoping. Without a station of its own, N8 keeps its cars at home in the daytime instead of losing them to a commute at nine, so the kerb here is busier at eleven in the morning than it would be a few postcodes south. Let us know the road when you book and the van position is worked out well before anyone arrives on it.
Goods-in-transit and public liability insured. On a sloping road the part worth knowing is that the van is loaded in stages and strapped as it fills, rather than stacked loose and tidied up at the end, because nothing should be free to shift in the back while the vehicle itself is standing at an angle. Padding and straps come with the crew.
Materials are on the list — tick them with the date and you will hear back about what is in stock and what it costs, or ring us earlier if the packing is going to be spread across a fortnight. There is a Crouch End angle to boxes, too: one big carton of books is a real nuisance on a hill, and two half-sized ones go up it faster and far more safely. Storage we can hold as well, for whenever the two addresses are not free on the same day.
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