Ooooh, good idea about pre-loading the car Lulu! I've been doing some calling around today and find it amusing that they all advertise in great big letters that they charge by the hour, as if none of the other companies do, hehe. So far, all of them I have called are work by the hour!

We're planning on having everything boxed up and ready to go in the hopes of minimising the amount of time that we'll need the removalists. Oh, and now that I've looked around the house I think it's only the one set of bunk beds that needs dismantling and the companies have all said that the "men" can do that no problem, it just adds on extra time that you pay for.

My top contenders at the moment are "city west removals" and "fragile removals". Pricewise they seem similar, both seem to include insurance and stuff, and they were both nice on the phone lol. So unless anyone comes in and tells me that they had a bad experience with either of those I guess I'll just let DH choose which one to go with (that way if it turns out to be a bad choice it's not my fault ).