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Business and office moves in Ashford

Commercial work around the town-centre offices, the business parks and the industrial units clustered off the M20 junctions. A business move runs to a lease handover rather than a household timetable, which changes almost everything about the planning.

Estate units here have excellent access and contractual constraints. Town-centre floors are the reverse.

What a commercial move involves

Building survey Access hours, goods lifts, loading, security, and who signs each off.
Out-of-hours work Evenings and weekends where the lease allows, so trading is not interrupted.
Crate hire Reusable crates rather than cartons — faster both ends, nothing to dispose of.
Labelled plan Every crate marked to a position against a floor plan you approve first.
IT handling Hardware disconnected, carried and placed. Reconnection stays with your IT people.
Listed records Files and confidential material moved under a numbered inventory.

The lease sets the date, and it can slip too

A commercial handover behaves more like a new-build completion than most people expect: the date depends on a fit-out being finished and a landlord signing it off, and both can run late.

So we survey early, hold a window, and confirm when the handover is real. Where the new premises are not ready, moving in stages or holding part of the load beats delivering into a building site and shuffling it twice.

Estate units against town-centre floors

The industrial and business park units off the M20 junctions are straightforward physically — they were built for lorries and there is room to work. What decides those jobs is contractual: the handover date, site security and who signs off the unit condition.

Town-centre office floors are the harder case. Older buildings, a lift that may or may not be a goods lift, restricted streets and short loading windows. Two identical floor areas in two different Ashford buildings are genuinely different jobs.

Records, stock and confidentiality

Client files, HR records and anything carrying personal data move on a numbered, listed basis so there is an auditable record of what went where. For a lot of businesses that is the part that matters most, and it is worth raising at survey so it is documented rather than assumed.

Retail and warehouse stock is handled the same way, with a list that lets you reconcile afterwards.

What we do not do

We do not reconnect servers, configure networks or certify electrical work. We carry, place and protect; your IT and facilities people do the rest. Firms that claim all of it tend to be vague about what they are insured for.

And we will not promise a Monday start in a building we have not surveyed.

Business and office moves

Questions about business and office moves

  1. 01

    Can you move us at the weekend?

    Yes, where the building and the lease allow — established at the building survey, which comes before the quote.

  2. 02

    What if the new premises are not ready?

    Move in stages or hold part of the load. Delivering into an unfinished fit-out means handling everything twice and we will say so rather than take the booking quietly.

  3. 03

    Do you provide crates?

    Reusable crates delivered ahead and collected afterwards. Quicker than cartons and nothing left to dispose of.

  4. 04

    Will you handle IT?

    We disconnect, carry and place hardware. Reconnection and configuration stay with your IT provider.

  5. 05

    Can you store furniture we are not taking?

    Yes, on the same listed basis, while you decide whether to sell or dispose of it.

What are you moving into?

That, both addresses, and whether the far end has a date yet. If it is a new build and the answer is no, say so — we book those differently.

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