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Woodley holds 37,983 people on RG5 between Reading and Wokingham, largely in post war family housing. Family houses come with appliances, and appliances raise three questions in a row that most people only think about once.
International Removals Companies is a route matching platform, not a physical removal company. Your enquiry goes to vetted movers in the AGM Group network, and the partner best suited to your destination comes back with a single quote.
First, is it worth shipping at all. A washing machine occupies real container space and weighs a fortune, and where the supply voltage or frequency does not match the destination it will not work properly anyway.
Second, who disconnects it. A moving company will not isolate plumbing or touch a gas appliance, so that is a trade booked in advance. Third, is it drained, because a machine shipped with water in it damages everything around it.
Compare the container space a washing machine takes against replacing it at the far end. Where the supply matches and the machine is nearly new the sums can work; where either is untrue they rarely do.
Frequency matters more than voltage. A transformer changes volts and leaves hertz alone, and motors and timers depend on frequency, so a British machine in North America is a heavy object that runs wrong.
Plumbed appliances need isolating and draining, and gas appliances need a registered engineer by law. Book both well before the day, because a crew that arrives to find the washing machine still plumbed in simply works around it.
Draining takes longer than people expect and cannot be rushed on the morning. Do it a week out. A machine shipped with water in the drum leaks into the container and damages whatever is packed beside it.
Volume and destination set the shipping. Leaving the white goods behind is one of the simpler ways to drop a band.
Volume based groupage
around £870 to £1,750
Part load
around £1,600 to £3,110
Whole container
around £4,500 to £6,540
Whole container
around £7,200 to £11,400
Disconnection by a trade is your cost and sits outside any removal quote. The county page carries the wider bands.
Planning price ranges reviewed August 2026. Next review August 2027.
Reading is next door and Wokingham and Bracknell are close, so the local list of international movers is a long one.
A surveyor who tells you to leave the washing machine is giving advice, not losing business. One who quotes to ship everything without comment is doing neither.
Buying replacement appliances abroad in another currency is part of many overseas moves, so we include access to currency exchange through trusted partners.
The matched mover raises the export entry and shipping documents from your priced inventory.
List appliances individually with makes and models. Some destinations take an interest in what is being imported, and a specific entry moves through faster than a vague one.
Anything containing a lithium battery must be declared and some of it cannot travel at all. Raise it at survey. Returning, the relief claim goes in before the vessel berths.
Compare the container space it takes against replacing it there. Where the supply frequency does not match, the answer is usually no.
No. Plumbed appliances need isolating and draining, and gas appliances need a registered engineer by law.
A week. It takes longer than people expect and a machine shipped wet leaks into the container.
It changes voltage and leaves frequency alone. Motors and timers depend on frequency, so it solves half the problem.
They take little space and are worth taking where the supply matches. Where it does not, they are the easiest things to leave.
Yes, across RG5 and RG6 and the surrounding area.
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Written and reviewed by International Removals Companies, working in international moving since 2010.
Supply voltages and frequencies differ by country and should be confirmed for your destination. Gas disconnection requires a registered engineer by law. Advice on what is worth shipping reflects what partner movers in the network see. Prices quoted date from the year to August 2026.
Appliance compatibility depends on the individual model as well as the country.
Send the RG5 postcode, the destination country, your date and a rough inventory including the appliances.
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