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A household shipment is mostly boxes and furniture, and those are easy. The trouble comes from the other things: the car in the drive, the piano in the front room, the mower in the shed and the bicycles in the garage. Each has its own rules, its own paperwork and its own reason for being refused, and none of them can be sorted out on packing day.
Paulton is a village between Midsomer Norton and the Chew Valley with a mix of older cottages and newer estates. Loading is generally straightforward and it sits well outside the Bath Clean Air Zone, so the vehicle charge does not apply here. What does apply is that a village property often has a garage and a garden full of exactly the items this page is about.
A vehicle can usually travel inside the same container as your household goods, which is considerably cheaper than moving it separately. That is the easy part. The hard part is whether the destination will let it in on terms you can live with.
Age limits, emissions standards and left or right hand drive rules vary enormously between countries. Some charge import duty calculated on value in a way that erases any saving. Others require modification before registration. A car that is straightforward to import into one country is uneconomic in the next.
So price the import at the destination before you decide against selling here. Doing it the other way round, and discovering the problem once the container has sailed, is the expensive version of this mistake. Motorbikes follow the same logic with generally fewer restrictions.
Anything with an engine must be drained of fuel before it is loaded, and that includes the car. It is a dangerous goods requirement rather than a preference, and a crew will refuse the item if it has not been done.
An upright is a two or three person lift and a grand needs partial dismantling. Both need a purpose built crate for a sea route rather than wrapping, and both are affected by humidity in transit. Mention it at the survey because it changes the crew size and the day. An international removals company with a crating bench will quote it as a line rather than a guess, and international movers and packers handle the wrapping around it.
Weight rather than size is the issue, and floor loading at both ends matters. A safe bolted into a concrete floor also has to come out, which is a job in itself. Firearms are never shipped in a household consignment under any circumstances.
Occasionally shipped, rarely worth it. Volume is large, value falls fast, and a timber shed attracts biosecurity attention in Australia and New Zealand. Almost always cheaper to sell here and buy there.
Destination country, rough volume, target month and anything from the list above. One international removal company from the network prices the crating and the vehicle properly, rather than a spread of international moving companies quoting for boxes and revising later. No charge and no obligation.
Mowers, strimmers, spades, forks, walking boots, tents, bicycles and golf clubs all attract biosecurity attention in Australia and New Zealand, because they carry soil, seeds and plant material. Anything that fails is cleaned or treated at your cost and the shipment waits.
Cleaning means genuinely clean and genuinely dry, done a fortnight before packing rather than the night before. A damp cleaned tent sealed in a container for eight weeks creates a different problem entirely.
Garden furniture in these materials is looked at closely on the same routes. It can travel, and it may need treatment certification depending on the destination and the material.
A village property with a summer house full of rattan is worth flagging early rather than presenting on the morning. It is not a refusal, it is a lead time.
Paint, thinners, petrol, diesel, gas cylinders, aerosols, weedkiller, pool chemicals and fireworks are excluded from any household shipment. This is not a matter of declaring them, and no crew will load them however carefully they are packed.
Plants and soil cannot travel either. Pots can, once scrubbed completely clean. Food is decided by the destination and the simplest answer is to ship none of it.
Animals are the other category people ask about. They never travel with the household goods. Pets move under separate arrangements with their own veterinary documentation, and the health requirements for some destinations run to months rather than weeks. Start that the day you know you are going.
Most full service firms will, though not all crate pianos and fewer still advise properly on vehicle import rules. A search for international removal companies near me finds the collection. Ask specifically whether the international removal company has shipped a car to your destination before, because the rules are country by country. International removal companies Paulton households use will say plainly if they have not.
Yes, and clean them properly first. Tyres and frames carry soil and they are among the items most often pulled for inspection on Australian and New Zealand routes. Remove pedals and turn the handlebars to save space while you are at it.
If it has sentimental or genuine musical value, often yes. If it is an ordinary upright, the crating and the handling frequently exceed what an equivalent instrument costs at the destination. Get both figures before deciding rather than assuming either way.
Yes, along with Clutton, Temple Cloud, Hallatrow and the villages towards the Chew Valley. Midsomer Norton and Radstock have their own pages, and anything between them is collected as the nearest job.
Bath Clean Air Zone boundary from Bath and North East Somerset Council and the GOV.UK clean air zone service; Paulton lies outside the zone. Dangerous goods exclusions, fuel draining requirements and biosecurity cleaning standards follow standard international moving industry practice and destination quarantine rules. Vehicle import conditions are set by each destination country and change. No prices are quoted. Checked August 2026, next review August 2027. Read our Google reviews.
Destination country, rough volume, target month and your list of awkward items. An accredited international moving company quotes the whole load in one figure.
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