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Ask three firms to quote a move abroad and describe it as a three bedroom house going to Spain, and you will get three figures that cannot be compared and will all be revised later. Ask the same three with eight specific facts and you get quotes that hold. This page is about writing the enquiry, which is fifteen minutes of work and the highest return fifteen minutes in the whole process.
Saltford sits on the River Avon between Bath and Keynsham, on the A4 and outside the Bath Clean Air Zone, so a vehicle reaching your door pays nothing to get here. Loading is generally straightforward, which means the accuracy of what you send matters more than the access does.
Say Valencia rather than Spain, and Perth rather than Australia. The city decides the port, the agent and sometimes the mode. A move to Lisbon and a move to the Azores are not the same job even though both are Portugal.
For volume, list what is actually going room by room rather than saying three bedrooms. A three bedroom house can be fifteen cubic metres or forty depending on the loft, the garage and how long you have lived there. That range is the difference between a shared container and a sole use one, and it is the single biggest driver of the price.
On timing, say the month and say how firm it is. A fixed posting date and a flexible retirement move get quoted differently and should. If you are inside eight weeks, say so rather than hoping, because it changes which companies can realistically take it.
Lofts, garages and outbuildings are where volume estimates go wrong, always upward. A booking made against a figure that turns out low can leave you without space on a shared container, and waiting for the next one.
How far from the front door to where a lorry could stand. The narrowest point on the approach. Whether there is anywhere to turn. Pace them out and send a photograph of the frontage.
Around Saltford most properties are fine, but the lanes towards the river and the older cottages near the church are not, and the difference is hours of crew time. It is the one piece of information a surveyor cannot get from a map.
The delivery address, which floor, whether there is a lift, and whether a large vehicle can reach it. Almost no household provides this and it causes as many problems as the origin does, because the destination crew works from whatever was passed down the chain.
If you have not seen the property, say so, and send whatever the agent or the landlord has told you. A photograph from a listing is better than nothing.
Full export packing, fragile items only, or you pack everything and the crew loads. Three different prices for the identical shipment. State which, or you will receive three quotes built on different assumptions and conclude the wrong one is expensive.
If an employer is funding it, say so at the enquiry. Direct settlement needs a company that can invoice a business and produce relocation reporting, and not every accredited firm has that desk. It narrows the match rather than complicating it.
A car, a piano, a safe, garden machinery, bicycles. Each changes the plan and none can be added on the morning. One line in the enquiry saves a revised quote later.
Send the eight facts and we match you with one international removal company that runs your route, rather than sending a thin description to a spread of international moving companies who each fill the gaps differently. No charge and no obligation.
A stated volume in cubic metres, so you can see what the figure rests on. A clear statement of whether it is door to door or door to port. The exclusions listed rather than the inclusions.
An insurance basis, all risks or named perils, with the excess explained. And a named contact who will still be the contact in eight weeks.
A quote missing any of those five is not necessarily bad, but it is not comparable with one that has them, and comparing incomparable figures on price alone is how people end up with the wrong company.
Fewer than people think, provided the brief is good. A search for international removal companies near me returns plenty, and three identically scoped quotes tell you more than six vague ones. One properly scoped quote from an international removals company that runs your route is often enough. Full export packing is available where you want international movers and packers to wrap as well as load, and international removal companies Saltford households use should price both.
For anything above a small part load, yes. The eight facts get you an accurate indication. The survey fixes the volume the booking rests on, and video surveys work well for straightforward properties like most of Saltford.
Usually weeks rather than months, because freight rates move and capacity changes. Ask for the expiry date in writing. It is another reason to send a complete brief rather than clarifying over a fortnight.
Yes, along with Burnett, Compton Dando and the villages along the Avon between here and Bath. Keynsham has its own page, and anything between the two 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; Saltford lies outside the zone. Quotation practice, survey standards and insurance bases follow standard international moving industry usage. No prices, volumes or validity periods are guaranteed. Checked August 2026, next review August 2027. The matched moving company confirms its own terms before booking. Read our Google reviews.
Destination city, room by room volume, target month, access at both ends, packing level, funding and any awkward items. An accredited international moving company quotes from that.
Send your move detailsInternational Removals Companies takes your brief to one accredited moving company from the AGM Group network that quotes against stated facts rather than assumptions. Free to use, and we survey nothing ourselves.
Nearby: Keynsham, Bath, Paulton, Midsomer Norton.
Services: European removals, container shipping, part load removals, overseas relocation.