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Thatcham holds 32,456 people on RG18 and RG19 beside Newbury. This page covers a line on an international quote that most people either ignore or agree to without asking: crating.
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.
International movers do not treat a crate as a bigger carton. It is a timber case built to the dimensions of one object, so that nothing can shift inside it and nothing outside it can press against the contents. It is made on the day, at your house, to fit.
That is why it costs what it does, and why it is worth buying for the right things and declining for the wrong ones. A firm that crates everything is expensive; a firm that crates nothing is cheap until something arrives broken.
For international movers it is large mirrors, glass table tops, marble and stone, framed artwork and anything rigid that cannot flex. Those items fail from pressure and from point loads, and blankets do not stop either.
Value matters as much as fragility. Something replaceable for a hundred pounds rarely justifies the cost; something irreplaceable at any price does, and cover on high value items is sometimes conditional on it being crated at all.
Any moving company handles upholstered furniture, most wooden furniture, books, clothing and kitchen contents are all handled properly by export cartons and wrapping. Crating them adds cost and volume without adding protection.
Volume is the hidden part. A crate occupies more space than the object inside it, so on a shared container it pushes your cubic metres up as well as your invoice. Buy it deliberately, item by item.
Volume and destination set the shipping. Crating is priced per item and adds volume as well as cost, which is why it belongs on its own line.
Space by volume
around £870 to £1,760
Part load
around £1,610 to £3,120
Whole container
around £4,520 to £6,560
Built on site to fit
quoted individually
Get the crating broken out object by object instead of as one number, then take each decision yourself. Remaining bands are on the county page.
Planning price ranges reviewed August 2026. Next review August 2027.
Newbury is next door and Reading and Basingstoke are within reach, so the choice of international movers here is reasonable.
Ask which items they would crate and why. A surveyor who names three things and explains each is more useful than one who crates the whole dining room.
Buying abroad or paying a deposit in another currency is part of most overseas moves, so we include access to currency exchange through trusted partners.
The matched mover raises the export entry and shipping set from your priced list.
Value crated items honestly and separately. They are usually the reason the policy has a high value schedule at all, and an understated figure caps what you can recover.
Check whether cover on those items is conditional on crating. Where it is, declining the crate declines the cover with it. Returning, the relief claim goes in before the vessel berths.
A timber case built on the day, at your house, to the dimensions of one object so nothing can shift or press against it.
Large mirrors, glass tops, marble and stone, framed art, and anything rigid or irreplaceable.
Upholstered and most wooden furniture, books, clothing and kitchen contents. Cartons and wrapping already handle those.
Yes. A crate occupies more space than the object inside it, so on a shared container it raises your cubic metres as well as your bill.
Sometimes. Cover on high value items can be conditional on crating, so declining the crate may decline the cover.
Yes, across RG18, RG19 and the surrounding area.
Where Thatcham enquiries usually look next.
Written and reviewed by International Removals Companies, working in international moving since 2010.
Crating practice and pricing differ by firm and by item. Whether cover is conditional on crating is a matter for the policy wording. What is described here reflects how partner movers in the network handle high value goods. Prices quoted date from the year to August 2026.
Read the high value schedule on your policy before declining a crate.
Send the postcode, the destination, your date, a rough inventory and a list of anything rigid, brittle or high value.
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