International removals from Newton Abbot shrink at exchange. The town holds 26,746 people on TQ12, a market town on the A38 between Exeter and Torbay. This page covers a list most people forget exists until the week of the move: the fixtures and fittings form, and everything on it that is no longer yours to ship.
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When a house is sold, a schedule sets out what is included, and international movers never see it. Carpets, curtains, light fittings, white goods, garden furniture, sheds and sometimes furniture proper. Whatever is on that list belongs to the buyer from completion.
A surveyor who prices your household in March and a contract signed in May can disagree by several cubic metres. That is a revision on the day, and revisions on the day are the expensive kind.
Carpets and curtains are the commonest, and they are bulkier than people assume. Then light fittings, white goods, garden sheds, greenhouses, outdoor furniture and occasionally the contents of a garage.
Every one of those is volume. A household that expected to ship curtains, a fridge, a washing machine and a shed and then sells all four with the house has a materially smaller shipment than the one quoted.
The moving company surveys when you get quotes. The fixtures and fittings schedule is agreed during conveyancing, frequently weeks later, and nobody tells the moving company.
So tell them. A revision agreed four weeks out is a conversation about a number; the same revision on packing day is a conversation about whether a smaller container was available and whether the price comes down at all.
These are volume bands. What the sale contract includes can move you between them, which is why it is worth settling early.
Volume based groupage
around £920 to £1,850
Part load
around £1,710 to £3,300
Whole container
around £4,660 to £6,750
Whole container
around £7,400 to £11,700
Ask for the volume in cubic metres, then tell the mover as soon as the fixtures schedule is agreed. The county page carries the wider bands.
Planning price ranges reviewed August 2026. Next review August 2027.
Exeter and Torquay are both within half an hour and the A38 makes this an easy town to reach, so the choice of international movers here is good.
Ask what happens if the volume drops after the survey. A firm that will re-quote without argument is worth more than one that holds you to a figure for goods you no longer own.
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 inventory.
Check it against the fixtures and fittings schedule before the declaration is raised. An inventory listing a washing machine that was sold with the house is wrong at customs and wrong in a claim.
Coming home, the relief on a transferred residence goes in before the vessel berths. The conditions are on GOV.UK.
Carpets, curtains, light fittings, white goods, sheds, greenhouses and garden furniture. All of them are volume.
As soon as the schedule is agreed. A revision four weeks out costs less than one on packing day.
It should, if the volume genuinely drops and the container size changes. Ask before booking what happens if it does.
An inventory listing goods that were sold with the house does not match what is in the container. That is a discrepancy.
They are bulkier than people expect, and with carpets and white goods they add up to real cubic metres.
Yes, across TQ12 and TQ13 and the surrounding area.
Where Newton Abbot enquiries usually look next.
What a fixtures and fittings schedule contains is a matter between you, the buyer and the conveyancers. Nothing here is legal advice. Observations on volume reflect what partner movers in the network see. Prices quoted date from the year to August 2026.
Whether a quote is revised downwards depends on the mover's terms, so ask before booking.
Send the TQ12 postcode, the destination, your date, a rough inventory and say what is being sold with the house.
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County detail, the terminal run and the full price bands sit on the Devon international removals page.