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Croxley Green sits on WD3 between Watford and Rickmansworth. This page covers something most removal pages avoid: the things a moving company will not take, and who you need to speak to about them instead.
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.
Pets are the big one. A removal company does not ship animals, and it should say so plainly instead of leaving you to discover it. Pet relocation is a separate specialist trade with its own vets, paperwork, quarantine rules and timescales.
Plants come second. Almost nowhere will admit a living plant, and seeds, bulbs and anything with soil attached face tight controls. Ask before you get attached to the idea, because people regularly assume a favourite pot can come along.
International movers do not touch this: moving an animal abroad involves vaccinations, microchipping, blood tests, health certificates and sometimes quarantine, and several of those have waiting periods measured in months, not weeks.
Start it before you book the household shipping, not after. A family that has arranged the container and then discovers the dog needs a rabies titre test with a three month wait has a genuine problem.
Fuel, gas cylinders, paint, thinners and aerosols travel nowhere, and most sheds contain several. Drain mowers and strimmers completely, because a residue is still a residue.
Anything living, and anything carrying soil, is turned away in most places. Untreated timber and anything still showing bark can be caught too, so bring up garden furniture and rustic pieces when the surveyor calls.
Volume and destination set the shipping. Anything the mover does not handle sits outside the quote entirely, which is worth knowing before you compare figures.
Groupage
around £950 to £1,880
Shared container
around £1,730 to £3,310
Sole use of a container
around £4,650 to £6,710
Separate specialist service
not part of any removal quote
Any quote that looks like it covers a pet has misread the job. Household bands are set out on the county page.
Planning price ranges reviewed August 2026. Next review August 2027.
With Watford and Rickmansworth on the doorstep and the north London depots behind them, there are plenty of international movers to choose between.
Ask what they do not handle. A firm that answers plainly and points you to a pet specialist is more useful than one that implies it can arrange everything.
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 international moving company raises the export declaration and shipping documents for your household goods, and nothing beyond them.
Pet documentation is entirely separate and handled by whoever arranges the animal's travel. Do not assume the mover has sight of it or responsibility for it.
On a return leg, lodge the relief claim for the household goods before the vessel berths. GOV.UK publishes eligibility and tax belongs to the authority abroad.
No. Removal companies do not ship animals. Pet relocation is a separate specialist trade with its own paperwork and timescales.
Months for some destinations. Vaccinations, blood tests and quarantine periods have waiting times that cannot be shortened.
Almost no destination admits a living plant, and seeds, bulbs and soil face tight controls.
Fuel, gas cylinders, paint, thinners and aerosols, none of them under any circumstances.
Untreated timber or anything with bark can be restricted. Raise it at survey, not at the port.
Yes, all three share WD3. Say which village when you enquire.
Where Croxley Green enquiries usually look next.
Written and reviewed by Darren Benjamin, founder of International Removals Companies, working in international moving since 2010.
What a mover will and will not carry follows standard practice across the partner network. The rules on importing an animal, and the controls on plants, belong to whichever country you are moving to and are revised without warning. Every price here was quoted in the year to August 2026.
Check the current pet and plant rules for your destination well before booking.
Send the collection postcode, the destination, your date and a rough inventory, and mention pets early so they can be arranged separately.
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