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International removals from Radlett stop at the gate. The town sits on WD7 with a good deal of large detached housing set behind gateposts and mature hedges. The drives beyond them are generous. The entrances are frequently not, and that gap is the thing that catches a removal crew out.
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For international movers, a gateway built for a carriage or specified for a family car is often under three metres. A box vehicle needs more than that with mirrors folded, and gateposts are brick, which means they do not give and they cost money when struck.
Measuring takes a tape and a minute. Give the moving company the width between the posts and the height under any arch or overhanging branch, and the right vehicle turns up.
For the moving company the drive can be forty metres of tarmac and it makes no difference if the vehicle cannot get past the posts. That opening is the constraint, and it is the one measurement worth taking before you speak to anybody.
Add the height. Mature hedges and overhanging branches reduce the usable opening in a way that is invisible from the road, and a vehicle that fits the width can still be stopped by a limb.
Where the gateway will not take a large international removals vehicle, the crew works from the road and carries the distance, or brings a smaller vehicle in and shuttles. Both are ordinary and both need pricing in advance.
A long carry is hours, and hours are crew. A moving company that knows the gateway width before the day sends the right number of people; one that does not sends too few and revises the bill.
Volume and destination carry the figure. Locally it is the gateway that decides whether labour is added on top.
Priced by volume
around £960 to £1,900
Shared container
around £1,750 to £3,350
Sole use container
around £4,750 to £6,850
Sole use container
around £7,450 to £11,700
A quote that has not asked about the gateway has not looked at the job. The county page holds the wider bands.
Planning price ranges reviewed August 2026. Next review August 2027.
Borehamwood, St Albans and Watford are all close, so the choice of international movers here is wide.
The question that sorts them is simple. Did they ask how wide the gateway is. A firm that asks has been stopped by a gatepost before and does not intend to be again.
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Put the gateway width on the file in writing. It has nothing to do with customs and it decides which vehicle is dispatched, which is the difference between a working morning and a wasted one.
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Because it is the narrowest point. A generous drive is irrelevant if the vehicle cannot get between the posts.
Post to post at the narrowest point, and the height under any arch, hedge or overhanging branch.
The crew works from the road and carries, or a smaller vehicle shuttles in. Both need pricing before the day.
They are brick and they do not give. It is exactly why an experienced firm asks the question first.
It is measured in hours and hours are crew. Knowing the distance in advance is what gets the right number of people sent.
Yes, Shenley shares WD7 and Aldenham is close. Give the gateway width when you enquire.
Where Radlett enquiries usually look next.
Written and reviewed by Darren Benjamin, founder of International Removals Companies, working in international moving since 2010.
What is written here about gateways comes from collections network partners have made across the village. Every entrance differs and is measured on site. Prices quoted date from the year to August 2026.
Hedge growth changes an opening between one season and the next.
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