Edinburgh movers who take the weight off moving day
One local removal company for house, flat and office moves across Edinburgh, with packing, storage and man and van help when you need it.
- Fully insured crews
- Fixed written quotes
- Based in Edinburgh
How your Edinburgh move works
Tell us about your move
Fill in the quote form with your postcodes, moving date and property details. For larger homes a short video call or a home visit helps us price accurately.
Get a fixed written quote
We confirm the crew, van size and price in writing before you commit. The figure you approve is the figure you pay, with no moving-day surprises.
We pack, load and move
Your crew arrives with blankets, straps and boxes, protects floors, doors and stairwells, and loads in an order that makes unloading quick at the other end.
Settle in at the other end
We place furniture and boxes in the rooms you name, reassemble anything we dismantled, and take used packing materials away with us if you would like.
Removal services for every kind of Edinburgh move
Whether it is a four-bedroom house in Corstorphine, a top-floor flat in Marchmont, a whole office on George Street or a piano that will not go round the bend in the stair, one of our removal services in Edinburgh will fit the job.
Full home moves across Edinburgh and beyond, from tenement flats to family houses. Planned room by room, with a crew sized to the property and a fixed price agreed before the day.
Desks, IT, files and fit-out moved out of hours or over a weekend, so your team closes on Friday and opens in the new space on Monday.
Shops, studios, hospitality kitchens and light industrial units. Phased where it helps, so the shutters stay up and trading carries on for as long as possible.
For the gap between a sale and a purchase, a renovation, or a downsize. We collect, store and redeliver when your new keys are finally ready.
A smaller crew and van for studio flats, student moves, single large items and marketplace collections around the city.
Packing services
Full or fragile-only packing with proper boxes, paper and bubble wrap, done the day before so moving day starts loaded rather than wrapped.
Uprights and grands moved with skates, straps and enough hands to do it safely, including down tenement stairs and around tight landings.
Moves from Edinburgh to Europe and further afield, with export packing, paperwork and shipping arranged as a single job.
Most moves mix more than one of these. A typical Edinburgh removal might pair fragile-only packing with the house move itself, or add a fortnight of storage while a purchase completes. Ask for whatever combination fits and we will price it as one job, on one quote, with one crew responsible from the first box to the last. Full details of every service live on our services page.
A removal company built around Edinburgh itself
Edinburgh Moving is a single, local removal company in Edinburgh, not a comparison site or a lead marketplace. When you request a quote, the people who reply are the people who turn up with the van.
That one fact changes how a move feels, and the city itself shapes the rest of how we work.
One crew, no middlemen
Nothing gets lost between a call centre and a subcontractor. The crew arriving on the day already knows about your stair, your parking situation and the awkward wardrobe in the back room.
Built for tenements and Georgian stairs
Removals in Edinburgh are rarely a straight lift from a driveway into a lorry. Tenements and colonies push the whole move through a shared stair door. The New Town adds high ceilings, tall furniture and basement flats reached by narrow external steps. The Old Town adds setts and closes a van cannot sit on for long.
Fixed quotes, asked properly
Instead of an hourly rate that quietly grows, we ask the right questions first: which floor, how many rooms, is there a lift, where can a van legally stand, and does your date fall in the end-of-month rush. You then get a fixed written quote, and it holds.
If you are comparing moving companies in Edinburgh, ask each one the same simple question: is the price I am given the price I will pay? You can read about each service on our removal services page, and our Edinburgh moving guide covers the practical side of the city: parking permits, packing order, and what to sort in the weeks before the keys change hands.
Plan your move week by week
Book and gather
Pack the quiet rooms
Kitchen, essentials, keys
Edinburgh areas we cover
Every Edinburgh neighbourhood has its own housing stock, its own parking rules and its own quirks. These are the areas we move people in and out of most weeks, and what we plan for in each.
Leith and The Shore
Dockside tenements, warehouse conversions and new-build flats. Loading bays help, but plenty of streets still need a bay suspension.
Stockbridge and Comely Bank
Georgian terraces, the Colonies and narrow mews lanes. One-way streets and tight corners often mean a smaller van and careful timing.
New Town and West End
UNESCO-listed terraces with basement and upper flats, tall sash windows and grand furniture. Bay suspensions are close to essential here.
Old Town
Closes, wynds and setts off the Royal Mile. Vehicle access is tight at the best of times and under real pressure in August.
Morningside
Victorian tenements and terraced family homes. Communal stairs and controlled parking are the two things we plan around most.
Bruntsfield and Marchmont
Classic tenement country with a high turnover of flats. June and September are the busy change-over months, so dates go early.
Newington and Southside
Shared flats near the university plus family homes towards Blacket. End-of-lease season keeps our crews here all summer.
Portobello and Joppa
Seaside terraces, colony houses and flats a short walk from the promenade. Parking is kinder, which makes for smoother moving days.
Corstorphine
Suburban semis and bungalows with driveways, which makes loading simpler, and quick access to the A8 and city bypass for onward journeys.
Trinity and Inverleith
Larger villas and family homes with gardens, longer carries from door to van, and furniture that has usually been in place for decades.
Gorgie, Dalry and Murrayfield
Dense tenement streets and stone villas near two stadiums. We check the fixture list before booking your slot.
Duddingston and Willowbrae
Village lanes beside Holyrood Park and inter-war terraces towards Portobello. Quieter roads, but narrow lanes call for a smaller van.
Not on the list? We cover the whole EH postcode area, and we run regular moves out of the city too: Edinburgh to Glasgow, Fife, the Borders and down into England, with the same crew loading and unloading so nothing is handed over midway. Tell us where you are headed and we will price it.
Why people choose our Edinburgh moving company
No invented star ratings and no borrowed statistics. Just three honest reasons customers come back to us and send their neighbours our way.
One crew, start to finish
We are a single removals firm, not a booking platform. The person who prices your move briefs the crew that carries it out, so nothing agreed on the phone goes missing on the day.
Fixed quotes, honestly priced
Your written quote covers the crew, the van, the mileage and the agreed extras. If the job changes, we requote before we lift a thing, never afterwards.
Built for stairs and old buildings
As movers in Edinburgh we spend half our working lives on tenement stairs. Stone steps, tight winders, shared doors and listed interiors are our normal, not a nasty surprise.
What we plan for before an Edinburgh moving day
Parking and bay suspensions
Much of central Edinburgh sits inside controlled parking zones where a removal van cannot simply wait outside your door. Where that applies, we advise applying to the City of Edinburgh Council for a parking bay suspension well ahead of moving day, and we plan the load around the space you secure.
Tenement stairs and access
Before we quote, we ask about your floor, the stair, the landing turns and the shared door. That decides crew size, carry order, and whether the sofa goes up in one piece or comes apart first. Stairwell and bannister protection goes up before the first box moves.
Key times on settlement day
Scottish purchases usually complete on the day of entry, with keys released only once the money settles, often not until around midday. We plan a morning load and an afternoon delivery so you are never paying a crew to stand outside a locked door.
August and event days
Festival road closures, rugby at Murrayfield and match days at Easter Road and Tynecastle all change routes and journey times. For moves on those dates we start earlier, plan alternative routes and build slack into the schedule rather than hoping for the best.
What customers say
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Get a quote for your move
Tell us where you are moving from and to, and we will come back with a fixed written quote, usually within one working day. No obligation, no pushy follow-up calls, and your details are only used to price your move. If you would rather talk it through first, say so in the message box and we will phone at a time that suits you.
Moving in Edinburgh: your questions answered
It depends on the size of the property, the floor and stair access at both ends, the distance between addresses, and whether you add packing or storage. A two-bedroom tenement flat with a third-floor stair is a very different job from a bungalow with a driveway, even over the same mileage. That is why we do not publish a flat price list: you get a fixed written quote for your exact move, and that figure holds.
Good removal companies in Edinburgh fill their diaries fastest at the end of each month, on Fridays, and through the summer flat change-over. If your date falls in one of those windows, a few weeks of notice gives you the best choice of day and crew. Midweek moves in the middle of the month can often be arranged at much shorter notice, so it is always worth asking.
If either address sits inside one of the city’s controlled parking zones, very likely yes. A suspended bay guarantees the van a legal space at your door, which keeps the carry short and the day on schedule. Applications go to the City of Edinburgh Council and need to be made in advance, so tell us your streets early and we will advise whether you need one at each end.
Yes. Top-floor walk-ups are routine work for us. We plan a larger crew for the stairs, protect the stairwell and bannisters, measure big pieces against the tightest turn before the day, and dismantle furniture where that is the safer route. It takes longer than a ground-floor move, and your quote reflects that honestly from the start.
Both. You can order boxes, tape, paper and bubble wrap from us and pack yourself, or have our crew pack the whole property the day before the move. Many customers choose fragile-only packing, where we handle the kitchen, glassware and pictures and they do the rest. See our packing service on the services page for details.
Yes. Storage is the usual answer when a sale and a purchase refuse to line up on the same date. We collect, store and redeliver when your new keys are ready, whether that is a weekend or several months later. It also works well during renovations, or when you are downsizing and want time to decide what stays.
All of them. Leith, Stockbridge, the New Town and Old Town, Morningside, Bruntsfield, Marchmont, Newington, Portobello, Corstorphine, Trinity and everywhere else in the EH postcode area. We also run regular moves out of the city across Scotland and the rest of the UK, so an Edinburgh to Glasgow or Edinburgh to London move is no problem.
It is busier, not impossible. Central roads carry far more traffic, some close entirely, and parking pressure rises everywhere near a venue. For August moves we recommend an earlier start, flexible routing and, in the centre, a properly arranged parking suspension. If your dates are flexible, the weeks either side of the Festival are calmer, but if they are not, we plan around it.
Yes, within sensible limits. Upright pianos, wardrobes, stone tables and American-style fridges are all regular jobs, moved with skates, straps and enough people to do it safely. Tell us about anything unusually heavy or valuable when you ask for a quote, and flag any stair it has to travel down, so we send the right kit and crew.
Yes. Our crews work with goods-in-transit and public liability cover in place, and we are happy to show the certificates before you book. Cover details, and anything you should know about items you pack yourself, are confirmed in writing along with your quote so there are no grey areas on the day.
Ready to get your Edinburgh move booked?
Send us your dates and both addresses, and we will come back with a fixed written quote, usually within one working day. No obligation, no pushy follow-up calls, and one crew responsible from the first box to the last.