What we do, and which of it you probably need

We can pack the whole house, pack the half nobody enjoys — kitchen, glass, pictures, the cabinet with all the awkward shapes in it — or simply drop materials off a week early so you can work through it at your own pace.

The materials matter more here than in a lot of places. Purpose-made cases for pictures and mirrors, because a gilt frame under a blanket in a stacked van is a frame with a corner missing. Tissue and bubble for glass and ceramics. Wardrobe cartons that keep hanging clothes on their hangers, which sounds like a luxury until you have tried to iron a household.

If you are packing yourself, two things: fill boxes to the top so they do not crush, and keep them liftable. Half-full boxes collapse under the ones above them and overloaded ones split, and both of those happen in the van rather than in your hallway.

Greenwich has a lot of small commercial tenants — studios around the creative quarter, consultancies on the Peninsula, independent shops in the town centre. Their moves have a different priority from a household one: nobody minds if a sofa arrives late, everybody minds if the business cannot open.

So these run out of hours or across a weekend wherever possible, with kit crated and labelled by desk or by bay, a numbered plan agreed before the day, and whatever paperwork the building manager needs sent in advance. Anything you are not taking can go into storage or be moved on wherever you want it.

Larger corporate relocations with phased floors and IT decommissioning are a specialist job and we will say so if yours is one. What we do well is the small-to-middling commercial move where the person organising it also has a day job.

A first flat in Greenwich with a bed, a desk and a dozen boxes gets quoted properly rather than treated as a favour, because it still has a staircase and a parking problem attached.

Family moves are the other end of the same service — more furniture, a loft that has quietly filled up, and a date that has to work around school and around a chain nobody controls. We plan around the dates you cannot move rather than the ones that would suit us.

Downsizing sits between the two and is usually the hardest emotionally rather than logistically. If a proportion of the house has nowhere to go yet, that is what storage is for, and there is no rush to decide.