We are a removal company in Putney handling house removals from SW15 homes to Paris, Milan, the Italian lakes, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Cascais and Porto. We survey first, put the quote in writing and stick to it, and the same crew takes your things from door to door.
The four corridors
Most moves out of Putney fit a familiar shape. A young family leaving for Provence or the Italian lakes. A banker or engineer taking a new role in Milan, Madrid or Paris. An architect finally making the Florence move they have talked about for years. The school dates, the property completion that slips, the customs forms: these are the parts we plan for.
We are not a London-wide firm with a SW15 page. The things that make a Putney collection hard are local. Shared stairs in a mansion block on Lower Richmond Road. A Victorian terrace with a narrow stair and a front garden to cross. A Wandsworth parking suspension that has to be in place before the lorry arrives. Traffic backing up from Putney Bridge along the High Street. We deal with all of them at survey, so move day goes to plan.
Where are you heading? We run removals from Putney to France, removals from Putney to Italy, removals from Putney to Spain and removals from Putney to Portugal. Every route is set out on our international removals from Putney page.
Every move we run abroad begins with a Putney collection, and that is where most of the planning goes. The questions do not change: where the lorry stands, how long the carry is, and what the building allows.
The Victorian and Edwardian terraces off Lower Richmond Road — Felsham Road, Lacy Road, Hotham Road and the streets around them — have narrow halls, steep, narrow stairs with a tight turn at the bottom, and front gardens that make the carry longer. We measure the turns at survey and pad the banisters before the first wardrobe comes down.
The red-brick mansion blocks up Putney Hill and West Hill, and the ones on Lower Richmond Road near the river, often have a small lift or none at all. Many have a porter or managing agent who wants notice, and a shared stairwell that has to stay clear for neighbours. We agree the timing with the building and protect the common parts before anything moves.
The newer blocks around Putney Wharf work with booked loading bays, service lifts and concierge sign-in. We book the bay and the lift in your name and follow the building’s move rules. On the Embankment itself, the road by the boathouses can flood on the biggest spring tides, so we check the tide table before sending a lorry there.
The larger houses around the heath come with long drives and gravel, which a loaded trolley does not like. The post-war blocks in Roehampton need lifts booked and have long corridors to the front door. They are two very different jobs, and we size the crew and the kit for each at survey.
Most of SW15 is in Wandsworth Council controlled parking zones, where the kerb belongs to permit holders. A removal lorry needs bays suspended, and the council wants notice before it puts the signs up. We apply as soon as your collection date is fixed and deal with the council about the signs, so you do not have to chase a permit.
Traffic heading for Putney Bridge backs up the High Street. Upper Richmond Road is part of the South Circular, and the A3 runs past Tibbet’s Corner. A lorry cannot just pull up on any of them. Homes near Putney station on the High Street, or by East Putney station just off Upper Richmond Road, are loaded from the nearest side street, with the carry planned in stages.
Ready to plan the other end? Read how our international removals from Putney work, see the routes for removals from Putney to France and removals from Putney to Italy, or book a free survey at your Putney home.
SW London moves rarely happen in isolation — they are folded into a working life, a family stage, a school calendar, a corporate role. We work with the rhythm the household is actually in.
Couples in their thirties — partnered, often with a baby or pre-school-age child — making the lifestyle move before the family geography settles into a school catchment. Provence, the Italian lakes, Cascais, Mallorca-interior. Considered timing, often hand-in-hand with one partner moving to partial-remote work.
Who this is
How we work
The career-driven mid-life move. Paris, Milan, Madrid, Lisbon for the role; central-city destination property typically with the corporate side handling the housing and visa; our side runs the household.
Who this is
How we work
Family with primary or early-secondary children making the move before secondary commitments lock in. The school admissions calendar is the gating constraint. Cascais (international school), Milan and Madrid (international schools), Paris and Lisbon (international or bilingual schools). Considered, paced, well-planned.
Who this is
How we work
Late-career professional household making the move while one or both partners are still working — partially or fully remote, often with the destination property bought over years of holidaying and now becoming the primary address. Florence, Rome, the Italian lakes, the Côte d'Azur, the Portuguese coast, central Madrid.
Who this is
How we work
Four routes from SW15, and each one has its own page: where the moves usually go, what the customs side needs, and what to expect at the far end.
Paris · Provence · Côte d'Azur
Removals from Putney to France
Milan · the lakes · Florence and Rome
Removals from Putney to Italy
Madrid · Barcelona · the Balearics
Removals from Putney to Spain
Lisbon · Cascais · Porto
Removals from Putney to Portugal
The vehicle that loads at your Putney property is the vehicle that arrives at the destination address. The crew that packs the inventory is the crew that unloads it. No third-party hand-offs at the Channel or at a continental depot. Less handling, less risk, clearer accountability — the practical assurance that matters when the consignment includes high-value items, artwork, or instruments.
Eurotunnel via Folkestone
The standard road-freight crossing. Most consignments — fast clearance, predictable timing.
Dover–Calais ferry
Alternative for the same overland routes through France and onward to Italy or Spain.
Sea route to Portugal and the Balearics
For Mallorca and Menorca, the last part of the journey is by sea. For Portugal, the route is planned with you at survey, by road or partly by sea.
These are illustrative scenarios we have written to show how different moves from SW15 are planned. They are not quotes from named customers.
Example move
Both jobs are moving and the start date is fixed by the employer. The survey separates what goes to Paris from what goes into storage or to family. If the Paris completion slips, the load waits in our depot under the same written quote. The crew who load in Putney are the crew who carry it up the Paris stairs.
Example move
The Italian house is still having work done and the village lanes are too narrow for the lorry. The plan covers a smaller shuttle van for the last stretch and a delivery split in two, so the finished rooms are furnished first. Before the load leaves SW15 we ask for the codice fiscale.
Example move
The new school start date decides everything else. We plan the Barnes collection backwards from it and hold the load in storage if the Portuguese purchase runs late. At the other end the children's rooms are unpacked first, because that is the part of the move they notice.
Example move
The Milan flat is a walk-up with a tight stairwell. The household has mid-century cabinet pieces that the owners worry about. The survey lists those pieces one by one and plans crating for them. The Milan stair goes into the crew brief, so the unload is sequenced before anyone arrives.
A short list of what comes up most. The full set lives on the FAQ page.
All questionsPutney and SW-London-riverside households — SW15, SW18, SW13, SW6-edge, SW19-edge — moving to France, Italy, Spain, or Portugal. The customer base skews professional and family-stage: banking and tech couples making career-driven moves, pre-children couples making lifestyle moves to Provence or the Italian lakes, school-age families relocating to European cosmopolitan cities, pre-retirement professionals still working. Considered moves, not impulsive. Not budget-positioned, not premium-positioned — practical and considered.
It is the most common timing constraint we work with. Pre-school families targeting maternelle / Italian / Spanish / Portuguese school-year starts; school-age families targeting international-school admissions calendars (St. Julian's in Cascais, the British International schools in Milan and Madrid, the international-school networks in Paris and Lisbon). Survey conversation includes the school-term anchor and the written quote is structured around it.
Procedural rather than dramatic. Household goods cross duty-free under Transfer-of-Residence (ToR) relief on all four corridors, provided you have owned and used the items for the qualifying period and are setting up your main home at the destination. We confirm the current rules for your route at survey. We file the UK-side ToR1 with HMRC and the destination-country declaration (French Douanes, Italian Agenzia delle Dogane, Spanish Aduana, Portuguese Autoridade Tributária). You provide the residency-evidence pack.
Standard work for the catchment. Putney Victorian and Edwardian mansion flats — on Lower Richmond Road near the river, up Putney Hill, along the Putney Heath edge — often have several floors of shared stairs and either no lift or a very small one. The survey covers the practical implications (crew sizing, lorry positioning, parking suspension if needed, the move-day sequence). Same applies for the Wandsworth Victorian terraces and the Barnes village period stock. We have worked the catchment enough that the access is conversation rather than improvisation.
The vehicle that loads at your Putney property is the vehicle that arrives at your destination address. The crew that packs the inventory is the crew that unloads it. We do not hand off the consignment to a third-party at the Channel or at a continental depot. Less handling, less risk, clearer accountability. For high-value items and for moves where the household is large enough to fill a lorry, this is the practical assurance that matters.
Survey is free. Written quote follows by email. The quote holds.