We are a removal company in Putney that packs up SW15 homes for the moves its households are actually making — Paris, Milan, the Italian lakes, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Cascais, Porto. Considered survey. Written quote that holds. Same crew door to door.
Moves from Putney tend to fall into rhythms we know well. Pre-school families heading to Provence or the Italian lakes for the lifestyle. Banking professionals moving to Milan, Madrid or Paris for the next role. Pre-retirement architects taking the Florence move that has been ten years in the making. We have handled the school-term timing, the property-completion delays, the customs paperwork — many times.
What this site is not is a one-size-fits-all London removals firm. We are a SW-London-riverside specialist, and we are honest about which sister sites in the network are better-shaped for moves outside our catchment. If your move is to the Costa del Sol our colleagues at Removals Manchester run the dedicated specialism; if it is to rural Tuscany or the Dordogne, Removals Somerset and Removals Sevenoaks know that territory.
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, a tight turn at the foot of the stair and front gardens that lengthen the carry. We measure the turns at survey and pad the banisters before the first wardrobe comes down.
Edwardian and inter-war mansion blocks often have a small lift or none, a porter who wants notice and a shared stairwell that has to stay clear for neighbours. We agree the timing with the managing agent and protect the common parts before anything moves.
The newer developments around Putney Wharf run on booked loading bays, service lifts and concierge sign-in. We book the bay and the lift in your name and work to 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 committing a lorry there.
The larger houses around the heath bring long drives and gravel that a loaded trolley dislikes. The post-war blocks of Roehampton bring lifts that need booking and long corridors to the door. Two different jobs, and we size the crew and the kit for each at survey.
Most of SW15 sits inside Wandsworth Council controlled parking zones, so a removal lorry needs a bay suspension applied for well ahead of move day. We make the application and deal with the council over the signage — you do not have to chase a permit yourself.
The A3 around Tibbet’s Corner, the South Circular along Upper Richmond Road and the busier stretches of the High Street are places a lorry cannot simply pull up. If your home fronts one of them, we load from the nearest side street and stage the carry instead of risking a stop where the rules forbid it.
Ready to plan the other end? Read how our international removals from Putney run, or book a 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
France, Italy, Spain, Portugal. Each with a Putney-specific framing — not the generic country page, the cosmopolitan-family-stage one that fits the SW London household.
Paris · Provence · Côte d'Azur
See the France brief
Milan · the lakes · Florence and Rome
See the Italy brief
Madrid · Barcelona · the Balearics
See the Spain brief
Lisbon · Cascais · Porto
See the Portugal brief
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
Where the destination is the Algarve coast, Mallorca, or Menorca, we operate via Bilbao or direct shipping into Lisbon and Palma.
Career move for both of us with timing that did not allow much margin. The survey conversation cut through what we needed to think about versus what we did not — and the written quote held through the property completion delay our Paris side ran into. The crew that loaded at Putney was the crew that unloaded at the 7e. That is the practical thing that mattered.
Banking professional, partner in tech, no children yet
Putney, SW15 → Paris, 7e arrondissement
We wanted the lakes move before the family arrived and the geography settled in. The Putney team understood the practical reality — Cernobbio village access is narrow, the destination property is mid-renovation, the customs paperwork needed codice fiscale in hand. Considered survey, paced delivery, no surprises. The shuttle vehicle on the destination side was planned and not improvised.
Pre-children couple, design and academia
West Putney → Lake Como — Cernobbio
The school-term timing was the gating constraint. We needed everything done before St. Julian's onboarding in late August. The Putney team worked the load-out around our school calendar, depot-stored the consignment when our Portuguese closing slipped, and delivered into Cascais in time. The children's rooms were unpacked first, which sounds small but matters when you have eight-year-olds adjusting to a new country.
Tech professional, family with two school-age children
Barnes, SW13 → Cascais — Estoril Coast
Milan central addresses are a particular kind of complicated — fifth-floor walkup, narrow staircase, twentieth-century furniture that the previous removals firm we used twenty years ago managed to damage. The Putney crew briefed the destination team properly, packed the cabinet pieces in protective crating, and the unload was paced. Considered, professional, no salesmanship. The way we would expect.
Fund-management professional, partner in publishing
Putney Heath → Milan — Brera
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 the items for six months and are establishing residence at the destination. 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 — the riverside ones along the Embankment, the Putney Hill side, the Putney Heath edge — are typically three to five floors without lifts and 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.