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Professional Packing Services across Dorset, Somerset & Wiltshire
Marley Moves runs full and part packing services across Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, with proper materials and a methodical room-by-room approach. We use proper materials throughout: acid-free tissue for crockery and ornaments, double-walled boxes labelled by room, bubble wrap and foam for art and electronics, double-walled crates for the most fragile pieces, blanket-wrap on every item of furniture. Most customers add part packing for the kitchen and breakables (the bits where things go wrong if you do it yourself in the last 48 hours) and self-pack the books, clothes and bedding. Full packing, entire house, is offered for time-pressed moves, families who simply don't have the bandwidth, and properties with serious antique or art content. Pricing depends on volume: typically £100 – £700 added to a standard removal. Quoted in writing within two working hours.
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What's included
Acid-free tissue + bubble wrap
Acid-free white tissue for crockery, ornaments and ceramics. Bubble wrap and foam for picture frames, mirrors, electronics. Industrial-grade, not the corner-shop version.
Double-walled boxes, labelled
Small for books and breakables, medium for general contents, large for bedding and soft furnishings. Every box labelled with room and contents on the side, so unpacking goes to the right rooms first time.
Double-walled crates for the fragile
Genuinely valuable or breakable pieces (collections, lamps, glassware, ceramics worth keeping) go into double-walled bespoke crates with internal padding. Used wherever the standard box would be a risk.
Blanket-wrap on furniture
Sofas, dressers, beds, dining tables, every item of furniture gets wrapped in moving blankets and secured with stretch film for the journey. Standard, not an upgrade.
Same crew that does the removal
The people who pack are the people who load and unload. No handover risk, no "sorry, we don't have notes on that", they remember what they wrapped and where it goes.
Insurance covers the pack
£50k goods-in-transit cover per load includes packed contents under our materials. Higher cover available on request for art, antiques, collections over £50k.
Near you
Packing services near me, what's in our radius
When customers search "packing services near me" they usually want full-pack-the-day-before-you-move help on a tight timeline. We run packing across the same 25-mile radius as our removals (Shaftesbury yard plus Henstridge yard), so the sixteen towns inside that band, including Shaftesbury, Sherborne, Wincanton, Yeovil, Salisbury, Frome and Bath, are all on the standard packing schedule. Bigger jobs (full packs of 4-bed plus homes) get a two-day window so nothing's rushed. Smaller packs (kitchen-and-fragile only) typically run as a single-day visit on the day before move day. Same in-house crew that loads your van the next morning, so there's no handover risk between two suppliers.
Honest scope
What our packers will and won't do
It saves everyone a row on move day if we're clear about scope upfront. Our packing crews will: pack every box for you (kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms, garage, attic, the lot), wrap furniture in moving blankets, use acid-free tissue for ceramics and double-walled crates for fragile glass, label every box by room and contents, take down freestanding shelving and reassemble it at the new place, and disconnect plug-in appliances. They won't: take down curtain poles screwed into the wall, deep-clean the property after packing, disconnect hard-wired appliances (gas hobs, hard-wired ovens, integrated dishwashers, that's a plumber or electrician's job), pack live plants or paint cans (insurance won't cover them in transit), or pack things into someone else's already-half-packed boxes (we end up double-packing or leaving a gap in the inventory either way). If you'd like us to handle the curtain poles or the cleaning as a separate add-on, we'll quote those alongside the pack rather than bundle them.
Who it's for
- Time-pressed moves (sale completion week, work commitments, relocations on a deadline)
- Families with young kids, pack day is impossible to manage solo
- Period properties with significant antique furniture and breakables
- Art and collectibles, proper crating and tissue beats DIY every time
- Anyone who'd rather pay £200 than spend 3 evenings boxing the kitchen
- Move-day-only packs where you've boxed the easy stuff and want help with the rest
Free fixed quote
Like the sound of us?
We send most quotes back within two working hours, fixed in writing before move day, with the insurance certificate in the same email. Pick whichever bit fits your pace.
How it works
From quote to settle-in
- 01
Survey + quote
We see the volume during your removal survey and quote the pack alongside it. Full or part, your call.
- 02
Materials drop
If you're self-packing some of it, we drop boxes / tissue / wrap a week ahead. No charge for the delivery.
- 03
Packing day
Crew arrives 1-2 days before move (3-bed-plus) or morning-of for smaller homes. Methodical, room-by-room, labelled as we go.
- 04
Unpack option
Want us to unpack too? Add it on, kitchen + bedrooms typical, full unpack on request. Walk into a properly set-up home, not a wall of cardboard.
Pricing
Indicative prices
Final price is always confirmed by written quote within two working hours, with no surprises.
Box pack delivered a week ahead. You pack, we collect.
- Boxes, tissue, bubble, tape
- Material-cost pricing, no markup
- Delivered free in the area
- Best for confident DIY packers
We do the bits where DIY goes wrong, you do the rest.
- Kitchen, glassware, china
- Art and picture frames
- Most popular option
- Quoted alongside your removal
Entire house packed by us. Often paired with full unpack at the other end.
- Time-saver for busy moves
- Antique and collection-aware
- Full insurance cover
- Unpacking add-on available
Frequent questions
What people ask about Packing
from £200 for a 1-bed flat full pack, from £200 for a 3-bed home, from £400 for a 4-5 bed family home. Part packing (kitchen + breakables only, you handle the rest) is typically around half those numbers. Quoted alongside your removal, no double-trip or set-up fees because we're already on site for the move.
Full packing makes sense if you're time-pressed (sale completion week, work commitments), have a lot of fragile contents (collections, art, antiques), or simply want it done properly without the box-cutter stress. Part packing, typically the kitchen and breakables, is what most of our customers add on; the rest of the house is yours to box up at your own pace using materials we drop off.
Acid-free white tissue paper for crockery and ornaments, double-walled cardboard boxes (small for books and breakables, medium for general, large for bedding), bubble wrap and foam for picture frames and electronics, blanket-wrap for furniture, double-walled crates for the most fragile pieces, ratchet straps and shrink film for the journey. All boxes labelled by room.
Yes, collections are routine work for us. Each piece individually wrapped in acid-free tissue, packed standing where possible, framed art double-faced with foam corners and bubble-wrapped flat in custom cardboard sleeves, large framed pieces crated. We carry £50,000 goods-in-transit cover per load and can extend it for higher-value contents on request.
Both options. For a 1-2 bed full pack we usually do it the morning of the move, an hour or two before loading. For 3-bed-plus homes we'll often pack 1-2 days ahead so move day itself is just loading the labelled boxes, much smoother. We work around your schedule; the survey conversation tells us what's right.
Yes, unpacking is offered as an add-on. Most customers want the kitchen and the bedrooms unpacked (essentials in the right cupboards, beds made up that day) and self-unpack the rest at their pace. Full unpacking adds typically from £200 to a standard removal but means you walk into a properly set-up home rather than a wall of boxes.
Yes, we'll supply boxes, tissue paper, bubble wrap and tape at material-cost prices, dropped off a week before move day. Most customers self-pack the books, clothes and non-fragile items and ask us to do the kitchen + breakables. Best of both worlds, lowest total cost.
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Like the sound of us?
We send most quotes back within two working hours, fixed in writing before move day, with the insurance certificate in the same email. Pick whichever bit fits your pace.