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Professional Packing Services across Dorset, Somerset & Wiltshire
Marley Moves provides full and part packing services across Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, using a methodical room-by-room approach and appropriate protective materials. Crockery and ornaments are wrapped carefully, boxes are labelled by room, and furniture is protected for the journey. Many customers ask us to handle the kitchen, glassware and other fragile items while they pack books, clothes and bedding themselves. Full packing is available when time is tight or when a home contains a larger volume of fragile, antique or specialist items. Packing is quoted clearly as part of, or alongside, the removal.
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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.
Belongings liability cover on packed items
Our liability for your belongings is limited to £25,000 per vehicle as standard, with £50,000 per vehicle as an optional paid upgrade agreed in writing before the move date, subject to our terms. Items in boxes you pack yourself are generally excluded from breakage cover, but this exclusion does not apply where damage is caused by our negligence or breach of contract. The fragile-item exception and applicable limits are explained in section 16; your statutory rights are unaffected. Any single item worth more than £5,000 must be declared in advance. Where the total value is £25,000 or more, or you choose the higher limit, every item worth more than £500 must also be listed with its value on your signed quote, as explained in section 12.
Near you
Packing services near me, what's in our radius
When customers search "packing services near me" they usually want help on a tight timeline. We run packing across the same area as our removals, from our Shaftesbury, SP7 yard, so our regular towns, including Shaftesbury, Sherborne, Wincanton, Yeovil, Salisbury, Frome and Bath, are all on the standard packing schedule. For 1-2 bed homes we usually pack the morning of the move. For 3-bed-plus homes we often pack 1-2 days ahead, so nothing's rushed. Same in-house crew that loads your van, 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.
Packing, unpacking & free boxes
Full packing, fragile-only packing, unpacking and free removal boxes
You can book our moving-related packing service in three ways depending on how much of the prep you want off your plate. Full packing usually takes place the day before moving day: our crew brings double-walled boxes, acid-free white tissue, bubble wrap, tape and wardrobe cartons, packs every room systematically and labels each box by room and contents. Fragile-only (part) packing focuses on the kitchen, china, glassware, pictures, mirrors and ornaments while you pack clothes, books and linens yourself. At the new home we can also unpack onto flat surfaces and take away the used cartons and wrapping paper.
If you prefer to pack yourself, we still supply free removal boxes and tape once you have accepted your removal quote and paid your booking payment (up to forty removal boxes and two rolls of tape, subject to availability), delivered ahead of move day so you can pack at your own pace.
Who it's for
- Time-pressed moves during completion week, work commitments or relocations
- Families who want practical help reducing the packing workload
- Period properties with antique furniture and fragile contents
- Art, collections and other items that need more careful packing
- Anyone who would rather have the kitchen and breakables professionally packed
- Part-packed homes where the remaining fragile or awkward items need finishing
Free fixed quote
Like the sound of us?
Tell us where you are moving from and to. We fix the price in writing before move day, after a quick phone call, video walk-through or free in-person survey.
How it works
From quote to settle-in
- 01
Quote with your move
We work out the volume when we quote your removal, in person, by phone or on a video call, and price 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
For 1-2 bed homes the crew usually packs the morning of the move; for 3-bed-plus we often pack 1-2 days ahead. 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.
Frequent questions
What people ask about Packing
Packing is priced on volume: a 1-bed flat full pack, a 3-bed home and a 4-5 bed family home each get their own figure, set out in writing. Part packing (kitchen + breakables only, you handle the rest) is quoted the same way, on what we pack. 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 liability cover for your belongings of up to £25,000 per vehicle as standard, or £50,000 per vehicle as an optional paid upgrade agreed in writing before the move date for higher-value contents.
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 and agree what's right when we quote.
Yes. Unpacking is available as an add-on and can be tailored to what you need, from selected rooms such as the kitchen and bedrooms through to a fuller unpack. The scope and price are agreed in writing before the move, so you can choose how much you want the crew to handle and what you would rather unpack yourself.
Yes, we'll supply boxes, tissue paper, bubble wrap and tape, 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, so the fragile things get packed properly and you keep control of the rest.
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