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Know What You’re Moving Old buildings don’t phase us at Van Man in the slightest. Whether it’s a cottage in the Cotswolds or a graded property in a town, we love the challenge that the older buildings inevitably present. We’re big fans of architecture and it’s always a pleasure to be invited into period properties[…]

Commercial Logistics Here at Van Man Northampton we don’t mind whether we convey industrial payloads, domestic cargos, wholesale merchandise or retail wares. Though the mainstay of our business tends to be domestic removals, we’re just as happy having fork lifts load us up with pallets for nationwide transportation as we are with collecting a couple[…]

Assembling Flat Pack When you ask us to assemble your flat pack furniture we’re in our element. That’s because we’ve been doing it for decades and we’re pretty good at it. We’re very familiar with all the self-assemble systems out there and if we come across something we’ve never done before we’re even more enthused[…]

Last Minute Request We received a call from Dominique at lunchtime on a Saturday enquiring if we were available to assist with a last minute decision to move some of her mum’s things into a local storage facility. It so happened that two of our team were free to jump in and so off we[…]

Your Belongings In A Clean Environment If I entrusted my own goods to someone else, I’d expect them to be taken care of, kept clean and treated with respect and that’s exactly how we go about our daily work here at Van Man Northampton. I wouldn’t want my mattress dragged across the floor of a[…]

Next Home Outlet at Riverside Retail Park Today’s little adventure was a visit to Riverside Retail Park to collect an ex-display item from the Next store. Vincent called and asked if taking furniture apart and reassembling it was something we do and we were happy to confirm that, not only is it something we can[…]

UoN Halls Relocation Alison called us requesting a move from the University of Northampton’s Waterside Campus across the way to their St John’s Halls of Residence. No distance at all on this particular job although, it still took an hour and a half as the Waterside Campus can be a difficult location for removals due[…]

We Love Student Moves! Here at Van Man Northampton we thrive on providing support to students at times of great stress such as moving away from home for the first time when moving into Student Accommodation, such as Halls, is standard procedure. Moving into Halls of Residence is such a time and is invariably going[…]

We Move Phone Boxes Now Too! When the Elizabeth School Of London asked us to head up to their facility in the trendy quarter of Birmingham to move a red phone box down to their Northampton site, Mick and I almost fell off our chairs laughing because we remember the original GPO ones that you’d[…]

North Acton The London Universities are continuously building new Halls of Residence all over the city and these are springing up in some unexpected places. The one thing they always do though is ensure that students have good access to transport services. UAL’s new development in West London is no different where they’ve built a[…]