Coverage
Fulham is small enough to walk across and varied enough that no two moves in it are alike. This is the district as a moving crew sees it — not as an estate agent describes it.
SW6 covers roughly the ground between the Lillie Road in the north, the Thames in the south and west, and the Chelsea border along the Fulham Road. It is a single postcode district that behaves like six different ones, because the housing stock changes every few streets and the parking rules change with it.
We work all of it. What follows is what we actually know about each part, which is mostly about doors, stairs and where a van can stand.
Peterborough Road, Studdridge Street, the Sulivan grid, Hazlebury Road.
Wide stucco-fronted terraces and larger family houses, a fair number extended at the back into a full-width kitchen. Front gardens give you somewhere to stage, which helps enormously.
The District line station sits on the corner of the green. Residents bays fill by mid-morning, so an early start or a suspension is usually the answer.
Vanston Place, Jerdan Place, Farm Lane, the streets behind the shopping centre.
The densest part of SW6. Mansion blocks, flats above retail, and purpose-built blocks around the station. Loading is tighter here than anywhere else in the district.
Stamford Bridge is a two-minute walk. On match days roads close and traffic on the Fulham Road stops being traffic. We plan around the fixture list rather than hoping.
Townmead Road, Imperial Wharf, Michael Road, the streets down towards Wandsworth Bridge.
The old gasworks end, rebuilt. Riverside apartment blocks with concierge desks and booked goods lifts sit alongside surviving Victorian terraces on the older streets.
Loading bays here have height restrictions, so the vehicle gets chosen to fit under them. Wandsworth Bridge Road is the artery and it queues.
Ranelagh Gardens, Hurlingham Road, Broomhouse Lane, Carnwath Road towards the river.
Large red-brick mansion blocks, some with listed frontages, and substantial houses backing onto the club grounds. The furniture in these buildings runs big.
Several blocks have a side or rear service entrance that is the only sensible route in. Finding out which, and who holds the key, is a survey job.
The Fulham Palace Road corridor, Distillery Wharf, the blocks on the W6 border.
Newer riverside apartments where the building manager runs the move as much as you do. Goods lift booked into a slot, method statement requested, insurance certificate filed in advance.
Technically this edge shades into W6 and Hammersmith. We pick up here happily; the Hammersmith side proper is another firm's patch.
North End Road, Lillie Road, Dawes Road, Effie Road.
The most mixed part of the district. Victorian conversions above shops, walk-up flats, house shares and smaller terraces. A lot of our man-and-van work starts here.
The North End Road market means loading restrictions at certain hours and a street that is genuinely busy. Timing matters more than vehicle size.
Nearly all of Fulham is controlled parking, and the practical consequence is that you cannot assume a space outside. Where a move genuinely needs one, we apply to Hammersmith & Fulham for a bay suspension and put cones out ahead of time. Where it does not, we pick a loading point that works and accept a short carry.
Which of those applies is a judgement made at survey, and it is one of the more useful things a survey produces. Getting it wrong costs an hour of crew time on the morning, and that hour is not free for anybody.
For a local move it barely matters. For anything longer it does. West out of the district picks up the A4 and then the M4 at Chiswick. South over Wandsworth Bridge reaches the A3 and the M25 anticlockwise. North through Hammersmith joins the A40. And for anything heading to Europe, the run is south-east across London to the M20 and down to Folkestone — which is why European moves from SW6 tend to start early.
We do not pretend Fulham exists in isolation. Half our moves have one end outside it. These are the neighbours we work across most often.
Straight answers
SW6 is the core, and that is where most of our work is. We also cover the SW6 side of the SW10 border towards Chelsea, the Fulham Palace Road edge where SW6 runs into W6, and the streets down towards the river at Sands End.
Access affects the quote, but not as a surcharge bolted on afterwards. If a street means a shuttle from the van to the door, or a stairs-only building, that is more crew time and it is priced into the figure you are given up front. You will not find it added later.
Yes, and a lot of our work is exactly that — SW6 out to Wandsworth, Richmond, Clapham, or north over the river. The Fulham end is the one that needs the planning; the other end usually just needs a parking space and a key.
We do those too. Long-distance moves out of SW6 to the south coast, the West Country, the Midlands and further north are the same process with a longer drive in the middle and, for the bigger ones, sometimes an overnight.
Half of quoting a Fulham move accurately is knowing what that particular road does at nine in the morning.