Into Europe
Not every SW6 move ends at the M25. We take households out of Fulham to France, Spain, Italy and Portugal — packed here, loaded here, and delivered at the other end by the firm that collected it.
There is a version of European removals where your things are collected by one firm, tipped into a warehouse, re-handled by a second, and delivered by a third who has never spoken to anyone involved. It is cheap and it is where most of the horror stories come from. We do not run moves that way.
A Fulham international move is loaded at your address in SW6 — the mansion flat off Hurlingham Road, the terrace near Parsons Green — and that consignment stays together. Down to Folkestone, through the tunnel, and on to the destination. The customs paperwork is prepared before the vehicle moves, not improvised at the border.
Four countries, each with its own page covering the route, the paperwork and what actually happens at the other end. These are the destinations we run properly rather than the full list of places a lorry could theoretically reach.
The shortest of the four and the one most Fulham households do first — a second home in the Dordogne, a posting to Paris, a permanent move to the south-west.
Île-de-France · Normandy · Brittany · Nouvelle-Aquitaine · Occitanie · Provence
The Fulham–France routeThe longest-standing British route in Europe, and still the busiest. Costa properties, city apartments and inland village houses in roughly equal measure.
Madrid · Catalonia · Valencia · Andalusia · Murcia · the Balearics by ferry
The Fulham–Spain routeFewer moves, more complicated ones. Northern cities for work, Tuscany and Umbria for restoration projects, the lakes for retirement.
Lombardy · Piedmont · Veneto · Tuscany · Umbria · Lazio
The Fulham–Italy routeThe furthest drive in Western Europe and the one that most often involves a household being packed up entirely rather than a second home being furnished.
Lisbon · Cascais & Estoril · Porto · the Silver Coast · the Algarve
The Fulham–Portugal routeFulham is our base, but a household leaving the country is rarely all in one place. There is usually a storage unit somewhere, a parent's garage, a flat that a grown-up child has been using. We collect from London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bristol and consolidate everything before the vehicle heads for the coast.
That is worth arranging early. Adding a collection in Leeds to a move that is already loaded is a different and more expensive proposition than building it into the plan from the start.
Moving a household out of the UK is now a customs export. In practice that means three things. An inventory, itemised and valued line by line — not "box of kitchen" but a real list. Transit paperwork raised before the vehicle leaves, so the load is declared rather than discovered. And evidence for transfer of residence: proof that you are genuinely leaving the UK and taking up residence at the destination, which is what allows used personal effects to move without import duty.
We prepare and lodge all of that. What we need from you is the documentation — the rental contract or deed at the other end, the residency application, whatever the destination country's process requires. The country pages set out what that looks like for each one, because France, Spain, Italy and Portugal each want it slightly differently.
A dedicated vehicle carries your household alone. It leaves when you are ready and drives directly to the destination, which is the right answer for a full house and for anyone with a firm date at the other end.
A shared load consolidates your goods with other moves going the same way. It costs less because you are only paying for your share of the vehicle. The trade is timing: you wait for the load to fill and your delivery slots in among the others. For a flat's worth of furniture with a flexible date it is often the sensible choice.
Neither option comes with a day count from us. Transit depends on the route, on the consolidation schedule, and on how clearance runs at both ends — your written quote sets out the expected window for your specific move and says plainly what would move it.
Export packing is a higher standard than a domestic move. Things are on a vehicle for far longer, over rougher roads, with more handling at each end. Upholstery gets wrapped and sealed rather than blanketed. Mirrors, marble and artwork get purpose-built crates. Electricals are boxed with their own packaging where you still have it.
If your Fulham place is being emptied before the destination is ready, containerised storage bridges it — the same sealed containers, held here, then loaded for export when you say.
Straight answers
Yes. Since Brexit a household move out of the UK is a customs export, so there is a transfer-of-residence process, an inventory valued line by line, and transit paperwork raised before the vehicle moves. We prepare it and lodge it. What we need from you is documentation of your move — proof you are leaving the UK and taking up residence at the other end.
It depends on the route, on whether your load is going on its own vehicle or sharing one, and on how customs clearance runs at both ends. Rather than quote a number we cannot stand behind, your written quote sets out an expected window for your specific route and tells you what would move it.
A dedicated vehicle carries your household and nothing else, so it leaves when you are ready and goes straight there. A shared load consolidates your goods with other moves on the same route, which costs less but means waiting for the vehicle to fill and for the other deliveries to fit around yours.
Yes. Fulham is our base, but plenty of European moves start with a household split across addresses. We collect from London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bristol and consolidate before the vehicle heads for the tunnel.
Sometimes, depending on the route and the vehicle. It changes the paperwork — a vehicle has its own import requirements separate from household goods — so raise it at survey rather than on loading day.
The paperwork has a longer lead time than the packing. Tell us where you are going and roughly when, and we will tell you what to get moving on now.