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Removals in Edinburgh
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I used to live in a remote cottage about 3.5/4 yrs ago was around 8 months and came back to Edinburgh evey month or two at the weekend- was a bit lonely but had to for personal reasons and I run my little business there for a while picking up the odd little local job.

then by chance I had to relocate to glasgow for a short period as was having issues with properties and looed at relocation as geting fed up with edinburgh situation.

My brothers wife died 2 years ago and I had to stay with him in livingston for for around 6 months, hes got MS and in a wheelchair, go past the address anytime youre out - see the wheelchair ramp- Im moving some of his stuff tomorrow if u want to come along and gi a hand , nebby, but anyway whose asking and what frigging intrest is it to you ...aye git yer facts right twally - oh yeah orwell -my other bro lives there and works with me . Amzing what you can do with copying pasting things 3 times to make it look bad to the untrained eye - as well as owning two other properties I lived in - c-cock

Clearances In Edinburgh

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Back to reality again, must remember the postman excuse…anyway did a quote for a clearance for an estate agent , always amuses me when the say its for a client who has a load of Rental properties in Edinburgh, meaning you’ll do it cheap as chips and we may use you for moving sofas at short notice every 2nd Friday around 2pm, I never fall for it and just did the quote – too much I was told, so suggested an alternative of doing it themselves to save some money and again those words echoed in my ears – ‘’the clients very well off and has a lot of letting property in Edinburgh’’ …god… some never learn do they – If I had a £1 for every time I heard that id have about £18.
One curio - investments– strange one, how can you put a figure on it? I just look a website with same name and ask the guy who does it, next door neighbour or local man and he’ll tell you, very strange – but currying favour is an art mastered by some , clever stuff!

Posh addresses in Edinburgh

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Did a removal job today from Eton terrace to Ramsey gardens to very prestigious addresses, Ramsey gardens is a nice wee spot if you are well off enough to live there. Parking a bit iffy and you can’t access from the royal mile as a bit of the usual Edinburgh roadwork’s going on just now.

Oddly met a customer I moved from Great king street on Saturday coming out of one of the blocks so it’s a very very small world – I don’t drink much but the case of wine he gave us will sure go down well with who ever I decide to be kind enough to pass on. We did two full to the brim Luton van loads and the customer was genuinely delighted with my removal teams efforts and so was I – we like to be straight with customers and none of this training course rubbish some feel the need to offer customers. I think customers like people who are down to earth and just say how it is without being too cheeky or infact full of bull - that seems to be the trend now!




I had my super gloves on but that’s another (true) story! And guess what! No spam fritters in sight! But ….

A nice view of the art gallery from our job today and some happy workers Im taking pic so not in it  !

Millstones at such a young age

Removals in Edinburgh
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Recently I did a small removal for a young couple who had just got married, they must’ve been about 20 and seemed very green and  innocent, both students studying at Edinburgh university and not really that street wise – got me thinking ..why do people do such things at a young age having not experienced life in any shape or form ? or more importantly experienced different relationships, a must if you want understand how other people live, think, work - you know getting to know life and its mechanics.

I predict it’s going to be a hard future for them staying together, what with university studies then possible career related conflicts- moving in opposite directions etc. I suppose they have moved on from their home towns but sticking together for life, that I very much doubt. They will soon get bored with each other everyone does apart for the kidders out there… how can you be interested in someone at such a young age and keep it up till death do us part - throughout married life?
I would understand if they were bog standard small town hill-billys (sorry hill-billys) ‘’all our family live within 15 miles/minutes of each other’’ call up canon fodder that doesn’t know any better and all the extended family do the same going back generations, but these individuals are actually using their brains for study and looking to expand horizons, seems total madness to get married so young and commit to each other – I give it 2 years, hopefully they don’t have millstone-kids, then that will be an issue…. sticking together and both putting up a false front of happiness with ''kids are great'' and all time classic ''best thing that evey happened to me''  total whitewash mind numbing from the proud dad book of guff  - but secretly both hating it and longing for the when we were free past, Imagine living life like that!!

Peter stringfellow Fife Man and Van

Removals in Edinburgh
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Wow ... see my views are going up in this Genuine Removals blog - no need for made up crap on `ere eh lads ...
anyway back up to sunny kindom of fife with a removal this morning 1/2 luton vans worth nice and easy East claremount street to Markinch oppo train station, then headed off down to bruntisland 3+2 seater leather sofas plus other bits that looked like it was from peter stringfellows night club and took them down to quayide mills in Leith  - trendy wee flat but dont think the stringfellow gear does it much justice. Nor did the polished sofas for our grip - hands covered in silicon for the polish but we coped well - Remember folk dont use mr sheen or pledge on your leather sofas is a bloddy nightmare!!!

Heres a view heading over the firth of forth this morn - check  c-ccat  see if it starts posting pics -  reminds me to call round to complain again ....

Im might be heading off soon for a long break - not your usual break but an enforced break - keep you posted if things continue at my address.

Strange people

Removals in Edinburgh
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Another day another load of strange emails and odd calls - one lady looking for a trip for her student daughter From Edinburgh to Belfast’’ not much’’ she said, and was a bit quick fire on the tongue but I think that’s the Irish for you….well anyway what I could make out is she couldn’t be bothered driving over and moving the student daughters goods to bring back to Ireland so was looking for a mover of sorts to do it for more or less same price a standard car on the ferry plus what her fuel would cost – asking me if I was competitive for pricing removals, I said yes… for a proper removals business, tax paying, insured and all that but not compared to a car driving over and picking someone up for the sake of family love – this seemed to throw her a bit , but I think I got my point across, suggested she’s no hope in hell getting it for same price from a man with a van in Edinburgh for same cost for her doing the job. Mind you there might be some desperadoes out there. I decided to give her some good advice and a top removals website she could visit and see if someone on there could help her – odd thing is that the 3rd trip to Ireland request I’ve had in 3 days – I’m a bit suspicious about that and it’s the 4th in 5 days 5th in 2 weeks.




Talking of timewasters.. another request for a Removal to London today, seemed a but too sharp on the request form, meaning most folk are as vague as hell and just fill out the form with basic minimal English but this one seemed to be a bit too chatty so I put it down to another spammer – gave price but wont hear back as it was probably a none job. Bristol next I suppose ….yawnnn

People eh!!

Job done boulder artwork Edinburgh

I moved some artwork the other day from the Edinburgh college of art - was a bit mad, just like the artists... some of the stuff must have been created in a drunken or chemical haze but this one made me laugh ( I almost feel of my chair laughing) no once again no I didnt....bit lame that comment - very man about the house, or till death do us part...

Its a boulder called job done - Quite a good motto for the likes of my little Man with a van business!

Rather odd looks we got driving round the corner to the art exhibition in lauriston place- I did ask for more details of job but like anyone moving anything in a van they were not that clear and makes it worse when its artistic types youre dealing with.

Nice ive got another few hits - blog must be getting popular (with one person anyway) ...ta for visiting me keep it up !! keep the other stuff up and .....

Might visit you one day !!

A hard life for some

Removals in Edinburgh
We live and work In Edinburgh (Unlike some)

Morning again - nebby !

Being an Edinburgh removals man in a van travelling all over Scotland and the uk I go to and pass thought some strange little places. I like the Scottish countryside and there are some beautiful little former fishing villages and small towns around Scotland but there are some real desperate little depressing places. Some used to have mining or some other little industry like Kirkcaldy, lino... or marmoleum as its now called, popular in hospitals due to its disinfectant properties, lino in homes is not as popular as it was but still they have a factory in the town - it was a booming trade well over 30 years ago not it’s more or less gone. Some other little places dotted over Scotland have been geared to coal mining/fishing and some locations I move people to look like they have just been build to accommodate a growing overflowing population, or accommodated a lost working generation skilled or unskilled.

Some of the housing planners must have been mad planned those concrete small towns, indistinctive tiny brown boxes in a line with grubby exteriors with no character with the compulsory depressing point of interest co-op they all congregate for fags and booze, depressing little schemes. People living there must feel quite desperate at times it’s no wonder they have chemical abuse and alcohol problems plus the usual benefits claimants, how can you find a decent paying job when nothing is available? It must cost a fortune to keep the population expanding. I’m not sure what the future for those types of towns if there is a future, do small towns/schemes really need a future? Nothing will ever happen without billions of investments but then its back to the solution to the problem.. governments throwing money at it and for what reason? Time must just drag on for someone living in a place like that with no hope for most.



I’m not a great believer in economical/population growth, not everyone has to run the family formula brought on by peer pressures or maybe its just a basic human instinct (boredum) look where it gets the population, unwanted feral kids, greed, crime, housing shortages and the biggest offender of all the social costs paid for by the workers/taxpayers. It can only go so far till something happens good or bad. Maybe one day the government (in 20 years or so) will be a bit more pro-active with the lost and growing population issue no one likes to talk about - not everyone has a purpose/future/relevance and we don’t need to expand towns and population for no reason - where will it all end??

Fife again!!

Removals in Edinburgh
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Got another Removal job over to fife on sunday morning going from East claremount street then viewcraigs gardens to move a piano down 3 flight of stairs... wow wee!!!  then off to sunny glenrothes to unload it all. On the way back were passing by burntisland for a sofa collection. Dont know whats it is about people doing removals in Fife just now thats 4 times this week I will have been over. Id have thought they could use some local fife removals company over there its a pity would prefer some local fife lad to do the job might actully do some advertising in fife but clearly stating I dont live there incase some confusing arises, may have an extended version of the Edinburgh removals assoc to take in those companies small sole trader types on board ...What a spiffing idea !!!

Fife kincardine dog crap

Removals in Edinburgh
We live and work In Edinburgh (Unlike some)

Morning !

Well didnt get home till late last night, 2 jobs muirhouse to kincardine - kirk street, then a collection from dunfermline to cramond road north.
Not sure what it is when Im moving stuff in fife - started in dalgety bay a few years ago we had to get bit 'n' bobs out a garden shed, woman had about 5 dogs (if youve been nosy like you have you will see this on my other site) and they had used the grass as a toilet and she hadnt bothered to pick it up never mind the squelch under-foot... then some months ago in dalgety bay again piano move through the back door... garden peppered with dog crap , customer didnt seem to think it was an issue, I had to ask him to clear it up or it would get on our shoes and on the grooves on the piano barrow wheels , this wasnt going to happen anyway as I was refusing to budge till it was cleaned up - the look he gave me ...anyway we managed to get the piano moved into his house crap free - feet trolly and floor.

last night the kincardine job- great dane and 3 alsations and a cat all within a small cottage. I just about slipped on the vinyl in the hallway and it wasnt condensation either, shame I didnt have a mask with me as smell was a bit over powering , it was that bad. The sofa I was moving was one of those 70s wooden frame with fake leather moulded foam/plastic and She paid some £140 of Edinburgh gumtree - not sure if that was true making my own judgment - was a bit of a struggle it had to come out the 1st floor window at muirhouse luckily it was not that high but was a bit tricky 

came back and thought ...funny nothing as queer as folk - esp when been rumbled....

Join us if you Do removals in Edinburgh

Removals in Edinburgh
We live and work In Edinburgh (Unlike some)

Myself and a few other Edinburgh/lothian based moving companies and Professional men with vans of varying sizes and of a like mind have decided to create a free website for potential Home and business customers;- I don’t run it I may ad that would be crazy for someone like me to have control of something like that.

Anyway people who can join have to have a few criteria firstly insured from full insurance or minimal git for a removal Business.
Secondly the Removals Company has to live/trade from the address they have given - it’s open to abuse, some sadly stooping to this low level of Local business spamming – saying they trade from but actually don’t, spamming other local nearby businesses and clearly wasting genuine customers time with this desperate activity.

Minimum of 3 years established easily found /traceable well if you trade from an address you will be there... living and breathing in that house/flat... common sense really and all advertising sites/publication do normally have t&cs saying no false or misleading information. Not a mates address or similar feeble excuse.

Customer references , not self written ones – madness some people write there own reviews about there own business – yeah I know how can you tell , for example ... if you see a time stamp showing less than an hour between reviews on a cold damp morning you’re at it…most people spot this sad activity.

If genuine companies would like to participate please visit this site and fill out the contact form remember EH postcode members only !!!

Edinburgh Removals assocation

Estimates for removals

Removals in Edinburgh
We live and work In Edinburgh (Unlike some)

I only ever go round to do estimates for Home removals if it sounds like a larger job or going to be a problem. Had one recently from someone looking to Move from Kinross to Antrim Northern Ireland meaning we would need to get the Removal van on the ferry from Cairn ryan to Belfast. Ive done it a few times and its quite nice trip if you can do the move to plan,  time it right for the Irish /belfast side return ferry - its good money.

The lady listed items that looked would like it would go into a 13 cubic meter van but I gave her an option for use of my 20 cube luton Removal van  telling her it would cost more but she seemd to think the luton Removal Van was more suited - Im always looking to save  customers doing a home removal some money if I can, Maybe thats my problem ...Im just too honest with people . Im not sure if she was a time-waster you get a lot of those, others checking other quotes -  she might get back in touch but if it a quote fisher I wont .

Removals in Edinburgh
We live and work In Edinburgh (Unlike some)

Always an issue picking the right removals company in Edinburgh to do the job so many to choose so many trades not picking up work and looking to do odd jobs in a van and some out of town companies spamming fake city addresses trying to pick up work by copying and spamming others, very dishonourable I get it, but all the same not good tactics.

First things first - make sure you know the address they trade from no point in calling someone and not knowing who you are speaking to or where they trade from In Edinburgh, some shady characters use false addresses and have any excuse for using it - always lame and never true.

I’ve recently been a victim of a site spammer copying idea rehashing articles false address wouldn’t mind but he’s right opposite me and looks in my eyes (after telling me to mind my own business which I am -minding it) to be copying every single thing I do.

I’ve had content copy and pasted in the past but this bloke takes the biscuit in being unoriginal and to be frank its all made up - lots of time on ones hands I think.


What I’m saying to you is never just call someone up and think they are who they say they are always ask questions about them get the address get a reference if need be ask around - just because its on the internet to doesn’t mean its all true – in fact quite the opposite

removals in edinburgh

Did a two bedroomed flat Removal in Edinburgh from bruntsfiled to the grange this morning, 2 hours job done 2nd to 1st. Needed to be back for Eletric man coming to sort an issue out. Luckily the customer got his inventory right not many do it never less good to move its always more for the removal.

I always find this when you read things its not always as it seems strangly the internet is full of spammers and people telling lies Ive come across a few in the past few months , it embarrasing really telling lies.

Anyway some of us are starting a wee group mainly of Local small removals firms fed up with all these typical spam man with van and anyone can with false details and really not who they say they are and wasting customers time with quote requests for none jobs to see how much people charge, again its embarrasing.

Monday Man and van

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Did a job over to fife on monday 7am from powderhall rigg early morning start as had a busy-ish day, isnt fife lovely but the roads are pretty bad ended up near kinross - went past spammers central he was sitting in having a tea. blinds down car outside light spamming away.SPAM SPAM SPAM

Oh Didnt know my blogs so well read -

Then headed back into town for two collections from ramsey cornish for a chap in Cargill terrace large antique wardrobe and then a massive bookcase to manor place need extra help.
finished the day off with a sofa from corstorphine down to restalrig quite a quiet straight forward day home in time for tea in Edinburgh.

Luckily I live in Edinburgh unlike some folk who suggest themselves as Local and use a fake false address fooling the customers and wasting peoples time.

When Im busy I pass work onto proper removals companies who trade in the local area


HOOK LINE AND SINKER

Never believe anything you read on the internet.

SMART CAR DRIVERS

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Being a man with a van ( I own the van and don’t rent when I need it) I am a careful driver, well Im on the road every day working do what a man and van In Edinburgh does, trying to avoid scrapes and cutting traffic up unlike big car drivers like BWW man. Or shop owners sons in big flash cars with pumping stereos you know the ones I mean …. Arrogant chaps I say!

I’ve noticed some of those small so called eco friendly Smart cars going around the streets nipping in /out of traffic almost like one of those lycra tour de France cyclists who are on a mission of death.

Today I was met with a gaze of fury from a bespectacled lady pointing at her eyes with two fingers, not sure if she was saying sorry to me for being a smart car driver and cutting everyone up and she was all that mattered, or deciding as Im in a white van and may have blocked her 40mph+ dart across Queens street/dundas street – anyway she drove off in a puff of fury and down dundas street – I caught up with her on London street , you know people don’t realise Dublin streets open again after so many years of being blocked of as a rat run

I couldn’t catch up with her, as she stormed into East Clermont street, you know the bit at broughton road area, I wasn’t trying as I’m a law abiding citizen and losing my license isn’t worth the hassle, she must’ve be used to driving like a nutter – look out for a Smart car, Its cream and black with a dyed brown haired lady the wrong side of 50 with a snarl– lady might be too good a term to describe her !


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Rentals in Edinburgh

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Being a removals company actually based in Edinburgh I have noticed Since the start of this spending boom 'we want but cant afford but will have it anyway' recession I have only moved a handful of home buyers in Edinburgh, it more or less died a death in march/April 2008 but luckily room renting and general flat rental markets in Edinburgh has been kept going, some rents going down then going up due to demand, sometimes people who looked to sell their home during the price plummet or so called plummet in house prices,have been so fed up waiting for something that will never happen (selling at the price they wanted) then deciding to rent out their home and moving into rented accommodation just to get the hell out of the property.

Things picked up in sept /October 2009 last year but it’s now disappeared. I do think Labour/Gordon browns recession has a further kick up the ass for us all , they never tell the truth do they ( I know a guy who operates that way) as for all the lost jobs its gone up 10000 in Scotland in the past few months and I’m not sure how the UK can actually cope with and election change and the costs of funding the state as that seems to be the big fat suckling pig on the tax front – all those tradesman/gardeners/immigrants losing jobs/income and trying to turn there hand to something else and its not the best time to start an alternative business especially if you live out in the sticks…lol uoi could always give a false address and see how it goes ?

dopy links copy sado nosy link spy tea leaf mind it fraud

Chosing the right Removals company

Removals in Edinburgh

Choosing the right removals company in Edinburgh cant be a right old chore as its your personal possessions, really youre inviting strangers into your home and you have no idea who they are or even if they say there are who they say they are ( if that makes sense) might do if something’s damaged or goes missing .

Recently I’ve experienced address spamming by someone who doesn’t live in Edinburgh city but suggests he does and I ll tell you a load are at it just going by reading others comments , people will try almost anything to get a job nowadays, mostly due to the recession and an apparent recent explosion of Edinburgh based removals companies man with a van style has proved this (jack the lad master of none) the sort of guys you call up and you hear hammering or power tools in the background , guys who don’t do removals full time for a living but fancy trying there (ahhemm) skilled hand at it in-between working on sites or digging holes in the gardens.

Heres some tips to weed out those removals rouges –
Ask for the trading address – any hesitation, ifs… buts… maybe…its ex`s house… don’t use them
Get persons name you are speaking - if it’s a nick name like gogs tam etc forget it
If they answer the phone and don’t say company name on answering – it because they are getting handyman/ you name it jobs
Got a web address looks legit doesn’t it , well erm no…. – look for there address/landline number on it no sign forget it –
Mobile number with no name you’ll get what you pay for, a right old shock. Most likely

If you get a quote and they call you back pressuring to use them it because they are desperate for the job , you would be advised to stay well clear of anyone like that.
False reviews on sites another classic – just read them and see how the writing style looks the same – people writing ‘’warmest regards’’ or going over the top like ‘’my neighbour asked about you and is moving out soon’’ , utter rubbish and really easy to spot to be honest.

Customers do reviews its because they want to and its in there own words if they look the same don’t waste you time by using these companies.

Picking the right man with a van
Get suggestions from friends see if they have used someone
Look in yellow pages /phone book/internet do a cross reference check if hes real you will find him easily and if you can check website address or some form of document on a site like this hes for real !!

POT TO POT /KEY TO KEY OR NOT TO BE ?

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Another Edinburgh Man with a van job in the Evening , I find i can do Removals in Edinburgh like this as I live in the city unlike some , well... a customer last night , told me 20 bags to be moved to granton , all ready to go. Apparently someone called the van man gave them a quote the doubled it , I think he turned up and told them to take a run and jump , not me... im not like that, always helping people if I like it or not, anyway after being told 5 guys were going to help (actual 2) I got a bit fed up and told them this wasn't what we agreed they had over 40 bags and a huge flight case , biggest I've ever seen - like a rock bands drum kit was in it size ( did I say it was in north fort street Edinburgh) exotic aromas in the stair prob coming from the customers helpers whom seemed to be on another planet in between mutterings - so once the van was full we headed off , but not before they both finished the joints they had been smoking for what seemed like 40 mins .

I was told a number to stop at in granton medway so we stopped and started unloading , a bit of confusing at that point, no access keys not fitting for some reason ? so I buzzed someone and they let us in , 5 mins later - sorry wez ayt wzong addrezzz , so after a few well chosen words from myself , apparently they had only been there twice before , so I said ''that's twice more than me '' we then moved 5 doors down the street to the correct address

I felt I wasn't going to get paid for some reason, pot heads and 2 didn't speak English that I could understand , one guy kept getting calls from someone called Alisha and kept putting the phone down, not before going ''YOOOOWwww ALISHA sHTop calln meeez''- you can imagine his annoying ring tone , anyway job finally done, I got paid , not sure if they knew what day it was but that's people for you and other companies - I don't let people down if I can help it no matter what they are like !!

Edinburgh Most tolerant Removals company (Honest)

Removal of a sofa In Edinburgh

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Reading some rubbish on another removals blog about moving a sofa from an apartment that had a upvc door, most upvc doors can be lifted off with ease (not all) just pin attached to an open hinge and I very much doubt its true due to the history from this site - good chance you can unbolt the arms of the sofa and good removals guy know how to do this.

As for Moving American fridges thats a nonsense as well if you cant get it out the door it must be a very narrow door, someone whos a bit over weight would find it difficult to get out never mind a fridge another space filling nonsense for a guy who doesnt live where he says he lives.

What you find is most people cant remember how goods get into a house if a door came off or a window used ive never had any expereice of a door being replaced and it not getting out and I do a lot of Removals in Edinburgh

Never trust what you read !