Hayes to Spain
The drive is long and entirely predictable. The property at the other end is not — and which of three kinds it is decides how the delivery actually runs.
Alicante, Murcia, the Costa Blanca, the Costa del Sol
The constraint
A height-restricted underground car park
The commonest Spanish delivery and the commonest surprise. A great many coastal blocks have an underground car park with a height bar a removals vehicle will not pass, and no street loading at all. The answer is a shuttle with a smaller van from a legal holding point — routine, and routine only because it was established at the survey rather than at the barrier.
Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia
The constraint
A lift sized for people
Spanish lifts are frequently smaller than the British equivalent, and a sofa that came down a Hayes staircase does not automatically go up one in Madrid. Lift internal dimensions and stairwell widths get recorded at the survey so the answer is known while there is still time to do something about it.
Inland Andalusia, the interior, the Atlantic north
The constraint
The last two hundred metres
A track, a gate, a turning circle that a long vehicle cannot use. The destination address tells you nothing about this, which is why we ask for a description of the approach rather than just a postcode — and why, where we cannot establish it, we plan for a transfer.
Three of them are yours to obtain and one is ours to record. The vehicle does not leave until all four are in.
Irun for Madrid, the interior and the Atlantic side; Le Perthus for Catalonia and the Mediterranean coast. You do not have to care, but the quote assumes one of them and we will tell you which.
Mainland Spain by road is what we run. The islands add a sea leg and a different set of arrangements — ask and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right firm rather than taking the job and working it out later.
On a route this long, often — sharing a vehicle across several consignments takes real cost out. The trade-off is date flexibility, because the schedule has to suit everything on board. We quote both.
Yes. Containerised storage here, listed on the way in, and the load travels when the date is genuinely firm. Most Spain moves that use storage do so because a completion slipped, not because anyone planned it.
Anything flammable or pressurised, most plants, perishable food, and whatever Spain restricts. Fuel drained from garden machinery. Alcohol in quantity attracts duty — a few bottles in a box is not the concern, a collection is.
Send both addresses and a rough inventory. If there is a lift or an underground car park involved, mention it — it changes the plan.