I'm interested in moving a second hand iron bath tub from Yorkshire to Brighton. Anyone had any experience of moving such a heavy item using a courier or somesuch? I doubt it would fit through the post office's franking machine.
Any advice welcomed.
David
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hard on the testicles. I guess that standard courier services wouldn't be terribly keen but if you can get a JCB shifted by low loader it must be possible to make adequate arrangements for an iron bath. Maybe expensive though.
is local small/light removals in the paper.
One pair of hands might be safer in future...... :-)
Next time it's a plastic replacement.
For the bath, or the testicles?
Owain
Palletline.
AWEM
They probably won't feel as natural when you cross you legs though... but would deal with any unwanted sprog issues!
Wide choice of colours too.
I like the ambiguity.
Handy either way if you keep pigs
DG
Pattern buffers hate Avocado.
No basic courier will touch it. (35kG limit) You will need an end to end courier, and may expect it to cost upwards of 75 quid.
In many cases hire a van and drive it yourself is cheaper.
double it and you're not even close. a courier will want 80p plm, probably more. leeds to brighton is 257 miles so £210 for the job.
hiring a van is the only cheapest method as long as lost earnings is left out of the equation.
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Or if you have a small trailer, with towbar on your car, Shove it on the trailer, tie it down *very* *well*, and check the weight is OK for the trailer.
BTW adding a towbar to a car will cost more than hiring a van :-(
Not a job for a courier company. It's a large, heavy, brittle object that would need to be crated and insured if you wanted to get a courier company to move it.
Personally, I'd hire a transit van and take some mates on a day trip!
Guy, who works for a courier company...
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Except palletline have a 1.2m x 1.2m x 2m size restriction. Basically what will go 2m high on a 1.2m x 1.2m pallet. I not sure I'd want to upend the bath...
Guy, who still works for a courier company!
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brittle ? it's a cast iron bath. large ? like two 600k stillages with fork, on fork off ? and what's the point of paying through the nose for £ 20k G.I.T if seperate insurance is required ?
I'll wager that if the OP rings around a few companies and ensures that there's someone at the other end to help unload he will get a quote from a new startup at around £180 or it will be touted out to a subbie as a backload for about £140, if he's lucky.
which one ?
Exactly.
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brittle ? bollix, it took me 5 mins with a 5lb lump hammer to knock a cast bath into three pieces and it had been in and out of three houses over
100 years and two transit vans /before/ I bought it 10 years ago !and still no answer about G.I.T and 'additional' insurance, subbing it out as a backload, etc. or, given that Guy works for a courier company, quoting a price to guide the OP as to what he can expect to pay.
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