What's moving
Workshop and plant
Machines, benches, tooling, extraction
Machines, benches, tooling and extraction. The function with the most genuine risk in it, and the one where the honest answer is sometimes that part of it is not our job.
What makes this one different
A machine is not a heavy object. It usually needs decommissioning first — isolated, drained, purged, and in some cases signed off by somebody competent to do it — and that is a trade, not a strength.
Weight goes through the floor, not just the doorway. Plant that sat happily on a slab in an old unit may be a problem on a mezzanine or an upper floor, and where we are not certain the building will take it we will say so rather than find out.
Tooling walks. Small, valuable and easy to lose, and it is the single most commonly under-recorded thing in a workshop move. It needs boxing and listing before anybody touches the big items.
Dust extraction, compressed air and fixed services are usually attached to the building and usually forgotten until the day. Disconnecting them is somebody’s job and it should be decided long before the van arrives.
What we do about it
Survey the machines individually — weight, footprint, lifting points and what is attached to them
Tell you plainly which items need a specialist decommission and which we can handle, before you commit to a date
Box and list tooling first, so the valuable small items are accounted for before the heavy work starts
Check floor loading at the receiving unit where anything substantial is going above ground level
Most commonly got wrong
Assuming that because it came in, it can go out. Buildings change, mezzanines get added, and the route that admitted a machine years ago may no longer exist.
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Moving plant?
Stock, desks, plant or a counter — and where both units are. We will want to see the two yards before we put a number on it, because that is the only way the number means anything.