What the property is
A holiday let
Who is there Somebody different every week
A let is not a home with strangers in it. It is a property on a cycle, and the only gap in that cycle is the changeover window — the space between one set of guests leaving and the next arriving.
What this changes
There is a window, and it is not negotiable. Whatever we are doing has to start after the last guests are out and finish before the cleaners need the property, because the cleaners cannot work round us and the next booking cannot be moved.
Nothing can be left in the hall "for now". A let has to be photographable when we leave it, because the next guests are walking into it and the owner is judged on the pictures.
The load is usually mixed: some of it is being replaced, some of it is going into storage, and some of it is the owner’s own belongings that were never supposed to be in a let in the first place. Those three need separating before the van, not in it.
Damage matters differently. A scuff in a lived-in home is a scuff. A scuff in a let is a review.
What we do about it
Plan the job around the changeover window and tell you honestly if it does not fit, rather than starting and hoping
Bring everything in and take everything out through the route that will not mark the walls guests photograph
Separate replace / store / return at the property so the van is loaded in the order it needs unloading
Leave the property clear and swept for the cleaners rather than clear and cluttered
The catch
If a changeover window genuinely will not hold the job, the honest answer is to block a night out of the calendar rather than to rush it. We will say so, and we would rather lose the booking than cost you a review.
Get a quote
Moving a holiday let?
A home you live in, a let with a changeover, a second home you come down to, or a studio you work from. That answer shapes the quote more than the number of bedrooms does.