Our story
One van, then two, and still two people on every job.
Strap & Shift is Callum Ferris and Nadia Akhtar. Callum started in 2017 with a borrowed panel van, moving friends out of student houses in Leeds. Nadia joined when the borrowed van went back and a box van with a tail lift came instead.
They kept the jobs small on purpose. Most removal firms want the four bed house; plenty of people only need a sofa carried, a room moved or a garage emptied, and they deserve a straight price too.
So the price works by van load, the same for everyone in the area, and the load price already covers everything that has to happen on the day.
Callum and Nadia are fictional people in a fictional business. No photo on this site shows them.
The vans
- The box vanA box body with a tail lift, plated at 3,500 kg. It takes a full load.
- The small vanA short panel van for a piece or two and the narrow streets the box van cannot turn in.
Our two vans are plated at 3,500 kg or less. GOV.UK (Great Britain) says a goods vehicle operator’s licence is needed for vehicles plated over 3,500 kg, and a standard international licence for vans over 2,500 kg carrying other people’s goods for hire or reward in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland. We only work in Great Britain.
Both vans are Euro 6 diesels.
Why us
Small jobs, done like they matter.
Most of our work is one room, one piece or one garage at a time. Each one is handled as carefully as a full flat.
Two people on every job
Nobody waits for you to lift half a sofa, and nobody drags it.
The price is the whole price
Fuel, stairs and VAT are in it before you see it. It changes only for waiting past the load’s time (£9 each 15 minutes), more than you described (only if you agree) or a wasted trip (£25 local, £35 wider area).
Two vans, picked for the street
A box van with a tail lift for most jobs and a smaller van for cobbles and tight terraces.
Blankets on everything
A blanket goes round every chair, table and wardrobe, and straps hold it still, even the cheap ones.
How it works
Count it, ask, and we carry it.
Step 1: Count your things
Big pieces and boxes. The checker gives the van space and a price.
Step 2: Ask for a day
Send the request. We reply to say whether that day suits, with the price written down.
Step 3: We do the lifting
On the day you say yes to, two of us wrap, load, drive and carry it in.
Sample reviews
Jobs we did, in the customer’s own words.
- Sample review
They collected a pine dresser from a seller in Ilkley and had it up two flights into our flat by teatime. The bill matched the website to the penny.
RuthShipley · Single item
- Sample review
Four of us left a house share at once. One trip, every box marked with a name, and nobody had to argue over whose lamp was whose.
TomaszHeadingley · Student move
- Sample review
They cleared my late dad’s garage over two loads. His bike and tools went to a reuse shop and I got the waste paperwork by email that night.
GillBingley · Clearance
- Sample review
A wardrobe in eleven pieces went back together straighter than when we first built it ourselves.
OwenBaildon · Small move
- Sample review
Our new street is tight, so they came in the smaller van and carried from the corner without a word of complaint.
LeilaSaltaire · Small move
- Sample review
A half load from Idle out to Keighley, quoted at the wider area price, and that is what we paid.
DevIdle · Small move
Sample reviews written for this demo, not from real customers.