Man and Van Ickenham — Your Local UB10 Movers

Ickenham still feels like the village it once was — the pump on the green, the parade of shops along Swakeleys Road, and Swakeleys House tucked behind the park. The housing is a mix of substantial 1930s detached and semi-detached family homes, bungalows, and quiet cul-de-sacs off Long Lane and Glebe Avenue. Most properties have driveways, which makes loading straightforward, but bigger homes here often mean bigger moves: pianos, garden machinery, full garages. We size the van and crew to the job instead of making three trips.

The pinch points are the roads, not the parking. Swakeleys Roundabout and the A40 junction back up at rush hour, Long Lane gets busy around school runs, and the lanes towards Harefield are narrow in places. Because our base in Uxbridge is only a few minutes away via Park Road, we schedule Ickenham jobs around the traffic rather than through it. Moving near Ickenham station, where the Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines stop, or by West Ruislip on the Central line? The commuter parking restrictions there are the one place we'll plan a loading window in advance.

Before booking a waste collection: ask us to identify the registered carrier handling the job and provide the registration details. Verify those details on the Environment Agency public register before handing over any waste.

If you're weighing up how to handle a move or clear-out here, two of our guides are worth five minutes: what house clearance costs in London and our moving house tips. And if your job spills over the village boundary — a delivery to Ruislip, a collection from Uxbridge town centre, a clearance out at Harefield — it's all one local patch for us. Start at our man and van page or just send photos of the job on WhatsApp for a price within the hour.

Ickenham is a small village core surrounded by 1930s semis, with the Swakeleys estate and a lot of long-standing owners. Loft, garage and shed clear-outs dominate, and the roads are narrow enough that van access is worth mentioning when you book.

Everything below is priced by the space the load fills and the labour involved, not by the hour, and the price is fixed after a photo or video walk-through before anyone sets off. Every figure includes two people, all the loading and lifting, and the disposal and recycling fees. No skip, no permit, and no VAT to add — the price shown is the price paid.

Rubbish and waste removal in UB10, by the load

Ickenham sits between our base and the Harefield tip, so same-day slots here are usually available even at short notice.

House and flat clearance in Ickenham

Man and van hire in Ickenham

Moves and collections that are not clearances are charged hourly, with a two-hour minimum. Longer bookings and full moves are quoted as a fixed all-in price instead.

Garden and green waste in UB10

Heavy builders’ and DIY waste is priced by weight instead, from £95 for up to 100kg, because rubble and furniture do not weigh the same per cubic yard.

Items that carry an eco fee

A handful of items carry a legally required specialist disposal cost. These are added to the load prices above, or charged on their own from the £95 minimum call-out:

The London Borough of Hillingdon runs a paid bulky waste collection across UB10, and for a small qualifying job it is good value. It is charged per collection slot, not per item:

One slot covers a single fridge or freezer on its own, or up to six other items such as a sofa, bed, mattress or wardrobe. The price is per slot rather than per item — so one mattress on its own still costs the full £53.

The four limits that catch people out

1. The crew will not come inside. Everything must be at the boundary of your property, at ground-floor level and accessible, by 6am on the day. Miss that window and the crew moves on. If you cannot get the wardrobe down the stairs yourself, the service does not help you.

2. Six items per slot, and a fridge counts as the whole slot. A garage, loft or end-of-tenancy clear-out runs past that immediately, and each further slot is another £53.

3. It takes no building or DIY waste. No rubble, no soil, no garden waste, no tyres, no hazardous items. After a refit, the council route is not available to you at all.

4. It is booked, not same-day. Collections run Monday to Friday and you take the next free date. At busy periods that can be several days out — worth knowing if you are clearing before a completion or a tenancy handover.

Full detail, including the current item list and the exclusions, is in our Hillingdon bulky waste guide.

Your nearest household recycling centre is Harefield Civic Amenity Site at New Years Green Lane, Harefield, UB9 6LX. If you are doing the job yourself it is worth knowing how it works before you load the car — we have written the full Harefield Civic Amenity Site guide, but the essentials are these.

It is open seven days a week, 8am to 4pm, last entry 3.45pm.

It is free for Hillingdon residents, but cars need a HillingdonFirst card and vans need two forms of ID and are capped at 12 visits a year. It is household waste only — no trade waste.

Since 15 July, Hillingdon residents can also use Space Waye in Feltham, which is open seven days and much closer for the south of the borough.

The council specifically asks residents not to turn right into New Years Green Lane from Harvil Road — the junction backs up badly at weekends.

The catch that is unique to this borough is geography: the tip is up at Harefield, so “free” costs more the further south of the borough you live. From the bottom of Hillingdon a round trip plus a van permit is often dearer in fuel and a Saturday morning than a collection is.

Disposal and recycling are handled as part of the fixed price when we do it instead, with waste transfer paperwork on request so your duty of care is covered. Before booking any collection — with us or anyone — ask for the registered carrier’s details and verify them on the Environment Agency public register.