Every June the same scramble: halls want rooms cleared days after exams, home is hours away, and the local stores know it. Summer-long small units near campuses get booked out and priced up.
The sums for a typical room
Ten boxes and a suitcase for 3 months:
- Shared 25 sq ft unit with a friend: about £102.75 each at the UK average, if you both find a van, time it together, and trust the split.
- By the box: BoxSpeed at £91.45 a month for that load, plus £39 collection and £39 return: about £352.35 for the summer, collected from halls and returned to the new address in September, even in a different town.
The return leg is the quiet winner: a unit sits in your old town, but a collection service delivers to wherever next year's house is.
Three rules for June
- Book the collection before exams start; collection days fill in order.
- Label every box with your name and September address, not the halls one.
- Photograph anything valuable before it is sealed, for the cover claim you will probably never make.