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Office IT Relocation in London

Planning, disconnection and reconnection for office moves — computers, servers, cabling, broadband and Wi-Fi, sequenced so you lose as little working time as possible

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Last updated: August 2026

Overview

The IT side of an office move, planned rather than improvised

Removal firms move furniture. Almost none of them will unplug a server, label a patch panel, or ring your broadband provider — and that is precisely where office moves come unstuck. In our experience the computers are rarely the problem: they travel fine and plug back in. What goes wrong is connectivity. A line ordered three weeks before the move that turns out to need an eight-week installation, a new floor with no data points, or a Wi-Fi setup nobody thought about until forty people arrived and tried to use it at once. We survey both premises, work out the order things have to happen in, get the long-lead items started early, then disconnect, reconnect and test so your first morning in the new office is an ordinary working day.

Survey of both sites first — what leaves, what arrives, and what has to be ordered now
Computers, servers and NAS disconnected, moved and reconnected properly
Network, cabling and access points sorted at the new premises before you arrive
Broadband and Wi-Fi transfer timed so you are not left without a connection
Surveyed and quoted per site Downtime planned, not hoped for Tested before you move in
Broadband: the thing that most often goes wrong How we sequence a move to protect your working time What we need from you before the survey
What you get

What every office it relocation job includes

Established and insured

We have run our Putney workshop for over 25 years and the business is fully insured — worth knowing when someone is coming into your home or office. Security and network work is led by a CISSP-certified consultant.

Same-day turnaround is available on many jobs — ask when you book and we will confirm availability and any additional cost before we start.

Features

What an Office IT Relocation Includes

Survey & Move Plan

We walk both premises — the one you are leaving and the one you are taking on — and produce a written plan: what moves, what gets replaced, what has to be ordered now, and the order everything happens in. This is the part that decides whether the move is calm or chaotic.

Disconnect, Label & Reconnect

Computers, monitors, docks, servers and NAS boxes shut down properly, labelled so they go back where they belong, and reconnected and tested at the other end. Your removals company handles the furniture; we handle everything with a cable coming out of it.

Servers, NAS & Shared Storage

The kit that everything else depends on gets treated accordingly: a verified backup before it is touched, a controlled shutdown, careful transport, and a checked start-up at the new site. If shared files or line-of-business systems live on it, we test access before we call it done.

Network & Cabling at the New Site

Data points where the desks are actually going, Cat5e or Cat6 runs terminated into a patch panel, a switch that can take the load, and tidy cable management in the comms cupboard. Far easier to do before the furniture arrives than after.

Broadband & Wi-Fi Transfer

The single most common cause of a bad first morning. We check what is available at the new address, get the line ordered early enough for the provider's real timescales, plan the overlap with your old connection, and configure the router, firewall and access points before anyone sits down.

Printers, Peripherals & First-Day Checks

Printers and scanners reconnected and re-shared, phones and tablets pointed at the new Wi-Fi, docks and displays tested at each desk, and a walk round on the first morning to catch the handful of things that always turn up once people actually start working.

Process

How an Office Move Works

Simple steps to get your problem solved quickly and professionally.

1

Survey

We visit both sites, count desks and devices, look at where the incoming line lands and where the comms cupboard is, and check what cabling already exists. You get a written scope and a quote from that, not from a phone call.

2

Order Early

Broadband, any new cabling, and hardware that needs replacing get started immediately, because these are the items with real lead times. Everything else is scheduled backwards from the date your connection will genuinely be live.

3

Move

Old site shut down and disconnected in a set order; kit labelled and transported; new site cabled, connected and configured. Where it is possible we build and test the new network before the old one comes down.

4

First Morning

We are there when your team arrives to sort the inevitable last few things — a desk that will not print, a phone that will not join the Wi-Fi, someone whose dock came back in the wrong box.

In Depth

What to Expect

Prefer the quick version? The sections above cover most needs. Expand any topic below for more detail.

Broadband: the thing that most often goes wrong

If an office move goes badly, this is usually why. Almost everything else can be rushed at the last minute; the connection cannot:

  • Order the line as soon as the address is confirmed — before the desks, before the signage, before anything else
  • Check what the building can actually take: a fibre postcode checker tells you about the street, not about the riser inside the block
  • Ask the landlord early whether a wayleave is required, because that is a legal step nobody can shortcut
  • Where possible, keep the old connection live for a short overlap so there is never a day with nothing
  • Assume the provider's earliest date is optimistic and plan a fallback for the first week
  • Get the router, firewall and Wi-Fi configured in advance, so the only variable left is the line itself

We have seen far more moves derailed by an install date than by anything to do with the computers.

How we sequence a move to protect your working time

The aim is that the new office is already working before the old one stops. Where the timing allows, we build in this order:

Build the new site first

Cabling, switch, router, firewall and access points installed and tested at the new premises while you are still trading normally at the old one. Nothing here needs your business to stop.

Prove the connection

The new line is tested for real — not just showing a light — before anyone commits to a move date. If it is not ready, we would rather know a fortnight early than on the Saturday.

Move the shared kit

Server, NAS and anything else the whole team depends on goes across in one controlled step, with a verified backup taken first and access tested at the far end before we move on.

Move the desks

Individual computers, monitors and docks are labelled per person so they come back together, which removes most of the first-morning confusion in one stroke.

Test desk by desk

Every position checked for network, printing and sign-in before your team arrives, rather than leaving people to discover the gaps themselves.

How much of that is possible depends on your dates and the landlord's access arrangements, which is exactly what the survey establishes.

What we need from you before the survey

A short list, and having it ready makes the quote quicker and more accurate:

  • The new address, the target move date, and how firm that date is
  • A floor plan or a rough sketch of where desks and the comms cupboard will go
  • Headcount now and expected headcount in a year, so cabling and switch capacity are not undersized on day one
  • Who your current broadband is with, on what contract, and when it ends
  • Whether there is a server, NAS or anything else the whole team depends on
  • Any equipment you already plan to replace rather than move
  • Landlord or building-management contact details for access and any wayleave

If you do not have all of it, do not wait — the survey will fill the gaps, and starting the broadband conversation early matters more than having a complete list.

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Pricing

Office IT Relocation Pricing

We quote per site after a survey rather than publishing a headline figure, because a six-desk move and a forty-desk move over two floors have almost nothing in common. The survey covers both premises and produces a written scope, so you can see exactly what is included and what is not before you commit. Cabling, hardware and any broadband or line charges are itemised separately rather than buried in a single number.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

How far in advance should we book an office IT move?
As early as you know the address — and much earlier than most people expect, because the broadband line sets the timetable. A straightforward transfer of an existing service can take a few weeks; a new fibre installation at a building that has never had one can take a good deal longer, and if a wayleave is needed from the landlord it can run longer still. Everything else in a move can be compressed if it has to be. The line cannot. Ring us as soon as the lease is signed, even if the move is months away, and we will at least get the connectivity started.
Can you do the move at a weekend so we do not lose a working day?
Partly, and we would rather be straight with you about it than promise something we do not do. We are open Monday to Friday 10:00 to 18:00 and Saturday 10:00 to 17:00, and we are closed on Sundays — we do not offer overnight or Sunday working. In practice a Saturday changeover is the least disruptive option for most small offices, and it works well: the old site comes down on Saturday, the new site is built and tested, and your team walks into a working office on Monday. If your business is quiet on a particular weekday, that can work just as well.
Do we need new cabling at the new office, or will what is there do?
It depends entirely on what you inherit. Some offices come with usable Cat5e or Cat6 already terminated into a patch panel; plenty come with a handful of data points in the wrong places, or nothing at all beyond a socket by the door. We check this at the survey and tell you honestly. If runs are needed, our network setup work covers structured cabling, patch panels, switches and access points, and Wi-Fi setup covers coverage planning for the new floor plan. Doing it before the desks arrive is far cheaper and far tidier than doing it after.
What happens to our server or NAS during the move?
It gets treated as the most important box in the building, because it usually is. We confirm there is a current, verified backup before anything is touched, shut it down properly rather than pulling the power, transport it with the care it needs, and bring it back up under supervision at the new site with shared access tested before anyone relies on it. If the machine is old enough that we would not bet on it surviving a move, we will say so during the survey — a move is often the sensible moment to replace or consolidate rather than to carry a risk across town.
Will we be without internet on the first day?
Not if the move is planned properly, which is the whole point of starting early. Where the timing allows, we keep the old connection running in parallel for a short overlap so there is never a gap. Where a new line genuinely will not be live in time — and that does happen, usually because of the building rather than anyone’s mistake — we plan a stopgap so the business can still work, and make sure everyone knows what to expect before the day rather than discovering it at 9am. Guessing about the line date is how first mornings go wrong.
Who do we call when something is not working on the first morning?
Us — we are normally on site for the first morning precisely because that is when the leftovers surface. Beyond the move itself, onsite IT support covers coming out to your premises as and when you need it, and managed IT support covers the ongoing arrangement if you would rather have someone keeping an eye on things than ringing round when they break. Plenty of clients meet us during a move and stay on afterwards, but there is no obligation to.
Do you move the furniture and boxes as well?
No — that is a removals company’s job, and a good one is worth having. We handle the IT: the survey, the plan, the disconnection and reconnection, the cabling, the network and the connectivity. We are happy to work alongside whoever you appoint and to give them the sequence we need, because the two jobs have to interlock. In practice the removals firm moves the desks and we make sure that what sits on them works.

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We provide Office IT Relocation in London across South West London

Serving Wandsworth, Wimbledon, Putney, Clapham, Balham, Tooting, and surrounding areas.

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