ExportWrapping Services

Our export wrapping service protects furniture, antiques, mirrors, and large items travelling to Europe or going into long-term storage. David Dale Removals has offered export wrapping as part of its service since 1976, using the same materials on a Harrogate house move as on a full road-train shipment to Spain or France.

BAR member. Based at Dale House, Knaresborough, with a second office in Boroughbridge and our own depot in Almoradi, Spain.

What Export Wrapping Protects Against

Items travelling on a road-train from North Yorkshire to southern Spain, or going into a climate-controlled storage unit for six months, face different risks to a local move across town. Export wrapping addresses three of them:

• Moisture ingress – polyethylene stretch wrap and corrugated board create a barrier against condensation and humidity during multi-day transit through varying climates
• Impact and vibration – furniture blankets, bubble wrap, and corrugated cardboard pads absorb the vibration from long road journeys across France and Spain
• Compression and stacking damage – export-grade double-walled boxes and rigid crating protect fragile items and antiques from the weight of other goods loaded above them

For items travelling on our weekly UK-Spain-UK service, export wrapping is not optional. It is part of how we protect every load that leaves Knaresborough.

What Our Export Wrapping Service Includes

Our trained, permanent staff carry out all wrapping on site before loading. The service covers:

• Furniture blanketing and stretch wrap for sofas, wardrobes, dining tables, and large upholstered pieces
• Export-grade double-walled boxes for books, kitchenware, glassware, and smaller items
• Bubble wrap and acid-free tissue for china, glassware, silverware, and decorative pieces
• Specialist crating for grand pianos, large mirrors, antiques, and high-value artwork
• Mattress and picture covers – purpose-made protective sleeves
• Room-by-room labelling – every item marked with contents and destination room
• Written inventory – a full record of what has been wrapped and where it is located in the load

What is not included in the export wrapping service:

• Loft, garage, or outbuilding clearance (quoted separately)
• Hazardous materials, aerosols, paints, gas canisters (not permitted in transit)
• Disconnecting white goods (requires a separate engineer)

Export Wrapping for European Removals

Export wrapping is the standard for any removal to France, Spain, or Portugal. Items travelling several days on a road-train through multiple border crossings need better protection than a short domestic move. Our weekly UK-Spain-UK service runs approximately 50 weeks a year, and every load on that service is export-wrapped before it leaves our Knaresborough depot.

If you are moving to southern Spain, our own depot in Almoradi handles the receiving end. One coordinator manages the wrapping, transit, customs paperwork, and storage or delivery at destination. You are not handed off to a third party once the load crosses the Channel.

For removals to Spain, removals to France, or removals to Portugal, the same process applies: survey, wrap, load, transit, deliver. Full details are on our European removals page.

Export Wrapping for Storage

Furniture and large items going into our UK climate-controlled storage benefit from the same wrapping applied to an international removal. Items stored without export wrapping can pick up surface marks, moisture damage, or compression damage over months in a unit. We offer units in Knaresborough, and our team will advise whether wrapping is needed based on what you are storing and for how long.

Why Choose David Dale’s Export Wrapping Service?

With half a century of heritage, David Dale Removals has moved everything from multi-million pound medical scanners to 18th-century French armoires. We don’t believe in a “one-size-fits-all” approach to packaging.

Expertise in Export Wrapping Our specialist teams are not general movers; they are packing technicians. They understand the science of desiccant ratios and the physics of heat-sealing complex, irregular shapes. Whether we are wrapping a classic motorcycle for a collector in Japan or a production line component for a factory in Germany, the level of precision remains the same.

Local Roots, Global Reach Operating from our central hubs, we offer a “mobile wrapping” service where our team can visit your facility to pack items in situ, or we can collect and wrap at our secure, climate-controlled warehouse. This flexibility allows businesses to integrate our services into their existing production timelines without disruption.

Proven Success Our Case Studies highlight our ability to solve the most difficult logistics puzzles. We recently managed the export of a delicate glass installation for a corporate headquarters in New York; by using a combination of foil-wrapping and shock-absorbent custom crating, the item arrived without a single hairline fracture despite four separate handling points.

Protect Your Bottom Line with Better Packing

In international trade, the cheapest packing is often the most expensive mistake you can make. A single damaged shipment can wipe out the profit margin of an entire contract. By choosing an expert export wrapping service, you are investing in the certainty of your supply chain.