There are lots of ways you can find out information which will help you make your mind up whether to deal with a removals firm or not. Even before you call up for a quote there are a few things to consider when finding the right movers to help you relocate. First of all you need to find a few moving companies who operate in your area. Search the internet for phrases such as ‘removal companies London’ or ‘Clapham moving services’. This should bring up an overwhelming amount of results! Pick a few which look to be good companies, based nearby to where you’re situated. Location plays a bit part in the cost of the move, so bear that in mind.After you’ve picked out a few hand-selected companies, before you call them it’s best to have a look on their website at the sort of services they do and the sort of things that they say. It will be very easy to tell a professional company apart from the rest. Or will it? The next step is to have a look at their customer testimonials, to see what people have said about them. Reactions are very important, and if someone isn’t pleased with the service, you should find out about it. You can find out about whether a customer was pleased with their man with a van they hired from a small removals company by looking for reviews on the internet. This can be found by searching methodically and logically, or on one of many sites which acts just as a huge reviews database. Here you can see star ratings, customer reports and sometimes confirmations of authenticity, so you be closer to being sure that it’s not just the competition saying belittling things about businesses they are trying to do better than. You can’t trust everything you read, though. This brings us to the next step. If a removal service seems to have a shining feedback rating and a whole host of great services, give them a call. You can get yourself a quote and have a bit of an idea what the company representatives are like. The friendlier the better and the lower cost the better. Obviously, you can’t tell everything about a company by what other people say or what they choose to show you. That’s why you can’t judge a book by its cover, you can only judge it by your own, personal experience with it. After the process is complete, make sure to leave a review on the internet saying about your experience with the company. This is valuable for other people, just as you would have found it valuable. You’ll find that the companies who didn’t get any reviews at all are just small, not bad. People always leave bad reviews because they’re angry about something, if they were satisfied they’d probably not say anything at all, so remember that if something looks like it only has one bad review it might have 100 good ones that have been unspoken.This is the only way, really, to find out if a company is good. If you’ve been recommended a movers by your friends or someone you know and trust, it’s a good idea to just go for it. If they had a good experience, it’s likely you will too; provided the company is consistent, which is another difficulty. In short, there’s no definitive answer, just make sure to do some quality research on a removals firm before diving into anything and causing bother for yourself.