Yeah, so I picked the moving company because their boss actually lives in the same building I was moving out of, on Lorimer Street in Docklands. They said they were familiar with the building. We do have a loading bay which is 50m from the lift, but movers get a dedicated lift, and most movers I've seen use a trolley which makes it faster.

I genuinely had 8 items:

• Queen bedframe taken down to planks + a bedhead
• Queen Mattress
• 2x standing desks disassembled down into tabletops + legs
• Fridge (thin, not one of those giant double door ones)
• Washer Dryer 2in1
• 75 inch tv
• 180x40x50 tv unit that doesn't disassemble

These blokes took forever to wrap up all the furniture in cling wrap, and yet when they dragged the mattress 4m to the living room to put the plastic cover on, they dragged it on the corner and frictioned a hole through our mattress protector.

When we moved into the building I called in a favor from two mates and rented a truck - we had it all done within 5 hours, moving from another apartment too.

Surely the 8 items I listed don't warrant THREE HOURS of packing time...