DS Specialist Movers
Art and artefacts handling
From an individual painting to an entire exhibition, we transport all items in our tail-lift equipped, air ride suspension and climate-controlled vehicles, which are designed for the transportation of fine art. We provide all the packaging necessary to protect your valuable items whilst in transit and storage. The relocation of priceless, fragile and irreplaceable antiquities requires our specially trained operatives in packing, handling and documenting museum pieces whilst also ensuring that optimum security precautions are taken at all times in the process. We provide an art installation service and our experienced and skilled personnel can undertake any task relating to the moving of artwork, whether big or small.
Machinery/equipment transportation
We can relocate heavy items safely and efficiently in areas with difficult or restricted access, using specialist lifting equipment including cranes, scoots and pallet trucks. Utilising specialist handling equipment and well trained crews, we ensure that even particularly heavy and difficult pieces of machinery are moved and transported with the greatest respect to the item, customer’s property and general health and safety. We consider ourselves specialists in the relocation of fire-proof cabinets, safes, MFDs, large freezers, autoclaves, safety cabinets and a variety of other machinery and equipment.
Piano hire and moving
With the company’s origins based in piano and orchestral instrument moving, we are regarded as the premier piano hire and moving specialist in Northern Ireland.
We stock Yamaha upright pianos (U1 model) and baby grand pianos (C3) for hire. We can deliver pianos to your venue and can collect them at a time that is convenient for you. With a vast amount of piano moving experience and state-of-the-art moving equipment, we are confident that we can move your piano with the highest standard of care and diligence. We also undertake crane and stair work in addition to ground floor deliveries.
Specialist Transportation
At Delivery Services & Storage Ltd, we have a long-standing successful track record of the transportation and storage of fine art and antiques in the culture and heritage sector. We have been the preferred art transportation contractor for years for galleries and museums across the U.K. and Ireland, in terms of cross-channel transport. Customers should be confident of entrusting our specialist transportation services to transport your valuable, fragile or bulky goods.
Cross-channel transportation
We offer transportation services across the UK and Ireland. Currently, we offer a fortnightly service between Northern Ireland and the UK Mainland. Through our partners, we can also extend our coverage into Europe.
Our highly trained and experienced team specialise in moving unique/ valuable goods.
Equipped with museum specification vehicles and art and artefact trained handlers, we have been entrusted with transporting the province’s arts and heritage for the past 30 years for customers such as the Ulster Museum, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the National Portrait Gallery and Sotheby’s.
Environmental Strategy
Licensed waste carriers
DS Movers are licensed waste carriers and as such, we can be trusted with the safe and appropriate transportation of all your waste items.
Whether it’s a single item of furniture or a complete building clearance, our team will ensure the most cost-effective and environmentally friendly solutions are found to transport and dispose of, or recycle your goods.
Recycling solutions
We work closely with many furniture suppliers and auction houses and through these partners we endeavour to find a resale option for any reusable piece of office furniture.
This service often provides customers with a valuable cost saving. Additionally, we collect used furniture from offices throughout Northern Ireland for redistribution to charities, new businesses and schools.
Furniture that is not suitable for reuse is typically recycled in an environmentally friendly manner.
We have invested heavily to facilitate an office furniture recycling process. Shredding facilities can be used to break down unusable furniture into components for recycling; metal goes to a local metal recycling plant and wood chip is sold on to be used as biomass fuel. All plastic and textile components go to designated recycling and reuse companies.
Businesses can save up to 80% on the cost of sending furniture to landfill by opting to reuse and recycle. Companies that use us for office clearances are presented with a certificate stating where the furniture has gone, the weight that has been recovered, and the energy, to introduce carbon reduction environmental savings that the company has made by not sending the furniture to landfill.
IT Recycling
We hold all necessary licenses to transport, process and dispose of any type of electrical goods in an environmentally safe and sensitive way.
We will securely and permanently destroy data held on any IT equipment.
We provide a fully compliant WEEE service for the following products:
- Computers: desktops, laptops, servers
- Monitors: LCDs, CRTs, TFTs
- Telecom equipment
- Fluorescent tubes
- Fax machines, Photocopiers
- Magnetic/optical media: floppy disks, back-up tapes, CDs and DVDs
- Computer peripherals: printers, scanners, keyboards, mice, human interface devices and cables.
WEEE (electrical goods) environmental disposal
The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations (2006) became law in July 2007. We provide a collection and recycling service fully adherent to the WEEE directive.
We provide a complete recycling package for all electrical WEEE with a full audit trail – all recycled items will achieve a certificate for WEEE disposal, usually referenced with the items’ asset register.
We will:
- Collect your redundant office equipment (even small unwanted items such as office staplers and hole punches), IT equipment (PCs, monitors and others) and shred and recycle it
- Collect your redundant white goods, including fridges and dishwashers.
- Provide full certification showing the outcome of your waste, providing an audit trail for your company
- Supply specific WEEE waste containers in various sizes for ongoing contracts or quote for ad-hoc collections (on request)
Laboratory Relocation
The moving of sensitive medical and lab equipment is a complex undertaking and requires great skill and care from the team executing the relocation. Delivery Services understands the process of moving critical and sensitive assets. We spend a lot of time training and re-training our operational staff to help ensure every move is done carefully and with minimal downtime to your important operations.
Laboratory relocations require precise planning and the often complex, hazardous and sensitive nature of the laboratory equipment necessitates an expertly trained moving crew with technical knowledge of packing and moving specialist items.
We have moved many laboratories both in the University sector and private commercial sectors. The moving of sensitive medical and lab equipment is a complex undertaking and requires great skill and care from the team executing the relocation. Delivery Services understands the process of moving critical and sensitive assets. We spend a lot of time training and re-training our operational staff to help ensure every move is done carefully and with minimal downtime to your important operations.
Library Relocation
Delivery Services have the experience, qualifications and capabilities to plan and implement the physical relocation of your library collection with great care, in an organised and timely manner and with minimum disruption. Our team have consistently over the past ten years achieved the transfer of large quantities of book stock accurately using our unique methodology throughout the UK’s largest University’s.
Over the past number of years our commercial relocation service has been developed to include library relocations. We treat the moving of library stock as a specialist process requiring intense preparation, a specialised methodology, specialist training, experienced supervision and specially designed equipment.
Clients can be assured that a proven team of experienced personnel from project managers to book packers will be committed to the planning and implementation of your project. At the planning stage our team will be found invaluable in its guidance in critical variables such as fill ratios, growth rates and stock measuring that allows for accurate collection mapping and tagging. Maintaining shelf list order is, of course, the primary concern. Delivery Services will maintain this order by using a colour-coding and tagging method specifically designed for library materials. Shelving can be carefully dismantled and rebuilt by experienced fitters if required.
Delivery Services accomplish successful library moves by utilising a specially developed methodology, which is unique to the UK and Ireland, has been specifically designed to relocate book stock such as books, bound periodicals, special collections, and archive material in an exceptionally fast manor whilst ensuring accuracy of shelf list order. This was made possible by our innovative measuring and tagging system and through utilisation of moving equipment on the physical move called ‘missiles’ which can accommodate three shelves worth of pre-tagged books in one mobile vessel. On-site we precisely measured book collections in order to calculate accurate fill ratio’s (percentage of space populated with book stock per shelf), measurements are recorded on specially designed spreadsheets. Numerical coloured tags are used to allow us to address each individual shelf worth of books to an exact shelf at the new location.
The packing of collections will be accomplished by off-loading all volumes in our specially designed mobile containers, designed to access to all aisles. This method has proven to be more efficient and time saving than other methods of moving library materials. Our packing container generally holds three shelves worth of material in layers with corrugated card between layers. Our packing container has proven to clients to be superior to crates in its ability to maximise efficiency with vastly reduced noise and disruption. As all moving equipment is mobile there are advantages in both speed of deployment and rapid flexibility in temporary positioning of book stock waiting to be unpacked and easy recycling of vessels once emptied.
Our clients can be assured that Delivery Services has strong leadership and clear lines of communication, personnel are well trained, health and safety issues are addressed, equipment and vehicles are well managed, environmental issues considered and a quality management system is in place to ensure a consistently high quality service.
With the demployment of our specially designed equipment and well trained operational team we have completed a number of high profile and successful projects in the University sector, notably Imperial College London, Birmingham City University, University of St. Andrews, Robert Gordon University, Queens University Belfast, Ulster University, University of Portsmouth, University of Greenwich, University of Dundee, University of Aberdeen, and University of Strathclyde.