We cover CF15 from the station and the old village out to the new streets on the western edge, and across to Morganstown. Runs into Llandaff, Whitchurch or the city centre are short, so most jobs here are half a day rather than a full one.
Moving into a Plasdwr plot
Plasdwr covers over 900 acres across the St Fagans, Radyr and Morganstown and Fairwater wards, roughly five miles from the city centre. Redrow is the lead developer with Bellway second, and the first phase is 630 homes north and south of Llantrisant Road plus 290 south of Pentrebane Road. Ysgol Gynradd Groes-wen, the first primary school on the site, opened in September 2023.
A new-build move is easier in some ways and harder in others. There is almost always a drive, so no permit and no kerb fight. But the roads change month to month, some are still adopted by the developer, and a plot handover often shares its day with deliveries from three other trades. A wardrobe that came out of the old place whole does not always go up a new staircase, so say so and we will take it apart and rebuild it upstairs. The developer sets out the site layout on the Plasdwr location page.
- Give us the plot number and the street, not just the postcode.
- Tell us your handover time, so the van is not the fourth vehicle waiting.
- Say if the road surface is still unfinished; we will bring boards for the walk.
The village and Morganstown lanes
Away from the new estate the picture flips. The older streets around the station and towards Morganstown are narrower, cars sit on both sides through the day, and a Luton can find itself with nowhere to stand without blocking a lane. Some of the houses have long front paths rather than a drive to the door.
That is a carry distance question rather than a permit question, and it changes the price more than the mileage does. When you ask for a quote, name the street and say roughly how far it is from the kerb to the front door. We would rather send a smaller van twice than wedge a big one in once.
Radyr station and the spare car
Radyr station opened in 1883 and now carries over half a million passengers a year across three platforms, with trains roughly every ten minutes taking just over 15 minutes into Cardiff. It has 115 free parking spaces, 14 of them accessible, and there are 177 park and ride spaces nearby.
On a moving day that car park is where the second car goes while the van is loaded, and it is the reason a lot of people choose Radyr in the first place: a commute without a car park charge at either end. Transport for Wales lists the current facilities on its Radyr station page.
Where Radyr moves go
The traffic here runs two ways. Families move out from the inner suburbs into a Plasdwr plot or a village semi, and downsizers move the other way, out of a four bedroom house into a flat closer to town. We do both and they need different vans.
A downsizing move usually means more sorting than carrying: a garage and a loft to empty, which is as much a part clearance as a move, and a smaller place to fit the rest into. A move into a new build is the opposite, a full load into an empty house with nothing to work around. Say which you are doing and we will price the right thing.
What a Radyr move costs
A room's worth of boxes and a few bits lands between £85 to £150, and a two bedroom house between £260 to £430. Where a job is open ended, the hourly rate is £45 for one person and a van or £65 for two, with a 2 hour minimum.
Radyr is about five miles out, so the drive is short and the cost sits in the loading. A long front path or an unfinished road adds time; a drive to the door takes it away. Every band we quote from is published rather than given over the phone.