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BARANS REMOVALS LIMITED

Removals company · Whitton, Twickenham · south west London, Surrey and worldwide

BARANS REMOVALS LIMITED has been registered at 173 Nelson Road, Whitton since August 2002 and trades as Barans Removals from Twickenham, with one claimed Google profile holding 131 reviews at 4.7 out of 5, most recently in August 2026. BARANS REMOVALS LIMITED is run by Stefan Baran, its director since 2002 and holder of 75 percent of the shares, with his son Matthew Alan Baran as the second director. BARANS REMOVALS LIMITED holds a National Guild membership, no BAR record and no Trustpilot profile, publishes no prices and no insurance amounts, so ask for the current schedule before you book.

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173 Nelson Road, Whitton, Middlesex TW2 7BB, the registered office, which the site footer, the National Guild profile, the Google profile and the Environment Agency register all give in the same building as 171 to 173 Nelson Road, Twickenham TW2 7BB

Google 4.7 / 5 131 reviews

Get quotes for your move Visit website 0800 195 8393 and 020 8898 8127, both printed in the site footer, with 020 8898 8127 also on the National Guild profile and Google holding the freephone number masked as plus 44 8 followed by 8393. A Yell listing for the same firm shows 0800 611 8173, which the company publishes nowhere

Before you book

Worth asking before you pay a deposit. The answers take two minutes on the phone and make the written quote stronger.

Confirm the cover amounts in writingliability cover is named with its scope, so ask for the amounts, the excess and the policy schedule.
Ask what the written quote holdsthe price, the validity period and what happens if the day runs long.
Confirm the day-of crewthe crew size, the arrival window and who is your contact on the day.
Ask about date changes and cancellationshow they are handled and priced.
NGRS membershipask for the details that apply to your booking and the dispute route it gives you.
Parkingconfirm arrangements at both addresses.

Verification summary

16 facts independently verified 8 claims advertised

Every item is independently verified from public records unless marked “advertised” - those are claims the company makes that we could not confirm from the outside.

Independently verified

BARANS REMOVALS LIMITED, company number 04507152, is an active private limited company incorporated on 8 August 2002 under SIC code 49420 removal services, registered at 173 Nelson Road, Whitton, Middlesex TW2 7BBCompanies House record for 04507152, read 27 September 2026

Filings are current: the last accounts were made up to 31 December 2025 and the next are due by 30 September 2027, and the last confirmation statement was dated 8 August 2026 with the next due by 22 August 2027, with no strike off action recordedCompanies House overview and filing history for 04507152, read 27 September 2026

Two family directors, both identity verified at the registered office: Stefan Baran has been a director since 21 August 2002 and was born in October 1946, and Matthew Alan Baran has been a director since 19 December 2014 and secretary since 21 August 2002 and was born in January 1981. The only other officers on the file are the nominee director and nominee secretary who both resigned on the day of incorporationCompanies House officers page for 04507152, read 27 September 2026

Ownership is on the public register: Stefan Baran owns 75 percent or more of the shares, notified on 1 June 2016, and Matthew Alan Baran has significant influence or control, notified on 6 April 2016, both at 173 Nelson Road and both identity verifiedCompanies House persons with significant control page for 04507152, read 27 September 2026

One claimed Google profile describes this business, not two: Barans Removals Ltd, cid 11154615227926363751, place id ChIJT98EEscMdkgRZ762OnMnzZo, at 171-173 Nelson Rd, Twickenham TW2 7BB, category Removals company with additional categories Removals Service and Storage facility, linked to www.baransremovals.com, phone masked as plus 44 8 followed by 8393, 68 photos, open 08:30 to 17:30 Monday to Friday, 4.7 out of 5 from 131 votes and marked as claimed. Two different keyword searches on location code 2826 returned the same cid, so there is no quiet second profile to confuse a quote withDataForSEO Google my_business_info on two keywords, read 27 September 2026

We read the whole Google corpus end to end: the newest 131 reviews, which is every review the profile has, from 26 April 2019 to 24 August 2026, plus a second sweep sorted lowest rating that returned 53 reviews of which none was missing from the first set. The distribution we read, 119 five star, 3 four star, 1 three star, 2 two star and 6 one star, matches Google's own breakdown on the profile exactly. Review URLs are recorded on every complaint belowDataForSEO Google reviews endpoint at depth 131 sorted newest and depth 100 sorted lowest rating, cross-checked against my_business_info, all fetched 27 September 2026

The company answers almost everything: 128 of the 131 reviews carry an owner reply, including the three oldest star ratings from 2019, and 6 of the 9 negatives at three stars or below carry a reply, of which 4 are point by point answers that dispute the factsowner_answer field on every review in the DataForSEO Google reviews response, read 27 September 2026

No review farm signature: the 131 reviews come from 131 distinct reviewer names, only 14 accounts have ever posted a single review, 2 show no history at all, the average account history is 16.4 reviews and the highest is 279, and the dates spread across 7.3 years. Sixteen of the earliest reviews do carry dates on two days in April and May 2019, which we record as an observation rather than a conclusionprofile_name, reviews_count and timestamp fields per review, read 27 September 2026

There is no public Trustpilot profile for this company: the Trustpilot reviews endpoint returned zero items and a null rating for baransremovals.com, while the same call in the same session returned 4 reviews and a rating of 4.0 for the control domain braithwaites.uk, and nine subject domain variants were probed the same day by the same methodDataForSEO Trustpilot reviews tasks on the subject and control domains, read 27 September 2026

No BAR membership record exists: the public BAR member search returns an empty array for Barans, for Barans Removals and for the single word Baran, while the same endpoint returned 5 members for the substring Bar, including Dunbar Removals and the Leatherbarrows firms, and member P019 for Pickfords as a control. The search is substring based, so the empty result genuinely excludes this nameBAR public member directory API, three subject queries, two substring probes and one control, read 27 September 2026

National Guild of Removers member, per the NGRS member directory: the profile for Barans Removals Ltd gives 171 to 173 Nelson Road, Twickenham TW2 7BB, 020 8898 8127, steve@baransremovals.com and www.baransremovals.com, all four of which match this company, and the company site claims founder membership of the National Guild of Removers and Storers and the Removals Industry Ombudsman SchemeNGRS member directory profile at ngrs.co.uk/remover/barans-removals-ltd and the live company site, both read 27 September 2026

Not a FIDI affiliate: the FIDI affiliate directory returns 16 United Kingdom affiliates and 769 worldwide, none containing the string Baran, while the control company Pickfords Move Management Ltd is in the same listFIDI find an affiliate directory, UK filter and full company list, read 27 September 2026

The trade directories hold one listing and no memberships: Yell lists Barans Removals Ltd at 171-173 Nelson Rd under listing 10611567, and no Checkatrade, TrustATrader, Which? Trusted Traders or Bark entry exists for the nameDirectory sweep with per-directory controls, run 27 September 2026 and recorded in directories-sweep.md

The identity is stable across twenty six years of archive: the Wayback capture of 4 December 2000 shows 171-173 Nelson Road, Twickenham TW2 7BB, telephone 020 8898 8127, steve@baransremovals.com and the words since 1978, the .co.uk capture of 17 August 2001 carries the same address and phone, both domains were registered on 18 June 1999, and baransremovals.co.uk and baransremovals.net now forward to baransremovals.com while the lookalike spellings barans-removals.com, baranremovals.com, barans-removals.co.uk and baransremovals.org are unregisteredWayback Machine CDX records and registry WHOIS, read 27 September 2026

An independent public register carries the trading name at the same address: waste carrier registration CBDL143833 is held by Barans Removals Ltd of Nelson Road, Twickenham TW2 7BB, registered as a lower tier carrier, broker and dealer on 10 November 2016Environment Agency public register entry CBDL143833, read 27 September 2026

No other company trades under this name: Companies House searches for Barans, Barans Removals, Baran and Baran Removals returned 55 unique companies of which the only removals trader is 04507152, the nearest names being BARAN LTD 14840105 in Feltham, which makes soap and cosmetics, and SOLWING GROUP LTD 09165343, which traded as Baran Transport until February 2024Companies House search for four name variants, read 27 September 2026

As advertised by the company

Established in 1978, and a first class removals service since 1978The company's own home page and storage page, plus the Google profile description and the National Guild profile. Companies House puts incorporation at 8 August 2002, so the limited company is 24 years old, and the earliest corroboration of the 1978 date we could find is the company's own archived site of 4 December 2000 saying the same thing. No third party record from 1978 to 1999 surfaced in our sweeps, so treat 1978 as the company's own date. Read 27 September 2026. As advertised.

We also provide you with liability cover as standard for both removal and storage work, and if we pack for you we provide full insurance cover for all your belongingsHome page and storage page wording. No amount, no underwriter, no policy number and no excess appear next to any of it, and the United Kingdom keeps no public register of removals cover, so this can never be marked verified. Ask for the written schedule with amounts and dates before any money moves. Read 27 September 2026. As advertised.

Purpose built warehouse and containers, fully alarmed and monitored 24 hours a day, short or long term, with insurance provided while goods are storedStorage page and its FAQ. The building is real in the sense that customers describe storing with this company in the review corpus and the registered office sits on the same street, but nobody has inspected it for us and no storage address beyond Nelson Road is published. Read 27 September 2026. As advertised.

Founder members of the National Guild of Removers and Storers and of the Removals Industry Ombudsman Scheme, with a Super Elite Honours Remover grade and regular checks by an Ombudsman Scheme accredited InspectorHome page and services page. The Guild membership shows in the Guild's own directory, so the membership is the solid part. The founder status, the grade wording and the inspection regime are the company's description of it, and the Guild profile publishes no membership number or grade field we could read. Read 27 September 2026. As advertised.

Voted UK Remover of the YearThis appears in the company copy carried by the National Guild profile and by Yelp. We found no press report, trade article or award body page naming Barans Removals for the honour in searches run on 27 September 2026, so it stays as advertised rather than verified.

An all Euro 6 fleet ranging from 3.5 tonne vans for tricky access up to large road trains for long distance moves, with the intention of moving to an electric fleet within a few yearsHome page. There is no public register of vehicle fleets in the United Kingdom, so neither the emission standard nor the size can be checked from outside. Readers do describe lorries and multi van moves in the reviews below. As advertised.

Removals throughout the UK, Europe and around the World, covering Surrey, West London, Middlesex, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire and BerkshireHome page, storage page and the Yelp profile. The review corpus supports the long distance side with moves to Devon, Dorset, Sussex, Kent, North Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight, and one customer describes a warehouse relocation run over more than two weeks, but the full geographic claim is the company's. As advertised.

No price, rate card or hourly figure is published anywhere on the site, and the contact route is a free quoteThe pricing transparency question. We searched every page we fetched for a currency symbol and found none, so there is nothing to compare a quote against until you ask. Customers in the reviews describe an hourly contract, one describes a price a little above what they expected, and the complaint below quotes 140 pounds an hour plus VAT and a 100 pound van charge. As advertised.

* What “verified” means here: we checked public records and read the review platforms ourselves on the dates shown. We never accept a company's own words as verification, and we never let a company pay to change a verdict. Our assessment is built from review substance, freshness and authenticity; it is not a rating the company can buy or influence. When claimed profiles open, companies will be able to upload documents (insurance schedules, policies) and items will move from “advertised” to “verified” automatically once parsed.

Key facts

Legal name	BARANS REMOVALS LIMITED
Company number	04507152
Incorporated	8 August 2002
Status	Active, private limited company, SIC 49420 removal services. Last accounts made up to 31 December 2025 with the next accounts due by 30 September 2027, last confirmation statement dated 8 August 2026 with the next due by 22 August 2027, and no strike off action on the record
Address	173 Nelson Road, Whitton, Middlesex TW2 7BB, the registered office, which the site footer, the National Guild profile, the Google profile and the Environment Agency register all give in the same building as 171 to 173 Nelson Road, Twickenham TW2 7BB
Phone	0800 195 8393 and 020 8898 8127, both printed in the site footer, with 020 8898 8127 also on the National Guild profile and Google holding the freephone number masked as plus 44 8 followed by 8393. A Yell listing for the same firm shows 0800 611 8173, which the company publishes nowhere
Website	www.baransremovals.com, checked 27 September 2026. The aliases baransremovals.co.uk and baransremovals.net both forward to it, and the site footer never states the legal name or the company number
Areas	Twickenham, Whitton, Richmond upon Thames, Hounslow, the rest of South West London and Surrey, with UK, European and worldwide removals claimed; moves named in the review corpus reach Devon, Dorset, Sussex, Kent, North Yorkshire, County Durham, the Isle of Wight and Ealing
Storage	As advertised: purpose built warehouse and containers, fully alarmed and monitored 24 hours a day, short or long term, household and commercial, with insurance provided by the company while goods are stored. Nobody has inspected a building for us and no separate storage address is published beyond Nelson Road

Checked 2026-09-27. All external sources; nothing supplied by the company. Google Maps, Trustpilot and Companies House public records, company websites.

What reviewers report

Platform	Score	Reviews	One and two-star
Google	4.7 / 5	131	Nine reviews at three stars or below, all nine read in full with the company's reply where one exists: six one star, two two star and one three star, dated 15 May 2019 to 15 July 2025. Four carry a point by point reply, one carries a reply of a single word, one three star with no text carries the question Mouse slip, and three are star ratings with no words and no reply at all. Review URLs are recorded on every complaint below

Google rating distribution

5 star 119

4 star 3

3 star 1

2 star 2

What people love about this company

We read every Google review on this company's single profile end to end, all 131 of them, because the newest sweep at depth 131 covers the whole profile and a second sweep sorted lowest rating returned 53 reviews of which none was missing. Read the shape before the detail. The profile holds 131 reviews at 4.7 out of 5 from 26 April 2019 to 24 August 2026, Google's own breakdown is 119 five star, 3 four star, 1 three star, 2 two star and 6 one star, and 128 of the 131 carry a reply from the company. Nine reviews sit at three stars or below and we read all nine with the replies. There is no Trustpilot profile for this firm under any domain we could probe, so Google is the whole public record.

Short notice bookings and changed completion dates absorbed without fussPunctual crews, several of whom reserve a parking space the day beforePacking, dismantling and reassembling included, with empty boxes collected after unpackingCareful handling, with no damage named as a feature in review after reviewStefan in the office praised by name for quotes, reassurance and flexibilityStorage into the warehouse and delivery out again praised in the same termsLong distance and multi stage moves handled calmly, from Ealing to County DurhamRepeat customers on a third or fourth move, and recommendations passed to family

Across 131 Google reviews (read September 2026), 93 per cent rate four or five stars, 4 of the 8 one and two star reviews carry substantive replies, and the corpus is growing: 27 reviews in the last twelve months against 19 the year before, the newest 33 days old at reading. The praise follows careful, friendly crews and well organised days, with reviews specific about the job rather than generic.

Figures aggregate every review we read on 2026-09-27; we publish the pattern, not individual reviews.

Identity check

Match three things before you book: company number 04507152, either published number 0800 195 8393 or 020 8898 8127, and the 173 Nelson Road, Whitton, Middlesex TW2 7BB registered office. The register carries that address and an Active status (Companies House, read 7 November 2026), and the site footer prints both phone numbers and the TW2 7BB postcode while never printing the legal name or the company number (baransremovals.com footer, read 7 November 2026), so the number has to come from the register or the National Guild profile rather than from the page. Domain probes on 7 November 2026: baransremovals.com serves the site, baransremovals.co.uk and baransremovals.net both forward to it, and baransremovals.org, barans-removals.com, baranremovals.com and barans-removals.co.uk hold no DNS record at all, repeating the 27 September 2026 sweep of the same misspellings. A Companies House name search for Barans Removals and for Barans read 7 November 2026 returns this company and no second removal firm under the name. The complication is not impostors, of which we found none, but the thin footer: a quote carrying neither the postcode nor one of the two published numbers is worth a question, and the Yell listing for this firm shows 0800 611 8173, a number the company publishes nowhere (listing evidence, read 27 September 2026).

FAQ

Is BARANS REMOVALS LIMITED legit?

Yes, as far as public records show. Removal Dude independently verified 16 facts about BARANS REMOVALS LIMITED against outside sources: Companies House records, the Google review profile, the Environment Agency waste carrier register and the Wayback Machine archive. The company appears at Companies House under company number 04507152, incorporated 8 August 2002, trading as Barans Removals from 171 to 173 Nelson Road, Twickenham TW2 7BB. BARANS REMOVALS LIMITED scores 68 out of 100 on the Removal Dude score with a verdict of Extra Checks Needed, last checked 27 September 2026.

Who runs BARANS REMOVALS LIMITED?

Stefan Baran and his son Matthew Alan Baran. Stefan Baran has been a director since 21 August 2002, was born in October 1946, and owns 75 percent or more of the shares according to the persons with significant control register, notified on 1 June 2016. Matthew Alan Baran has been a director since 19 December 2014 and secretary since 21 August 2002, was born in January 1981, and holds significant influence or control notified on 6 April 2016. Both are identity verified at 173 Nelson Road, Whitton, and both sign for the company in public replies to reviews.

Is BARANS REMOVALS LIMITED insured?

This listing records the cover as advertised, never as verified, because the United Kingdom keeps no public register of removals insurance. The company says it provides liability cover as standard for both removal and storage work, that it provides full insurance cover where it packs the goods, and that stored goods are covered while in its warehouse. No amount, no underwriter, no policy number and no excess appear anywhere we could read on 27 September 2026. Ask for a current schedule with policy number, amounts and dates valid on your moving date before you pay anything.

Are the reviews for BARANS REMOVALS LIMITED good?

Here is what the public review platforms show for BARANS REMOVALS LIMITED. Google shows 4.7 out of 5 from 131 reviews on the single claimed profile, and the breakdown is 119 five star, 3 four star, 1 three star, 2 two star and 6 one star, so 9 of the 131 reviews sit at three stars or below. No Trustpilot profile exists for the company under any domain we probed, including a control query that returned live reviews the same day. BARANS REMOVALS LIMITED has 9 complaints documented in full, verbatim, with the company's reply where one exists, as of 27 September 2026, and 128 of the 131 reviews carry an owner reply.

Why does the website say established in 1978 when the company was registered in 2002?

Because the trading business and the limited company are different things. BARANS REMOVALS LIMITED was incorporated on 8 August 2002, while the company has claimed to be established since 1978 on its own website continuously: the Wayback Machine capture of 4 December 2000 already shows 171 to 173 Nelson Road, the same 020 8898 8127 telephone number and the words since 1978, and both baransremovals.com and baransremovals.co.uk were registered on 18 June 1999. No third party record from 1978 to 1999 surfaced in our searches, so 1978 remains the company's own date, uncontradicted but not independently confirmed.