The building is the job, not the load
A room of furniture is a small move by any measure. What makes it awkward is that shared houses around here are usually converted family homes with narrow stairs, a hallway that is the only route for everybody, and a fire door on every landing.
A firm being paid by the hour has an incentive to hurry through exactly the part of the job that needs care.
Fire doors are not an inconvenience
Every landing in a licensed HMO has one, they are self-closing, and they will not stay open on their own. Wedging one is genuinely dangerous and it is the kind of thing that ends in a complaint to the council.
They get held open properly while a carry is happening and released when it is not. It slows the job slightly and there is no version where that is optional.
Tell your housemates
They are not obliged to care that you are moving, and they will care a great deal if the hallway is full of boxes without warning on a day they are working from home.
A message in the group chat beforehand costs nothing and prevents most of the friction these moves generate.
- Say which day, and roughly when the hall will be busy.
- Ask for bikes and drying racks to be moved out of the hallway.
- Check whether anyone is on a night shift and sleeping.
- Agree what happens to anything of yours in shared cupboards.
Your deposit is still a deposit
Room lets have deposits too, and in a shared house the communal areas are usually everybody's liability jointly. So a scuff your move puts on the hallway wall can come out of everyone's deposit, not just yours.
That is a much better reason to protect the hall than anything we could say about our standards.