Moving guides, written from this terrain
Everything below comes out of the same notebook as our surveys. Read them before you book anyone, including us; a client who knows what the drive really asks for gets a better move from whoever they hire.
Moving Into a Sydney Strata Apartment With a Pet: What the Owners Corporation Can and Can't Ask For
Moving into a NSW strata apartment with a dog or cat comes down to one rule and one timing problem.
Read the guide → Planning · pets
Moving House With Pets in a Sydney Summer: Heat, Open Gates and the Paperwork
The safest place for a pet on a hot moving day is somewhere else.
Read the guide → Planning · clear-out
Clearing Out Before a Move in Woollahra: Which Council Pick-up Takes Your TV, Fridge and Batteries
In Woollahra, the council service that takes your old TV will not take your fridge, and the one that takes your fridge will not take your TV.
Read the guide → Planning · summer
Moving House in a Sydney Summer: When to Start, What to Drink, What to Watch
If your move lands between December and February, three decisions do most of the work.
Read the guide → Hiring · checks
What AFRA Accreditation Checks, and What to Ask Any Sydney Removalist
Check the directory yourself, ask the insurance question in writing and insist on an itemised quote.
Read the guide → Access
Getting a truck down a Vaucluse battle-axe drive
Swept path, turning room, the handle-width question, and the shuttle method for when the honest answer is "the truck stays on the street".
Read the guide → Access · data
The street access notes
The headland's streets as we plan them: the spines, the harbour fall, the ocean pocket, with the address-register figures beside each.
Read the notes → Planning
Leaving a house after thirty years
The staged downsize in full: four passes, weeks apart, and the decisions that only need making once when they're made in order.
Read the guide → Estates · printable
The executor's moving checklist
What to decide before booking anything, in the order the decisions actually arrive. Prints clean for the estate file.
Read + print → Method
How art and antiques travel
Glassine, blankets, crates and the transit-cover questions worth asking any remover, us included, before a loved piece leaves the wall.
Read the guide → Access · trucks
Trucks, parking + the quiet-street courtesy plan
Truck sizes against this geometry, where a truck may legally stand, when a council permit enters the picture, and how the street stays friendly.
Read the guide →Something you wanted answered and didn't find? Ask it through the enquiry form, the good questions become the next guide.