House moves in Vaucluse

What the survey settles before move day

The walk-through is unglamorous and it is the whole difference. Before your move day, someone from the crew has stood on your drive and answered, on foot, the questions that decide how the day runs:

• Drive geometry. Width between the gateposts, the swept path of the bend, overhead clearance under branches and wires. If the drive won't take the truck, we know now, and plan a shuttle, not at 7am with a loaded vehicle.
• Truck selection. The plateau's streets range from the New South Head Road spine to fifty-address pockets like Coolong Road. The survey picks the wheelbase that actually fits, not the biggest one on the yard.
• The carry path. Where protection goes down, where the rest points are on a long garden run, which doorway the big pieces use, and in what order the rooms empty.
• The parking plan. Where the truck legally stands and for how long. On tight streets we plan it so your neighbours can still get out of their own drives.
• The quiet-street courtesy. Vaucluse mornings are quiet and we like keeping them that way: ramps not tailgates dropped, no engines idling, a note to the immediate neighbours when the truck will hold kerb space for hours.

Move day, to the plan

The crew arrives briefed, floor and banister protection goes down first, and the load follows the survey's room order. Wardrobe cartons for the hanging clothes, felt blankets and stretch wrap as standard, the awkward pieces handled by the method agreed in writing. At the far end, boxes land in the rooms their labels name.

The crew tier comes from the survey: most two-to-three-bedroom Vaucluse houses run with three movers and one truck at $350/hr; the large established homes take four movers and two trucks at $500/hr so nothing waits on a second trip. Hours depend on the day, so the rate is honest and the total is confirmed by the work, never invented in advance.

The pieces that need more than muscle

Pianos, art, antiques and the other irreplaceables travel inside the same move with their own method, wrap, crate, corner protection, last on and first off. That method has its own page, because at this end of the harbour it earns one.