1. Walk the block
On foot, shed doors open, gate to back fence. The shed and the studio go on the list, not just the bedrooms. You'll hear us count as we go, that count is the quote taking shape.
The speciality
Whole-property moves, Terrey Hills
We quote the whole property, not the floorplan.
Twenty or thirty years on a big block leaves you with more than a houseful. It leaves you with a shedful, a studioful and a garage you haven't seen the back of since the kids left. Moving all of it is a different trade from moving a three-bedder on a cul-de-sac, and it's the trade we've built this business around.
What makes it a property move
- The inventory lives beyond the house. Sheds, stables, studios and double-deep garages carry the bulky, awkward volume, mowers, benches, racks, machinery, that never shows up in a bedroom count.
- The truck can't always reach the door. Long gravel drives, timber gates, culverts and turning room decide where the truck stands, and every metre between truck and door is carried by hand.
- The day runs on spread. Loading three buildings isn't three small jobs, it's one job with a crew split, and it has to be planned like one.
The method
How we quote it
2. Plan the access
Where the truck stands, whether the gate clears it, what the drive is made of and what it's like after rain. The long carry from a back shed is priced in the crew size, not sprung on the day.
3. Brief the crew
Which building loads first, what gets wrapped where, who walks and who stacks. Written down before the day so the plan doesn't live in one person's head.
4. Hold the rate
You get one of the three flat hourly rates and an honest read on the hours. Nothing changes when we see the shed, because we already saw the shed.
The outbuildings are the move
A machinery shed holds a workshop's worth of steel. A studio holds a business. A tack room holds gear worth more than the furniture, and none of it stacks like cartons. We bring the trolleys, ramps, blankets and straps for exactly this, and we load outbuildings first while the house is still being wrapped.
Two honest notes. Mower fuel, gas bottles and open chemicals can't ride on the truck, so the shed guide covers what to run down or drain before pack day. And we move tack rooms and float gear, not horses, your horse transport people handle the animals, we'll happily work around their schedule.
Which crew does a property move take?
Usually the three-mover crew at $350 an hour, and the four-mover, two-truck crew at $500 an hour when the sheds hold as much as the house. A bigger crew on a spread-out block almost always finishes enough hours earlier to pay for itself. The honest answer for your block takes a walk-through, or a minute on the Property Walk.
Quote the house and you'll meet the shed on moving day. Quote the property and the day just runs.How we brief every property crew