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The lead work

Heritage and period house moves in Hunters Hill

Much of this suburb was built between the 1850s and the 1890s, and it shows in the best way: sandstone thresholds, original boards, doorways cut for a different century. Moving a household through all that unmarked is our lead work, and the reason the rest of this site talks so much about planning.

Removalists carrying cartons along a flagstone garden path under a Moreton Bay fig, sandstone cottage behind
The long garden approach is half the job. It gets planned like one.

What a period house asks of a removalist

A later house forgives. A period house records: every dragged corner, every clipped architrave, every trolley wheel across bare boards. So the method changes. Before anything lifts, the house is dressed: canvas runners over the floors along every carry path, a board over the threshold stone, padding tied to the door surrounds, and the doorway widths measured against the largest pieces before the van is packed.

Then the move runs in the order the house wants: large fragile pieces while the crew is freshest, cartons in the middle, and the awkward last things, the pot plants, the garden bench, the mirror nobody boxed, with the runners still down.

Renovation move-outs and returns

A good share of our heritage work is not a sale at all: it is a household moving out so the builders can move in. We take the house's contents out through openings the trades are about to sheet over, and months later bring everything back through a house that has just been finished, which is exactly when floor protection matters most. If your builder has a site plan, we work to it.

Up and down the peninsula

Plenty of Hunters Hill moves start and end within the same few streets: growing into a bigger place on the other side of the Village, or trading the ridge for the water. Short distance does not mean short work, the carries are the same at both ends, but it does mean one truck, one day, and a crew that has already walked both doors.

What we ask before we quote the day

  • The street, and where a truck can honestly stand on it.
  • The carry: garden path, steps, verandah, hallway turns.
  • The floors: original boards, tiles, or something newer.
  • The pieces that worry you, by name.
  • The dates that are fixed, and the ones that can breathe.

The crew it usually points to

Most 2 to 3 bedroom period houses run best with 3 movers and 1 truck, $350 an hour. The larger places, 4 or more bedrooms or a long double carry, earn 4 movers and 2 trucks at $500. The exact call is made on the callback, and we will happily explain why we sized it the way we did. Full table on the rates page.

Before move day

The plan comes first. Then the truck.

Tell us the street, the rooms and roughly when. We come back with the approach: which bridge, where the truck stands, how the house is protected, and the crew it points to.

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