Original floors, and a long way to the gate.
Hunters Hill homes tend to be old, substantial and set well back behind established gardens. The furniture is often as old as the house. Neither responds well to being rushed.
Moving in Hunters Hill.
- The main constraint
- The approach. Many Hunters Hill houses sit behind deep front gardens on narrow peninsula streets, so the carry from the truck to the door is long before anything is even lifted.
- How we handle it
- We plan the route and lay protection along it — garden paths, thresholds and original floors — and add crew so the distance does not turn into hours.
- Typical job
- Large four and five-bedroom heritage homes with antique furniture, artwork and frequently a piano. Usually a full day, often two.
- Floors and joinery
- Original timber, encaustic tiles and sandstone thresholds are the things most easily damaged and least easily repaired. Runners and door protection go down before the first item moves.
- Parking
- Streets are narrow and often without a legal stop directly outside. We confirm where the truck goes before the day rather than working it out on the morning.
- On-site quotes
- Free, and worth having for anything with antiques or a long garden approach.
The floor is older than the furniture.
In a Hunters Hill house the original floorboards, the tessellated verandah tiles and the sandstone step at the front door are frequently the most valuable things in the building, and the easiest to damage on a moving day.
So protection goes down first and comes up last. It costs us twenty minutes at each end and it is included, because the alternative is a repair bill on a heritage floor that nobody wants to be responsible for.
- 01 Floor, threshold and doorway protection as standard
- 02 Long garden carries costed into the figure
- 03 Antiques and artwork wrapped and handled separately
- 04 Smaller trucks on narrow peninsula streets
- 05 Pianos surveyed and quoted before the day
- 06 Storage where settlement dates do not align
01 How do you protect original floorboards?
Runners along every route, protection at the thresholds and padding on door frames, laid before anything is carried and lifted at the end. It is standard on a Hunters Hill job rather than an extra.
02 The truck cannot park outside the house. What happens?
We plan the position and the carry beforehand and add crew so the distance does not become hours. It is in the quoted figure rather than an adjustment afterwards.
03 Do you handle antiques and artwork?
Yes, and they are surveyed separately rather than counted as general furniture. Where a piece warrants it we crate rather than wrap.
04 Do you cover Woolwich and Henley?
Yes, along with Huntleys Point, Gladesville and the rest of the peninsula. The access and protection considerations are much the same.
Moving in Hunters Hill?
Send the address and we will look at the approach and the floors before we quote.
- Telephone
- 0402 592 492
- Response
- Same day, business hours
Nearby suburbs we cover
All Sydney areas- Removalists Mosman Harbourside houses on steep blocks. The driveway, not the volume, is what decides the day.
- Removalists Chatswood Dense high-rise around the interchange, and substantial family homes in the streets beyond it.
- Removalists North Sydney Commercial towers and high-rise residential. Docks, after-hours windows and compliance paperwork.
- Removalists Cremorne Art-deco walk-ups with no lift, and harbourside houses below the street. Both are decided by stairs.
- Removalists Northbridge Homes built down the hillside on several levels. The front door is rarely where the truck can stop.
- Removalists Longueville Quiet waterfront peninsula, steep drives and no through traffic. Getting the truck in is the planning.