Whole-house moves on difficult access

Most of the Forest's houses went up in the seventies and eighties, on blocks that slope into the bush. Split-levels, long exposed drives, retaining walls, garages under the house. Moving one is a planning job before it is a lifting job, and the planning is what you are hiring.

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Two removalists carrying a wrapped sideboard up a half-flight of internal stairs in a split-level home — Half-flights do not show up in a bedroom count. They show up on moving day.

What “difficult access” actually means here

The drive

Steep, shared, battle-axe or ending in a tight close. We settle where the truck stands before the day, because a truck standing in the wrong place taxes every single carry after it.

The carry

Truck to door, door to room, and every half-flight between. We walk the route first, protect the pinch points, and set the load order so the heavy pieces move while legs are freshest.

The house itself

Split-levels hide half their volume: under-house storage, garage benches, the pool-table room two half-flights down. We ask about all of it up front, so the truck that arrives is the truck the job needs.

How the day runs

Before the day: the callback walks the access with you: drive, carry, stairs, storage, anything oversized. If you built a Carry Plan, we start from it.
On arrival: the crew walks the carry route before anything lifts. Doorframes, banisters and floors are protected where the route needs it.
Loading: wrapped, stacked and strapped in an order that suits the house at the other end, not just the truck.
At the new place: every carton and piece lands in the room it belongs in. The day ends at final placement, not at the kerb.

A four-bedroom split-level on a battle-axe drive is not a harder customer. It is just a job with more plan in it, and the plan is free.

The crew that fits

A 2–3 bedroom house usually runs with 3 movers and a truck at $350 an hour. Large homes, four bedrooms and up, run with 4 movers and two trucks at $500 an hour. Where a long carry or a full split-level slows the shuttle, a bigger crew often costs less overall because the hours drop; we will give you the straight maths on the call, not a sales pitch.

How the three rates map to real Forest jobs →

Worth reading before moving day

Moving day on a sloping block: where trucks stand, how carries get planned.
What a split-level hides: the half-flights and under-house rooms that change a quote.
The Parkway during the works: if your route crosses it, read this.

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Tell us about the house, the drive and the date

Send the enquiry and we call you back to walk through the move, the access and the right crew. No meter running, no obligation, no second number.

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