The classic run: big house down, new unit up
The St Ives-to-Gordon downsize is close to a weekly event for us, and the hard part is never the driving; it is the arithmetic between a four-bedroom house and a two-bedroom unit. The moves that go well decide that arithmetic early. We measure the unit first, agree what is coming, and pack to the unit's floor plan rather than the house's habits. What is not coming leaves cleanly through the downsizing method: to family, to charity, or away, each stream in its own carton run.
Doing it in this direction has one more advantage: the house end of the day is the flexible end. Cul-de-sac parking outside a St Ives house is forgiving; a Gordon dock booking is not. So the plan works backwards from the dock window, and the crew loads the truck in the order the building will want it out.
Houses too, of course
West of the highway Gordon is still very much a house suburb, leafy and steep in places, and those jobs run like any full house move on the ridge: protection run first, rooms in sequence, the slope respected. The point of this page is simply that Gordon's centre of gravity is different, and our plans respect that.