St Ives Removals

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Packing and protection in St Ives

Two protection jobs live inside every move. One protects what you own; the other protects the house it is leaving. We schedule both, because neither happens well by improvisation.

Packing: what you own

Booked as its own visit the day or two before, with the 2 + 1 crew at $250/hr. Materials are charged as used, never as a bundle you did not open.

  • Cartons labelled to the room they land in, not the room they left
  • Paper for crockery and glass; bubble reserved for the genuinely fragile
  • Framed photos and art wrapped upright, moved together, never flat-stacked
  • Wardrobe cartons so hanging clothes travel hanging
  • Books in small cartons, because physics does not care how sentimental they are
  • A "last carton" packed with you: kettle, chargers, remotes, the things you need at 7pm that night
Hands wrapping a framed photograph in white paper beside wrapped crockery
Paper first, labels always.

The protection run: the house

The first scheduled step of every moving day, before the truck opens. In mid-century houses it is half the reason to hire carefully.

  • Corflute board over floor-to-ceiling glass on the carry route
  • Felt runners on polished boards, every hallway, tread and landing
  • Corner guards on door frames, newel posts and exposed timber
  • Ground boards across lawn and garden beds on long carries
  • Lift and corridor protection where strata requires it, arranged with the building
  • All of it listed in the written plan, so you can see what is covered before the day
Felt floor runners laid along a timber hallway, movers carrying a wrapped item at the end
Runners down before the carry begins.
Book a packing visit

Packing folds into any house move or downsizing plan; the protection run is simply part of how we move.

The next step

Tell us about the house

Send the enquiry and we will come back to you with questions worth asking, then a walkthrough and a written move plan. No obligation, no hurry, no hard sell.

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