Furniture removals — the heavy, awkward and irreplaceable pieces

Why furniture is a job of its own

Almost everyone who calls a removalist is not really moving a house — they are moving the three pieces they could not replace. A solid timber bed base that came from a previous house. A wardrobe that does not come apart. A table that will fit through the door on the diagonal or not at all. Those are the pieces that decide whether a move went well.

Furniture removals are also the most common half of a full house move, which is why the same crew and the same care apply. Mike Moon has over 38 years in the furniture and home removal industry and is described as a master artist at stacking and loading a household — furniture is what you learn to load, and loading is what keeps it from being damaged on the road.

Taking it apart is usually the answer

A platform bed comes apart in about ten minutes and travels as two flat pieces instead of one impossible object. A wardrobe with solid timber doors has those doors removed and taped, because the doors are what snap first and what catches on a door frame. A dining table is usually taken to its new home with the top and legs separate. None of that is extra cost dressed up as skill — it is the difference between furniture arriving intact and furniture arriving in pieces.

For the heavy pieces, the crew works to the number of people the piece actually needs. A wardrobe on a hand truck through a hallway is a two-person job, and treating it as a one-person job is how door frames get damaged.

Single pieces, whole rooms, whole houses

Most furniture jobs are small: one item, one room, one flight of stairs. Some are a house full of everything at once, which is where the house removals page comes in. Either way the arrangement is the same — ring Mike on 027 474 8717, get a free no-obligation quote, and choose whether you would rather have the job priced as a quote or at hourly rates. There are no published opening hours; the call is the arrangement.