Downsizing clearance in Chatswood
The hard part of a downsize is not the lifting. It is the deciding. We are built around that: you make the calls, at your pace or in one afternoon, and then a crew clears everything that does not make the move, in one visit, at a price agreed before we start.
Two jobs, one clean handover
A house-to-apartment move is really two jobs. Your moving company takes what stays: the furniture that fits the new floorplate, the boxes marked keep. We are the other half: the crew for everything on the other side of the line.
That half is usually bigger than anyone expects. A house held for twenty or thirty years stores volume in places the new apartment simply does not have: the garage, the under-stair, the linen press, the roof cavity. Our job is to make that half disappear cleanly, so the move itself is light.
We can come before the moving truck, after it, or on the same day around it. Most families book us for the gap between the furniture leaving and the keys being handed over, so the house settles empty and swept.
How a downsizing clearance runs
The walk-through
We walk the rooms with you, or with your photos if you are organising it from another suburb. You show us the goes column; nothing is assumed. If you have used our Stays & Goes sorter, we arrive already knowing the shape of the job.
One fixed price
Agreed before anything is lifted, covering the crew, the loading, the sweep-up and every disposal fee. It does not move on the day, even when the roof cavity surprises everyone.
The sort holds
Your stays and goes decisions are the instruction sheet. Anything unclear gets asked about, not guessed at. Sentimental things found mid-clearance are set aside, every time.
Donation first, streams sorted
Furniture, kitchenware and linen still worth using are offered to charity before anything is called rubbish. E-waste, mattresses and white goods ride to their regulated streams; the rest goes to a licensed facility.
Broom-clean to finish
The last thing we do in every room is sweep it. You walk through an empty, broom-clean house, and the move ahead of you just got smaller.
Where the volume hides
Every held house has the same four hiding places, and the new floor plan has none of them:
- The garage. Tools, timber, the second fridge, thirty years of it-might-be-useful.
- The roof cavity. Suitcases, cots, papers. Up the ladder and out of mind.
- The under-stair. Small space, dense with decisions.
- The linen press. Three households of sheets and towels in one cupboard, most of it donation-grade.
Our room-by-room sort guide walks each one in order, with what usually stays, what usually goes, and which streams the goes column splits into.
Organising it for a parent?
Most downsizing enquiries reach us from the adult children, often from another suburb, between work and school runs. That is a normal way to run this job, and we are set up for it:
- The walk-through works over the phone or from photos; you do not need to be at the house.
- The fixed price is put in writing to whoever is coordinating, so there is no on-the-day negotiation with anyone.
- Our crew works patiently with the person at home. Nothing is rushed out the door, and nothing leaves that was not ruled a go.
- The Stays & Goes sorter was built to be read aloud over the phone, one room at a time.
If the move has a settlement date behind it, tell us the date and we will work backwards from it with you.
Tell us what goes. We do the rest.
Send the form and we ring you back to arrange a look at the job. The price is fixed on sight, agreed before we lift a thing, and it covers the lifting, the loading, the sweep-up and the disposal.
- One fixed price, agreed before we start. No hourly rate, no tip fees added later.
- One visit for most jobs, booked at a time that suits your building or your street.
- Worthwhile things offered for donation first. Regulated streams go to licensed facilities.
Enquiries through this form are the fastest way to reach us while our phone line is being set up. We call you back.