Guides
Moving guides
The things we explain on walk-throughs, written down so you can read them with a cup of tea instead of a clipboard. Plain answers, no fluff, no pretending a move is simpler than it is.
Clearing Out Business Records Before an Office Move: What to Keep, Scan or Shred
Sort before you shred: most tax records are kept for 5 years, but company records and staff time and wages records are kept for 7, and asset records for as long as you hold the asset plus 5 years after you dispose of it, so check each box's category first and send only what can go to secure destruction, never the skip.
Read it →Moving a Childcare Centre or Private School in the Hills: Records, Privacy and Equipment
Child care centres and private schools are covered by the Privacy Act whatever their turnover, so on moving day the enrolment, medical and staff records should travel separately, locked, backed up and in the director's or principal's hands, while the cots, small furniture and play equipment go on the truck.
Read it →Landlord Selling or Moving In? Your NSW Notice, Your Moving Timeline and the Re-Letting Rule
Our new guide shows NSW renters how to read the notice, count the days and work out what the re-letting rule means.
Read it →Securing a Small Office After the Move: Router, Guest Wi-Fi and MFA
In the first week at a new office, change the router's default passwords, update its firmware, set strong Wi-Fi encryption, put visitors on guest Wi-Fi, close or limit anything exposed to the internet you don't need, and switch on multi-factor authentication for email, banking, cloud storage and accounting.
Read it →Office Relocation IT Checklist: Internet, Backups and Data for a Small Office Move
The desks in a small office move in a day.
Read it →Moving in the summer school holidays
If you want to move house without taking the kids out of class, the summer break is your window: pick a date, line up your address changes, and plan a moving day that respects the heat.
Read it →The office move checklist
Relocating a shop, clinic or office in the Hills District: the 28-day ABN deadline, who else needs the new address, and who should do the lifting.
Read it →The double garage
Moving the room nobody counts: how a garage that has not parked a car since 2019 gets sized, packed and loaded without wrecking the schedule.
Read it →One trip or two?
The honest arithmetic of load size: what a truck actually holds, when a second truck saves money, and why the hourly rate is not the whole story.
Read it →Moving in school term
Timing a family move around school: what to book first, which rooms pack last, and how to keep moving week from swallowing the term.
Read it →Ready for the walk-through?
Tell us about the house, the garage and the dates. We come back with the right crew, the real hourly rate and how the day runs. No phone tag, no obligation, and nothing is booked until you say so.