Removalists Brunswick

Movers4Melbourne is a local removalist working in Brunswick and across Melbourne’s northern suburbs. We are based at 7/85 Cooper Street, Campbellfield, a straight run down Sydney Road, so we are not burning your first hour just getting to you.

Call 0452 490 078, message us on WhatsApp or request a free quote.

The kinds of moves we do in Brunswick

Brunswick covers three postcodes — 3056 for Brunswick, 3055 for Brunswick West and 3057 for Brunswick East — and the housing changes character street by street. That matters more here than in most suburbs, because what is at your door decides how long the job takes. Most of what we are called to falls into four groups:

  • Victorian terraces and workers’ cottages. Narrow frontages, a front door opening more or less straight onto the footpath, and often no off-street parking at all. Hallways are usually the constraint rather than the doorway, so wardrobes and bed bases sometimes have to come apart.
  • Warehouse and loft conversions. Brunswick has a lot of former industrial stock turned into apartments and studios. They are excellent to move out of when there is a goods lift and awful when there is not — steep internal stairs, mezzanines and heavy sliding doors are common. Tell us which you have.
  • Share houses and single-room moves. A lot of Brunswick moves are one person and one room rather than a whole household. Our man with a van service is usually the sensible option for these.
  • Newer apartments along Sydney Road. Booking the lift and a loading bay in advance is the single biggest thing you can do to keep the cost down.

Access and parking worth sorting before the day

  • Sydney Road is the difficult one. Tram tracks, clearway restrictions and very little room for a truck to stand legally for any length of time. If you are on it or just off it, tell us early and we will plan where the truck goes and what time we start.
  • Brunswick East. Lygon Street and the streets around Nicholson Street are tighter than they look on a map, and the tram runs down Nicholson Street. Parking near the Lygon Street shops fills early.
  • Cottages with no driveway. Where there is nowhere to pull in, the distance from the truck to your front door is what drives the time. If a parking permit or a couple of cones can hold a space out the front, it genuinely pays for itself.
  • The Upfield line and bike path. Jewell, Brunswick and Anstey stations all sit on the Upfield line, and the bike path runs alongside it. Where a street crosses the path, we need to know before we bring a truck down it.
  • Weekends are often easier. Around the Sydney Road and Lygon Street shopping strips a Saturday or Sunday start usually beats a weekday one. We work seven days.

House removals in Brunswick

Most Brunswick house moves are decided at the front door rather than by the size of the home. A single-fronted Victorian terrace with a hallway you cannot turn a wardrobe in takes longer than a far larger house on a wide block, because the awkward pieces go out one at a time and often end up going through the front room window opening rather than the hall. The same is true of the Edwardian workers’ cottages through Brunswick West, where the back rooms are frequently later additions with a step down into them.

For a two or three bedroom terrace or cottage, the 4.5 tonne truck with two movers, from $55 per half hour, is usually the right call. For a larger home, a converted warehouse with a mezzanine, or a house with a shed and a garage to clear as well, the 6.5 tonne truck with two movers, from $60 per half hour, avoids a second trip. Furniture blankets, trolleys and straps come with the truck, every job is fully insured, and you are told the hourly rate before we start. Our house removals page sets out the full service.

Apartment, share house and single-item moves in Brunswick

Brunswick has a great deal of housing that is not a whole house, and those moves work differently. Warehouse conversions and the newer blocks along Sydney Road and Albert Street usually mean a lift, a loading bay and a building manager who wants the lift booked in advance — worth arranging a few days out, because a lift you cannot book is the single most common reason a move here runs long. Older walk-up blocks have no lift at all, and two flights of stairs changes the timing more than the distance between addresses does.

Share house moves are often one room rather than a household. If you are moving a bed, a desk and a few boxes, the van and man, from $40 per half hour, is usually the cheaper option and is easier to park on a narrow street than a truck. The same applies to a single couch, fridge or washing machine. See apartment removals, man with a van and furniture removals for how each one works.

What we can move for you

What it costs

  • Upfront hourly rates, confirmed with you before the job starts
  • Van and man from $40 per half hour
  • Furniture blankets, trolleys and straps supplied, at no extra charge
  • Fully insured
  • Available seven days a week

We are a removals company, not a packing company: we do not pack your belongings into boxes for you and we do not offer storage. If you are packing yourself, we sell boxes and packing supplies in our shop.

What to tell us when you book

  • Both addresses, and the floor level at each end
  • Whether there is a lift, and whether it can be booked
  • How many steps or stairs there are, and how far it is from the truck to the door
  • Anything heavy or awkward: a piano, a large fridge, a full-height wardrobe
  • Whether a truck can stand out the front, and for how long

Also across the northern suburbs

Brunswick is one of our busiest areas, along with Reservoir, Preston and Coburg. We also cover Brunswick West and Brunswick East, and work right across Melbourne — the western, eastern and south-eastern suburbs, the inner city and regional Victoria. Our depot is in Campbellfield, a short run north. If you are not sure whether we come to you, ask us — we almost certainly do.

Moving in or out of Brunswick? Get a free quote or call 0452 490 078.

See every area we cover, and which page to read, on our Melbourne suburbs page.

Comparing quotes for a move in Brunswick? Our guide to questions to ask a removalist before you book covers how hourly rates work, what insurance actually covers, the fifteen questions worth asking, and the warning signs.