How do I describe the steps up to a house in Wadestown or Roseneath?

Count them, and say where they start and finish: up from the street, below a road, or a zigzag path with a landing partway. Note handrails and tight corners, and add a photo looking along them from the road.

Should I plan a Wellington house move around the weather?

It helps to. Jobs are scheduled at least 24 hours ahead and up to 90 days out, and picking the flexible dates option tells drivers your day is not fixed. Say if either end has an exposed path where a southerly comes straight through.

What should I check before accepting a bid on a Wellington house move?

Look at the driver's profile on each bid, with any ratings and reviews from completed jobs, and put the bids in order of price, rating or date. Read any public questions on the job. Accepting a bid books the job, and that is when you can message the driver.

We are leaving Wellington altogether. Can I post that move?

Yes. Put your Wellington address as the pickup and the new one as the drop-off, whether that is up the Kapiti Coast or over the Remutaka Hill into the Wairarapa. Drivers weigh the distance themselves when they bid.

House moves in Wellington, from the top step to the new front door

List every room, the steps at each address and the nearest parking, then weigh up each ID-verified driver's bid.

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Covering Wellington

Te Aro
Mount Cook
Mount Victoria
Thorndon
Kelburn
Aro Valley
Brooklyn
Newtown
Island Bay
Kilbirnie
Karori
Wadestown
Khandallah
Johnsonville

Post from anywhere in the area and drivers who cover it can bid.

House Moves in Wellington

A whole Wellington household, every room and every step, can be posted as a single job. Posting is free, you look over what ID-verified drivers bid, and the charge only comes when you accept one.

How it works

How it works in Wellington

Three steps. No messing around.

Post your job

Describe what needs moving in Wellington and where it is going. Add photos and measurements. Posting is free.

Drivers bid

ID-verified drivers covering Wellington send their own prices for your job.

Choose and confirm

Compare the bids, accept the one you want, and your payment is held until the job's done.

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How SoundMove protects you

Built into every booking, not an optional extra.

Payment held until the job's done

You are charged when you accept a bid. The money sits with SoundMove until the job's done. We release it to the driver when you confirm, or automatically 24 hours after they mark it done if you haven't raised an issue.

Tracked step by step

Every delivery moves through timestamped checkpoints, from confirmed to picked up to delivered, visible to both sides.

Message your driver

Messaging opens once the job is booked, so access, parking and timing get sorted in one place.

ID-verified drivers

Drivers are identity verified before they can bid, and where a driver has completed jobs you can read their ratings and reviews.

What to know about Wellington

The local detail that shapes what drivers bid on a house moves job here.

Who moves house in Wellington

Families often trade a Te Aro apartment for a house with a section in Karori, Khandallah or Johnsonville once a school zone starts to matter. Others leave a family home in Ngaio or Seatoun for an easy place on flat ground in Kilbirnie or an apartment in town.

Getting a whole house out

A steep run of steps in Northland or Brooklyn is climbed once for a sofa and dozens of times for a whole house. In Mount Victoria and Thorndon the kerb is often residents' permit or time-limited parking and Te Aro is largely metered, so plan where a vehicle can wait through a long load.

What to put in your listing

Select Full Home Move as you post, then list each room along with the whiteware and boxes. Count the steps at both addresses and measure the tightest turn on the stairs. Add photos of each path, plus how many people you reckon the carry needs.

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Other services in Wellington

Post a different kind of job in Wellington and the same drivers can bid on it.

House Moves in other cities

The same service, written for each city it covers.

Moving to or from Wellington

Jobs that start or finish here and cross the country.

Questions

House Moves in Wellington: common questions

Short answers to what people ask before they post.

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Yes. Full Home Move is an option on the posting form, so list every room, from the main bedroom to the garden shed, with photos. Posting is free, and no bid has to be accepted.

Moving house in Wellington?

Post the job for free and see what ID-verified drivers bid.

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