Moving on Awaba Street and the slope

There's a charity run up Awaba Street every year precisely because it's a hard climb: around 70 vertical metres with the top pitches near 30%. People train on your street. We plan moves on it.

~70 mAwaba Street's rise, bottom to top

~30%the gradient at its steepest pitches

1standing position that's actually right for your house

Movers working a hand trolley down a steep Balmoral street from a truck parked at the crest — The truck stands level at the top. Loaded legs run downhill. Empty hands climb back.

What the slope changes

Everything except the rates.

The approach. We come in from the ridge side so the truck arrives at the top of your street, instead of asking a loaded truck to climb it.
The standing. Crest or landing, wheels chocked, tailgate on level ground. A ramp on a 30% pitch isn't a ramp, it's a slide.
The carry. Downhill with the weight, uphill without it, even when the downhill line looks longer on a map. The crew's legs last the day that way, and so does your furniture.
The hours. Longer carries mean the honest quote counts your garden steps and your gradient up front. That's what the Climb Sheet is for.

A removalist carrying a carton up a long sandstone garden staircase between agapanthus beds — Forty steps of sandstone between kerb and key. It's in the quote because we asked.

Stanton, Botanic, Mandolong: same bowl, different lines

Awaba is the famous one, but the whole grid behind the beach leans. Stanton and Botanic run their own pitches, Mandolong winds where the others charge straight up, and nearly every house adds its own private staircase through the garden.

That last forty metres, the bit between the kerb and your key, is usually the part that decides the day. It's why our enquiry form has a field the big-city forms don't: stairs, lift or slope? Answer roughly, and the callback arrives already knowing your street's shape.

The steep-street method in full · Guide: where the truck stands

Good to know on the slope

Any weekday morning works up here. The slope has no beach-crowd clock; we time the carry crew, not the kerb.
Most slope houses run 3 movers + 1 truck: $350/hr. The third mover is what lets the crew split into a carry team and a load team.
Rain postpones sandstone steps, not whole moves. If the forecast turns, we re-sequence the day around the outdoor legs and tell you before 7am, not after.

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