Home Settlement Services


Placing items away

Allied Pickfords home assistance helps relieve your stress. Imagine how you will feel... relaxed and organised in your new home. We pay complete attention to your pre-move and post-move needs.

Easy and affordable, simply talk to your Move Consultant, and we will organise it all for you. We offer affordable 4-hour minimum services; simply book your Blue Ribbon Home Settlement Service with us.

Pre-Move Services

Preparing your kitchen

  • Clean your white goods for transit
  • Wash dishes and dry, check and empty dishwasher 
  • Do a thorough pantry check, tighten lids, and discard items not suitable for transport or storage

Organising your belongings

  • Help sort your items for storage, shipping, freight, packing
  • Separate valuable items; passports, airline tickets, keys
  • Prepare a survival kit of special essentials for your first night in your new home; remotes, cables, baby goods, kettle, tea, coffee, bathroom needs

Assisting with your move

  • Notify charities of unwanted goods
  • Pack the car for your car trip if travelling interstate – maps, esky, blankets, hamper
  • Client reminders- double check shed, garage, attic, underneath the house
  • Client countdown checklist – hand over keys, forward mail, utility connection, dry cleaning

Giving you a helping hand

  • Clean washing machine, check clothing and empty steam iron
  • Remove batteries from cassettes, radio, clocks
  • Discard dangerous goods not suitable for transport; paint, pesticides, gas cylinders, etc

You decide what you need and we will decide how we can best help you!

Post-Move ServicesBlue Ribbon Service

Once your removalists have unloaded, we pay complete attention to helping you settle in:

Unpacking

  • Wipe cupboards and shelves ready for your belongings
  • Unpack cartons and place contents into cupboards; crockery, kitchen goods, personal items
  • Organise children’s toys and baby goods
  • Empty packing cartons and have them ready for collection

Completing your home

  • Place food items in pantry and fridge
  • Organise your new wardrobe, put away and hang your clothing
  • Set up your bedroom and make the beds
  • Organise and sort the linen cupboard
  • Arrange books neatly on book shelves
  • Place your silverware and crystal
  • Order CDs, DVDs etc in their new place

A final ‘walk through’ and it's all done.  Is there anything else we can do to help, and are you happy?

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