Mentone
Removalist
Removalists in Mentone
What we offer
in Mentone
Apex Moving provides removalist services in Mentone, a bayside suburb of period homes, postwar houses and a growing amount of apartment stock near the station. The land falls away to the beach along the western edge, and street width and parking change noticeably as you move towards it.
Residential Moves
Household and apartment moves across Mentone, from Edwardian and interwar homes to newer townhouses and units.
Business Relocations
Office, clinic and shopfront relocations around the Como Parade and Balcombe Road shopping strips.
Specialty Item Transport
Pianos, artwork, antiques and other heavy or awkward items moved with the right equipment and enough crew.
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Planning a move in or out of Mentone? Talk to Apex Moving about your dates, your access and anything that needs extra care, and we will handle the heavy lifting.
Why Choose Us
A Straightforward Mentone Move, Start to Finish
- GPS-Tracked Trucks
- Trained, uniformed removalists
- Blankets, straps, trolleys and floor protection supplied
- Goods in transit protection
- Written quotes before the day
- Weekend and short-notice bookings where availability allows
Professional Expertise
Tell us the address, the driveway or building access, and roughly what is coming, and you get a written quote you can plan around.
Customized Solutions
Furniture wrapped, floors, doorways and period details protected, and stairs checked before anything is carried up.
Reliability
We confirm your arrival window in advance and let you know early if traffic on Nepean Highway or Warrigal Road changes it.
Commitment to Quality
The same crew from load to unload, briefed on the access before they arrive.
Removalists in Mentone
Mentone sits in the City of Kingston, roughly 21 kilometres south-east of the CBD, on the bay between Cheltenham, Parkdale and Moorabbin. It is one of the older bayside suburbs and the housing shows the layers: Edwardian and interwar homes on the established streets, postwar brick behind them, large rebuilds replacing originals, and a substantial amount of newer apartment development close to the station and the shopping strips.
Apartments and buildings near the station
A growing share of moves here are in or out of an apartment rather than a house, and those run on the building rather than the street. Most of the newer blocks have a lift and a loading bay, but many require the lift to be booked and padded through building management and some restrict loading to set hours. Older walk-up blocks generally have no lift, a shared driveway and few visitor bays. We ask which building you are in when we quote so the access is arranged rather than assumed.
Period homes and narrow streets
The older houses bring the usual constraints: narrow hallways, door openings well under modern widths, original floorboards and leadlight that need protecting, and in the two-storey homes a staircase with a tight turn. Streets in the established pockets are narrow with cars parked both sides, leaving one working lane, and the land falls towards the foreshore so some driveways drop steeply to a garage under the house. We check the driveway and the grade when quoting.
Parking, the beach and the highway
Streets on the beach side fill with foreshore parking through summer and on warm weekends, and the school traffic around the suburb adds to the morning peak. Nepean Highway carries clearway restrictions in peak periods, so any address fronting it is loaded outside those windows. Earlier starts are consistently easier here than mid-morning ones.
Getting around
Mentone station sits on the Frankston line beside the Como Parade shops. For trucks the useful routes are Nepean Highway, Balcombe Road, Warrigal Road, Charman Road and Beach Road, with the Mornington Peninsula Freeway a short run east. Beach Road carries heavy cycling traffic on weekend mornings, which is worth allowing for when scheduling.
Where Mentone moves go
Most stay along the bayside strip: Parkdale, Cheltenham, Moorabbin, Beaumaris, Highett or Mordialloc. There is also a steady pattern of downsizing out of the older family homes into local apartments, and families moving in for the schools, the beach and the train line.
Planning a move beyond Mentone? Apex Moving covers relocations right across the city — see our full range of Melbourne removalists services, or read more about our house removalists service for full household moves.